New Partnership with Experiential Education Leads to new Faculty Development Opportunities
Issue Date: 01-31-2020
The Office of Experiential Education (ExEL) has partnered with the Learning and Educational Center to provide a series of Professional development workshops for faculty. These workshops focus on topics such as Universal Design and Accommodations, Backwards Design, and Experiential Cross-Disciplinary Course Design. These courses add to the existing catalog on topics about Course Objectives, Course Alignment, Plagiarism and Getting the most out of the LMS.
Learning and Educational Center Workshops
Plagiarism and Using Turnitin for your Online Course
Hosted By: Learning & Educational Center - John Scigliano and Jihong Tang
If you have writing assignments in your course, then you already know that plagiarism can be a problem. This workshop will present the tool, Turnitin, which helps identify instances of potential plagiarism. During the workshop, you will learn about the various ways in which Turnitin can be used in your Canvas course so that you can begin screening writing assignments for plagiarism, as well as grammatical errors.
Date & Time:
Thursday, February 6th, 2020
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Location:
Main Campus - DeSantis 3029
To Register for this course visit - https://nova.traincaster.com/app/Login.pm?course_code=020620, select TrainCaster, log in, and then click on Classroom Schedule.
Don't Crash Your Course! Check Your Course for Alignment.
Hosted By: Learning and Educational Center - Alfreda Francis and Mary Young
Date & Time:
Wednesday, February 12th, 2020
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Location:
Alvin Sherman Library - 1037
Description:
This workshop explains course alignment and its correlation to student success. Participants will gain an understanding of how courses relate to curriculum, program goals, and accreditation standards. A hands-on activity will demonstrate how the process of course alignment can reveal gaps in learning outcomes.
To Register for this course visit - https://nova.traincaster.com/app/Login.pm?course_code=021220, select TrainCaster, log in, and then click on Classroom Schedule.
Canvas- Managing Quizzes Webinar
Hosted By: Learning and Educational Center - Timothy Hoeck
Date & Time:
Tuesday, February 25th, 2020
10:15 am - 12:00 pm
Location:
Alvin Sherman Library - EC 1037 (First Floor)
Description:
Canvas - Managing Quizzes is a building block training webinar hosted by Canvas, which explores the more advanced features of the quizzing tool. Instructors will learn how to leverage question banks and groups to differentiate quiz content and assessment. Participants will gain greater control over quiz sessions using the Quiz analytics and Quiz moderation tools. After the webinar, a representative from the Learning and Educational Center will review the webinar and answer any additional questions you may have.
Please have one pre-built sample quiz from a previous course available to use for hands-on activities.
To Register for this course visit - https://nova.traincaster.com/app/Login.pm?course_code=CMQW, select TrainCaster, log in, and then click on Classroom Schedule.
ExEL Professional Development Series
Turning What You Do in the Classroom into a Publication or Conference Presentation
Hosted By: ExEL Professional Development Series
Date & Time:
Tuesday, February 11th, 2020
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Location:
Main Campus - DeSantis 5026
Description:
Managing quizzes is a building block training webinar hosted by Canvas, which explores the more advanced features of the quizzing tool. Instructors will learn how to leverage question banks and groups to differentiate quiz content and assessment. Participants will gain greater control over quiz sessions using the Quiz analytics and Quiz moderation tools. After the webinar, a representative from the Learning and Educational Center will review the webinar and answer any additional questions you may have.
To Register for this course visit - https://nova.traincaster.com/app/Login.pm?course_code=TWYDCPCP, select TrainCaster, log in, and then click on Classroom Schedule.
Universal Design and Accommodations
Hosted By: Judith Slapak-Barski, Ed.D., Instructional Technology and Design Specialist, Halmos College of Natural Sciences and Oceanography and Jennifer Wilson, M.Ed., Director of Student Disability Services
Date & Time:
Friday, February 21st, 2020
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Location:
Main Campus - DeSantis 5026
Description:
Learn about universal design (UD) and ways to improve your teaching and accommodate all learners in your classroom. Awareness of these tips and tools can help us make the best choices for our students.
To Register for this course visit - https://nova.traincaster.com/app/Login.pm?course_code=UDA, select TrainCaster, log in, and then click on Classroom Schedule.
Designing Courses for Impact Using Backwards Design and Integrated Course Design
Hosted By: ExEL Professional Development Series
Date & Time:
Wednesday, March 25th, 2020
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Location:
Main Campus- DeSantis 5026
Description:
For faculty teaching a new course, the most common course design approach used by faculty is the content-centered approach (Fink, 2003). This approach uses a textbook table of contents or the expertise an instructor to identify topics to cover, designs lectures, activities, and assignments to teach, and assesses the student work completed. The content-centered approach simplifies course design but focuses mainly on content knowledge, which is the type of knowledge that is most easily forgotten (Fink, 2003).
This hands-on session helps participants design courses that move away from just content and design courses have the potential to impact students’ learning years after the course is over via two well-established course design models. Wiggins and McTighe’s (2005) Backward Course Design utilizes the old adage, begin with the end in mind. Fink’s (2003) integrated course design recognizes that instructors need to not only identify and consider situational factors in developing courses but also align the instructor’s learning goals, feedback, and assessment methods, and teaching and learning activities so they are integrated in a way that supports and reinforces each other.
To Register for this course visit - https://nova.traincaster.com/app/Login.pm?course_code=DCIUBICD, select TrainCaster, log in, and then click on Classroom Schedule.
The Reflective Practitioner: What I Learned from Teaching an Experiential Cross-Disciplinary Course on Water and Sustainability
Hosted By: ExEL Professional Development Series
Dates & Times:
Tuesday, March 31st, 2020
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Monday, April 6th, 2020
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Location:
Main Campus - DeSantis 5026
Description:
Designing for experiential learning not only takes creativity but it also take time and collaboration. This session will focus on how I designed an experiential learning course on water and sustainability, what I learned from the process, and what I would do differently next time. I will discuss active learning strategies, budget, coordination of field trips, and collaboration with the local community and how this intentional design aligned with NSU’s experiential learning guidelines and the National Society for Experiential Education’s Eight Principles of Good Practice.
To Register for this course visit - https://nova.traincaster.com/app/Login.pm?course_code=ReflectivePractitioner, select TrainCaster, log in, and then click on Classroom Schedule.
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