Teaching and Learning Seminars

The Seven Principles of Good Teaching

Facilitator: Monty Van Wart

Seminar presented  virtually

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This seminar reviews the foundational principles by which instructors at any level of education foster learning. Those principles are: encouraging learner goal setting, teaching underlying principles, increasing the organization of the material, using a variety of techniques and teaching stimuli, increasing tangible examples and experiences, actively involving the learner, and giving feedback. After a brief overview, seminar participants will be asked to provide examples of each of the teaching principles.  

Increasing Student Engagement and Learning Success: High Impact Practices

Presenter: Monty Van Wart 

Seminar presented virtually

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Increasing student engagement increases learning success. CSUSB has adopted the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AACU) definitions. For individual instructors those practices include: common intellectual experiences, learning communities, writing-intensive courses, collaborative assignments and projects, undergraduate research, diversity/global learning, E-portfolios, and service & community-based learning. This seminar will briefly review each of these practices with the idea that instructors may add one or more of these practices to their courses.  

Technical Suggestions Related to Effective and Efficient University Teaching

Presenters: Monty Van Wart and panelists Neal Malik, Lucy Lewis and Golge Seferoglu

Seminar presented virtually

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Experienced instructors learn dozens of “tips of the trade” that help structure student expectations, avoid student performance gaps, reduce instructor work, and increase teaching impact. This seminar will ask several veteran instructors to provide tips related to seven key areas: setting student expectations, managing the physical or virtual space for optimal interaction, optimizing student rehearsal opportunities prior to testing, encouraging and managing students who lag in a course, maintaining academic integrity (e.g., cheating and plagiarism), optimizing office hour utilization, and time-saving tips. 

Over-planning and Overcommunicating in Online Classes

Presenter: Craig Seal

Seminar presented  virtually

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Discussion of best practices for student engagement in online, asynchronous courses.

Presented in collaboration with Academic Technologies and Innovation.

Canvas New Analytics

Presenter: Jonathan Brooks

Seminar presented  virtually

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This seminar-workshop will introduce faculty to New Analytics, an integrated Canvas tool which allows faculty to collect, compare and analyze enrolled students' activity, participation and performance. These data can be used as an early warning system to help identify students who are struggling academically so that faculty can make targeted interventions. In addition to this early warning system, Canvas New Analytics data can be used to identify areas that can improve the learning experience for your students as a group.

Presented in collaboration with Academic Technologies and Innovation.

True Online Asynchronous Experience

Presenter: Craig Seal

Seminar presented  virtually

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Discussion of how to set-up a truly self-paced, online, asynchronous course experience for students.

Presented in collaboration with Academic Technologies and Innovation.

Co-Synchronous Instruction

Presenter: Craig Seal

Seminar presented  virtually

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Discussion of tips and tricks on how best to manage both in-class and synchronous online students simultaneously.

Presented in collaboration with Academic Technologies and Innovation.

Innovative Course Design with Canvas and SAMR

Presenter: Mandy Taylor

Seminar presented  virtually

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In this workshop, participants will learn how to combine Canvas tools with the principles of the SAMR technology integration model (Substitution, Augmentation, Modification, Redefinition) to innovate their course design. Canvas tools covered include Assignments, Discussions, Pages, and Quizzes. Other tools may be covered as time permits.

Presented in collaboration with Academic Technologies and Innovation.

Hybrid-Flexible Teaching and Learning with Student Self-Determination

Presenter: Craig Seal

Seminar presented  virtually

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Discussion of a new model that allows the student to self-select the course modality, whether in-class, online synchronous, or online asynchronous.

Presented in collaboration with Academic Technologies and Innovation.

Course Alignments and Assessments

Facilitator: Mauricio Cadavid

Seminar presented face to face, PL-4005

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In this seminar-workshop, participants will learn the fundamentals of alignment in course design, with a focus on the relationship between outcomes and assessments. Using Quality of Learning and Teaching (QLT) principles, participants will learn to create effective, measurable learning outcomes and how to design assessments to measure them. Please bring some of your current course student learning outcomes (SLOs) and related assignments for use during the workshop segment.

Gamifying the Syllabus

Facilitator: Jessica Getman

Seminar presented virtually

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Gameful Design is the revising of individual assignments or full courses to mobilize the social and learning incentives of games (like the adding of narrative, challenge, autonomy, and the freedom to fail). It is more than making an assignment or course “fun”; rather, it seeks to add intrinsic motivation and thoughtful rigor to the learning experience. This workshop will introduce the fundamentals of gameful design at the university level, focusing more specifically on employing these ideas through the learning management system GradeCraft.

The Seven Principles of Good Teaching

Facilitator: Monty Van Wart

Seminar presented face to face, PL-4005

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This seminar reviews the foundational principles by which instructors at any level of education foster learning. Those principles are: encouraging learner goal setting, teaching underlying principles, increasing the organization of the material, using a variety of techniques and teaching stimuli, increasing tangible examples and experiences, actively involving the learner, and giving feedback. After a brief overview, seminar participants will be asked to provide examples of each of the teaching principles.  

Wednesday,

September 14,

12-1pm

Increasing Student Engagement and Learning Success: High Impact Practices

Presenter: Monty Van Wart 

UPDATED: Seminar presented virtually

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Increasing student engagement increases learning success. CSUSB has adopted the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AACU) definitions. For individual instructors those practices include: common intellectual experiences, learning communities, writing-intensive courses, collaborative assignments and projects, undergraduate research, diversity/global learning, E-portfolios, and service & community-based learning. This seminar will briefly review each of these practices with the idea that instructors may add one or more of these practices to their courses.  

Friday,

September 23,

12-1pm

Canvas Mastery Paths

Facilitator: Jonathan Brooks

Seminar presented virtually

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Please join us for a exploration into the Mastery Paths Canvas feature. Mastery Paths allow instructors to personalize the learning journey for their students based on performance on an Assignment or a Quiz. After the assessment is graded, the student will be directed to three different learning paths based on their score and mastery. Using Mastery Paths will help streamline your students' learning and allow them to focus on content specific to their current knowledge level.

Wednesday, October 5,

12-1pm

Large Lecture Challenges and Solutions

Facilitator: Elisabeth Anderson

Seminar presented face to face, PL-4005

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Large lecture courses come with unique challenges.  This workshop will discuss some of those challenges and offer ideas for overcoming them.  We will look at strategies and technologies that can create a more engaging large lecture course.  Participants will have the opportunity to discuss specific challenges they have dealt with and the strategies they have found to be useful.

Wednesday, October 12,

12-1pm