Are you interested in the pedagogy of online discussion forums or help in setting them up? Would you like to incentivize and recognize student achievement with badges? Learn the basics of D2L? Use clickers? Create or redesign a course? Develop a grading scheme that supports student engagement and preparation for class?
The Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) invites you to participate in these opportunities. A calendar of classes, and the form to register, can be found on the CETL Workshops website.
Clickers: Preparing for Spring 2017
Join us for an open session focusing on Clickers and addressing instructor concerns, issues, and questions. This session is all about YOU: the instructor.
D2L: Just the Basics!
This introductory hands-on workshop is designed for instructors and teaching assistants who will be using D2L in their UWM courses. Topics include the basics of uploading content, setting up a simple gradebook, and using the dropbox to allow students to submit their coursework digitally. Toward the end of this workshop there will be time for individual Q&A. There will also be time available for those who want to work on their own course sites to do so.
Incentivizing Student Behavior and Recognizing Achievement with Badges in D2L
This one-hour workshop provides a framework for using badges in online, blended or face-to-face courses and includes example approaches for developing a digital badging system. The workshop will also provide a technical walk-through of advanced D2L tools — Awards, Release Conditions and Intelligent Agents — for the creation and awarding of badges to students. A basic working knowledge of D2L is assumed.
Introduction to Clickers
This workshop covers both technical and pedagogical aspects of learning and using TurningPoint ‘clickers’ (also known as Student Response Systems, or SRS) in a two-hour session. Examples of ‘best clicker practices’ in the classroom are included. SRS allow instructors to integrate questions into their PowerPoint presentations; students send feedback through a handheld wireless response unit (or clicker).
Using Discussion Forums Effectively
This two-hour workshop addresses the pedagogy of online discussions: creating good forum assignments, managing forum discussions and grading forum postings quickly and effectively. It also shows you how to set up discussion forums in D2L.
Course Design Institute
This two-part Institute, Designing Your Own Course, helps instructors create or significantly revise a course for an upcoming semester. From minor tweaking to an extreme makeover, make a course your own by confidently making the changes that align your course components with your course outcomes and advance the level of student engagement and learning you have in mind. Participants will receive the Learner-centered Course Design booklet explaining the design process through Part I and II with examples of each course design component. Through interactive exercises, we will begin using the design steps during the Institute. The result of this in-depth series will be your course well on its way with greater intentionality and transparency.
Grading Schemes that Support Preparation, Attendance, and Engagement
Your course Grading Scheme does much more than allot points or weight to each graded learning activity in your course! Your Grading Scheme can be a great tool for supporting the kind of learning you expect and help communicate to students how they can be successful in your course.
CETL Course Design Consultations:
Please call 414-229-4319 to request a consultation.
