Past Events
LEAP Indiana Informal Faculty Forums
This summer, LEAP Indiana offered a series of forums in which faculty discussed their ideas and concerns regarding space and instructional responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic. We are offering informal follow-up discussions during the next several weeks. Even if you were not able to join us this summer, please plan to join us this fall.
The following topical areas were highlighted:
Studios
Instructors from drawing, painting, architectural design, ceramics, photography, and other studio-based disciplines had the opportunity to discuss challenges, and think broadly about achieving student learning outcomes in studio spaces and instruction that require close contact and ongoing feedback on student work.
Facilitator: Sarah Ackermann, BSU
Languages
Learning another language is challenging in hybrid and online environments because faculty need to think about best practices for allowing student expression of words, phrases, and dialogue in campus environments where space may be limited or social distancing is in effect.
Facilitator: Julia Baumgardt, Marian University
Labs
Disciplines that offer laboratory experiences will gather to discuss specific challenges in Science courses such as (but not limited to) chemistry, physics, geology, and biology that complement student learning with a structured, applied experience in the lab. Accomplishing this in a virtual setting is a unique challenge.
Facilitator: Gina Londino-Smolar, IUPUI
Performance Arts
This forum seeks colleagues who are involved with disciplines such as theatre, dance, and music. Instruction in the performing arts involve physical spaces and interactions that present challenges in hybrid and online environments, and instructors will have the opportunity to receive collegial support in these areas.
Facilitator: Christie Zimmerman, BSU
First-Year Experience and Co-Curricular Learning
This forum will be offered for both faculty and staff who engage with first-year students on campus or other orientation-style programs. Creating a sense of belonging and offering a variety of student engagement opportunities will be discussed.
Facilitator: Lisa Angermeier, IUPUI
Fourth Celebration of Teaching and Learning Symposium
February 5, 2020 - University of Southern Indiana, Evansville, IN
You are invited to submit proposals for presentation for the fourth annual Celebration of Teaching & Learning Symposium. The Symposium welcomes works focusing on improving student learning, academic success, and curriculum in higher education. It provides opportunities to present teaching and learning efforts as one of three types of works: reflective teaching, scholarly teaching, and the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL).
Proposals for presentations are due Wednesday, November 27. Please click below to visit the Symposium website for the call for proposals and additional information
2019 Celebration of Learning & Teaching Symposium
February 6, 2019
The 3rd Celebration of Teaching & Learning Symposium was held at the University of Southern Indiana on February 6, 2019.
The Symposium provides opportunities to share teaching efforts in support of student learning and interaction among participants across disciplines. The Symposium welcomes works that focus on improving student learning and academic success in any higher education setting. Topics include improving student engagement and motivation, learning in specific settings or contexts, and fostering inclusion and civility. Sessions include oral and poster/demonstration presentations.
Please visit the Symposium webpage to view more information and updates on future events.
LEAP Indiana Spring Convening
February 8, 2019
LEAP Indiana held a Digital Learning Summit at IUPUI, in conjunction with the William M. Plater Institute on the Future of Learning on February 8, 2019. Our goal was to bring together educators from institutions across the LEAP Indiana network to learn about digital courseware and adaptive learning technologies and how they are being used across our institutions, to understand better the role that these tools can play in enhancing student learning and narrowing achievement gaps, and to emphasize the importance of instructional design in realizing these benefits.
More information on the William M. Plater institute can be found here.
Conference Resources
20th Annual Midwest Conference on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning [SOTL]
April 5, 2019
IU South Bend hosted the 20th Annual Midwest SoTL Conference with the theme, Educating for Our Students' Future. The keynote speaker was Dr. Jose Antonio Bowen, President of Goucher College and esteemed author of Teaching Naked.
4th Annual Adjunct Faculty Scholars Conference
The Diverse World of the Adjunct Classroom: How Adjunct Faculty Teach Inclusion and Experience
Saturday, April 6, 2019
The Adjunct Faculty Scholars Conference (AFSC) brings professionals in Higher Education together to build community and network. The conference also offers enhanced understanding and skills in the areas of teaching and learning.
Fall 2019 Gateway-Engaged Learning Professional Development Workshop
Friday, September 27, 2019 - 8:30am-3:00pm
Ivy Tech Community College Culinary and Conference Center in Indianapolis
The Fall 2019 Gateway-Engaged Learning Professional Development Workshop sponsored by the IUPUI Institute for Engaged Learning (IEL) and LEAP Indiana was held on Friday, September 27, 2019 from 8:30am-3:00pm at the Ivy Tech Community College Culinary and Conference Center in Indianapolis.
Our keynote speaker was Dr. David Laude, a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Texas at Austin, who is nationally recognized for his work increasing student success using institutional data to inform engaged learning strategies and interventions in the classroom. Following his keynote presentation, participants were actively engage in a learning module,Engaging and Supporting Underprepared Students, delivered through the Association of College and University Educators (ACUE).
You may view materials from Dr. Laude's Presentation here:
Innovating for Equity: National Learning Communities Conference
November 14-16, 2019 - Indianapolis, IN
IUPUI is pleased to announce that the 2019 National Learning Communities Conference (NLCC) will be held in Indianapolis, IN, November 14–16, 2019. The conference theme is “Innovating for Equity”, with keynote speaker Dr. Tia McNair, Vice President of Diversity, Equity, and Student Success from the Association of American Colleges & Universities (AAC&U).
Proposal submissions are now open. You may find out more information by clicking below:
Maximizing Opportunity: Helping Students Where They Are 24th Annual FACET Associate Faculty and Lecturer Conference (FALCON)
November 15-16, 2019 - Crowne Plaza Indianapolis, IN
In higher education, we want the entry to the classroom to be democratic and the exit to lead to meaningful lives. And in alignment with the former, our classes are filled with a wide variety of students, coming to us with successes and failures, trials and tribulations, moods, longer and shorter attention spans, differing limits on working memory, large support systems, isolated, living with privilege, overcoming poverty, mainstream, marginalized, healthy, ill, and on and on. This diversity is what we want, and it presents great challenges and great opportunity for learning.
You may find out more information by clicking below:
LEAP Indiana Informal Faculty Forums
In higher education, we want the entry to the classroom to be democratic and the exit to lead to meaningful lives. And in alignment with the former, our classes are filled with a wide variety of students, coming to us with successes and failures, trials and tribulations, moods, longer and shorter attention spans, differing limits on working memory, large support systems, isolated, living with privilege, overcoming poverty, mainstream, marginalized, healthy, ill, and on and on. This diversity is what we want, and it presents great challenges and great opportunity for learning.
You may find out more information by clicking below:
National Learning Communities Conference
The National Learning Communities Conference (NLCC) Consortium, along with the Learning Communities Association (LCA) and the Washington Center for Improving the Quality of Undergraduate Education, took place virtually on October 23-24, 2020.
The theme of the summit was Embracing Adaptability in Learning Communities During Uncertain Times and speakers included Larry Roper from Oregon State University, Jillian Kinzie from the Center for Postsecondary Research at Indiana University, and Julia Metzker from the Washington Center. The speakers were joined by LC practitioners from across the country to share research and best practices for enhancing learning communities to meet today’s challenges.
Click below for more information.
5th Celebration of Teaching and Learning Symposium
Thursday, February 25, 2021, 10 am - 4:35 pm EST via Zoom
Sponsored by the University of Southern Indiana's Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning
The Symposium provides opportunities to share teaching and learning efforts as scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) oral presentations, teaching practice interactive breakout sessions, or poster presentations.
If your college or university is hosting an event that aligns with the LEAP Indiana mission and is open to faculty from other campuses, please let us know so that we can post it here! Contact: Kathy Johnson.