Past Workshops

Have a listen to this Podcast (20min), featuring Jason Bocarro, Kyle Bunds, George Hess, & Michael Kanters, introducing the sessions and providing some thoughts about teaching online (still working on how to get transcript).

From the University of Washington ... Join us for a virtual capacity building institute (CBI) on Universal Design and Accessibility in Broadening Participation Efforts. How can you ensure that individuals with disabilities feel welcome and are able to participate in your classes, meetings, and other online activities? This CBI will bring together faculty, broadening participation leaders, and disability experts to address these topics.

Register online

<https://washington.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcqcOyorj8rEtavETV3aLYgetpR66264y5J>.

Some Slides Available

Agenda

* 9 am Pacific/12 pm Eastern - Universal Design & Online Learning - Sheryl Burgtahler

* 10 am Pacific/1 pm Eastern - break

* 10:10 am Pacific/1:20 pm Eastern - Document & Video Accessibility - Terrill Thompson

* 11:10 am Pacific/2:10 pm Eastern - break

* 11:20 am Pacific/2:20 pm Eastern - Accessibility and Universal Design of Online Meetings - Brianna Blaser

* 11:50 am Pacific/2:50 pm Eastern - Wrap up & discussion

This CBI is sponsored by AccessINCLUDES<https://www.washington.edu/doit/programs/accessincludes> at the University of Washington. AccessINCLUDES, funded by NSF, aims to help INCLUDES Network and broadening participation in STEM efforts become better prepared to address disability-related issues; make project activities welcoming and accessible to individuals with disabilities; design accessible project resources and products; and develop collaborations that are inclusive of individuals with disabilities.

Brianna Blaser, Ph.D. (she/her) ... University of Washington, DO-IT ... washington.edu/doit<http://washington.edu/doit>

206-221-4163 | blaser@uw.edu<mailto:blaser@uw.edu>

Explore options and best practices when part of your course is in person and part is online, including flipping your classroom.

DELTA Workshop for CNR only ... You must register to participate ... led by Bethany Smith (DELTA). You will receive a Zoom link when you register.

Recording Available ... Presentation Slides

Join a conversation with Jason Bacarro, George Hess, Megan Lupek, & Bethany Smith about how to get your students engaged in asynchronous and synchronous online learning environments.

Recording Available - NCSU Login Required

Other resources ... Active Learning in Hybrid and Physically Distanced Classrooms

No registration. Just visit go.ncsu.edu/advancing_advising to join.

What motivates you as an instructor to keep going? How do you find inspiration? How do you re-energize to avoid burnout and build in wellness as we start the new academic year? We need to recharge our batteries. We will all need it going forward, so let’s plan for it.

Registration Required ... Non-faculty instructors ... if the system will not let you register, please contact Diane Chapman (ddchapma@ncsu.edu), OFD Director, and let her know you'd like to be registered.

Join Kyle Bunds (PRTM), Kim Bush (PRTM), & Megan Lupek (FER) for a discussion about best practices for delivering content in an online environment.

Recording Available - NCSU login required

How can we conduct field-based courses and labs with Covid-19 constraints? What are the learning objectives for which being outside is critical? What can we move online? Join Bethanne Tobey and Cathi Dunnagan (NCSU DELTA) to talk through challenges and possibilities.

Recording Available - NCSU login required

Quick Reference Document

As institutions plan for how they will continue to educate their students in the new higher education environment, faculty must adapt their curriculum to address the challenges of online and hybrid class delivery. In this webinar, HBS Professor Yael Grushka-Cockayne will share her expertise in curriculum design, coupled with analytics, for online and hybrid classes.

Topics included will be:

• Building a curriculum for online and hybrid classes

• Teaching quantitative material in a case-based, student centric environment

• The student’s perspective – tips for engaging students in this new learning environment

• Using analytics to generate productive discussions in online and hybrid classes

• Making greater advantage of the technology in the online and hybrid course

• Mixing synchronous and asynchronous

Register at https://zoom.us/webinar/register/9715934749106/WN_eNogtDIISS20cE8OlxrUOw

REMOTE - the connected faculty summit ... Free online conference hosted by Arizona State University with more than 70 sessions available. Runs from 3P-7P EDT on Monday and from noon-6P EDT on Tuesday.

On demand recordings available (registration required)

What are the elements that make up a resilient course that can flex according to students’ needs: fully hybrid and flexible online/in-person course? What things do you need to incorporate whether in-person or online? What does this model look like? See examples in use now. How to brand your course as HyFlex? Ask questions about how to make your course more efficient and streamlined to meet all student needs.

Registration Required ... Non-faculty instructors ... if the system will not let you register, please contact Diane Chapman (ddchapma@ncsu.edu), OFD Director, and let her know you'd like to be registered.

The UNC System Office is pleased to announce the availability of Designing Effective Online Courses, an online workshop to support faculty and staff across the System in moving their courses to an online format.

Registration is now open. The workshop is free, but space is limited, and registration is required. This workshop will provide faculty and staff with information, tools, and experiences that will help them to be more successful—and more comfortable—teaching online. The material will be aimed at instructors who have minimal proficiency leading online learning environments, but experienced instructors will also find new tips, hot topics, and useful activities.

The workshop officially launches on July 6. Participants can finish the work at their own pace, but they are encouraged to complete the program by July 17.

Learn More and Register

No registration. Just visit go.ncsu.edu/advancing_advising to join.

Join Crystal Tenan (Information Technology Accessibility Officer) & Mark Newmiller (Disability Resource Officer) to talk about how to ensure your online environment is accessible to all and promote equitable and optimal learning opportunities.

Recording Available

Resources ... Accommodating Students ... Teaching Students with Different Abilities

Leveraging Zoom tools - including breakout rooms, annotation, polling, and more - to facilitate engagement.

DELTA Workshop ... you must register to participate ... led by Bethany Smith (DELTA). You will receive a Zoom link when you register.

The NC State University Libraries is committed to fostering change in the current textbook publishing environment. Librarians can partner with faculty members on licensing resources, using digital repositories, and creating and publishing their own open educational resources.

No recording

Resources ... Open Education ... OpenStax ... Open Textbook Library ... Oasis ... NCSU Open Pedagogy Incubator

The things that you may have been doing in person may not work in online environments. Create a course where engagement is built into the structure of the course. There are ways to use the spaces more intentionally so students have to participate. How can we counter the perception that online learning is isolating and not engaging, and instead a place to have rich discussions and form friendships?

Registration Required ... Non-faculty instructors ... if the system will not let you register, please contact Diane Chapman (ddchapma@ncsu.edu), OFD Director, and let her know you'd like to be registered.

Leveraging Zoom tools - including breakout rooms, annotation, polling, and more - to facilitate engagement.

Recording available - NCSU login required

Other Resources ... Teaching in Zoom ... DELTA's YouTube Zoom Tutorials

Hear from five presenters from around the country who will share their experiences and lessons learned in moving their programs to a virtual platform. They will cover topics ranging from things you can do in your own backyard to large-scale conferences. This event is open to everyone, but is targeted for natural resources professionals who are considering organizing virtual events in the future.

Recording available

No registration. Just visit go.ncsu.edu/advancing_advising to join.

This is the same workshop as the 07.06-07.17 offering. The UNC System Office is pleased to announce the availability of Designing Effective Online Courses, an online workshop to support faculty and staff across the System in moving their courses to an online format.

Registration is now open. The workshop is free, but space is limited, and registration is required. This workshop will provide faculty and staff with information, tools, and experiences that will help them to be more successful—and more comfortable—teaching online. The material will be aimed at instructors who have minimal proficiency leading online learning environments, but experienced instructors will also find new tips, hot topics, and useful activities.

The workshop officially launches on July 20. Participants can finish the work at their own pace, but they are encouraged to complete the program by July 17.

Learn More and Register

No registration. Just visit go.ncsu.edu/advancing_advising to join.

Are you teaching this fall and looking for ways to support active learning in the classroom or online? Come learn about Top Hat, the student engagement platform at NC State! Top Hat can be especially useful when teaching in a classroom setting where students are physically distant. You can still gather ideas from the class through polling and conduct discussions, even when students are sitting apart from one another. Top Hat can also intake answers from students who are physically present, and from students who are remote, learning from their dorms or at home in quarantine. Come and explore creative ways to use Top Hat under these challenging COVID-19 teaching conditions.

Registration Required

How can you shift away from proctored assessments? In this session we will think about assessing student learning in new and different ways. What assessments are practical and efficient to do online? How can you incorporate formative assessment into your online course? How do you deliver and evaluate your new assessments? Distance/remote proctoring will not be covered in this session.

Registration Required ... Non-faculty instructors ... if the system will not let you register, please contact Diane Chapman (ddchapma@ncsu.edu), OFD Director, and let her know you'd like to be registered.

How do you use Moodle to best organize and present your course content? How can Moodle tools help you achieve your instructional goals? Join us as we explore some best practices for teaching in Moodle for online, blended and face-to-face courses. We will review example courses, and discuss tips and strategies for structuring content using various Moodle tools.

Registration required

Is discussion a vital part of your teaching? Are you wondering how to get the most out of your discussions online? Have you ever struggled with how to frame your in-person discussions?

Join Dr. Paula McAvoy of the NC State College of Education for Designing Effective Discussions. In this online workshop, which is applicable to both face-to face and hybrid classrooms, you will explore the characteristics of good discussions and how to create a climate for effective discussions.

To reserve your spot, please register via REPORTER. The Zoom link will be included in your registration confirmation email.

The UNC System Office is pleased to announce further offerings of Designing Effective Online Courses, an online workshop to support faculty and staff across the System in moving their courses to an online format.

Registration is now open. The workshop is free, but space is limited, and registration is required. This workshop will provide faculty and staff with information, tools, and experiences that will help them to be more successful—and more comfortable—teaching online. The material will be aimed at instructors who have minimal proficiency leading online learning environments, but experienced instructors will also find new tips, hot topics, and useful activities.

The workshop officially launches on October 5 with 2- or 4-week pacing.

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Join us over lunch virtually for whole-group discussions facilitated by staff from DELTA, NC State University Libraries, and OFD. Faculty and teaching graduate students are invited to attend. Bring your questions and ideas to share with colleagues about teaching in these challenging, uncertain times. Meet-ups will occur via Zoom every Thursday from 12:00-1:00 pm during the Fall 2020 semester. Registration is required in order to receive the Zoom meeting details.

In this 2-workshop series, we’ll explore ways to increase student engagement in synchronous and asynchronous courses, discussing and sharing our best tips, tools, and technology. We’ll provide a handy resource document participants will use between the first and second workshops to identify opportunities and create plans to facilitate greater student engagement in their own courses. In the final session, participants will share their ideas and get feedback and support from their peers and instructors on their plans.

Register here

NC State is committed to providing all students with high-quality, innovative learning experiences. This commitment includes online learning environments. The Course Quality Program at NC State contributes to DELTA’s mission of supporting student success by providing faculty with a process for quality assurance in online education.

There are three pathways for which you can apply ...

• Teaching Online Certificate

• Quality Matters Essential Standards Program

• Online Course Improvement Program

All information and application links are on the Course Quality Program at NC State website.

The UNC System Office is pleased to announce further offerings of Designing Effective Online Courses, an online workshop to support faculty and staff across the System in moving their courses to an online format.

Registration is now open. The workshop is free, but space is limited, and registration is required. This workshop will provide faculty and staff with information, tools, and experiences that will help them to be more successful—and more comfortable—teaching online. The material will be aimed at instructors who have minimal proficiency leading online learning environments, but experienced instructors will also find new tips, hot topics, and useful activities.

The workshop officially launches on November 30 with 2- or 4-week pacing.

Learn More and Register

Spring 2021 Reading Circles

Registration is open now through January 28 for OFD’s Spring 2021 Reading Circles.

Register now for Reading Circles

Our Spring 2021 Reading Circle selection is Teach Students How to Learn: Strategies You Can Incorporate into Any Course to Improve Student Metacognition, Study Skills, and Motivation by Saundra Yancy McGuire with Stephanie McGuire (Stylus, 2015, 288 pages). What is preventing your students from performing according to expectations? Saundra McGuire offers a simple but profound answer: If you teach students how to learn and give them simple, straightforward strategies to use, they can significantly increase their learning and performance. Saundra McGuire, the keynote speaker for our 2021 Teaching and Learning Symposium, has been acclaimed for her presentations and workshops on metacognition and student learning because the tools and strategies she shares have enabled faculty to facilitate dramatic improvements in student learning and success. This book encapsulates the model and ideas she has developed in the past fifteen years, ideas that are being adopted by an increasing number of faculty with considerable effect.

The NC State University Libraries provides unlimited ebook access to Teach Students How to Learn: https://catalog.lib.ncsu.edu/catalog/NCSU4678261. OFD will not be distributing physical copies this semester.

Our Spring 2021 Reading Circles will be fully online and synchronous, with meetings held in Zoom. All meeting dates and times have been preset by OFD; you just need to sign up for the schedule that best suits you:

• Tuesdays, 2:00 p.m.: February 2, February 23, March 16, April 6

• Tuesdays, 2:00 p.m.: February 9, March 2, March 23, April 13

• Wednesdays, 9:00 a.m.: February 3, February 24, March 17, April 7

• Wednesdays, 9:00 a.m.: February 10, March 3, March 24, April 14

• Wednesdays, 2:00 p.m.: February 3, February 24, March 17, April 7

• Wednesdays, 2:00 p.m.: February 10, March 3, March 24, April 14

• Wednesdays, 3:00 p.m.: February 3, February 24, March 17, April 7

• Wednesdays, 3:00 p.m.: February 10, March 3, March 24, April 14

• Thursdays, 9:00 a.m.: February 4, February 25, March 18, April 8

• Thursdays, 9:00 a.m.: February 11, March 4, March 25, April 15

• Thursdays, 2:00 p.m.: February 4, February 25, March 18, April 8

• Thursdays, 2:00 p.m.: February 11, March 4, March 25, April 15

• Fridays, 9:00 a.m.: February 5, February 26, March 19, April 9

• Fridays, 9:00 a.m.: February 12, March 5, March 26, April 16

• Fridays, 2:00 p.m.: February 5, February 26, March 19, April 9

• Fridays, 2:00 p.m.: February 12, March 5, March 26, April 16

Register now for Reading Circles

The UNC System Office is pleased to announce further offerings of Designing Effective Online Courses, an online workshop to support faculty and staff across the System in moving their courses to an online format.

Registration is now open. The workshop is free, but space is limited, and registration is required. This workshop will provide faculty and staff with information, tools, and experiences that will help them to be more successful—and more comfortable—teaching online. The material will be aimed at instructors who have minimal proficiency leading online learning environments, but experienced instructors will also find new tips, hot topics, and useful activities.

The workshop officially launches on January 4 with 2- or 4-week pacing.

Learn More and Register

Running out of ideas to keep your students engaged in a virtual classroom? How about games! Yes, you heard that correctly! Gamification is an innovative, fun, and interactive way to keep students engaged in learning (plus it could bring a little competition!). Bring your “A-GAME” and your lunch and join UNC Pembroke’s Julie Harrison-Swartz for “Game On: Student Engagement Through Play,” on January 8, 2021 at 12 p.m. for an interactive and engaging Lunch & Learn! Go to this Zoom link, and use the password LUNCH to access this Lunch & Learn.

Are you having trouble getting students engaged in online discussions? Do you feel like your course’s online discussions could simply be better somehow? Or maybe, you’re just looking for more strategies to facilitate productive online discussions in general! The good news is that you are not alone! Please join Erma Smith-King of North Carolina Central University for our “Facilitating Effective Class Discussions on Zoom” Lunch & Learn on Friday, January 22 12 noon - 1 p.m. Go to this Zoom link, and use the password LUNCH to access this Lunch & Learn.

Engaging students is essential to learning, but there are many ways to accomplish this task. In this workshop we will share some evidence-based active learning strategies that can be implemented in any classroom (in-person or online). Led by Dr. Maria Gallardo Williams, Office of Faculty Development Scholarship of Teaching & Learning Faculty Fellow.

To register for any or all Back to Basics sessions, visit REPORTER.

Just as students benefit from frequent feedback, instructors benefit from frequently checking in with students about their learning. Classroom assessment techniques are quick, effective ways for taking a pulse of the classroom. In this workshop, we will share some simple classroom assessment techniques to increase learner success. Led by Dr. Diane Chapman, Executive Director, Office of Faculty Development.

To register for any or all Back to Basics sessions, visit REPORTER.