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Center for Integrated Professional Development

Workshop Series Events

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Maker Day

In this series from the Online Education team at the Center for Integrated Professional Development, Maker Days are a space where instructors can work independently and collaboratively to discuss topics related to teaching and develop artifacts that can be used in their courses. Each Maker Day will focus on a chosen theme with the first half dedicated to discussing shared experiences and best practices, with the second half focused on creating an artifact that can be used in your teaching.

Eligible Participants: Tenure-Track Faculty, Non-Tenure Track Faculty and Course Instructors, Graduate Students, Staff (AP and Civil Service).

Effective Group Work Online

Register for this session by Monday, June 5

This workshop focuses on utilizing collaboration and group work in your courses. The first hour will focus on best practices for collaboration and group work in online and hybrid courses. The second hour will utilize a template to create a rationale, collaboration plan, and assignment sheet for a course. Registration is required.

Event Information

Session: Tuesday, June 6, 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Location: Williams 325

Facilitators:
Addison Lamb, Center for Integrated Professional Development.

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Reducing Barriers to Increase Engagement: Supporting Student Success with OER and Open Pedagogy

Textbook and course material costs have increased wildly in the last few decades, outpacing college tuition, housing, and healthcare costs in the United States. As a result, many students postpone or do not purchase required course materials, which hampers their learning processes and impacts their grades. This workshop series introduces Open Educational Resources (OER), which are freely available and openly licensed course materials, providing strategies and tools for evaluating, adopting, adapting, and creating OER. It also introduces Open Pedagogy, a strategy for co-creating OER with students that supports authentic learning and active engagement. Participants are welcome to attend individual workshops or complete the entire series.

Stipend: $100

Learn more about the stipend policy and eligibility.

Eligible Participants: Tenure-Track Faculty, Non-Tenure Track Faculty and Course Instructors, Staff (AP and Civil Service)

Session 1

Locating and Evaluating Open Educational Resources

Register for this session by Tuesday, May 26

Discover how Open Educational Resources (OER) can reduce costs and support student success. This workshop will explore practical strategies for locating and evaluating OER to support your courses’ individual goals. Registration is required.

Outcomes:

Participants will

  • Utilize OER aggregator sites to locate OER.
  • Use publicly available rubrics to evaluate OER.
  • Evaluate at least one OER and post a review on an OER platform.

Session 2

Adopting, Adapting, and Creating OER: Strategies and Tools to Support your OER Journey

Register for this session by Friday, May 29

Are you ready to explore adopting or creating Open Educational Resources (OER)? This workshop will provide guidance and practical tools to help implement OER in your classes, lowering costs for students while providing customized course materials. By the end of the workshop, all participants will complete an assessment of an existing OER, outlining how it would need to be adapted to meet the needs of one of their courses. Registration is required.

Outcomes:

  • Discuss practical strategies to guide their adoption, adaptation, and/or creation of OER, including open textbooks and other course materials.
  • Explore tools and software to assist in the adaptation or creation of OER.
  • Complete an assessment of an existing OER and outline how it will be adopted into a course

Session 3

Open Pedagogy: Infusing Student Work with Meaning and Value

Register for this session by Tuesday, June 9

Open pedagogy is an authentic learning strategy in which students co-create meaning through the development developing an open educational resource (OER). Learn how to transform your students into active creators of knowledge with “renewable assignments” that have real-world impact. Registration is required.

Outcomes:

  • Learn the basics of open pedagogy and how it can foster student agency, encourage collaboration, and increase equity.
  • Select and adapt one assignment from their course to utilize open pedagogy to produce student-created OER.

Event Information

Session 1

Date: Wednesday, May 27

Session 2

Date: Monday, June 1

Session 3

Date: Wednesday, June 10

Time: 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.

Location: Milner 213C

Facilitators: Lindsey Skaggs, Milner Library
Julie Murphy, Milner Library

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Framework for Inclusive Teaching Excellence (FITE)

The Framework for Inclusive Teaching Excellence (FITE) guides CIPD’s approach to advancing inclusive teaching at Illinois State University. Designed to support instructors at all career stages, the FITE promotes growth in six dimensions: Science of Learning, Impact of Course Design, Evidence-based Pedagogy, Classroom Climate and Culture, Feedback and Assessment Loop, and Data-Informed Reflection. CIPD has built a robust suite of programming and services around this framework, offering a dynamic lineup of events and learning opportunities to meet the evolving needs of educators across the university.

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