CETL Fall 2022 Program
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CETL provides a variety of faculty development programs to help you design your courses, improve student engagement, create better student learning outcomes, and enhance your teaching career. Our programs typically fall into the following categories:
- Short Professional Development Certificates- These interdisciplinary groups meet monthly to explore teaching and learning topics, connect with faculty with common interests or concerns, and share and reflect on the experience of teaching.
- Long Professional Development Courses are courses that meet monthly throughout the academic year.
- Workshops and online courses help you learn more about specialized topics related to course design, teaching practices, or student learning.
- Non-Instructional Faculty Professional Development- Programs to support faculty outside the classroom and develop research and leadership.
Short Professional Development Certificates
Evidence-informed Learning Design
Facilitated by Dr. Carrie Lewis Miller
How do we know what trends in teaching and learning are fads and which ones are based on empirical research? Through reading and discussion of the book Evidence-informed Learning Design, we will explore strategies for distinguishing between fads and evidence-based practice. Books will be provided books to those who register at least two weeks prior to the start of the program.
Dates: Meets monthly on Wednesday (September 21, October 12, and November 2) at 1 pm
Through the Eyes of Students
Facilitated by Dr. Laura Jacobi
Would you like the opportunity to hear from students what strategies work best in helping them to learn? In this 5-week certificate program facilitated by Laura Jacobi (University MavPASS Faculty Liaison) and students who have been trained in or experienced various learning strategies, we will explore learning from the student perspective. Through participation, we hope to answer the following questions:
- What pedagogical strategies work best in the classroom in supporting student learning?
- What environment supports student learning, and how can professors foster it?
- What are the best ways to create and foster an inclusive classroom environment?
- What types of assessments help students to best comprehend and retain the curriculum?
Topic suggestions will also be collected from participants.
Dates: TBD
Student Stories: Evidence-Based Online Course Design
Facilitated by Dr. Carrie Lewis Miller and Michael Manderfeld
This certificate draws on data from two different surveys, implemented between 2019-2022, designed to understand the student experience in online courses based on course design elements. These sessions will share survey results from our 500+ student respondents and examine course design implications in light of the findings. Applicable online course revisions will be discussed, and consultations for implementation will be available.
Dates: Meets weekly for four weeks with two options to attend: Mondays (October 1-October 24) at 2 pm Tuesdays (October 2-October 25) at 10 am
Creating Interactive Online Lectures
Facilitated by Michael Manderfeld
In this four-session professional development certificate program, participants will have the opportunity to learn about exciting new improvements to our enterprise lecture capture service, MediaSpace. New improvements include dynamic closed captioning features, a variety of video quiz options, and a direct integration with our Learning Management System, D2L Brightspace. At the end of this certificate, participants will be able to create video lectures and video quizzes to track student learning, as well as implement those learning activities into D2L Brightspace’s Gradebook.
Dates: Meets weekly for four weeks with two options to attend: Mondays (October 1-October 24) at 2 pm Tuesdays (October 2-October 25) at 10 am
Intersectional Teaching and Learning Design
Facilitated by Dr. R. Danielle Scott, Dr. Yalda Hamidi, and Dr. Elizabeth Harsma,
What is intersectionality? How does this apply to course design? What technology could be used for intersectional course design? These are the essential questions this certificate will answer.
This certificate is an introduction to intersectional course design with a focus on feminist pedagogies and intersections with disability studies and antiracist teaching. You will learn course design, teaching strategies, and technology ideas that can be applied to your own courses.
The certificate time commitment will be about 2 hours per week, 10 hours total 4 Zoom meetings (1 hour weekly), and learning activities (1 – 1.5 hours weekly) that are completed after the Zoom sessions. Participants are welcome to attend the Zoom sessions live or by watching the recording.
Dates for live sessions: Meets weekly on Wednesdays (October 3-October 24) from 5-6 pm.
Long Professional Development Courses
Un-grading Work Group
Facilitated by Dr. Kelly Moreland and Dr. Elizabeth Harsma
Join the un-grading workgroup that will meet 4-6 times per semester. Meetings will be about 1 hour each. In between workshop sessions, we will identify resources to learn more about un-grading techniques, concepts, and implementation strategies. The expected time in between sessions is 1 hour per week. During meetings, the cohort will discuss resources and collaboratively workshop their own un-grading materials. The schedule of meetings will be determined by the cohort’s availability.
Dates: TBD
Faculty Onboarding Academy
The purpose of the new faculty onboarding academy is to provide those new to the University with the tools they need to be successful in the classroom including learning teaching strategies that foster student learning, utilizing course design principles to increase student success, and in areas of scholarship, student support, service, and professional development. All sessions will be interactive and allow the faculty to actively engage in activities that will help them be prepared to successfully support students. Faculty will learn to apply these practices with a racially conscious lens to work toward the goals outlined in Equity 2030. Lunch will be provided for the Tuesday session, and snacks will be provided during the Wednesday sessions.
Dates: Meets on the third Tuesday at 12 pm and 3rd Wednesday at 3 pm
Workshops and Online Courses
Roundtable Panel Discussion: Top Take-Aways from the ACUE Effective Online Teaching Practices Course
Facilitated by Dr. Jonathan Paver and Dr. Elizabeth Harsma
A cohort of 30 faculty who teach in Minnesota State Mankato ONLINE programs/courses are participating in the ACUE Effective Online Teaching Practices course. In this roundtable panel discussion, faculty participants will discuss the experience, share their top take-aways, and share examples of practices they’ve implemented.
Dates: TBD
Digital world/digital classrooms: Building an inclusive antiracist community for students
Facilitated by Dr. Maria-Renée Grigsby and Dr. Elizabeth Harsma
In this two-part workshop, participants will engage in self-reflection and discussion of race, cultural frames of reference, inclusive teaching practices, and bias in a way that deepens understanding of their own frames of reference, potential bias in these frames, and the impact of bias on expectations for and relationships with students. Part 1 focuses on self-reflection, and Part 2 focuses on teaching practices.
The workshop time commitment will be about 4 hours total: 2 Zoom meetings (1.5 hours each) and reflection activities (.25 - .5 hours weekly) between the Zoom sessions.
Dates: Synchronous meetings, Tuesday, September 27, and October 25 from 4 pm-5:30 pm
