The conference will be held on April 13-14, 2016, at the UGA Hotel and Conference Center in Athens Georgia.
Tag Archives: Teaching and Learning
DETI Webinar: eLearning@UNG (D2L) The Rubrics Tool
This webinar will demonstrate the how to create and use D2L Rubrics.
Celebration of HIP/SoTL (Private)
Friday, March 25, 2016
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Gainesville | Nesbitt 3103
Facilitator: Mary Carney
This banquet will allow members of both the HIP and SoTL faculty academies to meet and mingle.
Catering will be provided.
Research-Based Teaching Series: The Assets and Liabilities of Rubrics
Monday, March 7, 2016
12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m.
Blue Ridge Campus | Room 107
Cumming Campus | Room 246
Dahlonega Campus | Barnes 315
Gainesville Campus | Nesbitt 2214
Oconee Campus | SRC 530
Michael Rifenburg and Jim Shimkus will present their research on rubrics. Starting with a historical foundation, we will chart how rubrics fell out of favor in common student writing assessment practices.
This session will be streamed from the Gainesville Campus.
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LEAP UNG: Foundations of LEAP in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Friday, March 2, 2016
12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m.
Streamed via Blackboard Collaborate
The Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) fosters research-based practices to promote academic excellence across the U.S. Their LEAP Initiative is based on scholarly work that often grows from the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL).
In this session, Mary Carney and Laura Ng will review the research on which the LEAP Initiative is founded and recommend ways for faculty at UNG to contribute to this discourse.
DETI Webinar: eLearning@UNG (D2L) – Using the Grade Tool and the Gradebook
This webinar will explain and demonstrate the details of the use of the Grade Tool, setting up a Gradebook through the “Setup Wizard”, creating grade items ande associating them with graded activities, student views, and publishing/releasing “final” grades.
DETI Webinar: eLearning@UNG (D2L) Discussion Tool
This webinar will demonstrate the use of the Discussion Tool, a course activity that can be assessed and entered in the gradebook.
SoTL Academy Session 5: Designing SoTL Research Projects (Private)
Wednesday, March 2, 2015
Blue Ridge Campus | 107
Dahlonega Campus | Stewart 260
Gainesville Campus | Strickland 183
Oconee Campus | Room 564
Facilitators: Mary Carney, Tom Cooper, Laura Ng
LEAP UNG: Faculty-Driven Innovation through Leveraging Essential Learning Outcomes and Principles of Excellence
Jenn Graff and Thomas Hartfield will present the AAC&U Essential Learning Outcomes & Principles of Excellence as a means of furthering efforts at Renewing Liberal Education through Faculty-Driven Reform and Innovation. This is part of the LEAP UNG Speaker Series.
DETI Webinar: eLearning@UNG (D2L) The Dropbox Tool
This webinar will demonstrate the use of the Dropbox tool, including the Turnitin integration.
DETI Webinar: eLearning@UNG (D2L) The Rubrics Tool
This webinar will demonstrate the how to create and use D2L Rubrics.
LEAP at UNG: Undergraduate Research as a High Impact Practice at UNG
Undergraduate Research is associated with a large number of positive student outcomes and is promoted by the AAC&U LEAP Initiative as an important High Impact Practice.
In this session, Steven Lloyd and Ryan Shanks will discuss the challenges and opportunities for faculty associated with UR at UNG in an effort to promote this co-curricular High Impact Practice and foster student engagement opportunities and development. Potential UR models and solutions to challenges will also be discussed. This is part of the LEAP UNG Speaker Series.
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DETI Webinar: eLearning@UNG (D2L) Creating Quizzes, Exams, and Self Assessments
This webinar will explain and demonstrate how to create a quiz or exam using the Quiz tool and a self assessment activity with its tool. A discussion of the Question Library and using different ways to build a Question library using the supplemental tool “Respondus” or by directly importing a textbook publisher-provided test bank of questions will be included.
DETI Webinar: eLearning@UNG (D2L) – Using the Grade Tool and the Gradebook
This webinar will explain and demonstrate the details of the use of the Grade Tool, setting up a Gradebook through the “Setup Wizard”, creating grade items ande associating them with graded activities, student views, and publishing/releasing “final” grades.
Student Motivation
Workshop for faculty on best practices and discussion on motivating students for greater achievement and classroom success.
Cumming Campus | Room 152 | Facilitator Ann Marie Francis
Dahlonega Campus| Barnes 216 | Facilitator Kelly McFaden
Gainesville Campus | Nesbitt 2204 | Facilitator Diana Edelman-Young
Oconee Campus | Classroom 308 | Facilitator Katherine Kipp
For readings, please contact the facilitator.
Register here.
DETI Webinar: eLearning@UNG (D2L) The HTML Editor
This webinar will demonstrate the many uses of the HTML editor, including document creation and adding multimedia to your course.
DETI Webinar: eLearning@UNG (D2L) Discussion Tool
This webinar will demonstrate the use of the Discussion Tool, a course activity that can be assessed and entered in the gradebook.
DETI Webinar: eLearning@UNG (D2L) Creating Quizzes, Exams, and Self Assessments
This webinar will explain and demonstrate how to create a quiz or exam using the Quiz tool and a self assessment activity with its tool. A discussion of the Question Library and using different ways to build a Question library using the supplemental tool “Respondus” or by directly importing a textbook publisher-provided test bank of questions will be included.
SoTL Academy Session 4: Discipinary Influences on SoTL Research (Private)
Wednesday, February 10, 2015
From 12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m.
Blue Ridge Campus | 107
Dahlonega Campus | Stewart 260
Gainesville Campus | Dunlap-Mathis 137
Oconee Campus | Room 581
Facilitators: Mary Carney, Laura Ng, and Tom Cooper
USG Faculty Development Monthly Series: Semi-flip: How to Flip Your Classroom One Activity at a Time
Presenters: Elizabeth Lucht and Marina Smitherman, Dalton State University
Designing individual active learning assignments to address challenging course concepts is an effective bridge between didactic lecture and the fully flipped classroom for faculty interested in improved student learning gains who prefer lecturing. This session describes the tools, design and implementation of two highly effective interactive activities for a semi-flipped classroom.