OTL Conference Room (Anderson Academic Commons 345)

Welcome to the Inclusive Classroom Communication Faculty Learning Community! We will meet on Tuesdays 4/2, 4/16, 4/30, 5/14, and 5/28. Participants are expected to attend all sessions, but we understand that life happens and appreciate notice if you might miss one of our gatherings. 

We will send out the location of our meetings once registration closes. 

Looking forward to embarking on this journey with you,

Dr. Valentina LaGrave & Dr. Christina Foust

Garden Room (Chambers Center Colorado Women's College)

"Universal Design for Learning is a framework aimed at dismantling participation barriers for all students by centering learner variability in curriculum development. The central purpose of UDL is to support all students in becoming expert learners - strategic, skillful, goal-directed, knowledgeable, and motivated to learn more." Rose, D.H. & Meyer, A (2002). Teaching every student in the digital age: Universal design for learning. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.

Join us to learn from DU faculty and staff about the ways we can work together to create courses that integrate UDL principles, guidelines and checkpoints. Presenters will share examples of what it looks like to provide multiple means of engagement, representation, action, and expression in their courses; and we will cover the range of UDL support available to faculty who are eager to implement this framework in their teaching practice!

OTL Conference Room (Anderson Academic Commons 345)

Please join us for a workshop where we will take a deeper dive into the research that links reflective ePortfolios to increases in student retention, completion, and satisfaction rates when done well (and what "doing it well" means!). During the workshop we will explore resources for incorporating ePortfolios and the DU Portfolio applicaiton in your classroom. You will also have the opportunity to begin developing strategies and processes that taylor the use of DU Portfolio to one of your courses.

OTL Conference Room (Anderson Academic Commons 345)

This SoTL workshop will provide the practical elements to begin to design a research project for the Fall of 2019. These are all important elements that need to be done over the summer to prepared for data collection in the Fall.

We will cover topics such as:

• the ethical issues of SoTL,
• getting IRB approval,
• CITI training
• project design and
• the use of Canvas to collect evidence of student learning.

OTL Conference Room (Anderson Academic Commons 345)

Join the OTL for a webinar watch party for the National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity webinar Mastering Academic Time Management.  These webinars are part of an ongoing curriculum designed to build skills toward the goal of continued faculty success.

Bring your lunch, and we will provide dessert! 

OTL Conference Room (Anderson Academic Commons 345)

Coming soon!

OTL Conference Room (Anderson Academic Commons 345)

This faculty showcase is based on Prof. Nancy Wadsworth’s 2018 Winter Interterm Advanced Seminar in Rwanda, “Rwanda in the Wake of Genocide: Stretching to Understand the Unfathomable.” We will explore some of the opportunities, challenges, and lessons learned from immersing ourselves in Rwanda’s history, visiting many of the nation’s memorials to the genocide, meeting with organizations working toward reconciliation and healing, spending more time together than we do in a standard classroom, and hearing from Rwandans at this optimistic moment in the country’s life.

With participation from some students from the class, we will think about what shifts when we move from the textbook to the sidewalk, when we are challenged to square official stories with the messages-in-between-the-lines of real people’s accounts of what’s happening, and when we encounter the reverberations of traumas bigger than most of us can comprehend, for many days in a row, and far outside our comfort zones.

OTL Conference Room (Anderson Academic Commons 345)

Heart of Higher Education Conversations (formerly known as Soul and Role) are hosted by the Office of Teaching and Learning and Morgridge College of Education professor Paul Michalec.  The meetings are open to all faculty (of any rank) and staff (of any title).  The Heart of Higher Education is an opportunity to gather as a DU community to share the challenges and opportunities of transcending the institutional, professional, and personal choices that tend to separate core identity/integrity from day to day actions. The Heart of Higher Education Conversations create a space where staff and faculty can explore ways of re-connecting calling with professional responsibilities.  Our time together is bounded by norms designed to create an open invitation to share while respecting individual choices to not share at a particular time.

Prior to each meeting an agenda and short reflective reading will be sent out. We hope that you will read the poem as well as the prompts before the meeting and if possible to begin formulating understandings to the poem or prompts. This is an opportunity not an obligation, which means you are welcome to attend whether you read the poem or not.  Please feel free to bring your lunch. 

OTL Conference Room (Anderson Academic Commons 345)

Join us at this informal open lab where DU Portfolio faculty adopters will be provided with tutorials for leveraging various tools and features of the application to enhance reflective practices. You will also have the opportunity to work through implementation and design challenges with colleagues, peers, and experts.

OTL Conference Room (Anderson Academic Commons 345)

This is a drop-in work session with Karen Swanson to provide consultation on any part of your current or future SoTL projects.

This includes:

• support for IRB applications
• CITI training
• setting up Canvas to gather evidence of student learning
• data analysis
• submitting a SoTL article for publication.

Garden Room (Chambers Center Colorado Women's College)

Under-represented faculty commonly describe:

• Feeling over-whelmed by service requests related to diversity
• Pressure to serve as role models, advisors, and mentors to all _______ students
• Struggling to respond effectively to classroom dynamics that are shaped by race, class, and gender
• Lack of support network, community, mentors, and sponsors
• Mixed messages about the best use of their time on campus

The Solo Success Workshop is specifically designed to address the unique concerns of under-represented faculty members. Specifically, participants learn to:

• Identify the common challenges under-represented faculty face on the tenure-track
• Identify the three biggest mistakes under-represented faculty make
• Specific strategies for increasing productivity, serving strategically, teaching efficiently, and building strong and healthy professional relationships
• Identify why and how to connect with communities of support and accountability

Facilitated by Dr. Anthony Ocampo.

Anthony Ocampo, PhD, is a professor at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, and a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Public Policy at University of California, Riverside. Dr. Ocampo participated in the Faculty Success Program in his first quarter as a tenure-track faculty member in 2011 and has been an FSP coach since 2013.

OTL Conference Room (Anderson Academic Commons 345)

Heart of Higher Education Conversations (formerly known as Soul and Role) are hosted by the Office of Teaching and Learning and Morgridge College of Education professor Paul Michalec.  The meetings are open to all faculty (of any rank) and staff (of any title).  The Heart of Higher Education is an opportunity to gather as a DU community to share the challenges and opportunities of transcending the institutional, professional, and personal choices that tend to separate core identity/integrity from day to day actions. The Heart of Higher Education Conversations create a space where staff and faculty can explore ways of re-connecting calling with professional responsibilities.  Our time together is bounded by norms designed to create an open invitation to share while respecting individual choices to not share at a particular time.

Prior to each meeting an agenda and short reflective reading will be sent out. We hope that you will read the poem as well as the prompts before the meeting and if possible to begin formulating understandings to the poem or prompts. This is an opportunity not an obligation, which means you are welcome to attend whether you read the poem or not.  Please feel free to bring your lunch. 

OTL Conference Room (Anderson Academic Commons 345)

Heart of Higher Education Conversations (formerly known as Soul and Role) are hosted by the Office of Teaching and Learning and Morgridge College of Education professor Paul Michalec.  The meetings are open to all faculty (of any rank) and staff (of any title).  The Heart of Higher Education is an opportunity to gather as a DU community to share the challenges and opportunities of transcending the institutional, professional, and personal choices that tend to separate core identity/integrity from day to day actions. The Heart of Higher Education Conversations create a space where staff and faculty can explore ways of re-connecting calling with professional responsibilities.  Our time together is bounded by norms designed to create an open invitation to share while respecting individual choices to not share at a particular time.

Prior to each meeting an agenda and short reflective reading will be sent out. We hope that you will read the poem as well as the prompts before the meeting and if possible to begin formulating understandings to the poem or prompts. This is an opportunity not an obligation, which means you are welcome to attend whether you read the poem or not.  Please feel free to bring your lunch.