OTL Conference Room (Anderson Academic Commons 345)

The Chronicle of Higher Education recently published an article (February 11^th, 2018) titled “Most Professors Hate Post-Tenure Review. A Better Approach Might Look Like This” describing the DU faculty development process. A corner stone of the DU approach to faculty development is the Peer-To-Peer (P2P) conversation which faculty are encouraged to host every three years.  The intention of the P2P conversations is to promote a form of professional engagement that is often missing from higher education communities because of current political, economic, and social constraints. P2P conversations are not intended to replace other forms of faculty to faculty conversations which occur in less formal settings or gatherings. The P2P conversations differ in that they are formally structured around key moments in the life of a faculty, focused on professional development, and are bounded by norms of confidentiality.

The Office of Teaching and Learning in collaboration with Paul Michalec from the Morgridge College of Education are hosting two P2P training sessions.  All faculty are invited to attend whether or not they are planning on participating in a P2P conversation this academic year.  The sessions will dive into both the theory and practice of P2P conversations, including a how to ask Open and Honest questions that invite a deeper dialogue with self as well as a mini-P2P modeled by the session leaders.  You will walk away clear on the purpose and practice of P2P conversations and how they can enrich your academic career at DU.

The Loft (Anderson Academic Commons 340)

Happy Fall quarter! You are invited to join the first official Assessment Fellows/Assessment Divas meeting of the year. This is a great opportunity for assessment participants from the 2017 and 2018 training cohorts to mingle, share assessment and accreditation updates, and collaborate about ways to rock this new academic year. We look forward to connecting! 

Online

Presented by University College.

Take interactivity in Canvas to a new level with H5P!  H5P is a free and open-source content creation resource that allows you to easily add media-rich, interactive elements to online content, including drag-and-drop challenges, images with descriptive hotspots, flashcard exercises, timelines, and other unique presentation options.  Join us for this hands-on workshop to learn more about how to use the new DU portal to leverage these simple, free H5P tools.

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. 

Mountain View Room (Ruffatto Hall 401)

Mid-career faculty commonly describe a range of rank-specific challenges including:

• Managing time in the face of increased service and administrative responsibilities
• Working long hours but making little progress on their research agenda
• An absence of mentoring to help navigate the post tenure landscape
• Feeling unsupported in their desire for work family balance
• Missing the passion, drive, and clarity they once held for their intellectual projects

In the Writing Your Next Chapter workshop, we outline the most common issues mid-career faculty face and provide participants with strategies for identifying where they are stuck and how to move forward in their intellectual projects. The facilitator for the workshop will be Dr. Erin Furtak from the University of Colorado at Boulder, through our membership with the National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity (NCFDD).

All faculty are welcome to attend.

OTL Conference Room (Anderson Academic Commons 345)

Join us for a group exercise encouraging participants to think outside of the box and begin forming personalized strategies, structures, and themes for an ePortfolio site.

Online

Presented by University College.

Are you looking to switch up your discussions to make them more engaging? Come learn about FlipGrid, a video discussion platform that allows students to post quick videos to create more dynamic discussions. The tool is free to use through the University’s Microsoft license. Allison O’Grady, Senior Instructional Support Specialist and adjunct faculty member, will highlight the tool, show you how to set it up in your course, and give an overview of best practices. We will even try the tool live to give you a better idea of how easy and fun it is to use.

OTL Conference Room (Anderson Academic Commons 345)

The Chronicle of Higher Education recently published an article (February 11^th, 2018) titled “Most Professors Hate Post-Tenure Review. A Better Approach Might Look Like This” describing the DU faculty development process. A corner stone of the DU approach to faculty development is the Peer-To-Peer (P2P) conversation which faculty are encouraged to host every three years.  The intention of the P2P conversations is to promote a form of professional engagement that is often missing from higher education communities because of current political, economic, and social constraints. P2P conversations are not intended to replace other forms of faculty to faculty conversations which occur in less formal settings or gatherings. The P2P conversations differ in that they are formally structured around key moments in the life of a faculty, focused on professional development, and are bounded by norms of confidentiality.

The Office of Teaching and Learning in collaboration with Paul Michalec from the Morgridge College of Education are hosting two P2P training sessions.  All faculty are invited to attend whether or not they are planning on participating in a P2P conversation this academic year.  The sessions will dive into both the theory and practice of P2P conversations, including a how to ask Open and Honest questions that invite a deeper dialogue with self as well as a mini-P2P modeled by the session leaders.  You will walk away clear on the purpose and practice of P2P conversations and how they can enrich your academic career at DU.

OTL Conference Room (Anderson Academic Commons 345)

Join us for this open lab where DU Portfolio users will be provided tutorials on the newest features of the application, and the opportunity to work through design challenges with peers and experts.

OTL Conference Room (Anderson Academic Commons 345)

Please join us by dropping-in during this open lab where you will have access to peers and experts who can help you work through design challenges and strategies for using the DU Portfolio application to create a well-designed ePortfolio site.

OTL Conference Room (Anderson Academic Commons 345)

Please join us by dropping-in during this open lab where you will have access to peers and experts who can help you work through design challenges and strategies for using the DU Portfolio application to create a well-designed ePortfolio site.

OTL Conference Room (Anderson Academic Commons 345)

Please join us by dropping-in during this open lab where you will have access to peers and experts who can help you work through design challenges and strategies for using the DU Portfolio application to create a well-designed ePortfolio site.

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)

Please join us by dropping-in during this open lab where you will have access to peers and experts who can help you work through design challenges and strategies for using the DU Portfolio application to create a well-designed ePortfolio site.

OTL Conference Room (Anderson Academic Commons 345)

Please join us by dropping-in during this open lab where you will have access to peers and experts who can help you work through design challenges and strategies for using the DU Portfolio application to create a well-designed ePortfolio site.

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.