Teaching and Learning Days Archive

9:00–9:15—Coffee and Introductions
9:15–12:00—Optional Sessions
(choose one)

• Session A: Reacting to the Past: An Immersive Pedagogy
  Join your colleagues and immerse yourself in this “highest” of high-impact pedagogies. This session offers an introduction to the Reacting pedagogy, an intensive workshop during which you will play a Reacting game, and a chance to hear from UCF students who have experienced the pedagogy.
• Session B: Inquiry-Based Teaching
  Inquiry-based instruction can be a great way to promote deep learning in an engaged and active environment. This session will simulate the inquiry experience to inspire participants to think of their course in the context of researchable questions. Background on inquiry based lessons will be presented as well as techniques to develop inquiry-based activities regardless of class size or content level.

12:00–1:00—Lunch

Over the past couple of years active shooter incidents like Pulse Nightclub and Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School tragedies have cost dozens of lives and affected the mental health of thousands more. Data breaches at Equifax and Facebook have compromised the security of personal data for tens of millions of Americans. In this teaching and learning day, we’ve put together faculty-specific resources to address safety and security issues at a range of levels.

9:00–9:15—Coffee and Introductions
9:15–9:45—Campus Security and Safety
10:00–12:00—Optional Sessions (choose one grouping)

• Session A: Classroom Medical Emergencies
  • 10:00–10:45 Classroom Medical Emergencies
    Facilitated by Environmental Health & Safety
    There are several types of medical emergencies that may occur in the classroom. From severe events such as, cardiac arrest, seizures, and allergic reactions to injuries such as cuts, bruises or falls. This session will introduce faculty to broad knowledge required to be prepared to handle those situations should they arise.
  • 10:45–12:00 CPR/AED Training
    Facilitated by Environmental Health and Safety
    In this session you will learn basic steps to respond to these types of medical emergencies, including how to perform “Hands-Only CPR” and how to use an automated external defibrillator (AED)
• Session B: Cyber Security and At-Risk Students
  • 10:00–10:45 Cyber Security Issues for Faculty
    Faciliitated by the Office of Information Security
    In this presentation, we’ll share resources for protection against identity theft and discuss steps to take in the event of a data breach involving your personal information. We’ll give special emphasis to phishing, displaying actual phishing emails that have been received by UCF employees, and learn ways to spot and report these threats.
  • 10:45–12:00 QPR Suicide-Prevention Training
    Facilitated by Counseling and Psychological Services
    Suicide is among the most prevalent causes of death among college and university students, but it is also one of the most preventable. QPR (Question, Persuade, Refer) is a suicide prevention program designed to train faculty, staff, students, administrators, and parents in how to effectively recognize and refer persons in distress to campus and community resources.

12:00–1:00—Lunch

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Day will offer an opportunity for faculty to explore study-design, SoTL methodologies, and data management and treatment as these topics relate to their own SoTL projects. Representatives from FCTL, IKM, OEAS, RITE, as well as an experienced SoTL researcher will facilitate sessions throughout the day. A panel of faculty from various disciplines who engage in SoTL research will share their experience and expertise.

9:00–9:50—Plenary

• Publishing SoTL
  Facilitated by: Dr. Liz Grauerholz
  This presentation will discuss effective strategies for publishing SoTL work. Drawing on six years as an editor of a SoTL journal, Dr. Grauerholz will explore authors’ common mistakes and what makes a strong manuscript. These tips can help researchers with designing SoTL studies to ensure success down the road as well as considerations for preparing manuscripts for submission to a journal.

10:00–10:50—Breakout Sessions

• Session A: Exploring Opportunities for SoTL Research: How can institutional data help?
  Facilitated by: Dr. Pat Lancey, Assistant Vice President Operational Excellence and Assessment Support and Pat Ramsey, Director, Institutional Knowledge Management
  This active session will provide an overview of the resources available through OEAS that can inform your SoTL research. Bring your research questions or project ideas to share with colleagues so we can explore the following questions: What resources are available through OEAS to assist with SoTL research? How can access to institutional data such as program assessment (https://assessment.ucf.edu/) and student responses to UCF survey studies (https://knowledgebase.ucf.edu/) help you frame or refine your research question? What should I consider when designing my study and choosing an appropriate analysis approach?
  Pat Ramsey will give an overview of some of the dynamic data IKM has made available to faculty. This will include a brief introduction to the IKM website https://ikm.ucf.edu/ where she will demonstrate Interactive Facts, Analytics Dashboards, Pegasus Mine Portal, and ways to submit a data request.
• Session B: Framing the Research Question
  Framing the Research Question. Facilitated by: Researchers in the Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning and Patsy Moskal, Associate Director of the Research Initiative for Teaching Effectiveness (RITE)
  During this session, members of FCTL and RITE will discuss ways they support faculty SoTL projects and provide some ongoing examples. The remainder of the session will be used as interactive working time for participants to begin designing or developing their own projects. Bring your questions and ideas!

11:00–12:00—Faculty Panel

• Several faculty on campus are engaged in successful SoTL or discipline-specific research programs. Five of these faculty from various disciplines will share their experiences and expertise in designing, carrying out, and disseminating their research. Your questions for the panel will be collected in advance and the most common and generalizable questions will be posed at the beginning of the session. Then, the floor will be open for spontaneous questions. The purpose of this panel is not only to learn from your colleagues’ experience, but to get an opportunity to network with them and other faculty engaged in SoTL.

12:00–1:00—Lunch

9:00-9:15—Coffee and Introductions
9:15–9:45—Activity that Explores the Range of Teaching Methods
10:00-10:30—Interactive Lectures (Alisha Janowsky)

• No matter how interactive your classroom, there is still a time and place where content may need to be introduced and explained in a more traditional lecture format. This session will discuss strategies to increase student focus and participation during these lecture in both the face-to-face and online environments.

10:30–11:00—Using Discussion Assignments to Elicit Deeper Engagement (Richard Biehl)

• Discussion topics can enhance student learning by flexibly engaging learners in deeper thinking about course readings and materials. Discussions can encourage more active reading, reflection on applications, and metacognition. This session covers the different types of discussion topics that work well for different types of course content and the mechanics of how to introduce and operate them (particularly in larger classes). It also shares a grading rubric that can work across all topics, and some working tips on how to encourage better writing from resistant learners.

11:00–11:10—Break
11:10–12:00—“Yes, PBL and TBL are Right for You!” (Kersten Schroeder)

• Problem-based and Team-based Learning are deep-learning approaches that integrate students’ prior knowledge and experiences with problem-solving and communication skills to engage open-ended questions and deepen their understanding of course material.

12:00-1:00—Working Lunch

• You will hear from our Fall 2018 Faculty Coaches, Tammy Muhs and Jessica Waesche. Tammy will discuss strategies for adaptive learning and Jessica will discuss active learning in online classes.

9:00–10:00—Session 1: Motivating Students

• Facilitated by Anna Turner, Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning
  Learning results from what the student does to learn, and students’ motivation determines, directs, and sustains what they do to learn. In this session, we’ll explore the elements of motivation and strategies to promote student motivation and behavior.

10:10–11:00—Session 2: Classroom Climate

• Facilitated by Julie Donnelly and Anna Turner, Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning
  Students’ current level of development interacts with the social, emotional, and intellectual climate of the course to impact learning. In this session, we’ll examine what it means to have a supportive environment, including social, emotional, and intellectual aspects.

11:10–12:00—Session 3: Student Engagement in the Online Environment

• Facilitated by Denise Lowe, Corrinne Stull, and Anchalee Ngampornchai, Center for Distributed Learning
  In the face-to-face environment, we can often rely on our presence to encourage student engagement, but we must be deliberate in an online environment. In this session, we’ll discuss how to leverage the online environment to promote student engagement.

12:00–1:00—Lunch

Please join us for our next Teaching and Learning Day which will take place on June 8^th from 9am until 1pm.  Workshops will be provided by Faculty Center staff that will help you integrate into your teaching several principles of learning from the book How Learning Works: Seven Research-based Principles for Smart Teaching by Susan Ambrose, et al. (2010).

9:00-9:15—Coffee and Introductions
9:15-10:45—Plenary Activity: Strategies for Applying the Learning Principles to Your Teaching

• These principles address students’ prior learning and motivation, course organization and climate, mastery learning, providing feedback, and encouraging self-directed learning.

10:45-11:00—Break
11:00-12:00—Optional Session

• Session A: Student Motivation
  Students’ motivation determines, directs, and sustains what they do to learn. In this session, we’ll delve deeper into strategies to promote student motivation. Bring in an assignment to workshop, and we’ll edit it through the lens of student motivation.
• Session B: Student Approaches to Learning
  Faculty members tend to overestimate their students’ study skills and metacognitive abilities while underestimating the extent to which skills and habits must be taught and reinforced through instruction.

12:00-1:00—Lunch

Session One (Choose One Workshop) 9:00 to 10:00 a.m.

• Option A: Active Learning Classrooms
  Melody Bowdon and Anna Turner, Faculty Center; Ann Miller, Nicholson School of Communication
  CB1 205
  Exciting changes are happening regarding classroom design and refurbishment at UCF. Spaces are evolving to feature flexible furnishings, collaborative technologies, and other elements that will support active and engaged learning. Attend this session to learn about these spaces on both the main and the new downtown campuses. We will discuss topics related to course design, activities, and assessments, and share updates on classroom technologies and features.
• Option B: Quality Online Course Design
  Aimee deNoyelles, Alyssa Albrecht, Charlotte Jones-Roberts, and Anchalee Ngampornchai, Center for Distributed Learning
  CB1 202
  What are the common components of “quality” online course design? Attend this workshop to (1) understand how “quality” is conceived in Florida’s strategic plan for online education, (2) recognize CDL’s efforts to support the quality of online course design at UCF, as well as (3) review an online course of your choosing using our Quality and High Quality course review items.

Session Two (Choose One Workshop) 10:10 to 11:10 a.m.

• Option A: Virtual Reality and the College Classroom
  Melody Bowdon and Will Dorner, Faculty Center
  CB1 205
  This session will provide an introduction to virtual reality in the college classroom. It will cover definitions of virtual and augmented reality, provide short demonstrations of various software and hardware tools, and include a discussion about strategies for determining when and for what purposes these kinds of learning experiences can be a useful part of students’ education.
• Option B: Identifying Campus Resources to Maximize Student Learning
  DeLaine Priest and Rebekah McCloud, Student Development and Enrollment Services
  CB1 202
  Join us as we explore challenges students encounter related to academic and metacognitive learning. We will discuss best practices and strategies to address these challenges and identify University of Central Florida resources and interventions that contribute to student success.
• Option C: FERPA Essentials for Faculty
  Brian Boyd, University Registrar
  CB1 103
  Knowing how to communicate sensitive information and how to best store student records can be challenging, especially with the rapid changing world of technology. In this session, we will provide you an overview of the FERPA law, which protects the educational records of students and is an important consideration when communicating with (or about) students. You will learn several UCF-specific practices and information security techniques that ensure compliance. We will discuss challenges and strategies in handling requests that come in from third parties including parents and outside agencies.

Session Three (Choose One Workshop) 11:20 a.m. to 12:20 p.m.

• Option A: Leveraging Students’ Prior Knowledge
  Eric Main, Faculty Center
  CB1 205
  Students’ prior knowledge may have gaps, inaccuracies, or insufficiencies that will hinder learning new concepts. In this session we will examine methods for diagnosing students’ prior knowledge, for addressing problems that arise from too much cognitive load, and for scaffolding complex learning tasks.
• Option B: Predictive Analytics/myKnightSTAR
  Melody Bowdon, Faculty Center; Susan Chase, College of Nursing, DeLaine Priest, Student Development and Enrollment Services
  CB1 202
  This workshop will introduce faculty members to myKnight STAR, a predictive analytics platform that can provide valuable data to support student success. The session will include a short demo of faculty-facing tools in the system and a question and answer session.

Session Four: Lunch Conversation 12:20 to 1:20 p.m.
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Table Topics
RSVP by April 1 for provided lunch (up to 30) or bring your own lunch

Session One (Choose One Workshop) 9:00 to 10:00 a.m.

• Option A: Academic Integrity and Ethical Development
  Eric Main, Faculty Center, and Jennifer Wright, Integrity and Ethical Development
  CB1 205
  In this workshop, you will participate in a conversation about students’ ethical development and their commitment to academic integrity. We will discuss tips for assignments to promote ethical awareness and reasoning. We will also discuss Turnitin.com and its uses and drawbacks.
• Option B: The Lightboard and One Button Studio
  Todd McMahon and Don Merritt, Office of Instructional Resources
  CB1 202
  The Lightboard is the newest presentation technology available in the Faculty Multimedia Center. The One Button Studio makes capturing a presentation as easy as pushing a button. Give students a very unique perspective of your content by writing in air. Actually, on glass, but only you will know.

Session Two (Choose One Workshop) 10:10 to 11:10 a.m.

• Option A: Motivating Students to Learn
  Amanda Wolcott, Faculty Center
  CB1 205
  Students’ motivation generates, directs, and sustains what they do to learn. In this session participants will learn how to help students build value and relevance for their learning, to differentiate types of learning goals, and to improve their study habits and adopt higher expectations for themselves. We will discuss learning activities that engage students in and out of the classroom.
• Option B: Expanding High Impact Educational Practices at UCF—Plans and Opportunities
  Kimberly Schneider, Office of Undergraduate Research
  CB1 202
  In this workshop faculty members will learn about high impact educational practices at UCF, including relevant new course designations, signature practices, and centralized resources.

Session Three (Choose One Workshop) 11:20 a.m. to 12:20 p.m.

• Option A: Supporting the 3 Pillars of Academic Achievement in a Diverse Classroom
  Amanda Wolcott, Faculty Center
  CB1 205
  Why do some students excel and others struggle or give up? This workshop will explore the development of students’ (1) intelligence, (2) motivation, and (3) intellectual curiosity. Topics will include stereotype threat, enemies of IQ, how to enhance belonging, understanding, trust, self-esteem and making course content meaningful.
• Option B: Textbook Affordability and Student Success
  Penny Beile, UCF Libraries, and Aimee deNoyelles, Center for Distributed Learning
  CB1 202
  Did you know that 59.5% (n=1047) of UCF students surveyed indicated that they frequently or occasionally had not purchased the required textbook due to cost? Join us for a riveting discussion about textbook affordability efforts at UCF and learn how adopting more affordable course materials can increase your students’ success.

Session Four: Lunch Conversation 12:20 to 1:20 p.m.
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Table Topics
RSVP by March 1 for provided lunch (up to 30) or bring your own lunch

Session One (Choose One Workshop) 9:00 to 10:00 a.m.

• Option A: Team-Based Learning: How to Apply TBL to Your Course Regardless of Size
  Amanda Wolcott, Faculty Center
  CB1 205
  Team-based learning is “a special form of small group learning using a specific sequence of individual work, group work, and immediate feedback to create a motivational framework in which students increasingly hold each other accountable for coming to class prepared and contributing to discussion” (Sweet, 2010). Team-based learning can be applied to classes of any size, and is particularly effective in larger courses. If you would like to learn more about implementing team-based learning in your class, attend this workshop with an idea for a course topic that you would like to apply to TBL.
• Option B: Leveraging Adaptive Learning for Student Success
  Baiyun Chen, Corrinne Stull, and Jessica Tojo, Center for Distributed Learning
  CB1 202
  UCF is strategically implementing adaptive learning to improve student success in large-enrollment gateway courses and courses that have traditionally had unacceptably high levels of D and F grades and course withdrawals (DFW) across disciplines. Attendees of this workshop will learn about how adaptive technology can be integrated into their face-to-face, mixed-mode, and online courses.

Session Two (Choose One Workshop) 10:10 to 11:10 a.m.

• Option A: Enhance Your Course with Open Educational Resources (OER)
  Anna Turner, Faculty Center
  CB1 205
  Open Educational Resources (OER) are openly licensed educational materials that are free for instructors and students. Often, these resources can be edited to fit an instructor’s individual needs. In this hands-on workshop, we’ll address how to replace or augment your current textbook and instructional materials with OER.
• Option B: Creating a Career Advancement Plan
  Eloy Hernandez, Chemistry; Claire Connolly Knox, Public Administration; Amanda Koontz, Sociology; Blake Scott, Writing and Rhetoric
  CB1 202
  In this hands-on workshop, faculty will learn about the benefits of career advancement planning, move through some of the steps for creating career advancement plans (including self-visioning and goal setting, identifying gaps/challenges/opportunities, mapping mid-term and long-term plans), and see some examples of colleagues’ plans. Participants will be linked to online resources that will help them continue this process.
• Option C: FERPA Essentials for Faculty
  Alia Asi, Office of the Registrar
  CB1 103
  Knowing how to communicate sensitive information and how to best store student records can be challenging, especially with the rapid changing world of technology. In this session, we will provide you an overview of the FERPA law, which protects the educational records of students and is an important consideration when communicating with (or about) students. You will learn several UCF-specific practices and information security techniques that ensure compliance. We will discuss challenges and strategies in handling requests that come in from third parties including parents and outside agencies.

Session Three (Choose One Workshop) 11:20 a.m. to 12:20 p.m.

• Option A: Student Consultants on Teaching
  Anna Turner and Student Consultants, Faculty Center
  CB1 205
  Anna Turner and Student Consultants, Faculty Center
  A Student Consultant on Teaching (SCOT) is a UCF student who, when requested, can provide faculty with feedback about their classes in a variety of ways. After a brief overview of the program, SCOTs will be available to answer questions and meet with faculty individually.
• Option B: Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) and Integrative Learning Initiatives
  Anna Jones, Quality Enhancement Plan
  CB1 202
  QEP integrative learning initiatives around campus, with highlights of current funded projects and Q&A and advice for those who wish to submit a proposal for this year’s deadline (February 23). The presentation will also cover other faculty resources, such as our new travel grants.

Session Four: Lunch Conversation 12:20 to 1:20 p.m.
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Table Topics
RSVP by February 1 for provided lunch (up to 30) or bring your own lunch