Hello everyone,
The Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning publishes an excellent, wide–ranging blog aimed at providing timely insights for instructors across IU.
In particular, Madeleine Gonin–s recent post, "Mid–semester feedback: how do I collect useful data?," may be helpful at this time of year –– especially given its focus on how to ask questions that are easier to analyze and act upon. Here's a quick teaser:
Instructors in classes of all sizes can benefit from mid–semester feedback. Student feedback can help you identify what is helping or hindering your students' learning, better understand your students' experiences in class, understand their perspectives on your course and assignment design, and gather their suggestions for changes that will benefit their learning.
There are also a number of events and opportunities coming up in the near term, from Tuesday's Pressbooks webinar to the October 23rd generative AI session to the Mack Center Fellowship call for proposals. Explore your options below.
Upcoming events and opportunities
- October 10, 11–11:45am ET:Pressbooks: Customizable, collaborative online publishing for course materials, student work, and more!
- October 17, 2-2:45pm ET:Microsoft Teams: Requesting and managing a team
- Teaching Foundations webinar series
- October 18, 12–1pm ET:Fostering Respect and Responsibility in Your Student-Centered Classroom
- October 26, 12–1pm ET:Checking your Students' Understanding and Supporting Continuous Improvement
- November 1, 12–1pm ET:Making Active Learning More Inclusive and Equitable
- Due by October 22:Plater-Moore Conference proposals
- October 23, 1–2pm ET:Redefining Readiness: Digital Literacy and AI's Role in Tomorrow's Professions
- October 25, 1-2:30pm ET:Speed Dating with Learning Technologies
- October 26 and 27:IU Online Conference
- Open through November 30:Mack Center Fellowship proposals