Events

Curating Evidence of Teaching: Demonstration of Effectiveness and Continuous Improvement

How do you make a case for the effectiveness of your teaching? And how do you document your continuous teaching improvement efforts? Join us for this workshop on curating evidence of teaching. We will use a worksheet to identify the sources of data and teaching artifacts we have access to now, and what types of artifacts and data we should begin collecting, saving, or acquiring. The worksheet produced during this workshop is designed to help you facilitate a conversation with your mentor (or unit leader) on “what counts as evidence” and would be recognized by your academic unit.

West Virginia University (Evansdale Campus)

• Monday, March 9 from 2:00 – 3:00
• Evansdale Library, G01 (Please Register)

WVU Tech (Beckley)

• Tuesday, March 31 from 1:00 - 1:50
• Learning Resource Center, LRC 324
• (No registration required. Invitation was added to your calendar. Questions? Contact Kimberlyn Gray.)

Creating Grading Plans and Rubrics

West Virginia University

Do you dislike grading rubrics? Many instructors struggle when composing new rubrics, or they find their current rubrics aren’t getting the job done. In this workshop, we’ll explore different approaches to grading rubrics and decide on a format that pairs well with your assignment. Please bring a laptop and an assignment or project in need of a rubric.

West Virginia University (Evansdale Campus)

• Friday, February 27 from 3:30 – 4:30
• Evansdale Library, G01 (Please Register)

• Monday, April 27 from 1:00 - 1:50
• Learning Resource Center, LRC 324
• (No registration required. Invitation was added to your calendar. Questions? Contact Kimberlyn Gray.)

Teaching Talk: Replacing LMS Discussion Boards with "Monolinks" in an Online Course 

Virtual Zoom Session (Recording option)

The dreaded, threaded discussion! A staple of fully online courses, students compose a short post and “phone in” two low-effort replies by their 11:59pm deadline. In this Teaching Talk, Sarah McCorkle will share the results of her Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) project.

As an instructor, I hated the discussion board format. I switched my weekly discussion assignments to a technique called “Monolinks.” Students composed their weekly assignment (now with the look and feel of a “paper”) inside of their individual Google Doc, then visited the Google Docs of others and discussed using the Comments feature within Google Docs. In this talk, I’ll share the results of an IRB approved SoTL study on student perceptions of the Monolinks activity and elaborate on my experience facilitating Monolinks compared to a traditional discussion board. After this course concluded, I continued to have students approach me and say what an impact this course had on them as teachers and digital citizens. I do not believe that my students would have experienced this type of transformation if their creativity and motivation to write had been stifled by returning to another traditional discussion board in an LMS.

Thursday, March 12 from 11:00 – 12:00

• Recording will be made available to those who register
• Zoom Registration Required

Despite our best efforts, sometimes an assignment falls flat. One group of students will meet or exceed our expectations, while others don’t seem to understand what they’ve been assigned to do or why they’ve been asked to do it. In this workshop, instructors are introduced to the TILT Transparency Framework. This three-part framework can be used as you compose your instructions for assignments, activities, projects, or assessments. Instructors use the framework to structure: 1) the “ Purpose” of the activity; 2) the required “ Tasks” to get the activity done; and 3) the “ Criteria” for success.

This workshop is dedicated to an overview of the framework, examples of how the framework can be used when composing instructions for an assignment/assessment, and an opportunity to explore and apply the framework through examples from other instructors.

West Virginia University (Downtown Campus)

• Tuesday, March 24 from 3:30 – 4:45
• Stewart Hall, B20
• (Please Register. You will be contacted in the event of inclement weather.)

WVU Tech (Beckley)

• Thursday, March 26 from 2:00 – 3:20
• Learning Resource Center, LRC 324
• (No registration required. Invitation was added to your calendar. Questions? Contact Kimberlyn Gray.)

Teaching Challenges & Opportunities: Support & Discussion Group

A group for discussion, support and idea sharing will meet on Fridays at 2:30pm in the Teaching and Learning Center’s Evansdale location. Framed as an informal conversation around “Teaching Challenges & Opportunities,” this is a group that is all about sharing our teaching stories (both challenging and uplifting) and receiving advice, feedback and scholarly teaching resources. We will compile our teaching tips and links to resources in a knowledge sharing document.

Note: Due to the nature of our conversations, this group is not open to students and TAs.

Evansdale Library, room G01

Drop by on the following Fridays at 2:30 pm.

• February 27
• March 6, 13, 27 ( No meeting on March 20)
• April 10, 17, 24 ( No meeting on April 3)

Please Register

• Register here

Attend as few or as many dates as you’d like, but please register so we can compile a group mailing list for communication and link sharing.

The WVU Teaching and Learning Center is pleased to present the following TAA workshop as part of the Center’s commitment to supporting the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL). We welcome instructors and graduate students across all WVU campuses. Please share! 

Wednesday, April 29 from 3:00 - 5:00 pm

• Virtual event via Zoom
• Includes a free, one-year membership to TAA
• And a Kindle copy of the book Publish & Flourish: Become a Prolific Scholar
• Read the full event description and register