Faculty Forums 2011

SoTL Workshops:

Nov 30 & Dec 1, 2011
11:00 am -12:15 pm

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CETL is happy to announce that thirty UNC faculty from colleges across campus have committed to form part of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning cohort. Over the fall semester, faculty in the SoTL cohort have learned about how to develop and initiate their own scholarly classroom inquiry, in addition to sharing information, collaborating with colleagues and further focusing on how to improve teaching and student engagement. 

The next series of meeting will reconvene in January 2012. For more information, please contact Deborah Romero.

Finding Grant Opportunities Workshop

Nov 29, 2011
3:00 pm- 4:00 pm
Michener L-12

Join Arlene Hansen from the Office of Sponsored Programs to learn how to find external grant programs to fund research, scholarship, instruction, student support, community outreach, etc.

Copyright & Teaching Lunch Forum

Nov 17, 2011
11:30 am-1:00 pm

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UNC General Counsel Dan Satriana will present copyright law basics with a focus on teaching and use of an LMS, suggest best practices, and answer any specific questions
you may have.

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Community-Based Scholarship Lunch Forum:

Nov 15, 2011
11:00 am- 12:30 pm

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Facilitated by Katie Kleinhesselink from Colorado Campus Compact, this event is intended to support faculty and scholars who are interested in learning more about how community based scholarship can enhance their research and teaching.

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SoTL Workshop:

Nov 10, 2011
11:00 am -12:15 pm

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This meeting will review key stages in a model for conducting classroom inquiry, and we will explore further how these can connect to participants’ teaching and research interests. Our goal is to provide relevant and viable ways to support participants’ conceptualization and development of SoTL in their own particular contexts, with a view to dissemination and participation at local or national levels.

Qualtrics Open Workshops:

Nov 9, 2011
1:15 pm- 2:15 pm

Qualtrics is a web-based survey tool available to all UNC faculty and staff to support survey research and program evaluation. Undergraduate and graduate students may be granted accounts when supervised by faculty or staff for class, research, or work purposes. Qualtrics allows for basic and sophisticated survey development, in a streamlined, easy to learn format. Data can be readily viewed in a variety of formats and presentations, and exported to compatible programs such as SPSS and Excel

Qualtrics Open Workshops:

Nov 8, 2011
12:30 pm- 1:30 pm

Qualtrics is a web-based survey tool available to all UNC faculty and staff to support survey research and program evaluation. Undergraduate and graduate students may be granted accounts when supervised by faculty or staff for class, research, or work purposes. Qualtrics allows for basic and sophisticated survey development, in a streamlined, easy to learn format. Data can be readily viewed in a variety of formats and presentations, and exported to compatible programs such as SPSS and Excel

Integrating Culture Luncheon:

Nov 3, 2011
11:30 am -1:00 pm

Integrating Culture Applies Only To Some Disciplines -
and Other Myths

Presented by: Dr. Genie Canales, Hispanic Studies

This lively and interactive faculty forum introduces participants to a creative and effective teaching model which supports a variety of learning styles, subject matter, and multicultural
aspects by integrating the world view and cultural values of diverse ethnic and cultural groups.

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SoTL Workshop:

Nov 2, 2011
12:00 pm-1:15 pm

This meeting will review key stages in a model for conducting classroom inquiry, and we will explore further how these can connect to participants’ teaching and research interests. Our goal is to provide relevant and viable ways to support participants’ conceptualization and development of SoTL in their own particular contexts, with a view to dissemination and participation at local or national levels.

Qualtrics Orientation:
Brown bag

Oct 25, 2011
11:30 am -1:00 pm

Qualtrics is a web-based survey tool available to all UNC faculty and staff to support survey research and program evaluation. Plan to attend this overview and learn how to set up and account and create basic surveys.

Focusing on Learning
that Matters: Lunch Forum

Oct 18, 2011
11:30 am -1:00 pm

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For nearly three decades, educators have grappled with the role of assessment in higher education.  Throughout this period, institutional responses have been shaped by the inherent tension between two purposes of assessment: accountability and improvement. 

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Clickers without the Clunk: Hassle-free measurable student engagement

Oct 12, 2011
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

If you teach, then you question. If you question, then you know the challenge of both eliciting and gauging student responses in class.

This 50 minute interactive session, for the questioners and skeptics, will illustrate how faculty can incorporate clickers into their existing instructional activities, with minimum lead work and without requiring students to purchase the equipment.

Teaching and Learning in College with Multilingual Students luncheon

Oct 5, 2011
11:30 am -1:00 pm

Presented by Dr. Ginny Huang, Associate Dean, College of Education and Behavioral Sciences
Director, School of Teacher Education.

The Teaching and Learning in College with Multilingual Students luncheon forum offered information and stories about learners of English in the college classroom. The workshop allowed faculty to understand some of the issue multilingual students deal with and how to support students in the classroom.

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Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

September 22, 2011
11:30 am -1:00 pm

The SoTL Faculty Cohort, a new initiative sponsored by the Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning (CETL), offers you with the opportunity to develop classroom inquiry within your own courses, and learn different research methods that investigate various pedagogical methods and issues.

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