Summer Institute 2014

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Nippissing University

Dates: August 6-8, 2014

Day 1: August 6, 1pm - 4pm

12-1pm: Lunch and registration

1:00-1:15pm: Orientation to OUCEL Summer Institute

1:15-1:50pm: “Lightning round” meet and greet

• Expertise: What is one thing we should ask you about?
• Challenge: What is one thing you'd like to know more about?

1:50-2:00pm: Formal welcome from the Provost's office

2-2:30pm:

2:30-3pm:

3-3:35pm: 3:45-4:30pm: Discussion

Evening: Dinner is not provided but reservations have been made downtown at

Day 2: August 7, 9am - 4pm

9:00-9:30: Breakfast and good mornings

9:30-10:30: 11:00-12:00: Panel:

12-1: Lunch

1-2:30: 3:00-4:

6:30pm: Dinner is included with registration. Reservations are at

Day 3: August 8, 9am - 12pm

9-9:30: Breakfast and good mornings

9:30am-10:30am:

10:30am-12pm: Round Table Discussions. Emerging Agenda. Topics of interest. Major Take-aways

12pm: Lunch

Wrap up, discussion of next year’s event etc.

To wrap up, we will summarize key ideas discussed over the past few days, and look ahead to next year’s summer institute: Location, Timing, Hosts and Participants

Additional Resources

Productivity and Innovation Projects 2014

For discussion - OUCEL Webinar March 6

Multi-Institution PIF Initiatives

• Creating and serving online training modules for graduate skills. Examples – Being an Online TA; Intellectual Property for Grad Students (Waterloo); (Richard, Aldo)
• Learning Outcomes Assessment PIF - mapping the outcomes and program competencies of an online graduate program in Public Health using D2L's Insights tool. (Sandy, Richard, Aldo)
• A Multi-institutional Feasibility Study to Explore Mechanisms for the Development of Shared, Modular First-year and Large-enrolment Courses (Nick, Patrick)

Individual Institutional PIF Initiatives

UWO

Collaborative endeavour among the Teaching Support Centre, the Instructional Technology Resource Centre, and the Classroom Management Group. Entitled, "WALS - Western Active Learning Space", our project is the construction of a learner-centred teaching space to support technology embedded, active pedagogy. The space is being transformed from a traditional 60 seat general use, flat classroom space into a welcoming environment filled with D-shaped tables each seating 6-8 students with a short throw projector and large white boards for collaboration by each learning team. In addition to constructing the classroom space (with an observation room), the Teaching Support Centre is creating a series of modules to support instructors who choose to work in the space. The topics of the modules cover a range of both pedagogical and technological aspects of learner-centred teaching. Our website is currently under construction.

Trent

Foundational Course Redesign involving the creation of several new online courses for Trent, an expansion campus-wide of our Panopto lecture capture system including quite a few more lecture halls and the ability to record from the desktop for all. The PIF is also funding the development of online student success modules to support learning pathways in online/hybrid foundational courses.

Carleton:

Development and Delivery of Blended and Online Teaching Certificate Program: A blended and online teaching certificate program (30 to 40 hours in length) will be developed to build the skills, competencies, and confidence needed in Carleton’s teaching and learning community to design, develop and teach blended and online courses. It adopt's a learning outcomes approach, and by the end of the program, participants will be able to:

• Articulate the learning outcomes they aim to achieve through the use of educational technologies;
• Develop a realistic plan for designing an online unit or course;
• Create online teaching and learning activities to engage and motivate students;
• Integrate an online teaching or assessment tool into the design of a current or upcoming course; and
• Evaluate the effectiveness of educational technologies in achieving learning outcomes.

All materials created will be made available as OERs and are deliberately being left unbranded.

Laurentian

• "Train the Trainer" designed to help professors teach more effectively, particularly with technology.
• Instructional Media centre enhancements to the D2L platform - Capture, Insight, LOR and Campus Life.

Toronto

The Centre for Teaching Support & Innovation in conjunction with the Online Learning Strategies portfolio is working alongside five divisions across the University of Toronto on a new project entitled Active Learning: Online Redesign (ALOR). This initiative aims to improve the quality of student learning through design of active learning experiences, while maximizing efficiencies through the use of web-based tools.

• Supporting curriculum redesign through development of effective and scalable active learning strategies in online environments.
• Building faculty and teaching assistant team capacity at the local level (e.g., Divisions/Departments) to expand future active online learning.
• Providing the university community with innovative instructional tools for (a) re-use in a range of discipline areas, and (b) integration with the Blackboard learning system.

For full details about the project visit the ALOR website.

Lakehead

E-Learning via video conferencing – infrastructure renewal project.

Windsor:

Piloting Echo360 lecture capturing tools and Lecture Tools student engagement platform. These tools engage students in deep learning both in and outside the class, through digital polling, rich media recordings of instruction, and social learning opportunities. The tools also provide instructors with deep usage analytics to help them understand student progress.

Ottawa

The Blended Learning Initiative, a large-scale project launched by the University a few months ago, will benefit from $335,000 in funding from the Ontario government’s Productivity and Innovation Fund. This funding will help professors design, or convert to, blended learning courses that combine classroom teaching and online activities. Online tools to help professors develop lesson plans and evaluate their students’ learning. The second project will implement a methodology to more accurately assess the viability of current or future programs.