Workshops, Classes, & Webinars | Office of Instruction & Assessment

As part of OIA’s mission to build capacity for excellent teaching on our campus, we offer a wide variety of workshops, webinars and facilitated online mini-courses to individuals who teach for the UA.

All of our professional development offerings incorporate Universal Design principles. Registration for these offerings includes space for participants to request any disability-related accommodations that will facilitate their full participation, such as ASL interpreting, captioned videos, Braille or electronic text. Please use the Contact Us link to ask any other questions about the accessibility of our offerings.

Credentials for Completion of Professional-Development Offerings

Webinars

None currently scheduled; please check back.

Workshops

Applying the Quality Matters Rubric (APPQMR) (Note: This workshop is presented by the Office of Digital Learning.)
June 11-25 and July 2-16, 2019; asynchronous and fully online. Register

Mini-Courses

You can expect to spend about an hour a day on the content for these online mini-courses. Where indicated below, some include synchronous meetings, but most of the work for these will be at your own pace.

2019 Mini-Courses

Dates	Mini-Courses
May 13-24, 2019	Introduction to Teaching Online (Registration is at capacity, this will be offered again in October, 2019.) In this 14-day online mini-course, participants will experience taking an online course while learning about methods, tools, and best practices for teaching hybrid and fully online courses. Facilitated by Gretchen Gibbs and Kristin Zyska Strange.
June 10-21, 2019	Facilitating Collaborative Learning Register (Online with synchronous meetings June 11, 13, 18, and 20; times TBD) In this two-week, hybrid mini-course, participants will learn about, plan, and practice using evidence-based, active and collaborative learning strategies for teaching both undergraduate and graduate courses.
July 8-12, 2019	Reimagining Online Lectures This Mini-Course has reached capacity; you can Register for the Waitlist. This five day online mini-course will invite participants to reconsider the construct of “lecture” as it relates to online teaching and learning. Participants will explore ways that online content might be created and delivered.
July 29-August 2, 2019	Fine-Tuning Your Course as a Road Map for Learning Register This 5-day, fully online mini-course allows instructors to refine an existing course plan and syllabus. Using the methodology of backward design and the principle of alignment, participants will revise and peer-review the learning outcomes, assessment plan, and other aspects of their courses to create an effective “road map” for learning via the course syllabus. This mini-course is paired with an optional peer-review and discussion meeting face-to-face on Thursday, Aug 8, 10-11:30 am or asynchronously online on the same day.
August 5-9, 2019	Reimagining Slides This five day online mini-course will invite participants to dust off those text heavy, bullet point laden lecture slides and reimagine the power and purpose of what is projected on a screen.
August 19-23, 2019	Course-Level Assessment This five-day online mini-course introduces assessment strategies and techniques that can be implemented at the course level to measure student learning, course design, and teaching practices.
August 19-23, 2019	Effective Online Discussions This five-day mini-course introduces strategies for designing and facilitating effective online discussions that expand student exposure to curriculum, deepen learning, and increase student engagement.
August 19-23, 2019	Teaching a Large Online Course This five-day online mini-course introduces instructional strategies and techniques for teaching large fully online courses.
September 9-13, 2019	Designing Effective Writing Assignments and Rubrics This mini-course includes a face-to-face session TBD. Participants in this 5-day mini-course will learn strategies to design (or redesign) a writing assignment for maximizing student engagement and success. This mini-course is paired with a face-to-face workshop focusing on developing a fair, effective, and efficient rubric for your assignment. Breakfast will be provided. Space is limited.
September 16-20, 2019	Collaborative Learning by Design (Online with synchronous meetings Sept. 17 & 19) Participants in this 5-day mini-course will explore the design of evidence-based collaborative learning activities, discuss examples of effective collaborative learning activities from actual college courses, plan or revise a collaborative learning activity for a course of their choice, and give and receive feedback to and from colleagues.
September 23-27, 2019	Building Communities in Online Courses Participants in this fully online five-day mini-course will conceptualize community in online environments while exploring tools, techniques, and activities that support student-to-student and student-to-instructor connectedness. This mini-course will be capped at 30 participants.
October 7-18, 2019	Introduction to Teaching Online In this 14-day online mini-course, participants will experience taking an online course while learning about methods, tools, and best practices for teaching hybrid and fully online courses.
January 6-10, 2020	Fine-Tuning Your Course as a Road Map for Learning This 5-day, fully online mini-course allows instructors to refine an existing course plan and syllabus. Using the methodology of backward design and the principle of alignment, participants will revise and peer-review the learning outcomes, assessment plan, and other aspects of their courses to create an effective “road map” for learning via the course syllabus.

2020 Mini-Courses

Dates	Mini-Courses
January, 2020 (before the start of spring semester)	Course-Level Assessment This five-day online mini-course introduces assessment strategies and techniques that can be implemented at the course level to measure student learning, course design, and teaching practices.
January, 2020 (before the start of spring semester)	Effective Online Discussions This five-day online mini-course introduces strategies for designing and facilitating effective online discussions that expand student exposure to curriculum, deepen learning, and increase student engagement.
February, 2020	Facilitating Collaborative Learning (Online with synchronous meetings TBD) Participants in this 5-day mini-course will explore the implementation of evidence-based collaborative learning, observe examples of effective use of collaborative learning in actual college courses, create a plan for facilitating collaborative learning in a course of their choice, and give and receive feedback to and from colleagues.
February, 2020	Building Communities in Online Courses Participants in this fully online five-day mini-course will conceptualize community in online environments while exploring tools, techniques, and activities that support student-to-student and student-to-instructor connectedness.
March, 2020	Introduction to Teaching Online In this 14-day online mini-course, participants will experience taking an online course while learning about methods, tools, and best practices for teaching hybrid and fully online courses.
April, 2020	Reimagining Slides This five day online mini-course will invite participants to dust off those text heavy, bullet point laden lecture slides and reimagine the power and purpose of what is projected on a screen.

Self Paced Tutorials

The OIA offers several online, self paced tutorials that are available through D2L. A list of available tutorials and descriptions, along with enrollment instructions, are available at this Tutorials page.

Catalog of Workshops

Provided here is a list of workshops that OIA has facilitated in the past. This list provides examples of the range of workshops we offer, but is by no means an exhaustive list. To request that OIA offer one of these workshops again, or to request a workshop on a topic not listed here use the Contact form.

Assessment

Classroom Assessment Techniques
Creating Effective Multiple Choice Questions
How Can I Grade Assignments and Give Useful Feedback?
How Can I Use Rubrics Effectively?
How Do I Know What My Students Are Learning?
Building Program Assessment Plans

Classroom Management

How Can I get My Class off to a Good Start?
Cooperative Learning
Discussions in Large Classroom Settings
Classroom Management Strategies for Large Classrooms
Inclusive Classrooms

Writing

Feedback to Students on Writing Assignments
Incorporating Informal Writing Opportunities
Providing Constructive Feedback on Student Writing

D2L

D2L: What’s New
D2L Integrations: Additional Items for the Tool Kits
D2L Tools and Functions
The Library Tab in D2L
How Can I Build a Useful Syllabus in D2L?
How Can I Manage Content to Help Students Stay Organized?
How Can I Use D2L to Get My Class Off to a Good Start?
How Can I Use D2L to Make my Course More Inclusive?
How Can I Use D2L Page Templates?
How Can I Use the D2L Gradebook Effectively?
What Do TAs Need to Know About D2L?
How Can I Use D2L to Manage Large Classes?

Instructional Technologies

Clickers: Real Time Interactive Classroom Feedback
How Can I Use Clickers Effectively?
Zoom
Panopto: How Can I Use Panopto Effectively?
VoiceThread
Effective Use of Multimedia Instruction
Emerging Technologies
Tweetchat: What is it and How to Use it For Teaching

Teaching Online

Learner Centered Education and Online Classes
Teaching Online vs Face-to-Face