Tuesday, 04/06 @ 1:00 p.m.

Beyond an LMS, what makes up a modern, effective, learning ecosystem? What is the “pecking order” of platforms and solutions at most colleges or universities, and are we ensuring that these tools support student success while driving staff and faculty efficiencies? How do those platforms and solutions integrate into a seamless experience? This session will inform IT leaders about effective practices for building and leveraging a higher education learning ecosystem.

Outcomes:

• Identify the most effective parts of a learning ecosystem
• Leverage strategies for user-facing solutions that augment success
• Find solutions to better connect learning to technology support

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Monday, 03/29 @ 2:00 p.m.
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The faces of student representation are changing. Presidents elected to lead student bodies at several predominantly white institutions this year are the first Black student in the role. And the leaders are emphasizing issues like diversity, inclusion, advocacy, equitable policing, and the mental health of all students. What is on their agendas, and how are they working to achieve it?

As part of The Chronicle’s series examining race and class in higher education, a panel of student-body presidents from around the country will share their goals and ideas for creating more inclusive institutions. How do student leaders think colleges are faring so far on promises they’ve made? How can colleges show they’re following through?

The panel — co-hosted by Sarah Brown, senior reporter at The Chronicle, and Jael Kerandi, student representative to the Board of Regents and former president of the Minnesota Student Association at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities — will also include Danielle Geathers, president of the MIT Undergraduate Association; Assata Gilmore, president of the Purdue Student Government; and Roaya Higazi, president of the Undergraduate Student Government at Ohio State University.

They will discuss:

• The commitments and resources students want from their colleges
• How to involve student leaders in institutional decision-making
• Effective forms of communication between students and administrators
• What it means to be a “first” and why representation matters

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Our fifth annual and first virtual Teaching and Learning Day is on Friday, March 26^, 2021! Help us celebrate the fresh thinking and pedagogies of GGC faculty and staff related to enhancing teaching and learning. The event  provides a forum for individuals and groups to share work related to teaching, learning, and technology, including but not limited to:

• course design (face to face and hybrid),
• assignment design,
• engaged pedagogies (including experiential learning),
• assessment strategies,
• research on teaching and learning, and
• efforts to enhance student success. 

The sessions also provide an opportunity to reach a broad audience and initiate conversations with colleagues sharing similar interests. The event will feature opening remarks by Dr. George S. Low, Senior Vice President for Academic and Student Affairs / Provost.

Access the program by clicking here . The event starts at 12:30 PM. We look forward to seeing you there!

Thursday, 03/25 @ 2:00 p.m.

Covid has radically — and rapidly — changed the role of the campus in higher ed. As the pandemic stretches into another year, faculty and staff are asking, “What is the college workplace of the future?”

Register for Higher Ed’s Remote-Work Experiment, produced in partnership with Educause, to hear thoughts from our panel of experts.

• What are faculty and staff thinking now?
• What permanent changes are colleges planning for?
• And what best practices are emerging for managing a higher ed workforce?

Join us as we examine the lessons learned over the past year and discuss the changes to come in the months ahead.

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Wednesday, March 24 @ 2:00 p.m.

Only 10% of respondents feel their website is “very effective” at driving engagement, enrollment, and retention.

Higher education providers of every description have struggled to deliver an experience that keeps pace with the expectations of today’s learners. After all, everyone enrolling in postsecondary programs has shopped on Amazon, watched content on Netflix, and ordered an Uber. Massive personalization and instant delivery are now a must-have in every digital interaction.

During this web event, we will share research from our recent “State of Continuing Education 2021” survey, which sheds light on the opportunities and challenges facing leaders in higher education across North America.

We will also discuss some of the most pressing challenges colleges and universities need to make to deliver the modern digital experience today’s students expect – featuring higher education leaders at the forefront of this seismic shift.

Register today to learn how you can identify a modern learner engagement gap in your institution, and take action to address it.

Can’t watch the webcast live? Register anyway – all registrants will receive a recording of the webcast and a copy of the presentation.

Thursday, March 18, 4pm ET
Zoom link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/98027492244 
Twitter: #OLTalks

Join MIT CSAIL professor and MIT Center for Advanced Virtuality director D. Fox Harrell in conversation with Rocky Bucano, director of the Universal Hip Hop Museum (UHHM), as they discuss working at the intersection of art, music, social consciousness, and emerging technology. Harrell and Bucano will talk about their [R]evolution of Hip Hop Breakbeat Narratives project and share insights on the significance of the UHHM for Black, Latinx, and other diverse forms of cultural expression, and the ways technology can help create inclusive spaces and immersive educational experiences for a diverse public. An audience Q&A will follow their conversation.

This online talk is free and open to the public! Register here to get a reminder.Open Learning Talks bring together leaders to discuss new research-based ideas, technologies, and efforts in education, at MIT and around the world. View past and upcoming Open Learning Talks.

Thursday, October 7th – Friday, October 8th, 2021     CALL FOR PROPOSALS DEADLINE APRIL 30TH   We invite you to submit proposals for the 2021 fully virtual Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Summit!    We are accepting sessions in two formats: SoTL Briefs, which report the findings of a SoTL study or a synthesis of research on teaching and learning Innovative Teaching Talks, which share a new or noteworthy teaching idea that has not yet been subjected to scholarly inquiry Proposal submission deadline: 11:59 PM Friday, April 30, 2021 Submit a Proposal Here ANNOUNCING OUR INVITED WORKSHOPS   Facilitated by leaders in the SoTL field, these interactive 75-minute workshops, included in your registration, offer participants at all levels of SoTL experience – from those brand new to SoTL to those who are SoTL leaders at their institutions – an opportunity to put what they have learned into action.  We are pleased to offer the following workshops in addition to our keynote address for the 2021 virtual SoTL Summit:   Advancing Inclusive Teaching: The Power of Student Partnership in SoTL Tracie Marcella Addy, Ph.D., M.Phil.  Associate Dean of Teaching & Learning Director of Center for the Integration of Teaching, Learning, & Scholarship Lafayette College The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: What It Is, How You Do It, and Why You Should Laura Cruz, Ph.D.  Associate Research Professor Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence Pennsylvania State University   Building Institutional Capacity for SoTL through Advocacy Jennifer C. Friberg, Ed.D., CCC-SLP, ASHA Fellow Interim Director, Center for Teaching, Learning, & Technology Cross Endowed Chair in the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning Professor, Communication Sciences & Disorders Illinois State University   Playing Hopscotch to Generate Well-Informed SoTL Research Designs Iván M. Jorrín Abellán, Ph.D. Professor of Educational Research Bagwell College of Education Research Catalyst Kennesaw State University     ABOUT THE CONFERENCE   Since 1993, thousands of educators in colleges and universities from across the country and globe have participated in this interdisciplinary conference to share results from their Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) projects and to discuss innovative teaching techniques.  Originally known as the Georgia Conference on Teaching and Learning, then the Research on Teaching and Learning Summit, this conference was rebranded as the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Summit to better reflect the movement and growth of the SoTL field.  This year’s all-virtual SoTL Summit has adopted a developmental focus to help participants at all levels of SoTL experience grow as teacher-scholars, offering how-to interactive workshops as well as sessions on SoTL projects and cutting-edge topics in pedagogy. Register Today!

Track 1: Data Organization With Spreadsheets / Using OpenRefine

Fri 04/16 from 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon: Data Organization in Spreadsheets for Social Scientists

Description:

Participants will learn: Good data entry practices – formatting data tables in spreadsheets, How to avoid common formatting mistakes, Approaches for handling dates in spreadsheets, Basic quality control and data manipulation in spreadsheets, and Exporting data from spreadsheets.

Facilitators:

Dr. Nannette Napier – Associate Dean for School of Business, Professor of Management Information Systems and Decision Sciences

Dr. Luis Torres – Associate Professor of Marketing

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Fri 04/23 from 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon: OpenRefine for Social Science Data

Description:

Participants will learn: OpenRefine (formerly Google Refine) is a powerful free and open source tool for working with messy data: cleaning it and transforming it from one format into another. This lesson will teach you to use OpenRefine to effectively clean and format data and automatically track any changes that you make. Many people comment that this tool saves them literally months of work trying to make these edits by hand.

Facilitators:

Dr. Kyle Huff – Associate Professor of Management

Dr. Luis Torres – Associate Professor of Marketing

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Track 2: Data Management With SQL

Fri 04/16 from 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon: Data Management with SQL for Social Scientists Part 1

Description:

Participants will Learn: This is part one of a two part series. In this session, cover the following topics: What is a relational databases?, Using DB Browser for SQLite, The Select Statement, Missing data, Creating New Columns, and Aggregations.

Facilitators:

Dr. Anupam Nath – Assistant Professor of Management Information Systems and Decision Sciences

Dr. Kyle Huff – Associate Professor of Management

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Fri 04/23 from 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon: Data Management with SQL for Social Scientists Part 2

Description:

Participants will Learn: This continues where Part 1 left off. Participation in this session does not require completion of part 1, but participants will need to be familiar with the topics covered in part 1 to get the most out of this session. Topics in this session include: Creating tables and views, The SQLite command line, Joins, and Using database tables in other environments.

Facilitators:

Dr. Anupam Nath – Assistant Professor of Management Information Systems and Decision Sciences

Dr. Nannette Napier – Associate Dean for School of Business, Professor of Management Information Systems and Decision Sciences

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A set of recommendations to help faculty get the most out of asynchronous video activities in their courses.

From Respondus:

The testing tools in Pearson MyLab now offer seamless integration with the Respondus Monitor proctoring system, providing a powerful solution for exam integrity. Join us for a free, 30-minute webinar to learn about this new integration.

The 30-minute webinar will include: A demonstration of how to set up and use Respondus Monitor with Pearson MyLab Discussion of licensing options, including student purchase Best practices for administrators and instructors A Q&A period at the end of the webinar where attendees can ask questions  There are two dates to choose from. Register for the session of your choice, and we’ll see you there!

Pearson MyLab + Respondus Monitor: Prevent Cheating During Online Tests

Tue, March 9
1pm ET / 10am PT
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Thu, March 11
3 pm ET / 12pm PT
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Not able to make a webinar? Visit our website for an introductory video and to discover how to use this integration with your MyLab tests.