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2024-25 Faculty Development Programming
The Center for Teaching and Learning’s Fall Program Guide is now here! Explore our exciting lineup of workshops, events, and resources designed to help you thrive in your academic journey. Find the perfect program to elevate your skills, connect with peers, and explore the vanguard of higher education pedagogy. View them below or open the guide in a new window.
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Upcoming Events & Past Events
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Virtual Production Show and Tell
Due to unforeseen schedule changes, we are rescheduling this event to 12-1pm, 19 February 2025. We apologize for any inconvenience this might create.
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Ideation Studio at the MILL
Ideation Studio is a series of hands-on workshops intended to help researchers, faculty, staff and students work together to solve Alaska challenges across silos. Participants network with others, come up with new ideas, expand on existing ideas and discover how others are solving complex and wicked problems in Alaska. Participants automatically qualify to apply for…
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Graduate Writing Retreat Spring ’25
Graduate students working on theses, dissertations, and major academic writing projects are invited to register for a free, facilitated, 3-day Writing Retreat. This retreat will support students in organizing their research, making progress on writing, and connecting with other students and support staff as they work through projects at any stage of the writing process,…
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Kevin Gannon: Visiting Scholar
On February 26 and 27th, 2025 Dr. Kevin Gannon will visit the UAF Troth Yeddha’ campus to deliver a public lecture and workshop series. Kevin Gannon is Director of the Center for the Advancement of Faculty Excellence and Professor of History at Queens University of Charlotte, in North Carolina. He is the author of Radical…
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Graduate TA Orientation (Spring 2025)
025 Graduate Teaching Assistant Orientation. This is an opportunity to meet other graduate students, learn from their experience, and oriented with teaching support and resources offered by the Center for Teaching and Learning and the UAF Graduate School. View the agenda. Date: January 10, 2025, 12:30 pm- 2:00 pm Location: Bunnell 140 and on Zoom…
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12 Ways of Google
Usually we offer “12 Days of Google” but this year we are doing 12 WAYS using screencasts to allow folks to access the resources asynchronously. These short, 5–7 minute videos, led by our expert instructional designers and Google for Education certified trainers, are designed to help you quickly learn practical tips and tools to enhance…
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MILL Makerspace November Challenge
What Are You Thankful For? Now is a great time of year to pause and reflect on what brings joy and gratitude into our lives. Whether it’s the people who support us, hobbies that bring us happiness, or moments that have shaped us, acknowledging what we’re thankful for helps us focus on the positive things…
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Mindful Art Making for Self-Care
Join us for an hour of sensory engagement through a free-flow painting and writing exercise in a non-judgemental space. No previous experience is required. It can be a powerful tool for stress reduction and relaxation, processing emotions, and enhancing self-awareness. Can’t come at noon? Drop in to the MILL from 1-3pm instead. The MILL (Making…
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MILL Makerspace Inktober Challenge
This month we are participating in Inktober. The challenge of consistently responding to a daily drawing prompt throughout the month. “Inktober is a month long art challenge created by artist Jake Parker that is focused on improving skill and developing positive drawing habits.” (www.inktober.com) For the MILL’s version of these prompts, consider the proposal that…
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A Look at Playposit Playlists
Let us walk you through features of Playlists that create a defragmented learner experience for one-click access to curated content, including PlayPosit bulbs, PDFs, images, docs, sheets, forms, embedded websites, and more. Learners earn a certificate after verified completion. Each Playlist can be customized to require certain behaviors like “mastery-based consumption” or locked/unlocked progression This…
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MILL Makerspace September Challenge
Seasonal Learning Summer in Alaska is a time of experiential learning as we build new skills through hands-on, informal learning experiences. Did you pack raft for the first time this summer? Did you mentor a student through their first field season? Did you learn a new food preservation method? Summer learning experiences challenge us as…
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WeVideo Workshop: Authentic Assessment & Routines with WeVideo
Friday, 16 August 2024, from 11am-12pm, join us for training on WeVideo, a browser-based video editing tool that all UAF affiliates have access to use. WeVideo experts will demonstrate how to increase engagement and enhance student learning outcomes through authentic multimedia assessments. You’ll learn how to leverage the full suite of WeVideo’s creation tools, including…
Makerspace
UAF CTL has a makerspace that is opening for the Fall 2023 semester. This space will be open for both faculty and students to use. More details will be shared when this space is officially launched.
Transdisciplinary iTeach
This workshop explores how transdisciplinary activities in your course may help engage and motivate students to be more successful. Make content relevant to a variety of discipline areas and encourage students to be well-rounded and open to new ideas, skills they can take to any classroom and to the workplace.
LEAP
In the Learner Experience Advocacy Program, undergraduate students learn about course feedback strategies and partner with participating instructors to observe and share feedback on course design and delivery. The goals of the program are to meaningfully improve the learner experience at UAF, build community among instructor and student leaders, and provide professional development to students and instructors alike.
iTeach Online
iTeach Online is a cohort-based workshop where faculty work on building their courses in the company of their peers. Attention to best practices, course alignment, student engagement and usability are emphasized. Synchronous sessions allow for cohort building and tool practice.
SoTL iTeach
In 2023, with support from the Provost’s Office, the Center for Student Success, and UAF CTL, faculty will work together to review student success data in their courses, ask questions about barriers and contributors to success, and design interventions to address disparities identified through this process. For example, that Alaska Native students were less successful in the identified courses than their non-Indigenous peers due to exclusive, Western education norms and practices in UAF classrooms. The program will follow participants through at least one semester of teaching with these interventions to help understand and document their impacts. Finally, participants will share their learning with a wider audience through a written report, presentation, grant or SEP proposal, or other method.
Quality Matters
Quality Matters (QM) is a nationally recognized peer review process for certifying quality in online courses. UAF is a QM subscribing institution. To get started, you may choose to pursue a self-guided review, or arrange for a formal review of your hybrid or online course.