Salisbury University |  Instructional Design & Delivery Newsletter | February 14, 2023

13th Annual Teaching & Learning Conference

Registration is now open for the 13th Annual Teaching & Learning Conference to be held on Friday, February 17, in Perdue Hall from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. The goal of this conference is to bring together teacher-scholars from across campus to share and discuss teaching innovations and best practices. Join us in person (or virtually) for dynamic sessions led by a variety of SU’s faculty and staff. Dr. Kristen Walton, Distinguished Faculty Award recipient, will deliver the keynote presentation. A schedule is available online. Sessions cover topics such as ChatGPT, practices that support IDEAs (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility), authentic assignment and alternative grading strategies, and disciplinary strategies for supporting student ethics, critical thinking, engagement and health.

Online registration ends today, Tuesday, February 14. Individuals who register online will be sent the program with session descriptions. The program also provides details on how to join sessions virtually via Zoom. 

In-person registration is available the day of the event in Perdue Hall Atrium. 

Instructional Designers: Who We Are and What We Do

Campus instructional designers support faculty by providing consultations to enrich the teaching and learning experience for you and your students. We are liaisons with academic units to better serve the culture of academic programs.

But do you truly know what instructional designers do? Some believe we are information technology specialists; we get that, since we support instructional software such as MyClasses, Panopto and PointSolutions (previously TurningPoint). Yet we are more than that, as we are also versed in andragogical (adult learning) and pedagogical strategies to improve the teaching and learning experience.

Please listen to our University of Maryland, Baltimore colleagues in their Moving the Needle podcast What, Exactly, Is Instructional Design?

Teams Tutorial 

ID&D, along with many other entities on campus, is using Teams for holding meetings. Teams meetings allow for sharing files, taking notes and sending chat messages, all of which remain available after the meeting through your Microsoft Office365 account. 

When scheduling a virtual one-on-one meeting with ID&D, the meeting is automatically created through Teams. Watch the video below for more information on how to schedule and access an ID&D meeting and how to share your screen during a meeting. You can also review the IT Knowledgebase for more information about using Teams.

Faculty Resource: National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity (NCFDD) 

Salisbury University has institutional membership to the National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity (NCFDD) network that helps faculty achieve extraordinary writing and research productivity while maintaining a full and healthy life off campus. One of the sessions the NCFDD offers to support writing productivity is a community-driven 14-day writing challenge to write for at least 30 minutes every day and report progress to/support the progress of a group of peers. 

Upcoming writing challenge sessions:

• February 20-March 5, registration closes tomorrow, February 15
• April 24-May 7, registration open through April 19  
  

For more information about on NCFDD and how to log in to access these resources, visit the NCFDD page on the Center for the Advancement of Faculty Excellence (CAFE) website.

Call for Proposals for OER Faculty Grants

The Maryland Open Source Textbook (MOST) initiative is seeking proposals for its Faculty OER Grant Program, which supports faculty efforts to increase access, affordability and achievement for students at Maryland’s post-secondary institutions through the incorporation of open educational resources (OER) into teaching practice.

Available grants in 2023 include:

• Adopt/Adapt OER ($1,000 grant + Participation in the Lumen Circles Community of Practice)
• Create/Revise and Publish OER ($2,000 grant + Participation in the Rebus Textbook Success Program)

All proposals must be submitted by 11:59 p.m. EST on Wednesday, March 1, 2023.