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

December 1: Maryland OER Summit: Cultivating Agency through Open Educational Practices 

Date: December 1, 2023

Time: 8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Location: Perdue Hall - 156 Tiered Lecture Hall 

Special Networking Reception: Thursday, November 30, 6:00-7:30 p.m.

The Center for the Advancement of Faculty Excellence (CAFE) and ID&D hope you join us on December 1st, as we welcome colleagues from across Maryland for the 2023 M.O.S.T. Summit. This one-day summit will bring together faculty, students, librarians, instructional designers, and administrators from across all of Maryland’s postsecondary institutions to explore the contours of open pedagogy, from philosophical questions it raises about power in the classroom to practical questions about how to jump into the practice. At the heart of the conference is the question: what happens when students and their collaborators—peers, faculty, community members, librarians, and more—drive knowledge creation?

The day will be a mix of session types, from workshops to panel discussions, with an emphasis on participant engagement, reflection, and application.

Registration is now open.

The Science of Learning

The Create Your Course Design Using the Neuroscience of How Students Learn webinar recording is now available. ID&D's Karen Silverstrim discusses how course design can promote active learning, stimulate neural connections and promote memory.  The presentation includes a demonstration of a course design that implements five known factors that have been shown to aid learning: consistency, repetition, multi-modal, narrative, and review.

Additional recommendations about the science of learning:

• Teaching in Higher Ed Podcast Series: How People Learn
• Center for Student Achievement's Memory Student Resources

Soaring with Online Learning - Winter 2024

Instructional Design and Delivery is currently accepting applications for the next cohort of Soaring with Online Learning (Soaring) to be held January 1- February 9, 2024. Soaring is a faculty development program to prepare Salisbury University faculty to design, develop and deliver courses in an online (online and no scheduled meetings), remote (online and synchronous meetings) or hybrid (combination of in-person and online/remote meetings) environment through the learning management system MyClasses @ SU. The winter 2024 cohort focuses on faculty designing online, remote or hybrid courses for summer or fall 2024 sessions.    

Program details and the Soaring application can be accessed from the Soaring with Online Learning webpage. The application deadline is Friday, December 1, 2023.

Call for Proposals: SU Teaching and Learning Conference

Mark your calendars for Friday, February 16, 2024 as SU hosts our annual Teaching and Learning Conference (TLC) from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
 
The annual SU TLC brings together teacher-scholars across campus to share and discuss teaching innovations and best practices. A call for proposals is currently open for 20-minute sessions, 40-minute sessions, panel discussions (up to 4 presenters) or poster presentations on a variety of themes related to the scholarship of teaching and learning. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Promoting student wellness and sense of belonging
  
• Inclusive pedagogy (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion)
  
• Culturally responsive and anti-racist pedagogy
  
• General Education
• Innovative teaching strategies
• Best-practices for online and hybrid learning 

The deadline to submit your session proposal is Tuesday, December 12, 2023.

Call for Faculty Spring Travel Grants 

The Faculty Development Committee (FDC) is calling for applications for Travel Grants, in support of faculty travel to be completed between January 1-May 31, 2024. 

Deadline for Application: 11:59 p.m. on Friday, December 15, 2023. No applications will be accepted after this deadline. The maximum amount of each grant is $400. A faculty member may receive only one grant per academic year. More specifically, if a faculty member receives a grant during the June 1 through December 31 funding cycle, they will not be eligible to receive another award during the January 1 through May 31 funding cycle. 

Should you choose to apply for a grant, please go to the FDC Travel Grant website at  https://webapps.salisbury.edu/ftga/ and submit your application online. The Call for Applications for Faculty Development Travel Grants is available on this website. Please read the call carefully. 

 
Your login and password for the website are your SU login and password. After you have submitted your application, please verify your submission by making sure that: 

• The website should indicate your application number; AND
• Your current application information is identified as accepted or is being processed when you check the status of your application on the FDC Travel Grant website.

Questions? Please contact Meghan East at mseast@salisbury.edu.