Salisbury University |  Instructional Design & Delivery Newsletter | March 23, 2021

Soaring with Online Learning – Summer 2021 Cohort

Instructional Design and Delivery is currently accepting applications for the next cohort of the Soaring with Online Learning program to be held from May 17-June 21, 2021. Soaring with Online Learning (Soaring) is a multi-week faculty development program to prepare faculty to develop and deliver courses in a fully online or hybrid environment through the campus learning management system, MyClasses. The summer 2021 cohort focuses on faculty designing online or hybrid courses for winter and spring 2022 sessions. 

Program details and application can be accessed from the Soaring with Online Learning webpage. The application deadline is Friday, April 16.

Faculty Learning Community - Call for Proposals

Faculty Learning Community (FLC) proposals are now being accepted for the upcoming 2021-2022 academic year. Your proposal can be for a cohort-based or topic-basic FLC. The proposal should be developed by the prospective FLC facilitator(s) with a budget not to exceed $2,500 (final awards may be modified in light of prevailing budgetary considerations). A newly designed online FLC proposal form and an FLC scoring rubric are both available at the Faculty Learning Communities website.  

The due date for proposals is Friday, April 30. For more information on FLCs and the application process, please visit the Faculty Learning Communities website.

Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference (ITLC) - Call for Proposals

UMES' Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference will be presented VIRTUALLY this year on Thursday-Friday, May 20-21, to bring together faculty, instructional staff and thought leaders from across the Mid-Atlantic and beyond for two days of discussion, exchange, presentations, roundtables, workshops and networking.

Proposals are now being accepted for 60-minute or 30-minute concurrent sessions, all of which will be synchronous (streaming live) on Friday, May 21. Share your experiences with the pandemic and how they have changed you, your teaching, your discipline and your plans for future courses. For more information about proposal guidelines, visit the Call for Concurrent Sessions website. Deadline to submit proposals is Monday, April 12, 2021.

Registration to attend the conference is now open and the cost is FREE. To register, visit the ITLC Registration website. 

Registration Is Open for the 2021 MOST State Summit: Using OER to Advance Equity and Inclusion

The theme of the 2021 conference is Using OER to Advance Equity and Inclusion. The COVID-19 pandemic and continuing patterns of racialized violence have brought to the forefront inequities in educational access, preparation and experiences on our campuses. How might the use of open educational resources (OER) advance equity and inclusion at our postsecondary institutions and statewide?

Registration is FREE. You can register through the University System of Maryland Kirwan Center site.

Upcoming Workshops 

Advanced Design Tools

Friday, March 26 ● 10-11 a.m. (EST)

Instructional Designer Safaa Said is facilitating an Advanced Design Tools workshop for those who previously attended the Give Your Canvas Course a Boost – with Design Tools workshop or those who have been learning Design Tools on their own and understand the basic concepts of using Design Tools. Examples of some of the Advanced Elements that will be explored in this workshop include: 

• Accordions | Tabs: to add content on paged using accordion panels or tabs
• Description List: to add a glossary of terms, aligning text without using tables 
• HTML Snippet: to format text in two or three columns, add images with caption and more
• Popup Content: to add tooltips, popovers and modal dialogs to the content 
• Quick Check: to add an ungraded Quick Check Question on a page to test comprehension 

Partner Presentation: Getting the Most Out of Peer Review: From Conception to Implementation

Friday, April 2 ● 10:30-11:30 a.m. (EST)

Helping our students to develop as writers is an ongoing process, and peer review helps them see the writing process from both the perspective of reader and writer. In this session, explore three approaches to implementing peer review and discuss how careful guidance in appropriate feedback supports students' development as writers. This session includes Dr. Carolyne King, director of first-year writing, and Dr. Melissa Bugdal and Dr. Beth Towle, University Writing Center, who describe why they use peer review and how they carefully scaffold this activity. Dr. Sarah Winger, University Analysis, Reporting and Assessment, addresses findings related to Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs) for reading and writing from GULL Week, which serves as background for the importance of scaffolding students’ writing in our classrooms. 

To view more details and to register for these workshops, please go to the Faculty Development Calendar. 

SU is an Equal Opportunity/AA/Title IX university and provides reasonable accommodation given sufficient notice to the University office or staff sponsoring the event or program. For more information regarding SU’s policies and procedures, please visit www.salisbury.edu/equity.