Salisbury University |  Instructional Design & Delivery Newsletter | November 1, 2022

General Education Update

The General Education Oversight Committee recently announced that an existing course has been the first to be approved in the General Education 2024 curriculum! The course is in the signature area of Diversity & Inclusion. Additionally, General Education 2024 has a new dashboard tracking the number of courses (new and existing) currently submitted or approved - so check it out! 

Proposals for current courses are encouraged to be submitted through Curriculog. Use the preview option (indicated in the red square below) to create a PDF version of the application for planning purposes.

General Education: Course Mapping Workshop

Date: November 4, 2022

Time: 10-11 a.m.
Location: Faculty Development Studio, Academic Commons 221

Let us help you map your course objectives to meet General Education student learning outcomes through a course mapping process in this interactive hands-on workshop. Please bring your course syllabus and learning description/objectives for an existing course you wish to modify to meet Gen Ed requirements. The process of course mapping allows you to plan your course using a course matrix for learning objectives, content, activities and assessments. We will help you prepare your new or existing course so you can create a proposal to send to the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee as the first step toward approval as a General Education 2024 course.

National Distance Learning Week: November 7-11

The United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA) is offering a free, virtual, week-long series of webinars meant to: 

• generate greater awareness and appreciation for distance learning; 
• discuss current issues and emerging trends; 
• highlight best practices;  
  
• recognize leaders in the field.
  

The theme for NDLW 2022 15th anniversary edition is leadership across all aspects of distance learning. The daily webinars will be offered during 2 sessions per day, the first at 1 p.m. EST and the second at 3 p.m. EST. To learn more and register for one or more sessions, visit the National Distance Learning Week website! 

NDLW Webinar: Lessons Learned Faculty Panel

Date: November 11, 2022

Time: 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Location: Zoom

Join Salisbury University faculty as they share their lessons learned from their online, remote, and hybrid courses. Our faculty panelists will explore various strategies and activities for student engagement and humanizing distance learning courses. The webinar will be conducted using Zoom. Please register to receive the Zoom link.

Soaring with Online Learning - Winter 2023

Instructional Design and Delivery is currently accepting applications for the next cohort of Soaring with Online Learning (Soaring) to be held January 2-February 13, 2023. 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 2023 cohort focuses on faculty designing online, remote or hybrid courses for summer or fall 2023 sessions.    

Program details and the Soaring application can be accessed from the Soaring with Online Learning webpage. The application deadline is Friday, December 2.

Call for Proposals: SU Teaching and Learning Conference

Mark your calendars for Friday, February 17, 2023, 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 

Deadline to submit your session proposal is Tuesday, November 29.

Fall 2022 Webinar Series: Open Education

This series is free and open to the open education community and we encourage you to invite your colleagues to attend or better yet watch together and continue the discussion afterward. Webinars are Wednesdays at 3 p.m. Eastern, except where otherwise indicated.

• November 9 - Open Ed as Enabler for Antiracism & Social Justice
• December 7 - Measuring the Impact of Open Education

For additional webinar information and registration information, please visit https://www.cccoer.org/webinar/.