Universal design for learning (UDL) is a framework that seeks to break the one-size-fits-all mold of teaching and learning. This session will address how to use UDL to make your syllabus policies and teaching practices more inclusive of all learners, especially those with disabilities.

Join colleagues to brainstorm and draft descriptive language for the knowledge, skills, and dispositions that your course aims to teach. Have support to discern the appropriate level and scope for each student learning outcome.

Participants will be able to use MaxQDA for their qualitative data coding needs.

Given the potential benefits of student feedback data for our teaching effectiveness, we should have two related goals: We want to collect more student data with a greater response rate, and we want to collect quality feedback that provides actionable points for improving our teaching. However, this isn’t always what we get. Response rates on student feedback surveys are often lower than we’d like to see, and we often question the utility of open-response student comments that are sparse, vague, or emphasize factors unrelated to our teaching. This workshop focuses on how to best achieve these dual goals based on what we know from the available research on student feedback surveys in higher education.

Details about this session are forthcoming – please check again soon for more information.

Join colleagues to align your course’s student learning outcomes to program level outcomes. Get started aligning your assignments, activities, and assessments, too.

After this session, you will be able to identify barriers to accessibility in Microsoft Word and PowerPoint documents and use the built-in Accessibility Checker to find and resolve those barriers.

Join colleagues who are eager to explore new generative AI tools for teaching. This monthly community of practice aims to share hands-on experiences with tools like ChatGPT, DALL-E, Scribe, Fetchy, and more. This educational peer community offers a supportive space to gain experience and discuss opportunities and challenges. Pizza will be served. Space is limited to 30.

Interested in exploring how to boost active-learning with your students and incorporate a range of playful activities and/or simulations or learning games? Join Dr. Tori Mondelli for a book club that will introduce you to her ALLURE method for learning game and activity design.

Join colleagues to brainstorm and draft descriptive language for the knowledge, skills, and dispositions that your course aims to teach. Have support to discern the appropriate level and scope for each student learning outcome.

Join colleagues to align your course’s student learning outcomes to program level outcomes. Get started aligning your assignments, activities, and assessments, too.

In this session, you will learn to identify and address accessibility barriers in your Canvas course site. We will also discuss the importance of live transcripts for Zoom sessions and accurate captions for Panopto media.

Participants will be able to use Saturate for their qualitative data coding needs.

In response to common critiques of end-of-semester student feedback surveys, the MU Faculty Council and the Provost’s Office approved a new student feedback survey instrument that will be implemented starting this year. This new survey was designed and tested by an expert team of Mizzou scholars, informed by the research literature on best practices for student feedback surveys and the use of resulting data, and refined based on feedback from the Mizzou faculty and student communities. In this workshop you will be introduced to the new survey instrument, learn how it incorporates MU’s dimensions of Inclusive and Effective Teaching, and find out about important changes to how student feedback data will be reported for faculty review.

Did you know that 25%+ of our student population at MU are First-Generation students? Join us to explore evidence-based teaching practices that can serve to address some of the unique needs of our students, such as: demystifying Higher Education jargon such as “Office Hours”, building cultural capital, and developing personal relationships with students.

This session will address the unique challenges of making STEM learning accessible, including equations and complex images.

Join colleagues to brainstorm and draft descriptive language for the knowledge, skills, and dispositions that your course aims to teach. Have support to discern the appropriate level and scope for each student learning outcome.