The Center for Learning & Development (CLD) offers various workshops throughout the year on teaching and learning topics. Broadly, there are three types of workshops, each of which is described below.
You can register for CLD workshops through the EIS Portal which will allow you to track and keep all your training record for future retrieval. Please follow the directions below to register for this workshop:
NOTE: The below workshop schedule may be subject to change. Please refer to the CLD calendar and the Daily News for the most current information about the workshops.”
CLD Workshops
These CLD workshops are open to all UNTHSC faculty. The workshops address a variety of teaching & learning topics based on specific faculty and school needs. To accommodate different schedules, most workshops will each be offered at two different times. Listed below is fall 2012 CLD workshop schedule. A PDF version of the schedule is available for download. An archive of previously offered CLD workshops can be found at the end of this page.
Fall 2012 CLD Workshop Schedule
* Unless indicated otherwise, the location for most workshops is LIB 448.
Workshop Topic |
Time/Location |
Format* |
Description |
New Blackboard Learn Basics |
Thu 8/23: 2-4 |
Hands-on Lab |
This hands-on lab is for new and beginner-level Blackboard Learn users. You will get to know the interface, site navigation, content upload, and available features of Blackboard to get you started. |
First Steps of Planning a Course or Lecture |
Wed 9/5: 2-3 |
Seminar |
Whether it is planning a course or a lecture, there are some essential principles that can help you plan and deliver your course or lecture more effectively. This workshop will introduce you to backward design, an important principle in instructional design. The workshop will also demonstrate the importance of learning objectives and share the best practices in writing effective, measurable objectives. You are encouraged to bring your own course/lecture learning objectives and other materials for discussion and feedback. |
Strategies to Assess Large Classes |
Tue 9/11: 2-3 |
Seminar |
Large classes typically rely heavily on multiple-choice tests because of their efficiency and economy of scale. This workshop will discuss ways in which these structured assessments can be enhanced to provide formative information for faculty and feedback to students for reflection and deeper learning. |
Item Analysis |
Thu 9/13: 9-10 |
Seminar |
Analysis of student responses to multiple-choice items is a valuable skill for all faculty members. This workshop will introduce basic psychometric principles to help with item analysis. A simple spreadsheet and practical guidelines will be used to find "bad" items. |
Using Turnitin to Facilitate Paper Grading and Peer Review |
Tue 9/18: 2-3:30 |
Hands-on Lab |
Turnitin is known as a tool to address plagiarism, but it also facilitates rich, meaningful feedback that improves students' writing skills, promotes critical thinking, and streamlines grading. This workshop will address all of these features of Turnitin. |
Team Based Learning Basics |
Tue 9/25: 10-11 |
Seminar |
Team Based Learning (TBL) is an innovative form of collaborative learning that uses a sequence of individual work, group work and immediate feedback to enhance students’ critical thinking and motivation to learn. It has been increasingly used by the schools across UNTHSC. This workshop is for beginners to TBL. Questions addressed include: What is TBL? How is it different from other forms of small group learning? What do students say about TBL? How do I go about conducting a TBL class? |
Approaches to Effective and Efficient Assessment and Grading |
Tue 9/25: 2-3 |
Seminar |
Do you often ask students to present, demonstrate, articulate, or apply their knowledge, yet are not so sure how to assess it? This workshop will introduce you to techniques like rubrics and checklists that facilitate consistent grading and provide helpful feedback to students. |
Blackboard Learn Advanced Training: Assignments |
Tue 10/2: 10-11:30 |
Hands-on Lab |
This workshop will introduce all the assignment features in Blackboard Learn, and provide you with hands-on experience. |
Tips to Make Your Lecture More Engaging |
Mon 10/8: 10-11 |
Seminar |
Students learn best when they are actively engaged in information gathering, deep thinking and problem solving. What are the ways to promote active learning in a lecture class? This workshop will share a few quick tips that can help make your lecture more engaging. |
Promoting Veteran Student Success on Campus |
Fri 10/12: 11:30-1 |
Lunch & Learn |
As the number of veteran students increases at UNTHSC, it is important for faculty and staff to have the tools and resources to best serve this population. This workshop will provide a comprehensive understanding of the unique needs of veteran students on the UNTHSC campus, and discuss the available services and strategies that will assist veteran students in being successful both inside and outside of the classroom. |
Creating and Facilitating Online Discussions |
Mon 10/15: 10-11 |
Seminar |
MMeaningful online discussions extend learning beyond the time and space limit of the classroom. However, creating a meaningful online discussion is more than setting up a discussion forum in Blackboard. This workshop will focus on best practices in the creation and facilitation of online discussions. |
Tips on Test Construction to Assess Higher Order Thinking |
Tue 10/16: 10-11:30 |
Seminar |
Assessing a student’s ability to apply knowledge, analyze information, evaluate alternatives, and create solutions to complex problems is more difficult than assessing the basic knowledge and understanding of concepts. This workshop briefly reviews the levels of higher order thinking and assessment best practices. Workshop participants are encouraged to bring assessment examples from their own classes. Using conceptual and psychometric principles, participants will analyze and modify their assessments in order to improve the quality of the assessments. |
Blackboard Advanced Training: Assessment Tools |
Thu 10/25: 10-11:30 |
Hands-on Lab |
This workshop will demonstrate features of Blackboard Learn tools to assist faculty in constructing assessments, creating item banks, and evaluating student performance. Faculty will also learn how to organize test items by learning goal, question type, and difficulty level. |
Qualtrics: Advanced Survey Design |
Mon 10/29: 1-2 |
Hands-on Lab |
Qualtrics is HSC's self-service online survey, reporting and analysis tool available to all faculty, staff and students. This lab will go beyond simple surveys to provide hands-on experience using advanced survey tools, such as conditional item display and branching. Participants should have a basic working knowledge of Qualtrics prior to attending this workshop. |
Peer-Wise: A Peer Grading System that Promotes Active Learning |
Tue 10/30: 10-11:30 |
Hands-on Lab |
PeerWise is newly available software that supports student construction, explanation, and critique of multiple choice questions in an interactive learning environment. This workshop will introduce participants to the system, provide hands-on examples of how it works, and explain how to sign up for a UNTHSC practice course and get an instructor's license to use the software. |
Qualtrics: Reporting and Analysis of Survey Data |
Mon 11/5: 1-2 |
Hands-on Lab |
Qualtrics is HSC's self-service online survey, reporting and analysis tool. This lab will provide hands-on experience with Qualtrics reporting tools, plus options for more complex data analysis. Participants should have a basic working knowledge of Qualtrics prior to attending this workshop. |
Online Educators’ Forum |
TBA |
Lunch & Learn |
UNTHSC has recently launched the distance education initiative. Several courses from the School of Public Health and other schools on campus are now being offered online. This Lunch & Learn session will introduce to you important principles of designing online courses. Faculty members of the online courses will also share with you their valuable experience gained from teaching online. |
Effective Use of Questions to Promote Students' Higher Order Thinking |
Tue 11/13: 10-11 |
Seminar |
Effective class teaching depends to a large extent on the questions you ask of students and the types of thinking triggered by these questions. This workshop focuses on the ways to use questioning as an effective way to promote students’ higher order thinking in both classroom and clinical settings. Best practice guidelines will be discussed. |
Statistical Analysis for Faculty Researchers |
Thu 11/15: 1-3 |
Seminar & Hands-on Lab |
This interactive session will (re)introduce statistical concepts typically used by faculty researchers, such as scales of measurement and choosing the correct inferential method for data analysis. SPSS will be used to illustrate the methods presented in class. |
Reflection Exercise: What, Why & How |
Tue 11/27: 10-11 |
Seminar |
Guiding students to thoughtfully reflect on their learning experiences is an excellent way to foster active involvement with a subject and encourage higher order thinking. This workshop will define reflection, examine its benefits, and discuss how you can incorporate reflection in teaching by constructing and assessing reflection exercises systematically and objectively. |
Camtasia: A Screen Recording Tool |
Tue 11/27: 2-3 |
TBA |
A workshop on the power and flexibility of the Lecture Capture software Camtasia, a Techsmith product. The instructor will demonstrate how easy it is to create video lectures with PowerPoint and use the powerful post production tools Camtasia offers to bring your videos to life. A great tool for someone who is thinking about creating a flipped classroom. Come take advantage of the demo and tips to give your students even more ways to learn and retain the information you teach them. |
Using Copyrighted and Licensed Materials in Teaching at UNTHSC |
Tue 12/4: 10-11 |
Seminar |
This session is designed to help faculty understand how they can properly (and legally) use print and electronic material in the classroom. The presentation will include answers to questions including: "Am I allowed to use this work in my class?” “Who owns this work I want to use?” “Do I need to request permission to use this work?” “Has the Library already licensed the work for classroom use? “How do I appropriately label cited work and media?” |
Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) Academy of Teaching Scholars Workshops
The QEP Academy of Teaching Scholars workshops are targeted at faculty across the four UNTHSC schools who are participants in UNTHSC’s Quality Enhancement Plan effort. The workshop topics are specifically designed to address the needs identified by participating QEP faculty as well as from university-wide faculty surveys. The workshops are generally held once per month during most months of the year. They are usually offered on Friday mornings. PDF version of the schedule is available for download.
Spring 2011 QEP Workshop Schedule
Webinars & invited speaker workshops
To support CLD’s mission, we review third-party webinars and outside speakers to identify those that are of high value to the university. Periodically, CLD hosts webinars or guest speaker sessions. Below is the list of webinar and guest speaker workshops for Spring 2011. An archive of previously offered webinar and guest speaker workshops can be found at the end of this page.