Going the Distance: Designing and Delivering Quality Online Courses and Degree Programs

Chris Randall, Kennesaw State University

Target Audience: USG Faculty

Due to the length of the workshop the entire workshop has been divided into three recorded parts.

• Part One (28 minutes)
• Part Two (42 minutes)
• Part Three (1 hour, 35 minutes)

What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You: Copyright & Fair Use In the University System of Georgia

Gail Gunnells, General Counsel for TRX

Target Audience: USG Faculty & Librarians

Due to the length of the workshop the entire workshop has been divided into three recorded parts.

• Part One (54 minutes)
• Part Two (1 hour, 25 minutes)
• Part Three (35 minutes)

Developing Research & Teaching Portfolios

Susan Herbst & Linda Noble, University System of Georgia

Target Audience: Tenure-track Faculty

• Developing Research Portfolios – Susan Herbst (1 hour, 40 minutes)
• Developing Teaching Portfolios – Linda M. Noble (1 hour, 35 minutes)

Successful Grant Writing

Tina Straley, Executive Director, The Mathematical Association of America

Target Audience: All USG Faculty

• Successful Grant Writing (1 hour, 53 minutes)

Scholarly Communication

Cliff Lynch, Bill Potter, Michael Best, Tyler Walters and Tom Maier

Target Audience: USG Faculty & Librarians

Due to the length of the workshop the entire workshop has been divided into four recorded parts

• Part One
  A Changing Society, Changing Scholarly Practices, and the New Landscape of Scholarly Communication Clifford Lynch (1 hour, 20 minutes)

• Part Two
  The Current State of Journal Publishing & Open Access Journals 2.0
  Bill Potter and Michael Best (59 minutes)

• Part Three
  Repository Programs: What Can They Do for Faculty
  Tyler Walters (53 minutes)

• Part Four
  Cyber Infrastructure: Removing Barriers in Research and Scholarly Communications Tom Maier (38 minutes)

Institutional Effectiveness & Student Learning Assessment, Day 1

• Student Learning: Forces, Issues and Expectations
  Tom Benberg (58 minutes)

• New Directions for the Regent’s Advisory Committee on Institutional Effectiveness
  Bob Boehmer (52 minutes)

• A Lifecycle Approach to Institutional Effectiveness
  Susan Paraska (56 minutes)

• Strategies for Aligning Institutional Assessment with Student Learning
  Thomas P. Pusateri (1 hour, 26 minutes)

Institutional Effectiveness & Student Learning Assessment, Day 2

• Writing and Assessing Student Learning Outcomes to Improve Classroom and Program Effectiveness
  Tristan Utschig, & Jonathan Gordon
  Part One (1 hour, 10 minutes)
  Part Two (1hour, 7 minutes)

• Assessing General Education From Multiple Perspectives
  Kristina Cragg, Sherri Gravett, Jane Kinney, Byron Brown (1 hour, 30 minutes)

Encouraging Academic Integrity: But, If Necessary, Detecting and Dealing With Academic Dishonesty

Bill Hill

• Morning session (1 hour, 40 minutes)
• Afternoon session, Part One (1 hour, 7 minutes)
• Afternoon session, Part 2 (1 hour, 35 minutes)

Free Instructional Resources for USG Faculty

Mike Rogers, Marie Lasseter, Ginger Durham, & Mark Johnson

• Marie Lasseter, USG SHARE
• Part One (1 hour, 2 minutes)
• Part Two (24 minutes)
• Ginger Durham, Facilitating Learning Online and Adoptable Templates (57 minutes)
• Mark Johnson, USG iTunesU and Podcast Server (30 minutes)

Responsible Conduct in Research

David Lee, David Knauft, & Jessica Orbock

• Part One, Regina Smith (59 minutes)
• Part Two, David Lee (55 minutes)
• Part Three, David Knauft (1 hour, 4 minutes)
• Part Four, Regina Smith (29 minutes)

Creating Effective Learning Environments for the Millennial Learner

Incivility, Inattention, and Multitasking! Oh My! Creating Effective Learning Environments for the Millennial Learner

Christy Price, Dalton State College

• Part One (1 hour, 16 minutes)
• Part Two (1 hour, 57 minutes)
• Part Three (50 minutes)

Teaching With Clickers: Engaging Students with Classroom Response Systems

Derek Bruff, Center for Teaching, Vanderbilt University

• Part One (1 hour, 41 minutes)
• Part Two (1 hour, 44 minutes)

The Scholarship of Teaching & Learning: What, Why, How and Who?

Laura Regassa, Lorraine Gilpin, Laura Frost, Trent Maurer, & Judith Longfield
Georgia Southern University

• Part One (2 hours)
• Part Two (1 hour, 28 minutes)

Assessing Global Learning

Caryn McTighe Musil & Kevin Hovland
AAC&U Office of Diversity, Equity, and Global Initiatives

• Part One (2 hours, 2 minutes)
• Part Two (1 hour, 5 minutes)

Advocating for Open Textbooks

• Presenters: Marie Lasseter - Office of Faculty Development, USG and Zoe Salloom - Georgia State University
• Trainers from the Community College Open Textbook Collaborative
• Location: ITS - Athens
• Session: Face-to-Face Monthly

Assessing Students, Top 10 Flaws in Constructing Multiple-Choice Items, Top 15 Complaints by Students about Taking Tests

• Presenters: Ron Berk – Johns Hopkins University
• Faculty from Georgia College and State University
• Location: Georgia College and State University, Milledgeville
• Co-sponsored with Georgia College & State University
• Session: Face-to-Face Monthly

AAC&U’s Value Based Rubrics: A Powerful Pedagogical Tool

• Presenter: Donna Gessell - North Georgia College and State University
• Location: ITS - Athens
• Session: Face-to-Face Monthly

Creating Educational Podcasts

• Presenter: Jim Wolfgang
• Digital Innovations Group – Georgia College and State University
• Location: ITS - Athens
• Session: Face-to-Face Monthly

The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning:  Impact in the Classroom and Beyond

• Presenters: Dr. Delena Gatch (Physics), Dr. Diana Sturges (Health Kinesiology), Dr. Judith Longfield (Center for Excellence in Teaching),Dr. Laura Frost (Chemistry) - Georgia Southern University
• Location: Gainesville State College
• Session: Face-to-Face Monthly

Encouraging and Supporting Undergraduate Research

• Presenters: Chris Reaves - Georgia Institute of Technology, Shamin Khan, Cindy Henning, and Samuel Abegaz - Columbus State University, Diana Young - Georgia College and State University
• Location: ITS - Athens
• Session: Face-to-Face Monthly

Assessing Student Learning on Study Abroad Trips

• Presenters: Tracy Harrington - Bainbridge College, Martha Hughes - Georgia Southern University, Gerrit Voogt - Kennesaw State University, Margee Bright Ragland - Georgia Perimeter College, Teddi Cunningham - Valdosta State University, Diane Napier - University of Georgia
• Location: ITS - Athens
• Session: Face-to-Face Monthly

Distance Learning Leadership: Operations, Opposition and Opportunities

• Presenters: Dr. Anthony Piña, Dean of Online Studies and Distinguished Lecturer of Graduate Studies at Sullivan University, Kentucky
• Session: Online
• Description: Dr. Anthony Piña will share a distance learning leader’s toolbox that includes research from the ivory tower, latest trends from the “cloud,” and strategies from the trenches to facilitate operations, minimize opposition and enhance opportunities for our distance learning programs.

Improving Large Lecture Class Learning Outcomes and Adapting STEM Labs

• Presenters: Stephen Rehberg, Georgia Tech and Peggy Brickman, University of Georgia
• Trainers from the Community College Open Textbook Collaborative
• Location: ITS - Athens
• Session: Face-to-Face
• Descriptions
  • Part 1 – As classes become larger and students become more diverse, many faculty are turning to the principles of “Universal Design” to reduce the barriers to learning that can easily be associated with higher education today. Find out how to:(1) give your students more options for acquiring information and knowledge;(2) provide multiple ways for your students to demonstrate what they know;(3) use multiple means of engagement to tap into learners’ interest, offer appropriate challenges, and increase motivation.
  • Part 2 – “STEM Labs” How can you adapt your labs to student’ needs while still maintaining the academic rigor that you and your departments require?
    In this SciTrainU workshop, we will explore how we can adjust pedagogy to improve student learning in the lab environment. We’ll consider various models of instructional design, including Universal Design for Learning, inquiry-based labs, and alternative assessments. We will help you to determine how best to accomplish your lab instructional goals.

Intro to ePublishing - more than PDFs

• Presenters: Frank Lowney, Georgia College
• Session: Online
• Description: ePublishing is a broad field, including eBooks used as textbooks, novels and more. Faculty can use rich media that provide many interactive features for things like lab manuals, department guides, supplemental materials and student authoring. And, it is all within your grasp using free and/or easy applications.

Creative Technology Uses in Instruction

• Presenters: Kevin Mobbs, College of Coastal Georgia and Frank Lowney, Georgia College
• Location: ITS - Athens
• Session: Face-to-Face
• Description: Bring one of your powerpoint presentations and learn new and creative ways to redesign it. Also, have you ever considered capturing some content from your computer for video playback? Learn some techniques for doing so and strategies for use of such material.

Academic Dishonesty

• Presenters: Bill Hill, Kennesaw State University
• Session: Online
• Description: What are the popular cheating techniques? Is there a best way to handle cheating in the classroom? Is plagiarism cheating? Answers to these questions and others will be discussed.

Designing Games for Instructional Purposes

• Presenters: Jeff Chastine and Jon Preston
• Location: Georgia Gwinnett College
• Session: Face-to-Face
• Description: Have you ever wondered how you could use gaming in instruction? Are there specific subject areas that work best for game development? How do you go about developing a game and can you test using games? Learn the answers to these questions and others you may have.

Section 508 Compliance and Online Course Content (Online Session)

• Presenters: Janet Sylvia, University of Georgia
• Session: Online Session
• Description: Section 508 requires that electronic and information technology be equally accessible to persons with and without disabilities. The Board of Regents of University System of Georgia has determined that institutions under the BOR fall within the scope of Section 508. In this seminar we will talk about how to design Section 508-compliant online courses including: course structure, color scheme, layout, navigation, hyperlinks, backgrounds, and images. We will also discuss strategies and resources for creating accessible course content: documents, audio-narrated presentations, and multimedia files (audio/video). This information applies whether you are placing course content on a website or within your online course. Closed captioning for this webinar made possible by the USG Office of Faculty Development

Creating a Collaborative Learning Community

• Presenters: Meredith Ginn & Shea Mize, Georgia Highlands College, Kim Huett and Jason Huett, University of West Georgia
• Location: ITS - Athens
• Session: Face-to-Face
• Descriptions
  • Part 1 This workshop will explore techniques for setting up co-curricular learning communities, as presenters discuss their experiences linking the political science and communication courses. Lessons learned from implementing a pilot learning community will be reviewed as well as syllabi alignment, cross-over projects, and group assignments that strengthen the learning community experience. Attendees will have the opportunity to participate as “mock students” in several modeled activities and have the opportunity to complete brainstorming packets with colleagues on how learning communities might be implemented at their own institutions.
  • Part 2 Wikis promote collaborative knowledge building among groups of people. An introduction of wikis will be followed by specific examples of wikis that were or still are used to support teaching, learning, and/or administrative functions covering how wikis can be used as a highly functional knowledge management space. Participants will learn the basics of creating and editing a wiki hands-on foray into Wikispaces.

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Mentoring Adjunct/Part Time faculty

• Presenters: Amy Coleman, Georgia Perimeter College
• Session: Online
• Description: Learn techniques and methods for mentoring, training, encouraging, and retaining adjuncts in order to increase student satisfaction and retention.

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Integrating teaching, service, and scholarship: Publishing what you do where it counts

• Presenters: Linda Noble, USG Board of Regents and Iris, Saltiel Columbus State University
• Location: ITS - Athens
• Session: Face-to-Face
• Descriptions: Too many faculty members think their responsibilities of teaching, research and service do not intertwine. But in this case, it’s OK to get out of your lane! . Research, teaching, and service can and should be integrally related, each informing the other. Research on teaching and assessment of student learning can be a part of your scholarship. Learning ways to use your teaching, student learning assessments, and service as components of scholarly work is important for faculty. In this hands-on workshop, participants will learn how to:
  • Turn your regular activities into publishable material
  • Select portions of teaching, service and scholarly work for publication
  • Build and organize a scholarly agenda.

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Marketing Your Program through Social Media

• Presenters: Melanie Clay, University of West Georgia
• Session: Online
• Description: Ever wondered how to use Facebook or Twitter to “get the word out” about your program? Better yet, how do I use these media effectively? This session has those answers.

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Class from Hell

• Presenters: Peter Lindsay, Georgia State University
• Location: Georgia Southwestern State University
• Session: Face-to-Face
• Description: What do you do when, with 12 long weeks to go, you realize that you have the class from hell – one you dread walking into? What did you do? What made it the class from hell? Was it the disruptive student? Was it you? Learn some techniques to work with such classes.

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What’s Online Will Hurt You

• Presenters: Stan Gatewood, USG Board of Regents
• Session: Online
• Description: Are you worried about identity theft? Well that’s not the only thing on the internet to be worried about. Learn what other pitfalls are out there.

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Leading Undergraduate Research Programs

• Presenters: Samuel Abegaz, Cindy Henning and Shamim Khan, Columbus State University, David Williams, University of Georgia
• Location: ITS - Athens
• Session: Face-to-Face
• Description: Undergraduate research is thriving on many of our campuses. Hear first hand examples of what students are doing and how faculty are supporting them.

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