Date: Apr 21, 2023
Time: 11:30am-1pm (please arrive 10 minutes early)
Location: SCALE-UP classroom (CKB G08)
Event Description:
Teaching strategies that emphasize structured active learning can create more equitable classrooms and improve learning for all students. As an introduction to inclusive teaching techniques, Professors Kelly Hogan and Viji Sathy of the University of North Carolina will ask participants to reflect on inequities and diversity in their classrooms through interactive, hands-on activities. After providing a framework for inclusive design and their own research results, Hogan and Sathy will lead participants through active learning exercises and case studies that explore inclusive techniques. Drawing upon their own teaching experiences and educational research, they will model approaches that can be readily implemented with any discipline or class size to help all students achieve their potential.
Workshop Objectives:
Please register as soon as possible—space is limited!
Presenter Bios: Dr. Kelly Hogan and Dr. Viji Sathy are both award winning instructors with a combined 25+ years in the classroom at the University of North Carolina. They are passionate about student success, equity, and inclusion in the classroom. They have expertise on inclusive techniques and active learning in any size crowd, because both teach courses routinely with hundreds of students. On their campus, they lead innovative classroom and diversity administrative initiatives that benefit all students, faculty, and staff. Both are leading the campus in curriculum reforms, bringing course-based undergraduate research experiences and makerspace courses to all disciplines. Kelly and Viji have shared their work with faculty through hands-on workshops at numerous types of institutions. Both are featured experts in ACUE's Course on Teaching Effectiveness, have been active in the scholarship of teaching and learning in their respective disciplines of biology and statistics, and their work has been featured in a number of national publications such as The Chronicle of Higher Education and the New York Times.
Check out their website, inclusifiED.
The ITE has print copies of Dr. Hogan and Dr. Sathy’s new book, Inclusive Teaching: Strategies for Promoting Equity in the College Classroom. Please email ite@njit.edu if you are interested in picking up a copy to read before the event. Quantities are limited. Alternatively, NJIT's Van Houten Library has a copy of the eBook with unlimited access.
Title: Examining Marginalization in Engineering Education
Date: April 6, 2022
Time: 1-2:20
Location: Video Conferencing
Presenter: Walter C. Lee, PhD
Associate Professor, Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education | Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Diversity
Abstract: Creating learning environments that empower diverse student groups in their pursuits of engineering degrees is a national imperative. To support this goal, colleges and universities provide numerous forms of support intended to increase the success of their students. However, student outcomes and previous research reveal the need for more responsive student support tailored to individual student’s needs. To support this effort, Dr. Lee’s research focuses on advancing the extent to which the engineering community understands how marginalized students navigate undergraduate engineering degree programs. Dr. Lee will discuss an ongoing effort to establish a theoretical foundation for a recently-awarded NSF CAREER project aiming to critically examine the experiences of marginalized students in engineering. By better understanding their experiences, we can create educational environments that are more responsive to the cultural backgrounds of the student populations.
Speaker Bio: Dr. Walter Lee is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Education and the Director for Research in the Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Diversity, both at Virginia Tech. Dr. Lee is broadly interested in inclusion, diversity, and educational equity—particularly as it relates to students from groups that are historically underrepresented in engineering. He has a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Clemson University, an M.S. in Industrial & Systems Engineering from Virginia Tech, and a Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Virginia Tech. His career vision is to be a driving force in the national efforts to diversify engineering and ensure that institutions provide students with the necessary support to succeed regardless of their background.
Please save the date for the Institute for Teaching Excellence’s annual January professional development workshop. All instructional staff are welcome to attend.
Date: January 12, 2023
Time: 9:30am-4:00pm
Location: CKB 116
Attendees can look forward to a series of workshop sessions on topics including Active Learning, Zoom, Panopto, and more. Attendees are encouraged to bring their laptops to the event.
Breakfast and lunch will be provided, and there will be a drawing for prizes at the end of the day, with the chance to win the grand prize–an iPad. In addition, the first 20 attendees will receive a door prize.
Participants will earn attendance points for our new ITE recognition badges for this year. For a list of last year’s recipients, see here.
Please complete this form to RSVP for the event.
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9:30am-10am |
Breakfast/Sign-in |
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10-10:15am |
Welcome Atam Dhawan, Interim Provost and Senior Executive Vice President |
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10:15am-11am |
Virtual Computing Labs with Apporto In this session we will learn more about Apporto, a desktops as a service provider. Apporto will present the capabilities of the product and how it can integrate into your courses and also with Canvas. At the end of this session we will discuss with faculty options for piloting it in their classroom. Presented by Apporto |
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11am-12pm |
Be a Voice for Change: Advancing Equity and Inclusion in the Classroom This session will use evidence-based practically useful content and strategies to empower participants to create and sustain equity-centered classroom environments. Participants will join one another to engage in learning and conversations to develop their consciousness, advocacy, and agency to achieve student success and belonging in an inclusive classroom setting. Presented by David Jones, Chief Diversity Officer |
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12pm-1pm |
Lunch |
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1pm-2pm |
Introducing: ZOOM and Panopto, New NJIT Media-Based Tools With the ever-changing technological landscape, NJIT is continuously evaluating its educational technology tools for both education and business processes. This session will give a background and technological basics introduction for two new NJIT-licensed tools for teaching, learning, and business usage. Both Panopto and ZOOM will be discussed, with time being split between the two. Presented by: Joel Almoradie, Ethan Lupinska, & Justine Krawiec |
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2-3pm |
Authentic Intelligence: Creating Meaningful Assignments in the New World of AI Writing This presentation will discuss new developments in AI text generation and writing and provide strategies for both integrating and limiting their use in your classroom. Participants will gain hands-on experience and leave with tools and assignments to improve classroom learning. Presented by Megan O’Neill |
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3-4pm |
Active Learning Panel Discussion Winners of the ITE Active Learning grants will speak on their experiences revising course syllabi to include weekly active learning activities for students, strategies they leveraged, and student outcomes. Panelists: Carol Bruzzano, Ashish Borgaonkar, Jasmine Chang, David Fisher, Theresa Hunt, Prateek Shekhar |
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4pm-4:30pm |
Wrap up/Drawing for Prizes |
Donuts & Discussion are informal talks about pedagogy amongst colleagues. These conversations will take place in CKB G15. For the Spring 2023 semester, these discussions will alternate between Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM. Donuts and coffee will be provided.
Do you have a question, topic, or technology tool you'd like to see highlighted as the focus of an ITE session? Please share your suggestions in the Requests and Suggestions for ITE Topics form.
Companies that work with NJIT will periodically offer free training workshops and webinars, open to university participants and/or the public. These trainings are not designed or sponsored by NJIT, but they are available to NJIT faculty and staff who wish to take advantage of the opportunity for extra training and information. In order to make these offerings available to you, a schedule of upcoming events is shared below. We would love to hear feedback from you if you decide to participate in one of these events!
Please fill out our Feedback Form after attending a Vendor-Offered training.
Vendor Descriptions:
Canvas: A web-based learning management system that allows the University to access and manage online course materials to support learning and skill development. All registrar scheduled classes at NJIT automatically have a new Canvas page each semester. Canvas has many On-Demand Webinars.
Gradescope: A part of Turnitin, Gradescope is a tool designed to standardize paper-based, digital, and coding assignments to streamline them for the student and instructor. Gradescope saves time in grading through the use of rubrics and artificial intelligence. It also offers plagiarism detection for coding assignments. Gradescope contains various tutorial videos for Getting Started and has a Chaptered Walkthrough.
Kaltura: The primary media and video repository for NJIT. It allows users to share, search for, and watch a variety of media. Lecture recordings, presentations, screen captures, and more can be uploaded directly into Canvas.
Respondus LockDown Browser & Monitor (Proctoring Solution): LockDown Browser is a custom browser that locks participants in the learning management system testing environment, known as Canvas for NJIT. Monitor further builds upon this proctoring solution by using the student’s webcam and video-analytics to prevent cheating during exams.
Turnitin: A system used through Canvas to promote academic integrity through streamlining grading and feedback while deterring plagiarism.
Vocareum: A cloud platform that can be integrated with Canvas for online coding lab projects and scales across a number of technical disciplines.
Voicethread: A collaborative media tool where a user can put together a presentation using video, images, documents, and other media. Other users can also interact on this media.
Webex: A web conferencing system that allows for live, two-way interaction between participants. Video conferencing possibilities include hosting of online meetings with video, audio, screen sharing, and breakout groups. The new All-in-One Webex allows for connection through messaging, whiteboard, calling, and file sharing.
To view the calendar below, you must be logged into your NJIT Google account.