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2012
SPRING 2012
The Impact of Technology on Faculty Development
When: Wed. Feb. 29, 2012
Time: 11:30am-1:00pm
Where: Delivered online via Blackboard COLLABORATE
Please join your fellow CAFDN members as we discuss new and innovative ways faculty developers are using technology to enhance faculty development at their campuses. This session will feature three guest speakers but will also allow opportunity for participants to share their own ideas. This is a special "members only" learning community.
- Ted Scholz, Associate VP of Faculty Development and Training from The Chicago School of Professional Psychology will be presenting TCSPP's Adjunct Faculty Orientation and Resource page, a mandatory training module designed for all new adjunct faculty (both online and on-ground). He will also be introducing TCSPP's Teaching Online Pedagogy (TOP) class which they use to train their online instructors.
- Tony Labriola, Coordinator of Instructional Development and Charles Nolley, Director, Digital Learning & Media Design at Governors State University will present the use of COLLABORATE in Blackboard 9.1. Governors State recently staged a "live" meeting/orientation using video, audio, web, PPT, live chat, You Tube, and other resources for all nursing students. Students in the BSN program from home or work could connect with faculty and other students through COLLABORATE in the BB "shell". The BSN degree has recently gone to a completely "online" format and the Program Chair sees this technology as a way to begin forming a learning community for nursing.
- Matt Ensenberger, Director for the Center for Innovative Instruction at Harper College, will be discussing some of the interesting facts about how technology has affected college students and the tools that they use. As we look at this technology landscape and adjust to the new tools, we need to rethink how we as support staff work with faculty to successfully engage students with the content, each other, and the instructor. He will share a few tips and examples as well as leave time for any questions you may have.
Each participant will present for 15 minutes. There will be additional time for questions, and then opportunity for all the participants to share initiatives and ideas from their institutions with regard to how technology has impacted faculty development.
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2011
SPRING 2011
“50
Ways to Leave Your Lectern”
"Teaching Strategies to
Engage Today's Students in Learning"
Keynote speaker: Dr. Constance Staley
Professor of Cummunication,
University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
Workshop
description:
Some people say that today's college students are paradoxical.
They are both hands-on and passive. They are overconfident
and insecure. They are busy yet bored. However, current research
and classroom experience suggest that for many students these
descriptors are all accurate. Increasingly, fewer students
are engaged through traditional teaching methods, and many
faculty have noticed that "doing what they've always done"
is less successful than it once was. According to recent NSSE
results, many new students accept disengagement over engagement
and less academic investment over more. What can those of
us who value higher learning do to help students engage and
grapple with academic challenges? This highly interactive
presentation will explore these complex issues and generate
innovative teaching strategies to counteract them
Constance Staley is Professor of Communication at
the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. She won her university's
Outstanding Teacher Award in 1998 and was recently nominated for a
CASE U.S. Professor of the Year Award. She has published many first-year
seminar textbooks, as well as 50 Ways to Leave Your Lectern (2003).
Dr. Staley frequently delivers keynote addresses, leads dozens of
teaching workshops, and helps institutions across the country develop
and refine their first-year seminar programs.
September 30, 2011: 10:00am - 12:00pm
Faculty Development Centers Discuss their Programming for the New Academic Year.
Location: The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, 325 N. Wells, Rm. 720
November 4, 2011
A Panel of CAFDN Members Discusses this Year's Theme, i.e.:
How Technology is Impacting Teaching and Learning on their
Campus
When: Friday, November 4, 2011
Time: 10:00am-12:00 noon
Location:
Robert Morris University Illinois
Room 623
401 S. State Street, Chicago, IL
For directions, go to: http://www.robertmorris.edu/chicago
To register and for more details, please visit: http://cafdnnov42011.eventbrite.com/
Panelists
"Learning on the Fast Track: How Students Learn and Why
Faculty Need to Learn More!
Matthew J. Ensenberger
Harper College
"Blogging as a Form of Scholarship and Collegiality"
Ted Scholz
The Chicago School of Professional Psychology(TCSPP)
"Technology for Faculty and Students Equals Success"
Michael Sukowski
Chicago State University
"Build it and They Will Come"
Angela Velez
Northeastern Illinois University
April 20 or 27, 2012
National Speaker addresses this Year's Theme: The Impact of Technology on Teaching and Learning
These events are free to institutional members. For a membership form, click in the upper left-hand corner!
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2010
SPRING 2010
“Evaluation
of Faculty Teaching: What the Research Tells Us”
Keynote speaker: Dr. Raoul Arreola,
Professor
Emeritus, University of Tennessee
Workshop
description:
Within this topic, Arreola will address issues such as:
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Student ratings
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Peer observation of classroom teaching
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Peer review of teaching portfolios
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The role of faculty developers
Dr. Arreola is one of the most widely-recognized experts
on issues of faculty evaluation. His book Developing a Comprehensive
Faculty Evaluation System, now in its 3rd edition, is a
highly successful handbook with practical models based on
36 years of research and experience building and operating
large-scale faculty evaluation systems. Arreola has served
as a consultant nationally and internationally to more than
250 colleges and universities. He received the McKeachie
Career Achievement Award and the prestigious Interpretive
Scholarship Award from the American Educational Research
Association.
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2009
SPRING 2009
“Policies
and Current Developments in Online Teaching”
Keynote speaker: Dr. Burkes Oakley II,
Professor Emeritus,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Workshop
description:
For many years now, universities have been involved in online teaching, whether through individual courses or whole programs. Overall, higher education has moved beyond the first excitement of teaching students in an online format. There is still skepticism from many faculty about the quality of a course that does not meet face-to-face, despite considerable research revealing no significant differences. Many online practitioners predict that in just a decade or two “blended learning” becomes the new standard of college teaching. This symposium will look at current trends in the use of the technology and at accompanying policy implications. For faculty and administrators, issues of quality control, incentives, standardization, intellectual property, online colleges within colleges, assessment, teacher-certification, etc. are creating major challenges to the existing culture of higher education. These challenges need to be addressed as urgently as the technology and pedagogy issues created by the new online environments.
Dr. Burks Oakley II is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He also is a Visiting Research Professor in the Office of Technology-Enhanced Learning at the University of Illinois at Springfield. From 1997 until 2007, Oakley served as an Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of Illinois. He was the founding director of the University of Illinois Online initiative, a program designed to facilitate the development and delivery of University of Illinois courses, degrees, and public service resources over the Internet. Through his innovative use of technology in teaching, Professor Oakley has earned a national reputation as a practitioner and promoter of Internet-based asynchronous learning environments.
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2008
SPRING 2008
“Mentoring at
Multiple Levels in the Institution: Building a
Professional Network”
Keynote speaker: Dr. Mary Deane Sorcinelli
Associate
Provost for Faculty Development, University of Massachusetts,
Amherst
Workshop
description:
In the literature of faculty development, mentoring is usually
mentioned as a vital contribution to a successful academic
career, particularly for women and faculty of color. The
most common form of mentoring has been a traditional
model,” which is defined by a one-on-one relationship
between an experienced faculty member who guides and supports
the career development of an early career faculty member.
Recent literature, however, has indicated the emergence of
new, more flexible approaches to mentoring in which new and
experienced faculty work with “multiple mentors,”
“constellations” of mentors, “networks”
of mentors, or a “portfolio” of mentors who address
a variety of career competencies. In this interactive session,
participants will identify what they actually mean by mentoring,
learn how our own experiences as "mentees" shape
how we value mentoring in academia, look at various approaches
to mentoring, and explore what an "ideal" mentoring
network might look like for faculty at various stages of the
academic career
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2007
SPRING 2007
“Part-Time Instructors: Challenges and
Strategies for Success”
with Dr.
Barbara Millis (University of Nevada, Reno)
Dr. Millis framed some key challenges and
strategies in working with part-time instructors at colleges
and universities. Her presentation was followed by a panel
of faculty and administrators from Chicago-area colleges and
universities who addressed topics such as:
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Faculty development for adjuncts on unionized campuses
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Part-timers and online teaching
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Professional development for part-timers
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Part-timers and assessment of student learning
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Mentoring of part-time faculty
The
Panel
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Laura Bork, English instructor, College
of Lake County
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Cathryn Bulicek, Anthropology instructor,
Northeastern Illinois University
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Mary Lynn Carver, Adult Education
instructor, College of Lake County
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Dr. George Drucker, ESL instructor and
President of the Adjunct Faculty Association, Triton
College
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Dr. Jelena Ozegovic, Assessment Chair,
Robert Morris College
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Dr. Priscilla Perkins, Assoc. Dean of
Arts and Sciences, Roosevelt University
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Dr. Robert Rotenberg, Chair of
Anthropology, DePaul University
Resources for Adjunct Faculty
Summary of Panel Discussion
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SPRING 2006
Co-sponsored Event with Columbia College
"Creating the Future of Faculty Development" with
Dr. Mary Deane Sorcinelli (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
"There is no one more qualified to chart the progress of faculty development since its founding than the authors of this book. Their research will provide new and experienced faculty developers alike with great insights for continuing that growth." (Marilla Svinicki, Editor-in-chief of Jossey-Bass' New Directions for Teaching and Learning).
Mary Deane is associate provost for faculty development, director of the Center for Teaching, and associate professor in the Department of Educational Policy, Research, and Administration at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her research and publications concern academic career development, teaching improvement and evaluation, and faculty development policy and practice. She has served as president of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education (POD) and has been active in faculty development for more than 25 years. |
FALL 2004
Northeastern Illinois University
"Approaches to Teaching Non-Native English Speakers across the Curriculum"
Dr. Marguerite Ann Snow (California State University, L.A.)
Professor Snow teaches in the TESOL MA program in the Charter College of Education at California State University, L.A. She is co-author of "Content-based second language instruction" and many other books as well as journal articles. She has been the plenary speaker at numerous national and international conferences, was as a Fulbright fellow in Hong Kong, and has trained EFL teachers in ten different countries.
SPRING 2004
St. Xavier University
"Developing a Comprehensive Faculty Evaluation System"
Dr. Raoul A. Arreola (University of Tennessee)
Dr. Areola is well-known for his book "Developing a Comprehensive Faculty Evaluation System." He has spent the last 32 years working primarily in the areas of instructional and faculty evaluation and development and the use of technology in higher education. He has served as a consultant to over 250 colleges and universities nationally and internationally in designing and developing personnel evaluation and development programs.
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