5-Day Certificate Course: Keeping Students Engaged During a Pandemic
January 11-15, 2021
Enrollment is open!
The Ninja Pandemic Challenge is an opportunity for you to choose your own path. Earn a Certificate of Completion via a five-day, asynchronous course with live webinar opportunities each day.*
How the Challenge Works
Monday, January 11, the challenges will open. Review the five Ninja Challenge strategies and determine your path. Upon successfully completing the corresponding missions for each strategy, you will earn a certificate of completion. All missions (assessments) must be submitted by Sunday, January 24, 2021 at 11:59 p.m. to be considered for certification. Compete with your colleagues for a Ninja ranking on the leader board!
*All live webinars are scheduled for 1 p.m., Monday-Friday. If you have already viewed or attended one of the scheduled webinars prior to this course, simply complete the assessment.
Live Webinar Series: January 11-15, Monday-Friday, 1 p.m.
If you cannot attend, a recording will be available to view in the Canvas course.
Monday, January 11, 1-2:30 p.m.
Jumpstart your Canvas Course or Redesign with a Canvas Course Template
Explore online and strategic learning’s new 16-week course template. Integration of this template into a Canvas course can dramatically streamline the development process, allowing instructors to focus on clarity, transparency, engagement and cultivating community with their students.
During this session, you will:
- Create a consistent, weekly course structure
- Connect template design principals to opportunities to ensure learner success
- Discover built-in engagement strategies to foster community and establish instructor presence
- Recognize opportunities to individualize the template to your personal teaching style
- Locate and download the template from Canvas Commons
Tuesday, January 12, 1-2 p.m.
Create and Employ a Communication Plan
Join online and strategic learning as we share key strategies to help you work through creating a plan to help foster student success. You will have an opportunity to share and gain ideas from others to implement a tangible communication plan.
During this session, you will:
- Identify the integral points of communicating with students online, such as frequency of communication, tone, and communication tools in Canvas
- Discuss how a plan for communication can foster student success
- Contribute to a community of learners focused on communication strategy planning
- Discover how other instructors are implementing communication plans in their courses
- Identify diversity in classroom communication
Wednesday, January 13, 1-2 p.m.
Cultivating a Community of Inquiry: Social, Cognitive, and Teaching Presence
Cultivating a Community of Inquiry in your classroom, no matter the modality, can help foster independent and creative thinkers, resourcefulness, and a sense of mutual ownership between learners and instructors. In today’s climate, tools like Zoom and Canvas are instrumental in ensuring content is relayed. But how do you level up? How do you build community? How do you help students construct meaning through individual and social negotiation?
Join us for a dynamic conversation combining theory with practice.
During this 1-hour webinar we will present ways you can:
- Adopt a Community of Inquiry mindset
- Shift students from passive to active learners by leveraging exploration and curiosity
- Enhance faculty-to-student and student-to-student communication and collaboration
- Provide more agency and autonomy to students to enhance intrinsic motivation
- Focus on relationship-building, no matter the modality
Thursday, January 14, 1-2 p.m.
Zoom Pedagogy – Creating Engaging Virtual Learning Experiences
Participants will explore strategies and techniques you can employ to engage your students with course content through Ball State’s newest video conferencing platform.
During this session, you will:
- Discover/review engagement tools specific to the Zoom platform
- Consider various strategies that support the active learning experience in a video conferencing environment
- Identify an engagement strategy and prepare for immediate or future implementation
- Share a document running through the strategy steps so others can give it a try
Friday, January 15, 1-2:30 p.m.
Offer Your Students Meaningful Feedback with Canvas Tools
Instructor to student feedback is one of the most powerful instructional strategies for promoting academic achievement, retention, and student success. In this webinar, you will learn how to use Canvas tools to promote timely, balanced, actionable, and consistent feedback.
During this session, you will:
- Use the SpeedGrader to leave written and video feedback
- Implement annotations onto submitted assignments to help students see exactly where they are not meeting criteria
- Provide feedback on self-assessment quizzes
- Explain to students how to view the feedback you have provided
- Questions about these or future faculty development offerings?
Contact
strategiclrn@bsu.edu
For a full list of offerings this Spring,
visit the Faculty Development Offerings website.