Event Overview

Join this workshop to discover how to turn your class into a global classroom. Through virtual exchange, faculty can connect their UF classes with students and faculty abroad to collaborate on assignments, acquire global perspectives on course-related material, and develop intercultural competence skills. In the 2021-2022 academic year, over 1,400 UF students took courses that incorporated international virtual exchange activities in a variety of disciplines. This workshop will help you discover different types of virtual exchange projects and will connect you to trainings and resources to get you started.

Location: Virtual Event

Passport Miles: 100

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Event Overview

For the last few decades, medical educators have increasingly felt the pressure of time as they are called upon to add to their list of duties as well as increase the number of patients they see in any variety of clinical setting. The very reason so many of us choose employ in an academic center was for the joy and stimulation of teaching. Now, factors have compelled many to place a lower priority on their teaching, instead needing to focus on those other factors that are directly tied to promotion or salary. While many institutions recognize the need to reprioritize their expectations of their faculty, much work is still needed. Physician burnout remains high, especially among clinical educators. However, faculty can utilize their time more effectively, diagnose their learners while diagnosing their patients and increase their own satisfaction. Bedside teaching allows just that. This session will provide planning and preparation tips for bedside teaching, and review efficient teaching tools that are especially useful for clinician educators to utilize at the bedside.

Location: Virtual Event

Passport Miles: 100

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The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide a strong framework for internationalizing curriculum across disciplines. Join us to gain a basic understanding of the UN SDGs and learn about numerous resources available to help connect your course – introductory or discipline specific – to the SDGs. We will also share about the UF SDG Faculty Guide developed by an interdisciplinary group at UF.

Location: Virtual Event

Passport Miles: 100

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Often online faculty struggle with getting acquainted with their students amongst limited face-to-face interactions, so how would you establish personal connections? This workshop discusses proven ways to creating meaningful interaction with the remote instructor. A few examples: include clever introductions of yourself, humanize your course, provide weekly overviews, personalize content, utilize cooperative learning, enable real-time communication, incentivize learning with rewards, and emphasize a bottom line. Join the conversation at #InclusiveTeaching

Location: Virtual Event

Passport Miles: 100

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Decode a Troublesome Concept or Skill for Your Learners

Event Overview

Are virtual lab simulations as effective in promoting student learning as physical labs? This workshop introduces the benefits and challenges associated with physical and virtual simulations by referencing peer-reviewed research. In doing so, the successful incorporation of a virtual simulation in an upper division STEM course will be shared with the intention of motivating other instructors to also integrate active learning strategies into their classrooms.

Location: Virtual Event

Passport Miles: 100

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We often send what is called mixed messages to others. A mixed message in this sense is when the actual words being spoken are not consistent with the speakers voice inflections and/or body language. This workshop explores how to let your voice and body be congruent with what you say.

Location: 201 Bryant Space Science Center, 1772 Stadium Rd. Gainesville, Gainesville, Florida 32611 – Visit https://teach.ufl.edu/connect/ for detailed directions

Passport Miles: 100

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Event Overview

Learn how to find and use library licensed materials such as e-books, case studies, scholarly research, news articles etc. to replace costly textbooks and save your students a ton of money on course materials. We will also discuss library services that can be incorporated into your Canvas site such as course reserves and research guides.

Location: Virtual Event

Passport Miles: 100

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We talk a lot about teaching techniques, and the goal of great teaching is to help students learn. What do we know about how adults learn? How can understanding learning make you a better teacher? This workshop explores the science behind adult learning and outlines strategies you can use to maximize learning.

Location: Virtual Event

Passport Miles: 100

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Event Overview

During this workshop, faculty will learn how to enhance their courses with international case studies, activities, and perspectives. This workshop will also expose instructors to best practices such as international virtual exchange and useful frameworks (i.e., the UN Sustainable Development Goals) that can be used to infuse international concepts and activities into any discipline. The session will provide an overview of relevant data on the attitudes and beliefs of UF students towards global issues and intercultural communication that instructors can use to fine tune their teaching, and participants will also receive a self-assessment tool to measure the internationalization of their current courses.

Location: 201 Bryant Space Science Center, 1772 Stadium Rd. Gainesville, Gainesville, Florida 32611 – Visit https://teach.ufl.edu/connect/ for detailed directions

Passport Miles: 100

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Event Overview

Inclusive practices are critical to the higher education landscape to improve student learning. Inclusive teaching means designing and teaching courses in ways that foster talent in all students, but especially those who come from groups traditionally underrepresented in higher education. In this two-part workshop, participants will get familiarized important concepts of diversity equity and inclusion, and the role of teaching methods in embracing student diversity in all forms. Also, attendees will discuss practical strategies of inclusive teaching that can be incorporated into everyday student interactions and during course design and assessment. Inclusive Teaching Strategies: Awareness, Reflection, and Action (Part 1) Through this workshop participants will be able to: Identify biases and those of their students and how they impact the classroom;  Identify different types of biases and paradigms of inclusive teaching;  Provide strategies for faculty to reframe biases in their classroom.

Location: Virtual Event

Passport Miles: 100

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Event Overview

Inclusive practices are critical to the higher education landscape to improve student learning. Inclusive teaching means designing and teaching courses in ways that foster talent in all students, but especially those who come from groups traditionally underrepresented in higher education. In this two-part workshop, participants will get familiarized important concepts of diversity equity and inclusion, and the role of teaching methods in embracing student diversity in all forms. Also, attendees will discuss practical strategies of inclusive teaching that can be incorporated into everyday student interactions and during course design and assessment. Inclusive Teaching Strategies: Embracing Student Diversity in All Forms (Part 2) Objectives Day 2 Identify principles of inclusive teaching Design a more inclusive classroom. Develop a plan to periodically evaluate their own biases and biases of students in their classes.

Location: Virtual Event

Passport Miles: 100

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Event Overview

Lecturing continues to be the primary mode of teaching in higher education. In this workshop, we will discuss what research shows are the advantages and limitations of lecturing. Come learn practical suggestions that will help you leverage the power of lectures and take your presentations to the next level.

Location: Virtual Event

Passport Miles: 100

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Event Overview

Building empathy in students can be important within a variety of disciplines, particularly professional roles within allied health and education. Attempts to build student empathy that do not attend to dynamics of cultural differences and oppression can run the risk of promoting false empathy that serve the voyeuristic purpose of the student rather than achieving accurate empathy for others. This presentation will center on the differences between true and false empathy, and how whiteness, racial identity, and classroom dynamics can impact the ability to engage in cultural empathy. A model for cultural empathy training will be presented.

Location: Virtual Event

Passport Miles: 100

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Event Overview

This faculty development session will provide participants with an opportunity to explore best practices for evaluating learners and giving effective feedback in the clinical learning environment. Ample time for discussion will be integrated into the didactic presentation. Participants are encouraged to come with questions and to share their experiences.

Location: Virtual Event

Passport Miles: 100

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Programming is easy. Everyone can learn this! This session will cover some of the lessons I’ve learned while creating and running a first time programmers course. We’ll also do some programming (of course!), so bring a laptop if you want to code along.

Location: 201 Bryant Space Science Center, 1772 Stadium Rd., Gainesville, Florida 32611 – Visit https://teach.ufl.edu/connect/ for detailed directions

Passport Miles: 100

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PlayPosit Lunch and Learn

Presented by Brady Venables

Tuesday, March 7, 2023 | 12:00 – 12:30 PM ET

Join this session to learn about how you can increase accountability, reduce grading, and add engagement with video based learning in Canvas. Register for PlayPosit Lunch and Learn here. 

Please Note: you must have a Passport Portal account to register for this workshop. Create an account.

Event Overview

Student evaluation data is a rich source of feedback from our students. This workshop will focus on aggregate level findings of the most common themes our students are talking about in our GatorEvals. We will discuss the findings and how we can identify areas of improvement and creating a plan to implement and re-evaluate adjustments to our courses.

Location: Virtual Event

Passport Miles: 100

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Event Overview

UF’s Special Collections contain thousands of books, archives, and artifacts from all over the world and all across time. They can add unique perspective to courses large and small, and in disciplines beyond the humanities. In this workshop, we will talk about how you can design visits and experiential learning activities into your semester courses. You’ll learn how to: 1. Work with a curator to select materials that fit your course theme and goals. 2. Design learning goals that are appropriate for the students experience level. 3. Build skills and curiosity with larger collaborative projects This session is particularly recommended for graduate students looking to build their teaching portfolios, and faculty planning QUEST courses. Curators will also be on hand to answer questions about holdings in attendees areas of interest, and to start brainstorming ideas with participants. Note: This session will take place in Smathers Library Room 100.

Location: 1545 W University Ave,, Smathers Library Room 100, Gainesville, FL 32603

Passport Miles: 100

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Event Overview

In a Course Based Undergraduate Research Course (CURE) class students conduct faculty research that can result in helping move their research forward. CURES provide more research experiences than would be possible in a one-on-one setting and also offer the experience to students who cannot otherwise use their extracurricular time to volunteer (due to the need to work). CURES can also meet Quest 3 designation.

Location: 201 Bryant Space Science Center, 1772 Stadium Rd. Gainesville, Gainesville, Florida 32611 – Visit https://teach.ufl.edu/connect/ for detailed directions

Passport Miles: 100

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Communicating to Learn: Incorporating Scientific Communication into STEM Courses

Event Overview

Human communication can be achieved through vocal (language) and non-vocal modalities (e.g., facial expressions, gestures, body posture, etc.). Although, there are universal principles that guide all human communication, notable cultural differences still exist and may lead to communication breakdown between people of different cultural background, even if they communicate using the same language. Some of the notable cultural differences that may affect human communication rules are degree of cultural individualism (vs collectivism), high (vs low) context and masculine (vs feminine) societal values (Geert Hofstede). In this talk, you will learn more about these three cultural dimensions (individualism, high/low context and masculinity), and explain how/why they may influence human communication styles. You will also discuss potential negative consequences that stem from inappropriate application of cultural communication rules by non-native speakers. This talk should be particularly useful for instructors and mentors who collaborate/teach culturally diverse groups of students.

Location: Virtual Event

Passport Miles: 100

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Event Overview

Universal design for learning (UDL) is a transformative instructional approach that, in its adoption, exposes fundamental biases in traditional curricula. However, implementation of UDL principles, in its intentional consideration of diverse learner characteristics remediates such fundamental biases. We will present principles of UDL, share simple strategies for its implementation in classroom, advising, and mentorship contexts, and discuss practicalities of shifting our instructional framework from traditional instructional practices to adoption of a student-asset framework through UDL practices that intentionally consider diverse learner characteristics.

Location: Virtual Event

Passport Miles: 100

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Mentoring and Advising Relationships: What Skills am I Developing?

PlayPosit Lunch and Learn

Presented by Brady Venables

Wednesday, March 22, 2023 | 12:00 – 12:30 PM ET

Join this session to learn about how you can increase accountability, reduce grading, and add engagement with video based learning in Canvas. Register for PlayPosit Lunch and Learn here. 

Please Note: you must have a Passport Portal account to register for this workshop. Create an account.

Imagine you are giving the best presentation of your career. Your verbal delivery is captivating and masterfully choreographed with slide visuals and props that are attention grabbing, easy to understand, and even moving. This is what it means to use presentation visuals in a way that is worthy of the TED stage. In this course, participants will learn about the common mistakes presenters make with their presentation visuals, gain insights into the way the human brain best processes information while experiencing a presentation, leverage visual techniques for making your content resonate and stick, use next-level techniques to plan a visual presentation, analyze examples from some of the worlds best presenters, and apply key design principles. This course is helpful for both novice and even highly seasoned presenters. Participants are encouraged to bring a laptop to this session to engage in hands-on design work activities in small groups.

Location: Virtual Event

Passport Miles: 100

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How CIRTL Has Impacted my Career: Teaching Careers

Event Overview

Join this workshop to discover how to turn your class into a global classroom. Through virtual exchange, faculty can connect their UF classes with students and faculty abroad to collaborate on assignments, acquire global perspectives on course-related material, and develop intercultural competence skills. In the 2021-2022 academic year, over 1,400 UF students took courses that incorporated international virtual exchange activities in a variety of disciplines. This workshop will help you discover different types of virtual exchange projects and will connect you to trainings and resources to get you started.

Location: 201 Bryant Space Science Center, 1772 Stadium Rd., Gainesville, Florida 32611 – Visit https://teach.ufl.edu/connect/ for detailed directions

Passport Miles: 100

Register here.

Building my Networks and Engagement in Communities: What Connections am I Growing and Why?

Event Overview

During this workshop, faculty will learn how to enhance their courses with international case studies, activities, and perspectives. This workshop will also expose instructors to best practices such as international virtual exchange and useful frameworks (i.e., the UN Sustainable Development Goals) that can be used to infuse international concepts and activities into any discipline. The session will provide an overview of relevant data on the attitudes and beliefs of UF students towards global issues and intercultural communication that instructors can use to fine tune their teaching, and participants will also receive a self-assessment tool to measure the internationalization of their current courses.

Location: Virtual Event

Passport Miles: 100

Register here. 

PlayPosit Foundations Training 

Presented by Brady Venables

Thursday, March, 30, 2023 | 1:00 – 2:00 PM ET (Virtual Event)

This training will highlight the fundamentals of PlayPosit with an emphasis on interactions that are automatically graded by the platform.  It will be customized for your learning management system and include use cases relevant to all content areas in Higher Ed. Register for PlayPosit Foundations Training. 

Please Note: you must have a Passport Portal account to register for this workshop. Create an account.

How CIRTL Has Impacted my Career: Non-Faculty Careers in Academia

Graduate Skills and Competencies: How am I the Author and Narrator of my Story?

How CIRTL Has Impacted my Career: Careers Outside of Academia

Event Overview

Are you looking to enhance your Zoom meetings, or find new tools to connect and collaborate in online environments? This session will dive into tips, tricks, and tools for providing a more engaging online experience using Zoom polls, virtual whiteboards, and collaboration tools. Presented by technologists at the UFIT Center for Instructional Technology & Training.

Location: Virtual Event

Passport Miles: 100

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Autograded Interactive Video Lessons with PlayPosit (Beginner experience suggested)

Presented by Brady Venables

Monday, April 10, 2023 | 3:00 – 4:00 PM ET (Virtual Event)

Join the PlayPosit instructional design team to learn how to configure interaction sets to meet all of your autograding needs! Want to provide some points to learners for completing interactions even if they don’t choose the correct answer? Want to require a free response without the burden of manual grading!? We’ve got you covered. For best results, instructors should attend with a basic understanding of the PlayPosit platform. Register for Autograded Interactive Video Lessons with PlayPosit

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Putting it All Together: How do I Articulate and Implement a Career Development Plan?

Event Overview

Join this workshop to discover how to turn your class into a global classroom. Through virtual exchange, faculty can connect their UF classes with students and faculty abroad to collaborate on assignments, acquire global perspectives on course-related material, and develop intercultural competence skills. In the 2021-2022 academic year, over 1,400 UF students took courses that incorporated international virtual exchange activities in a variety of disciplines. This workshop will help you discover different types of virtual exchange projects and will connect you to trainings and resources to get you started.

Location: Virtual Event

Passport Miles: 100

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How CIRTL Has Impacted my Career: Careers at Minority-Serving Institutions

CIRTL Network Teaching-as-Research Presentations

PlayPosit Foundations Training 

Presented by Brady Venables

Tuesday, May 23, 2023 | 11:00 – 12:00 PM ET (Virtual Event)

This training will highlight the fundamentals of PlayPosit with an emphasis on interactions that are automatically graded by the platform.  It will be customized for your learning management system and include use cases relevant to all content areas in Higher Ed. Register for PlayPosit Foundations Training. 

Please Note: you must have a Passport Portal account to register for this workshop. Create an account.

PlayPosit Foundations Training 

Presented by Brady Venables

Wednesday, May 24, 2023 | 2:00 – 3:00 PM ET (Virtual Event)

This training will highlight the fundamentals of PlayPosit with an emphasis on interactions that are automatically graded by the platform.  It will be customized for your learning management system and include use cases relevant to all content areas in Higher Ed. Register for PlayPosit Foundations Training. 

Please Note: you must have a Passport Portal account to register for this workshop. Create an account.

Presented by Brady Venables

Friday, August 18, 2023 | 1:00 – 2:00 PM ET (Virtual Event)

Let us walk you through features of Playlists that create a defragmented learner experience for one-click access to curated content, including PlayPosit bulbs, PDFs, images, docs, sheets, forms, embedded websites, and more. Learners earn a certificate after verified completion. Each Playlist can be customized to require certain behaviors like “mastery based consumption” or locked/unlocked progression. Register for PlayPosit Playlists: Using interactive video to create learning modules in Canvas.