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TLCoP: Nov. 18: Getting the Most Out of Your Teaching Time 

Purdue instructors, teaching assistants, and staff are invited to join the Teaching and Learning Community of Practice (TLCoP) online Monday, Nov. 18, 3-4 p.m. ET. for its final session of Fall 2024.  

The Nov. 18 session will center around how Purdue instructors can make the best use of the time they devote to teaching decision making. The session will feature Purdue instructors who are utilizing different strategies, tools, and approaches to ensure that they are making better use of their time to support learning in their classes.  

We will hear from instructors who are piloting Purdue’s EdDiscussion bot to reduce time spent responding to student questions, while ensuring just-in-time support for students. Other invited instructors will share how they make strategic time decisions to develop accelerated summer or winter term courses and those who leverage artificial intelligence to accelerate course planning. 

Please register for the Zoom session. Additional details on the community of practice, as well as past and future sessions, are available on the TLCoP website. As a community of practice, TLCoP wants to hear from everyone involved with teaching and learning at Purdue. Come to the Nov. 18th session with your ideas and questions.  

TLCoP is an initiative of Innovative Learning, Purdue’s hub approach to connect instructors in Indianapolis and West Lafayette to the resources they need to engage students, develop courses in any instructional modality, and enhance learning across the University. Members include the Center for Instructional Excellence, Libraries and the School of Information Studies and Purdue University Online. To learn more, visit www.purdue.edu/innovativelearning or email InnovativeLearningTeam@purdue.edu. 

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TLCoP Oct. 9: Leveraging Technology for Teaching with Accessibility

Purdue instructors, teaching assistants, and staff are invited to join the Teaching and Learning Community of Practice (TLCoP) online Wednesday, Oct. 9, 1-2 p.m. ET. for its second session of Fall 2024. This session will focus on strategies for leveraging technology to support accessibility and will feature Purdue instructors and staff sharing innovative strategies they use to support all learners in Purdue’s expanding learning environments. There will also be time for questions and sharing from other participants.

Among those invited to share are:

• William Ledbetter, lecturer, Computer and Information Technology, Polytechnic Institute, will highlight his creation of edited video demonstrations of laboratory and lecture sections of his course to supplement student learning.
• Lakshmy Mohandas, software design lecturer/senior design coordinator in EPICS, College of Engineering, will share her teaching with HyFlex modality and using the Ed Discussion artificial intelligence bot.
• Leslie Miller, faculty accessibility consultant in the Center for Instructional Excellence, who will talk about the Universal Design for Learning guidelines, particularly intentional design options that support and value the interaction needs and preferences of all learners.
• David Schwarte and Alex Mason, assistive technology specialists, Purdue University Online Teaching and Learning Technologies, will discuss accessibility resources for instructors.

Please register for the Zoom session. Additional details on the community of practice, as well as past and future sessions, are available on the TLCoP website. As a community of practice, TLCoP wants to hear from everyone involved with teaching and learning at Purdue. Come to the Oct. 9 session with your ideas and questions. 

TLCoP is an initiative of Innovative Learning, Purdue’s hub approach to connect instructors in Indianapolis and West Lafayette to the resources they need to engage students, develop courses in any instructional modality, and enhance learning across the University. Members include the Center for Instructional Excellence, Libraries and the School of Information Studies and Purdue University Online. To learn more, visit www.purdue.edu/innovativelearning or email InnovativeLearningTeam@purdue.edu.

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Sign up for virtual Pedagogy Circles every Monday

The Center for Instructional Excellence (CIE) invites all Purdue instructors to join Pedagogy Circles, a casual one-hour discussion led by Student Pedagogy Advocates (SPAs). This semester, Pedagogy Circles will be held virtually on Mondays 10-11 a.m. on Zoom. 

Student Pedagogy Advocates are undergraduate students interested in enhancing teaching and learning at Purdue. Throughout the semester, each session of Pedagogy Circles will feature topics for conversation, such as how to encourage engaging classroom discussions, explain learning objectives, implement inclusive and accessible pedagogies, use artificial intelligence for course materials, and more. To participate, please email Dan Guberman at dguberma@purdue.edu or complete this Qualtrics survey.

CIE is a member of Innovative Learning, Purdue’s hub approach to connect instructors to the resources they need to engage students, develop courses in any instructional modality, and enhance learning across the University. Other members include Libraries and the School of Information Studies, and Purdue University Online.

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