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the Center for Teaching Excellence

Save the Dates for CTE Faculty Workshops in 2011-2012!

The CSU Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) offers a variety of workshops and discussions intended to help faculty at all levels of experience improve their instructional practices. A list of workshops for the coming academic year appears below; more information will be provided prior to each session. To sign up for a particular workshop please email cte@csuohio.edu or call (216) 687-5502. Please provide your name, the title of the workshop and the date.

In addition to the regularly scheduled topics and dates, special workshops can often be provided to interested groups of faculty upon request. If you would like to explore this option, please contact Dr. Wm. Beasley at 216.687-5583 or Dr. Catherine Monaghan at 216-687-5509.

eLearning workshops (in partnership with the Center for eLearning)

# Date Workshop Name Time Location
1 Tu, 9/20/11 Blended Learning 1 of 4 (Identifying components for online delivery) 12pm-1pm MC 122
2 Tu,10/11/11 Blended Learning 2 of 4 (Creating specific online components) 12pm-1pm RT 502
3 Tu,11/8/11 Blended Learning 3 of 4 (Participant demo with peer critique) 12pm-1pm MC 122
4 Tu,12/6/11 Blended Learning 4 of 4 (Follow-up with discussion) 12pm-1pm MC 122
5 Tu,1/31/12 eLearning Best Practices 1 of 4 (Faculty showcase) 12pm-1pm MC 122
6 Tu,2/14/12 eLearning Best Practices 2 of 4 (Faculty showcase) 12pm-1pm MC 122
7 Tu, 3/20/12 eLearning Best Practices 3 of 4 (Faculty showcase) 12pm-1pm MC 122
8 Tu, 4/17/12 eLearning Best Practices 4 of 4 (Faculty showcase) 12pm-1pm MC 122
9 Th,2/2/12 What Does Good Communication Look Like in an Online Class? 12pm-1pm MC 103
10 Th, 3/1/12 What I Learned Teaching Online That I Use in My Face-to-Face Class 12pm-1pm MC 103
11 Th, 3/29/12 Is Quality eLearning an Oxymoron? 12pm-1pm MC 103
12 Th, 4/19/12 Tips for Moving Your Face-to-Face Class to an Online Format 12pm-1pm MC 103

Faculty Book Discussions

# Date Workshop Name Time Location
1 Th, 9/8/11 Advice for New Faculty by Robert Boice 1 of 3 12pm-1pm MC 103
2 Th, 9/29/11 Advice for New Faculty by Robert Boice 2 of 3 12pm-1pm MC 103
3 Th,10/20/11 Advice for New Faculty by Robert Boice 3 of 3 12pm-1pm MC 103
4 Th, 9/15/11 Academically Adrift by Richard Arum & Josipa Roksa 1 of 2 12pm-1pm MC 103
5 Th,10/27/11 Academically Adrift by Richard Arum & Josipa Roksa 2 of 2 12pm-1pm MC 103
6 Th, 2/23/12 Creating Significant Learning Experiences by L. Dee Fink 1 of 3 12pm-1pm MC 103
7 Th, 3/22/12 Creating Significant Learning Experiences by L. Dee Fink 2 of 3 12pm-1pm MC 103
8 Th, 4/12/12 Creating Significant Learning Experiences by L. Dee Fink 3 of 3 12pm-1pm MC 103
9 Th,2/2/12 What Does Good Communication Look Like in an Online Class? 12pm-1pm MC 103
10 Th, 3/1/12 What I Learned Teaching Online That I Use in My Face-to-Face Class 12pm-1pm MC 103
11 Th, 3/29/12 Is Quality eLearning an Oxymoron? 12pm-1pm MC 103
12 Th, 4/19/12 Tips for Moving Your Face-to-Face Class to an Online Format 12pm-1pm MC 103

21st Century Information Literacy (in partnership with the Michael Schwartz Library)

# Date Workshop Name Time Location
1 Th,11/3/11 21st Century Copyright Issues: Intro to Copyright 12pm-1pm MC 103
2 Th,11/10/11 21st Century Copyright Issues: Copyright & Multimedia 12pm-1pm MC 103
3 Th,11/17/11 21st Century Copyright Issues: Copyright & Your Online Course 12pm-1pm MC 103
4 Tu, 10/4/11 Library Teaching Resources: Research Guides (new resource!) 12pm-1pm MC 122
5 Tu, 1018/11 Library Teaching Resources: Discovery Layer (new resource!) 12pm-1pm RT 502
6 Tu,10/25/11 Library Teaching Resources: Faculty/Librarian Collaboration 12pm-1pm MC 122
7 Tu,11/15/11 Library Teaching Resources: Refworks (bibliography & citation mgmt.) 12pm-1pm TBA
8 Th,12/1/11 Creative Commons Licensing/ Open Access Journals 12pm-1pm MC 103
9 Th,2/9/12 Impact Factors & Other Methods for Documenting Publication 12pm-1pm MC 103
10 Tu,2/28/12 Library Teaching Resources: Mobile Apps 12pm-1pm MC 122

Academic career skills workshops

# Date Workshop Name Time Location
1 Tu, 9/27/11 Preparing to Seek Promotion & Tenure 12pm-1pm MC 122
3 Th,10/13/11 Writing for Publication 12pm-1pm MC 103
2 Tu,11/1/11 Consider a Teaching Portfolio 12pm-1pm MC 122
4 Tu, 2/7/11 Preparing a Dossier for Promotion & Tenure, Scholarship track 12pm-1pm MC 122
5 Tu, 2/7/11 Preparing a Dossier for Promotion & Tenure, Teaching track 12pm-1pm MC 212

The Student Success series

# Date Workshop Name Time Location
1 Tu, 9/13/11 Preparing to teach a college course 4-5PM MC 122
2 Tu, 9/20/11 Understanding yourself as a teacher/understanding your students 4-5PM MC 122
3 Tu, 9/22/11 Communities of Practice: Collaborative, Self-Directed Learning (new) 12pm-1pm MC 103
4 Th, 9/15/11 Defining your aims and outcomes Tu, 9/27/11 4pm-5pm MC 122
5 Tu, 10/4/11 Planning appropriate learning activities 4pm-5pm MC 122
6 Tu,10/11/11 Teaching students w/ disabilities (Student panel) 4pm-5pm MC 122
7 Tu,10/18/11 Constructing a syllabus 4pm-5pm MC 122
8 Tu,10/25/11 Meeting a class for the first time 4pm-5pm MC 122
9 Tu,11/1/11 Questioning strategies 4pm-5pm MC 122
10 Tu,11/8/11 Classroom Discipline and the Student Code of Conduct 4pm-5pm MC 122
11 Tu,11/15/11 Detecting & Preventing Cheating (new) 4pm-5pm MC 122
12 Tu,1/31/12 Simple Classroom Assessment Techniques 4pm-5pm MC 122
13 Tu,2/7/12 Using Classroom Discussion 4pm-5pm MC 122
14 Tu, 2/14/12 Creating an emotionally safe classroom 4pm-5pm MC 122
15 Th, 2/16/12 Kolb's Experiential Model & Learning Styles in Action (new) 12pm-1pm MC 103
16 Tu, 2/21/12 Problem-based learning 4pm-5pm MC 122
17 Tu, 2/28/12 Teaching recent military veterans (Faculty panel) 4pm-5pm MC 122
18 Tu, 3/6/12 Collaborative learning 4pm-5pm MC 122
19 Tu, 3/20/12 Using Communications and information technologies effectively 4pm-5pm MC 122
20 Tu, 3/27/12 Teaching Large Classes 4pm-5pm MC 122
21 Tu, 4/3/12 Teaching students how to learn 4pm-5pm MC 122
22 Tu, 4/10/12 Evaluating and grading 4pm-5pm MC 122
23 Tu, 4/17/12 Creating & using rubrics 4pm-5pm MC 122
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Mailing Address
Cleveland State University
Center for Teaching Excellence
Main Classroom Building Room 212
2121 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44115-2214
Campus Location
Main Classroom Building
Room MC 212
216.687.5583
Web Contact
William Beasley
w.beasley@csuohio.edu
216.687.5583
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