OFE Newsletter: February 7, 2022

In this Issue:

• Back to Basics: Designing Flexible Course Experiences
• Free Registration for ITLC Lilly Online Conference
• Teaching and Learning Symposium: Seeking Poster Judges
• Teaching and Learning Symposium: Register to Attend
• Upcoming Events for Faculty

Back to Basics: Designing Flexible Course Experiences

OFE’s Spring Back to Basics series begins tomorrow with Designing Flexible Course Experiences (Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2:00-3:00 p.m. via Zoom). In this workshop, we will focus on ways to design course experiences that are flexible enough to appeal to in-person, online, and hybrid learners while maintaining a high level of course quality.

The Back to Basics series is led by OFE’s Dr. Maria Gallardo-Williams (Senior Faculty Development Specialist) and Dr. Diane Chapman (Executive Director and Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Development).

Free Registration for ITLC Lilly Online Conference

DELTA and the Office for Faculty Excellence are pleased to offer NC State faculty, staff and graduate students free registration for the ITLC Lilly Online Conference, occurring April 6, 13, 20, and 27, 2022 with asynchronous sessions available through June 2022. The Lilly conference is focused on enhancing online, onsite and hybrid teaching and learning. Attendees will enjoy 4 full days of conference programming, conveniently scheduled across four Wednesdays to reduce disruption to your teaching schedule. The conference is geared toward faculty and administrators at various stages in their academic careers, representing nearly every discipline found in higher education.

Attendees will enjoy a variety of 20-minute and 40-minute asynchronous sessions, traditional plenary addresses, synchronous facilitated discussions, and poster presentations addressing contemporary issues and include proven, innovative pedagogies. The NC State site license provides up to 150 free conference registrations for faculty, staff and graduate students using their NC State email addresses. The Office for Faculty Excellence is managing registration for the conference and will gather registration requests and send them to Lilly Online in batches. If you want to attend the conference, complete the registration form. You will receive a confirmation of your registration from the Office for Faculty Excellence and later from ITLC Lilly Online Conference when we send them the batch registrations.

Teaching and Learning Symposium: Seeking Poster Judges

Are you interested in judging posters for the 2022 Teaching and Learning Symposium? OFE is seeking NC State faculty to participate in the process. The work will involve judging approximately 30 posters using a rubric. You would have two weeks to complete the judging, beginning this Wednesday. If interested, please contact Jonathan Holloway (jphollow@ncsu.edu) by close of business tomorrow, Tuesday Feb. 7.

Teaching and Learning Symposium: Register to Attend

The Office for Faculty Excellence is pleased to host their 2022 Teaching and Learning Symposium on Friday, February 25, 2022 from 10:00 a.m. to 2:45 p.m., virtually via Zoom. This year’s theme will be Creating Our New Normal. The Symposium will include a keynote lecture, concurrent sessions, and a poster session.

Our keynote speaker will be Dr. Susan D Blum. Dr. Blum is a professor of anthropology at the University of Notre Dame, currently fixated on education and pedagogical praxis, after a previous incarnation as a China anthropologist. She is the author of “I Love Learning; I Hate School”: An Anthropology of College (Cornell, 2016) and My Word! Plagiarism and College Culture (Cornell, 2009), and the editor of the recent volume Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead) (West Virginia University Press, 2020). With 5 co-authors, she has written “A Theory of Public Higher Education,” published in Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal in July 2021.

We invite faculty, postdoctoral scholars, and staff from all member institutions of the Cooperating Raleigh Colleges (NC State, Meredith College, Saint Augustine’s University, Shaw University, Wake Tech Community College, William Peace University) to attend. Registration is required by filling out the registration form.

Upcoming Events for Faculty

Tuesday, Feb. 8

• Back to Basics: Designing Flexible Course Experiences, 2:00-3:00 p.m.

Monday, Feb. 14

• Mindful Mondays, 9:00-9:30 a.m.