OTL Events
Self-Paced WorkshopsSpring 2019 Events
Highlighted Events
New Faculty/Adjunct Orientation
The purpose of this New Faculty Orientation is to introduce you to the UVU culture, orient you to UVU services and classroom technologies, and prepare those new to teaching.
Welcome Back Faculty Reception
Welcome Back Online Faculty
Technology Conference
Come learn about teaching with technology at this annual event. Learn more about integrating technology into your classroom.
Experienced Adjunct Spring Training
Academy Awards
Come see award winning online and hybrid course design by faculty from across campus. Get ideas for your own course.
Mar 1 | 11am-1pm | CB 511
Faculty Recognition Luncheon
This is a luncheon to celebrate faculty who achieved teaching recognition including the Teaching Excellence Award recipients and AdvanceHE Fellows.
Apr 4 | 12pm-1:30pm | FL Lakeview
SOTL Presentations
The Office of Teaching and Learning will be hosting a meeting for faculty to present on their Scholarship of Teaching and Learning research.
Apr 12 | 12pm-2pm | FL Lakeview
Workshops
Introduction to HEA
HEA Workshop
In this session you will learn about HEA Fellowships. HEA Fellowships provide international recognition for teaching excellence. This session describes the different categories of fellowship and the different routes to attain fellowship.
HEA Writing Circle
HEA Workshop
In these sessions, you will work on writing your application. HEA fellows will be present to answer your questions and give feedback on your application.
Developing Effective Writing Assignments
Writing Enriched | Session 1
This first of three writing pedagogy workshops focuses on ways to develop writing assignments that emphasize your purpose for the writing task and its desired outcomes, write assignment descriptions that clearly communicate your expectations to students, and develop a rubric that guides students toward effective completion of the writing task.
Teaching In-Class Processes and Strategies
Writing Enriched | Session 2
This second writing pedagogy workshop covers ways of effectively teaching writing in the classroom. It covers different strategies you could teach throughout the multiple stages of the writing process, making decisions about what instruction to prioritize, modeling, and effectively utilizing campus tutoring resources.
Responding to and Grading Student Writing
Writing Enriched | Session 3
This final writing pedagogy workshop covers the differences between responding and grading as well as strategies for efficiently completing each task. It will cover ways of responding to students in the middle of their process without overcommenting, the kinds of responses that would lead to more effective revision from students, and how to speed up grading by focusing only on rubric requirements.
Equity Pedagogy
Global-Intercultural
This workshop allows you to explore how to interrelate respectfully with individuals representing cultures and perspectives other than one’s own. Analyze the basic curricular, pedagogical and personal components of multicultural education.
Global & Intercultural Pedagogy
Global-Intercultural
In this workshop, participants will analyze global and intercultural issues. Participants will assess types of materials to include in the course and create activities to increase student understanding of the issues.
Culturally Relevant Pedagogy
Interactive Lecturing
Large Section Teaching
The second session of the Teaching Large Classes Series is designed to explore the ways to promote student engagement in large classes and to identify some concrete cooperative learning activities.
Pedagogies and Strategies
Large Section Teaching
This session of the Teaching Large Classes Series is designed to highlight some pedagogical theories that center around how people learn, and to discuss the practical implications of theory on teaching and learning.
Effective Grading and Feedback
Large Section Teaching
This session of the Teaching Large Classes Series is designed to identify strategies for effective grading and giving feedback, and to highlight methods of assessing collaborative learning.
Academic Honesty
Large Section Teaching
Using Teaching Models to Engage Your Students
Simplified Student-Centered Teaching
This workshop will take a models of instruction approach to present three research-based teaching models. Each model has been selected to focus on high student-engagement, developing critical thinking, and simplicity of planning and preparation. Workshop participants will leave with a step-by-step explanation of each model and practical tips for implementation across a wide variety of disciplines. Woven throughout all the models will be more general tips for increasing student engagement and responsiveness to questions and class discussion. The models included in this workshop are Concept Attainment, Cause and Effect, and Integrative.
Canvas Lab Trainings
Introducing Canvas
OTL Lab Workshop
Become familiar in how to import content, create, organize, and leverage materials to enhance your classroom’s experience using desktop and mobile devices.
Introducing Unicheck
OTL Lab Workshop
Gain insight on establishing assignments, grading & giving feedback with Plagiarism Checking tools at UVU.
Jan 9 | 12pm-1pm | FL 515
Jan 15 | 12pm-1pm | FL 515
Feb 12 | 12pm-1pm | FL 515
Remote Teaching
OTL Lab Workshop
Want to get your students attention? This sparkshop gives you the skill to identify digital presentation tools and creatively enhance teaching and student learning experiences.
Presentation Tools for the Class
OTL Lab Workshop
Bring remote resources to your students pocket with synchronous technology.
Beautifying Canvas Content
OTL Lab Workshop
Online Content is beautiful and sometimes all that we’ve made just needs a brush up instead of a rewrite.
Introducing Digication
OTL Lab Workshop
Digication e-Portfolios help students showcase and reflect on their work. e-Portfolios can also help departments with assessment.
Introducing OneNote Classroom Notebook
OTL Lab Workshop
Microsoft’s OneNote Class Notebook offers a workspace for students and a collaboration space for creative activities.
Introducing 360/VR Class Engagements
OTL Lab Workshop
Hands on opportunity to explore technology and create 360 photographs & VR content for your course. Bring your creativity.
Introducing Canvas Commons
OTL Lab Workshop
Canvas Commons is a new learning object repository that enables educators to share, find, and import resources.
Grading Simplified
OTL Lab Workshop
Simplify your grading and feedback. Gain insights from frequently asked questions.
Feb 26 | 12pm-1pm | FL 515
Apr 16 | 12pm-1pm | FL 515
Apr 23 | 12pm-1pm | FL 515
Introducing Kaltura
OTL Lab Workshop
An Introduction to Kaltura Video and how it enables video quizzes & lecture capture options that are built into your canvas class.
