Instructional Design & Delivery is offering workshops in October. Registration is available through the Faculty Development Calendar.
October 13, 2023
Workshop: UDL Scaffolding to Support Success for All Students
Location: in-person in Academic Commons 221
Time: 10-11 a.m.
This workshop will discuss approaches for supporting student success through scaffolding strategies that incorporate principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL). Scaffolding in your course applies to wide range of applications, from supporting student navigation on how your course operates, to scaffolding engagement strategies, to scaffolding disciplinary concepts.
Using a UDL approach, intentional scaffolding mitigates many assumptions that are made about students that often hinder their success in the course. In this workshop we will discuss the importance of scaffolding for a UDL approach and workshop ways to build greater scaffolds into your own courses.
October 26, 2023
Workshop: Create Your Course Design Using the Neuroscience of How Students Learn
Location: via Zoom
Time: 3-4 p.m.
Learn how to create a course design that promotes active learning, stimulates neural connections, and promotes memory. How you design the delivery of information to students can train their working memory and get them to practice using the information they’re learning. Studies show abilities improve with practice and the right course design can aid learning through practice and reinforcement. This presentation will be a demonstration of a course design that implements five known factors that have been shown to aid learning: consistency, repetition, multi-modal, narrative, and review.
October 27, 2023
Workshop: Designing PowerPoints with UDL in Mind
Location: in-person in Academic Commons 221
Time: 1-2 p.m.
When using PowerPoints for course instruction, it is easy to reuse established content, whether self-created or publisher provided. Often, we make few updates from the publisher resources or when reusing content from semester to semester. In this workshop we will discuss and develop or update PowerPoints from a Universal Design for Learning (UDL) perspective, to work towards creating resources that support learning for the broadest of possible student needs.
We recommend coming to this workshop with an existing PowerPoint ready to reflect on and improve, or an outline prepared for a new PowerPoint you want to start creating with UDL considerations in mind.