Instructional Design & Delivery is offering the following workshops this week. Registration is available through the Faculty Development Calendar.
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.