Welcome to the Faculty Development Center!
We look forward to learning with you during our sessions!
The Faculty Development Center provides opportunities for ongoing discussions about pedagogy and instructional design. These are accomplished in one-on-one and group settings through faculty consultations, classroom visits, faculty learning communities, workshops, and conferences. We collaborate with people and programs on Murray State’s campus and beyond to support the advancement of engaging pedagogy and effective instructional design. We support the university’s core mission of teaching excellence by helping cultivate an institutional climate that values, promotes and rewards teaching excellence at Murray State University.
We look forward to working with you!
The Faculty Development Center
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
The Career Services Office is involved with NACE (The National Association of Colleges and Employers). Faculty and staff have been asked for their input on the attitudes and behaviors of integration of career readiness into curriculum. If Murray State University receives enough participation in this survey, we will have access to a free report of the findings.
Last spring, the National Association of Colleges and Employer (NACE), the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) and the Society for Experiential Education (SEE) released the report, Faculty Attitudes and Behaviors: The Integration of Career Readiness Into the Curriculum, highlighting data from our joint survey that demonstrate the many ways faculty support career readiness.
We are expanding on and deepening this work, and this fall 2024 we are conducting a study to better understand how faculty and staff are connecting experiential learning and high-impact learning practices with career preparation for students. NACE, AAC&U, and SEE will utilize findings to inform a deeper understanding of current practices involving experiential learning/high-impact practices linked to career preparation, as well as to create resources and programs to promote innovation for faculty, staff, and institutions of higher education.
Survey Link: https://nace.iad1.
Please be sure to add your name and email at the end of the survey, if you would like to enter drawings for five (5) prizes of $100 Amazon gift cards. We will notify the winners in early January 2025.
Confidentiality of the data: NACE and AAC&U and SEE will keep your responses confidential. Individual responses will be aggregated and summarized.
Are you interested in learning about being a Canvas Certified Educator (CCE)? Do you need additional help to make your course stronger and amp up your instructional techniques?
Good news! Our very own Dr. Melony Shemberger is a Canvas Certified Educator! She now helps facilitate courses in the CCE program and can help you!
Contact: Dr. Melony Shemberger
Department of Journalism and Mass Communications
211 Wilson Hall
270-809-6874
mshemberger@murraystate.edu
WORKSHOPS
INSTRUCTIONAL SKILLS WORKSHOP
Are you interested in refining your teaching in a small setting with feedback from peers?
If so, you will want to join the Instructional Skills Workshop (ISW) program. Over four days, through an experiential learning-centered instructional program, you will engage with asynchronous lessons then come together synchronously on Zoom to teach a 10-minute mini-lesson to peer colleagues.
The program is designed to expand your reflective practice, enhance your teaching, and develop your feedback skills. The underlying principles of the workshop are participatory learning, diversity of learning, adult learning, and the building of learning communities in classrooms. A handbook of resources is provided to augment the workshop. Upon completion, you receive a certificate that is recognized internationally at prestigious institutions and organizations.
Since 1979, the ISW has been supporting post secondary educators in enhancing their teaching in a respectful learning environment. Your facilitators have over 16 years experience as ISW facilitators and trainers (training other facilitators) and are skilled at creating a learning environment that is supportive and engaging.
You can be at any stage in your career to benefit from this program. Admittance into the program will be on a first come basis. If you register and the program is full, you will be notified you are on a waitlist.
Please don't hesitate to forward this email to colleagues at your institution so that they can take advantage of this great program.
When: Monday, December 2 to Thursday, December 5, 2024, 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m., Pacific time.
Where: Via Zoom
Register: ITeach: Instructional Skills Workshop (ISW) - ITeach:
Contact for More Information:
Cynthia Korpan, PhD
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology and Leadership Studies, UVic
Former Director of Teaching Excellence, UVic
Award-winning Educational Developer 2017 (EDC)
Director, ITeach: Certification in Higher Ed Inc. iteachhe.com
Board Director, Society of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE)
Academics Without Borders Volunteer
Associate Editor, Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (CJSoTL)
Committee Member, Graduate Student, Professional Student, and Postdoctoral
Scholar Development Special Interest Group (GPPD SIG) (POD)
ISW Network Workbee Chair
Faculty Member, Institute of New Educational Developers (INED) 2024, Temple University
THE FACULTY DEVELOPMENT ACADEMY
Good news! We have organized the Faculty Development Academy (FDA), a virtual space (via Canvas) for you to access on-demand professional development resources in areas that include, but are not limited to, the following: Strategies for Teaching and Learning, Teaching Well With Technology, Scholarly Activities, Promotion and Tenure, Leadership, Wellbeing and Work-Life Balance.
What else is in this FDA for me?
In this self-paced academy, you have opportunities to do the following:
Access on-demand resources (e.g., session recordings and handouts)
Reflect on your learning (including personal application or plans to apply what you learned), and earn badges and certificates
Access the FDA featured sessions and more by self-enrolling in the FDA via Canvas: https://murraystate.instructure.com/enroll/WTGYHH
How would you evaluate the quality of a student's work? If you were to judge a chocolate chip cookie contest, how would you determine the winning cookie?
Most likely, you would be given a rubric to help you. Just as a rubric is important in deciding the best cookie, a rubric also can be instrumental in assessing a student's work. This micro-learning training will guide you through the main parts of a rubric and how to create a rubric in Canvas.
Session Objectives:
Presenter: Dr. Melony Shemberger, Associate Professor, Mass Communication
When: This is a self-paced multimedia video.
Where: This micro-learning opportunity was created in Adobe Captivate and uploaded in a Canvas course for participants to self-enroll at this link: https://murraystate.instructure.com/enroll/7G3KMT.
ACCESSIBILITY AND USABILITY RESOURCE SITE
Murray State subscribes to Quality Matters (QM), a non-profit organization that is focused on helping faculty with continuous improvement of online and blended courses.
QM created a research-based rubric to help faculty determine the quality of their online and blended course design.
The QM rubric standard number 8 indicates that "The course design reflects a
commitment to accessibility and usability for all learners."
To help you meet this standard, the QM community built the Accessibility & Usability Resource Site that addresses key accessibility and usability concerns such as:
The resource also includes forums that provide you with the opportunity to connect directly with accessibility experts. It also includes videos with step-by-step guidance to help you increase the accessibility of your course.
If you do not yet have a QM account, please follow the steps below.
FDC OPPORTUNITIES, RESOURCES AND SERVICES
Murray State University has subscribed to Quality Matters (QM), a non-profit organization focused on helping faculty with continuous improvement of online and blended courses.
Quality Matters created a research-based rubric to help faculty determine the quality of their online and blended course design.
Subscription Benefits includes (but are not limited to):
Access the QM Automated Rubric Tool
Faculty may conduct self-reviews of their online courses using the QM’s self-review tool. These reviews will be seen by only the faculty who conducts the self-reviews (unless the faculty decides to share the reviews). There is no limit on the number of self-reviews that each faculty may conduct. To access the self-review tool, complete the following steps:
SMALL GROUP INSTRUCTIONAL FEEDBACK (SGIF)
Need feedback to improve your students’ learning experiences and potentially improve your end-of-course ratings?
You might be interested in participating in the FDC's Small Group Instructional Feedback (SGIF).
About SGIF: SGIF provides the opportunity for faculty to work with a facilitator to gather feedback from groups of student in their course (for about 25-30 minutes) about what is helping them learn and what could be improved. It also places extremes student opinions in context which, in turn, increases the validity of students' feedback and improve students' motivation.
Facilitator: Firm Faith Watson, Director, Faculty Development Center
When: Midway in the semester
Register: https://tinyurl.com/SGIF-Registration
View Flier: https://tinyurl.com/SGIF-Flyer
1-on-1 Consultations
Do you need individual help (e.g., to design your face-to-face, online or blended courses)?
Please reach out to Dr. Firm Faith Watson to arrange one-on-one virtual consultations at fwatson2@murraystate.edu.
Does your department have a need that the FDC could help you to meet?
The Faculty Development Center offers customized sessions that cater directly to your department's needs. Contact Dr. Firm Faith Watson at fwatson2@murraystate.edu to make arrangements.