Innovations in Learning Monthly Newsletter

December 2018

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Winterim Canvas Training schedule available now

The Innovations in Learning team is pleased to offer Canvas trainings over the Winterim 2019 semester. We will have six dates available for training throughout the month of January. Training dates are as follows:

Tuesday, January 8^th 1:00pm-3:00pm in Wyllie D103
Wednesday, January 9^th 1:00pm-3:00pm in Wyllie D103
Tuesday, January 15^th 1:00pm-3:00pm in Wyllie D103
Wednesday, January 16^th 1:00pm-3:00pm in Wyllie D103
Tuesday, January 22^th 1:00pm-3:00pm in Wyllie D103
Wednesday, January 23^th 1:00pm-3:00pm in Wyllie D103

To reserve your place at a training session, please fill out the sign-up sheet today . If you have already attended a previous Canvas training session but would like to attend an additional training, you are more than welcome to do so. If none of the dates provided above will work for you, please email innovations@uwp.edu and we’d be happy to setup a separate training date with you.

D2L and Canvas Reminders

Please remember that Course Request Forms are only needed if you plan on teaching in D2L. If you are teaching in Canvas, your courses will populate the LMS automatically.

We ask that you refrain from teaching in Canvas unless you have gone through Canvas Training already. There will be a number of training opportunities throughout the Winterim, Spring, and Summer semesters in preparation for the Fall 2019 migration.

Remember: You will have access to your D2L content until June of 2020, but the entire UW System will be using Canvas only as of the Fall 2019 semester.

2019 LTDC Virtual Showcase: Deadline extended for proposals

The UW System’s annual LTDC Virtual Showcase will be held on April 2nd and 3rd, 2019. The theme for this year’s showcase is Building the New: Innovate, Integrate, Motivate.

The 2019 Showcase will have six breakout session tracks:

Teaching and Learning
Digital Learning Environment
Technology and Other Resources
Student Engagement
Library and Digital Media
Open Educational Resources

The sharing of projects, best practices, and innovations from across the UW System is what makes the showcase so successful each year. We encourage you to submit a proposal on one of the session categories listed above! Sessions can be collaborative, multi-institutional, and/or multi-discipline.

Those interested in being considered to present should fill out the proposal form here . The goal is to have at least one presenter from each campus. Let's represent UW-Parkside well!

T hank you for your consideration! We can’t wait to see all of the wonderful session ideas.

The State of Innovation in Higher Education

The Learning House, Inc., and the Online Learning Consortium (OLC) collaborated on this 2018 report about innovation in higher education.

Here are the four key findings from the study:

Higher education does not have a standard definition for innovation.
At its core, higher education views innovation as a means to solve problems.
A balance between administrative leadership and operational initiative is key.
As innovation often relies on interdepartmental collaboration, structural issues and cultural factors are the most common barriers to success.

Check out the full research report and download the PDF here .

Mark Your Calendars: Coffee & Chats are back in January

Innovations in Learning will also be hosting Coffee & Chat sessions during the last week of Winterim.

These are designed to be informal drop-in sessions where you can ask any questions you may have about Canvas (or D2L) as you get your courses ready for the Spring semester.

We’ll have coffee and sweets each day of the week! Coffee & Chat sessions will run from 8:00am-4:00pm in Wyllie D103 from Monday, January 28 ^th to Friday, February 1 ^st .

Please stop by and join us for a cup of coffee if you’re on campus!

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