IVCC Development Day

Friday, October 6, 2023

Development Day Outcomes

1. Provide opportunities for IVCC faculty and academic support staff to share and collaborate in useful, meaningful ways
2. Engage with external experts in Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and AI
3. Discuss, deliberate, and apply information and insight related to online learning and instructional technology at IVCC

There will be opportunities to do hands-on activities during this event.  Please bring your laptop!

Recommended Reading

• Reaching All Learners by Leveraging Universal Design for Learning in Online Courses

• Preparing students for the workforce
• Are Faculty Polarized by AI?

Agenda

Early Childhood Education Program Open House

The Early Childhood Education (ECE) area will be open for drop-in to see and celebrate all the changes supported by the Early Childhood grant.  Drop in to the ECE Resource Center (D208) or the ECE Lab (D214) anytime!  Questions about the program?  Contact Tammy Landgraf, tammy_landgraf@ivcc.edu

8:00 Refreshments; Cafeteria

8:15 Welcome, Introductions; D225

• Distance Learning Committee, PD Work Group
• Russ Stoup, Illinois Online Network (see ION resources linked at the end of the agenda)
• Brightspace Updates, LMS Team

8:30 Getting Started Activity: UDL and AI; D225

• Discussion Starter: UDL
• Discussion Starter: ChatGPT

9:00 Universal Design for Learning: From Single Streams to River Deltas, Speaker: Ms. Christine Scherer (Virtual); D225; Speaker Bio

This session will be recorded.  The recording link will be available on demand by emailing Patrice: patrice_hess@ivcc.edu 

10:30 Break

10:45 Breakout 1

Rooms E231 and 232 are in the short section of the E building, 2nd floor, near the elevator, stairs, and the hallway to the Assessment Center.

• UDL Speaker Discussion – MIKE PHILLIPS; D225
  • An opportunity to discuss, immediately following the presentation, what the UDL speaker had to say.
• A Day in the Life: Academic Support Staff's Perspectives on Student Learning Needs – LEARNING RESOURCES/ACADEMIC SUPPORT PERSONNEL; E231
  • Academic support personnel share challenges with supporting students
  • Potential for discussion of how faculty can help them help students
• What is “Regular & Substantive Interaction” in fully online classes? What Brightspace tools support it? – MARY BLACK, DAWN LOCKWOOD; E232
  • What the rules and regulations are; how Brightspace tools can support it.
• Academic Honesty –TOM TUNNELL, EMILY MORGAN, MARY SMITH; D228
  • Challenges in maintaining academic honesty in any mode: online and in-person; discussion of strategies to promote academic honesty, prevent cheating
  • Does IVCC need conduct and academic honesty language specific to AI and electronic cheating?

11:30 Breakout 2

• Talk about Teaching – MIKE PHILLIPS, SUE CALEY OPSAL; Fireplace Lounge, B216
  • The Fireplace Lounge will be open for anyone who would prefer to do a freeform discussion of teaching, learning, and technology during this breakout time.  You may also use this time for reflection, working on your courses, or having dialogue with colleagues.
• D2L Course Design Feedback – LORI CINOTTE, JILL URBAN BOLLIS, DAWN LOCKWOOD; D225
  • What Lori and Jill learned from going through the D2L course design feedback experience, which was offered as part of our LMS transition
• Supporting Online Learners – MARY SMITH, HEATHER CRAWLEY; D229
  • What the LMS and SHD teams recommend for supporting online learners
• PrepSTEP and CINAHL: New Databases to Support Test Preparation and Research Skills at Jacobs Library – JAYNA LIEPART GUTTILLA; E231
  • Learn how you can support your students research and test preparation needs with new library resources

12:15 Lunch, Cafeteria; Union Meeting

1:30 Artificial Intelligence, Dr. Anna Catterson (Virtual); D225; Speaker Bio

This session will be recorded.  The recording link will be available on demand by emailing Patrice: patrice_hess@ivcc.edu 

3:00 Closing

3:15 Dismiss

Illinois Online Network Resources

• Master Online Teacher (MOT) courses from ION professional eLearning can be taken for graduate credit.
• UIS is an approved ISBE provider! Our Master Online Teacher (MOT) courses are approved!
• Secondary schools and community colleges can receive special rates!
• Many skills from our courses can be used in other areas and not just online education.
• Three of our four certificates can be completed in two terms.
• We have Micro Certificates.