• You, the Library and the Publishing Cycle: Session 3 A Place for Everything and Everything in its Place: Beginning EndNote 20

    Tired of trying to get your manuscript’s references in the correct citation format? Are you stressing out over keeping track of the references you need for your manuscript?   EndNote 20 can solve these problems! This presentation will help researchers get started with the new and improved EndNote 20 in gathering and organizing references for…

  • Microlearning: Revisiting Exams in Elentra

    Zoom

      Description: The learning management system, Elentra, offers a rich exam creation tool that allows faculty and staff to create questions with the exam feature or even import them. This CETL session will cover how to get started with creating questions and posting them to your online courses.   Learning Objectives: Locate the Exam feature…

  • Partner Webinar – How to Manage Technology to Support the Health and Well-being of Faculty and Students

    Online

    Educators face increasing demands to use digital tools effectively, not only to teach but to support the well-being of their students. This has been especially critical throughout the pandemic with the rapid pivot to teaching online. Naturally, students remain the primary focus. But educators also face challenges in establishing a healthy approach to digital technology…

  • OLC Conference Quick Fire

    Zoom

    This quick-fire showcase will recap the most significant takeaways from the 2021 OLC Innovate conference.  With the theme of Education Reimagined, the Online Learning Consortium (OLC) and Merlot hosted a thought provoking conference in which CETL?s Instructional Design (ID) Team was fortunate to attend. After attending the all-day, week-long conference the ID Team has prepared a…

  • 3 EdTech Tools: Jamboard, ThingLink, Padlet

    Zoom

    Have you been looking for a few new educational tools that can be used in the classroom? Look no further because this session will show you three, fun tools that can be easily included in your lessons.  This session will introduce you to Padlet and Jamboard—two educational tools that can be used for student collaboration and engagement. You will also learn about ThingLink—a software that provides ways to augment images…

  • Planning for a successful IRB or IACUC submission in IRBnet

    Zoom

    The Institutional Review Board (IRB ) and The Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) has an important role in university research. One of the roles of  the IRB is to help to facilitate and process human subject protocol submission for appropriate approval. One of the roles of  IACUC is to help to facilitate and…

  • Intro to Pivot Tables: How to Quickly Organize your Data in Excel

    Zoom

    Pivot tables allow you to quickly organize and summarize information from large data groups. One of the important features of excel pivot tables is that it helps to create reports easily and efficiently. This can save you hours of hard work creating reports manually. Information from pivot tables can be used in various ways to…

  • Skill Share One-Year Celebration: Building a Community

      May 2021 marks Skill Share's 1st birthday.  It's now a WesternU Community you can join.  Want to know more?   Join us on Zoom to meet some of our Associates and see what it's all about!   Agenda: What is WesternU's Skill Share and why would I want to join as an Associate? Fun…

  • Webinar | Exploring the 2021 Teaching and Learning Horizon Report (Educause)

    This webinar will explore the trends, challenges, and key technology developments identified by a panel of global experts in the 2021 Teaching and Learning Horizon Report. Members of the Horizon Report team will highlight contextual trends and challenges and discuss how key technologies can assist higher education teaching and learning professionals in meeting upcoming challenges…