• CETL Mania: MS Teams

    Part of Office 365, Microsoft Teams provides a great collaboration tool for faculty, staff, and students. Come learn how to make remote teaching and learning easier.

  • Course Organization in Top Hat to Support Active Learning

    Top Hat is an active learning app, which helps professors engage and motivate students in online, blended and face-to-face courses. In this micro-learning session, Dr. Spors will give an overview of Top Hat essential functions. He will demonstrate and discuss how he organized his courses in Top Hat and how he uses the application in…

  • CETL Mania: Creating and Posting Exams in Elentra

    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 within Elentra…

  • Instructional Design Chat: Brown Bag at the Lunch Tables

    Zoom

    Did you know that the Instructional Design Team at WesternU TRIPLED since March 2020?! Have you met your college's designated Instructional Designer?   We're having a low-key chat about instructional design topics, and answering any questions you might have of our team. So bring your lunch and come hang out at our virtual lunch tables!…

  • Grant Writing Workshop Series – Session 5

      Successful grant writing blends the artistic and scientific talent of an investigator or a team to produce a proposal.  Through this 6-part series, individuals will hear from funded researchers who will provide tips and tools used to create a proposal. Faculty researchers will share their experiences in submitting grant proposals and give tips for…

  • VisualDx: An alternate path to differential diagnosis creation

    Zoom

    This workshop will introduce faculty to VisualDx. This resource is another tool that can be used to locate disease states, find differential diagnoses and pitfalls, what tests are best to run, and view high resolution imagery. What makes VisualDx unique is its availability on a desktop and a mobile device.   By the end of…

  • Gagné’s 9 Events of Instruction- Online Edition

    Zoom

    In this session we will review learning theorist Robert Gangé’s “Nine Events of Instruction,” which is a well-known framework for instruction. These nine events are known to work well for lesson planning and for designing learning events. After reviewing Gagné’s framework, we will go a step further and discuss ways we can use his nine events to create effective online learning for students. We will end the session by sharing tips and tricks to making online learning fun and…

  • Concur for Your WesternU Expenses

    Enhance your experience with Concur through knowledge and efficiency. This training will provide a general overview that can help familiarize users with the many functions and features available in this university-wide expense reporting solution. Concur allows all University employees to submit reimbursements in one online location, book travel with no out of pocket expense, and…

  • Grant Writing Workshop Series – Session 6

      Successful grant writing blends the artistic and scientific talent of an investigator or a team to produce a proposal.  Through this 6-part series, individuals will hear from funded researchers who will provide tips and tools used to create a proposal. Faculty researchers will share their experiences in submitting grant proposals and give tips for…