Hop on the virtual tour bus and join us as Dr. Kristin Routt takes us on a tour of her online course. Kristin's course, EIU 4125G - Cultural Diversity in the United States, recently earned the Quality Online Course (QOC) certification from the FDIC and meets the QM Essentials standards from Quality Matters. Kristin will highlight various aspects of her online course. The webinar will include a 30 minute tour of the course followed by a question and answer session.

Intended Audience: EIU faculty and staff

The webinar will conducted through Zoom at the time listed. The Zoom meeting link will be sent to registrants in the confirmation and reminder emails. We recommend saving the meeting link on your calendar for easy access on the day of the webinar.

A recorded version of the presentation will be available after the webinar for those unable to attend.

Faculty often talk about how busy, overwhelmed, and stressed they are. These qualities are seen as badges of honor in a capitalist culture that values productivity above all else. But for many women in higher education, exhaustion and stress go far deeper than end-of-the-semester malaise. 

Burnout, a mental health syndrome caused by chronic workplace stress, is endemic to higher education in a patriarchal, productivity-obsessed culture. In this unique book for women in higher education, Rebecca Pope-Ruark, PhD, draws from her own burnout experience, as well as collected stories of faculty in various roles and career stages, interviews with coaches and educational developers, and extensive secondary research to address and mitigate burnout. Pope-Ruark lays out four pillars of burnout resilience for faculty members: purpose, compassion, connection, and balance. Each chapter contains relatable stories, reflective opportunities and exercises, and advice from women in higher education.

Blending memoir, key research, and reflection opportunities, Pope-Ruark helps faculty not only address burnout personally but also use the tools in this book to eradicate the systemic conditions that cause it in the first place. As burnout becomes more visible, we can destigmatize it by acknowledging that women are not unraveling instead, women in higher education are reckoning with the productivity cult embedded in our institutions, recognizing how it shapes their understanding and approach to faculty work, and learning how they can remedy it for themselves, their peers, and women faculty in the future.

Faculty often talk about how busy, overwhelmed, and stressed they are. These qualities are seen as badges of honor in a capitalist culture that values productivity above all else. But for many women in higher education, exhaustion and stress go far deeper than end-of-the-semester malaise. 

Burnout, a mental health syndrome caused by chronic workplace stress, is endemic to higher education in a patriarchal, productivity-obsessed culture. In this unique book for women in higher education, Rebecca Pope-Ruark, PhD, draws from her own burnout experience, as well as collected stories of faculty in various roles and career stages, interviews with coaches and educational developers, and extensive secondary research to address and mitigate burnout. Pope-Ruark lays out four pillars of burnout resilience for faculty members: purpose, compassion, connection, and balance. Each chapter contains relatable stories, reflective opportunities and exercises, and advice from women in higher education.

Blending memoir, key research, and reflection opportunities, Pope-Ruark helps faculty not only address burnout personally but also use the tools in this book to eradicate the systemic conditions that cause it in the first place. As burnout becomes more visible, we can destigmatize it by acknowledging that women are not unraveling instead, women in higher education are reckoning with the productivity cult embedded in our institutions, recognizing how it shapes their understanding and approach to faculty work, and learning how they can remedy it for themselves, their peers, and women faculty in the future.

The OLC is an online community in which we share information and ideas about online teaching and learning throughout the year in a group chat in Teams and meet virtually on the third Wednesday of the month. Even if you are unable to attend the meetings, we encourage you to join the community to receive the information through Teams and participate in the discussion.

Would you like to see how others are using D2L Brightspace and other instructional technologies to create innovative online learning experiences? Would you like to be one of the first to learn about new instructional technologies and updates to existing technologies? What about sharing campus best practices to improve online teaching and learning? The FDIC invites all EIU faculty and staff interested in online teaching and learning to join the EIU Online Learning Community (OLC). The purpose of the EIU OLC is to:

• Share campus best practices to improve online teaching and learning.
• See how others are using D2L Brightspace and other instructional technologies to create innovative learning experiences.
• Inform the community about existing and new web-based instructional technologies including what's new in D2L Brightspace.
• Leverage expertise, experience, and training resources for D2L Brightspace and other instructional technologies across campus.

Information and ideas will be shared with the community throughout the year in a group chat in Teams.

The OLC will also meet virtually through Teams on the third Wednesday of the month (except for April 2023) from 3:00-4:00 PM. The OLC meetings for Spring 2023 will be January 18, February 15, March 22 (4th Wednesday due to Spring Break) and April 19. An agenda will be provided with the topics that will be discussed at each meeting and of course there will be time for sharing and Q&A. Even if you are unable to attend the OLC meetings, we encourage you to join the community so you will have access to the information shared in Teams. The meetings will be recorded for community members unable to attend.

Community members will be added to the OLC team in the Teams app for access to the group chat and upcoming meetings. For questions about the EIU OLC, contact Julie Lockett, Director of Learning Innovation at jalockett@eiu.edu.

In this session, participants will learn about some small changes related to teaching strategies that can have a big impact on a student’s retention of material and learning. Session material is based on the instructional design perspective of "Small Teaching" by James Lang.

This workshop is offered as a FDIC Flex "hybrid" session both in-person and synchronously on Zoom. A Zoom link will be emailed to all registrants to join in-person or live online.

Hop on the virtual tour bus and join us as Dr. Jeffrey Stowell takes us on a tour of his online course. Jeff's course, PSY 3310 - Biological Psychology, recently earned the Quality Online Course (QOC) certification from the FDIC and meets the QM Essentials standards from Quality Matters. Jeff will briefly highlight cumulative quizzing, organization of content, use of video lectures, and the added benefits of checklists, surveys, navigation bar customization, and rubrics. The webinar will include a 30 minute tour of the course followed by a question and answer session.

Intended Audience: EIU faculty and staff

The webinar will conducted through Zoom at the time listed. The Zoom meeting link will be sent to registrants in the confirmation and reminder emails. We recommend saving the meeting link on your calendar for easy access on the day of the webinar.

A recorded version of the presentation will be available after the webinar for those unable to attend.

In this session, participants will learn about the three-step instructional design model that creates the learning experience with the end goals in mind. It starts by developing measurable course learning objectives, then moves to assessments, and finally course content (instructional materials and learning activities). Backward Course Design was created by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe. 

This workshop is offered as a FDIC Flex "hybrid" session both in-person and synchronously on Zoom. A Zoom link will be emailed to all registrants to join in-person or live online.

In this session, participants will learn about ways virtual reality can be used in courses and be introduced to the virtual reality equipment located in the Booth Library's Center for Student Innovation (CSI).

This workshop is offered as a FDIC Flex "hybrid" session both in-person and synchronously on Zoom. A Zoom link will be emailed to all registrants to join in-person or live online.