Western Michigan University Office of Faculty Development

The Office of Faculty Development is providing a new virtual workshop, "Active Learning Strategies: Virtual Possibilities," June 17, 11:00 a.m. -12:30 p.m. This 90 minute workshop is designed to support current faculty, graduate students, and part-time instructors with insights into how to engage students through active learning strategies in the university supported platforms of E-learning, WebEx Meetings, and WebEx Training. The workshop will include a breakout session through WebEx Training and demonstrations of how to use select E-learning and WebEx functionalities to support more interactive, collaborative learning. Please follow this link to register: https://wapps.wmich.edu/workshops/registration.jsf

New Open Textbook workshops are being offered by the University Libraries. Click here for more information:

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2019-20 Academic Leadership Academy kickoff! Another great cohort!

OFD Lost and Found

Hi! These items were found by OFD staff after a workshop at the UCC building. If unclaimed, these will be donated to a local organization at the end of Summer II.

The strength of any organization can be measured by the capacity of its members to be leaders at many levels. WMU is pleased to offer faculty and university professional staff the opportunity to develop their leadership skills through the Academic Leadership Academy (ALA). Applications are now open for ALA 2019-2020. For more information and to complete your application please visit our website: https://wmich.edu/facultydevelopment/programs/leadership

Graduate College Honors Convocation honored our STEM Instructional Program students and Graduate Student Teaching Institute alumni! Congrats to all! Sincere thanks to our mentors!

2018-19 Academic Leadership Academy cohort with co-facilitators Jan Gabel-Goes and Chris Sligh. Congratulations! See their posters at Fall Convocation September 20, 2019.

End-of-the-year celebration for the Part-Time Faculty Seminar with participants, Vice Provost Chris Cheatham, and OFD Faculty Fellow Elise DeCamp. Congratulations, part-time faculty, on your outstanding participation in the 2018-2019 Part-Time Faculty Seminar!

End-of-the-year celebration for the New Faculty Seminar with participants, Vice Provost Chris Cheatham, and OFD Associate Director Julie Apker. Congratulations, new faculty, on your outstanding participation in the 2018-2019 New Faculty Seminar!

The Office of Faculty Development will host an information table at the University Libraries’ Teaching and Learning Technology Day on Friday, March 22 from 10 am to 3 pm. The event will be held in the Lower Level, Waldo Library. Our table will showcase our teaching and learning activities and services. The goal of the Teaching and Learning Technology Day is to introduce more campus faculty, instructors, and teaching assistants to new teaching and learning tools in Waldo Library that can be used in their classes. These tools include Virtual Reality Lab, Makerspace, Learning Glass Studio, Graduate Student Commons. To learn more please visit the University Libraries blog at: https://wmulibraries.blogspot.com/2019/03/teaching-and-learning-technology-day.html
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Teaching and Learning Technology Day Library News and Events at Waldo Library, Music and Dance Library, Education Library, and WMU Archives and Regional History Collections.

Join The Office of Faculty Development this Wednesday at the Cool Tools Workshop: Interconnectivity of Web Apps: One Note

This workshop provides exposure to the OneNote app, a digital notebook that allows you to gather your notes in whatever form they take (audio, video, text, drawings, etc.) and to share them with others. OIT staff will provide hands-on training.

Target Audience: All employees who want to get more use out of their Microsoft Office and Microsoft Applications to increase productivity and efficiency. Faculty and TA's might find OneNote particularly useful as a means to network notes with students.

Date: 03/13/2019 from 9 to 11 a.m.

To register please visit our website: https://wmich.edu/facultydevelopment/programs/cooltools

Join the Office of Faculty Development at our March Cool Tools Workshops!

- Introduction to Course Redesign (March 5)
- Writing Effective Exam Questions (March 5)
-Interconnectivity of Web Apps: One Note (March 13)
-Interconnectivity of Web Apps: Forms and More (March 27)

To register and for more information please visit the Cool Tools for Teaching page at: https://wmich.edu/facultydevelopment/programs/cooltools