Call for Faculty College 2025 (Applications Due Jan. 8, 2025)

 

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Faculty College Attendees from 2024

Each year, educators from across the Universities of Wisconsin gather for Faculty College, an institute and retreat led by the Office of Professional & Instructional Development (OPID). The 45th Annual Faculty College will be held at the Osthoff Resort at Elkhart Lake (close to three of our four locations in Sheboygan County) on May 27 – 30, 2025.

Apply

If you are interested in being one of UW-Green Bay’s representatives, please email a half-page statement of interest to CATL@uwgb.edu. Applications are due to CATL on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025.

Questions?

Please contact CATL if you have any questions about the application process. Programmatic inquiries may be directed to Fay Akindes, Director of Systemwide Professional and Instructional Development, UW System, fakindes@uwsa.edu.

Apply to be in the 2025–26 cohort of the Wisconsin Teaching Fellows and Scholars (WTFS) program! Send your application materials to CATL by Monday, Nov. 4, 2024.

Call for 2025-26 Wisconsin Teaching Fellows and Scholars Program (Applications Due Monday, Nov. 4, 2024)

The UWGB Provost Office and the Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning, on behalf of the UW System’s Office of Professional and Instructional Development (OPID), invite faculty and instructional academic staff to apply for the 2025-2026 cohort of the Wisconsin Teaching Fellows and Scholars (WTFS) Program.

This program is designed to provide time (one year) to systematically reflect with peers in a supportive and open-minded community, and, ultimately, to move from “scholarly teaching” to the “scholarship of teaching.” Administered by OPID and directed by UW faculty, the WTFS Program is grounded in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL).

Universities provide a $4,000 summer stipend (paid before the Fall semester), and cover travel, lodging, meals, and incidentals for their WTFS participants. To learn more about the program and the stipend, read the full call on OPID’s website.

How to Apply

Interested applicants should submit items 1-3 below as separate attachments to one email message. This email should be sent to CATL (CATL@uwgb.edu) with the subject line “WTFS Application.” The reference letter should be submitted directly to the CATL email by your Department Chair or Dean by Monday, Nov. 4, 2024. The full list of required materials is below:

  1. A letter stating your interest and qualifications for the WFTS Program (two-page maximum);
  2. A teaching & learning philosophy as it intersects with equity, diversity, and inclusion (three-page maximum);
  3. An abbreviated curriculum vitae (two-page maximum);
  4. A reference letter from your Department Chair or Dean (can be directly emailed to CATL@uwgb.edu).

As always, let us know if you have any questions via email: CATL@uwgb.edu

CATL Workshop: Create Interactive Video with PlayPosit

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Do you ever feel like students aren’t watching your class videos? Or, even if they are watching, the information is going in one ear and out the other? CATL has a solution for that! Using PlayPosit to make your videos interactive increases engagement and retention. PlayPosit integrates with Canvas and your Kaltura My Media library, allowing you to quickly add predictive exercises, comprehension checks, reflective prompts, and more to class videos.

Join our one-hour virtual workshop at 8:15am on Thursday, October 17 to experience what it’s like to interact with PlayPosit and to build your first interactive video. Attendees are encouraged to have a Kaltura or public YouTube video in mind that they want to add interactive elements to when joining the session. Register below to receive a Zoom link and calendar invite.

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UWGB Canvas Gallery: A Virtual Exhibition of Teaching

About the Exhibition

Have you developed standout strategies in your Canvas course that could inspire or benefit your colleagues? The “UWGB Canvas Gallery: A Virtual Exhibition of Teaching,” hosted by the Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning (CATL), is the perfect platform to share your innovative teaching and design approaches with fellow instructors. To participate in this showcase, we invite you to submit some of the materials you’ve developed in Canvas. They should be materials you already have, making the workload minimal, and they can be from a Canvas site for any course modality: in-person, online, virtual classroom, and more! Accepted work will be displayed in a virtual Canvas course gallery where others on campus can engage and view your work. This virtual gallery-style exhibition is more than just showcasing your work; it is about building a community where educators across UW-Green Bay can learn from one another by sharing the creative strategies that often only students see.

Call for Submissions

We are looking for submissions that highlight a range of teaching and design strategies that use Canvas effectively. You can submit a single Canvas item, such as an assignment, page, quiz, or discussion, or share an entire module that demonstrates effective teaching practices and supports student success. Examples of what you might share include:

  • A welcoming course introduction Canvas module that sets students up for success
  • Creative Canvas discussion boards that foster deep, meaningful dialogue
  • Innovative assessments that challenge traditional formats, such as project-based learning or peer feedback in Canvas
  • Thoughtfully designed group activities that encourage collaboration and active participation and use Canvas Groups to set up effective teamwork and communication
  • Gamified elements that motivate and reward student achievement such as using mastery paths or badging in Canvas
  • Visual and interactive elements that simplify complex concepts and enhance learning shared in Canvas
  • Effective use of module pre-requisites to scaffold learning
  • Well-written instructions for more complicated tasks in Canvas, such as the use of PlayPosit

In your submission, consider how your materials might:

  • Demonstrate inclusive teaching and digital accessibility
  • Foster student engagement and success
  • Support students in achieving course learning outcomes
  • Promote transparency or reduce invisible curriculum
  • Facilitate students’ ability to succeed in an online learning environment
  • Incorporate evidence-based teaching strategies, such as scaffolded assignments or use of the TiLT framework

The application period has concluded.

We look forward to seeing your contributions and showcasing the excellent work of our UW-Green Bay instructors!