Events

Faculty Orientation

Part-time faculty orientations typically take place on the first Friday of the month. ContactMike Artus and Jacquie Coefor details.

Teaching Academy

Teaching Academy events are usually scheduled on the third Friday of the month at 11 a.m. during the academic year.

To watch videos of previous Teaching Academy presentations, see theTLC Event Archive.

For a searchable table of previous presentations by speaker, see theSpeakers Board.

RSVP for a Teaching Academy

Andria Woodell speaks at a Teaching Academy presentation

2021-22 Academic Year

Date	Event
October 22, 2021	Canvas Training: Assessing Students in Canvas - Easier than Ever co-sponsored by eLearning and the Teaching and Learning Center Zoom:https://instructure.zoom.us/j/97025946678 For this event, TLC is partnering with eLearning and Canvas Trainers to bring you a special, interactive event that will teach you everything you need to know about building Assignments in Canvas. If you’re looking at the list of assignments you currently give in Blackboard and are wondering how they may look and behave, this is the session for you! We’ll show you how to manage your Assignments list, create Assignments from scratch, and how to monitor student progress as they work through the assessment features in your course. For anyone teaching in Winter term, this will be a valuable session is gearing up for the transition – don’t miss out!
November 19, 2021	The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning experience Presented by Wendi Wampler and Dennis Gilbert of Lane CC Zoom:https://cocc.zoom.us/j/95204249856 Come see what the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) is all about!The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Initiative in Oregon was formed by Dennis Gilbert at LCC to help create learning communities consisting of faculty members who work together to define inquiry questions, explore reform options, and make plans for further inquiry and reform, based on the research that already exists.Building communities of practice centered around engagement in scholarly inquiry creates a sense of community through bonding over similar ‘problems’ and optimism created by learning there are solutions out there. It also helps connect you to others implementing and testing similar reforms across the state, so you have support, advice, and feedback from those have already gone through the process. Typically, SoTL is presented in two 6 – week seminars that last an hour a week. For thisteaching academy, we will go through introductory activities and discussion presented in the first week of the seminar. We have attached a short article that will help you better understand the motivation behind this project. We hope this experience will pique your curiosity so you will join us for our SoTL seminars starting at COCC next winter term!

Date

Event

October 22, 2021

Canvas Training: Assessing Students in Canvas - Easier than Ever

co-sponsored by eLearning and the Teaching and Learning Center

Zoom:https://instructure.zoom.us/j/97025946678

For this event, TLC is partnering with eLearning and Canvas Trainers to bring you a special, interactive event that will teach you everything you need to know about building Assignments in Canvas. If you’re looking at the list of assignments you currently give in Blackboard and are wondering how they may look and behave, this is the session for you! We’ll show you how to manage your Assignments list, create Assignments from scratch, and how to monitor student progress as they work through the assessment features in your course. For anyone teaching in Winter term, this will be a valuable session is gearing up for the transition – don’t miss out!

November 19, 2021

The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning experience

Presented by Wendi Wampler and Dennis Gilbert of Lane CC

Zoom:https://cocc.zoom.us/j/95204249856

Come see what the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) is all about!The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Initiative in Oregon was formed by Dennis Gilbert at LCC to help create learning communities consisting of faculty members who work together to define inquiry questions, explore reform options, and make plans for further inquiry and reform, based on the research that already exists.Building communities of practice centered around engagement in scholarly inquiry creates a sense of community through bonding over similar ‘problems’ and optimism created by learning there are solutions out there. It also helps connect you to others implementing and testing similar reforms across the state, so you have support, advice, and feedback from those have already gone through the process.

Typically, SoTL is presented in two 6 – week seminars that last an hour a week. For thisteaching academy, we will go through introductory activities and discussion presented in the first week of the seminar. We have attached a short article that will help you better understand the motivation behind this project. We hope this experience will pique your curiosity so you will join us for our SoTL seminars starting at COCC next winter term!