Instructional Development Services (IDS)

IDS Programs

IDS programs include the presentation of campus-wide workshops, a series of workshop on teaching and learning specifically designed for Early Career Faculty, the on-going Tech Talk discussions of teaching-relevant technology, and the new Write Now program designed to assist faculty and staff in writing for publication.

Workshops

Typically IDS offers between 7-10 workshops per semester. The workshops are attended by faculty, teaching assistants, staff, and administrators, depending upon their areas of interest. We look forward to seeing you at upcoming IDS workshops and seminars. You will learn, enjoy, and network with colleagues from across campus!

Many of our Presentations are initiated by request. If you would like to offer an idea for a workshop and or your talents as presenter or facilitator please contact LeAne Rutherford at (218) 726-6207 or Shelley Smith at (218) 726-7715, or use our online Workshop Topic Proposal Form.

Spring Semester 2008 - Workshop Schedule

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Early Career Faculty Series on Teaching and Learning

This workshop series is designed to help faculty, adjuncts, and TAs who are the "instructors of record" for their courses become more confident and reflective teachers by expanding their knowledge and skills regarding teaching and learning. The facilitators will model a variety of active learning strategies and we will be discussing and reflecting upon educational theory and practice. By combining action and analysis, participants have a chance to explore and develop teaching skills that promote learning within a diverse student body across a variety of settings. Throughout this process, we will discuss the ways in which teaching choices grow out of beliefs and experiences (culturally and individually held) and how those choices influence students' learning.

Early Career Faculty Series Schedule, Spring 2008

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Tech Talk

To find out what is happening in classrooms and offices where technology is changing teaching, learning, and the interface with students, join Tech Talk. Gather with the group over lunch to exchange ideas, gain inspiration, view demonstrations, mull things over aloud, and ask all the questions you have regarding teaching and learning technologies:

• How can "grad planner," "Gradebook" and WebCT Vista assist me and my students in the teaching and learning process?
• What new technological options are available here at UMD?
• What is happening elsewhere, e.g., in the Twin Cities and other campuses?
• What electronic resources are available from our library?
• What does globalization mean in terms of what I do?
• What path in online education is UMD taking?
• Does technology:
  • let you do more in less time?
  • increase the diversity of what is done?
  • help you communicate with others?
  • transform the work process itself?
• What is the latest from Educause?

"This is a great opportunity to see what is happening outside our own little worlds. It offers the chance to make contacts with others who have the expertise or connections that each of us may need."

If you are not already on the group alias and receiving updates, please contact Jason Ellis (218) 726-6355 (jellis2@d.umn.edu) or LeAne Rutherford (218) 726-6207 (lrutherf@d.umn.edu).

Schedule for Tech Talk, Spring 2008

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Write Now

• What ideas and information do you want  to share with the world? 
• What articles do you want to write for promotion and tenure? 
• What research results do you want to distribute to colleagues around the globe? 

The IDS Write Now program provides a collegial multidisciplinary environment that can help you overcome barriers that stand between you and your writing goals. Write Now offer a sounding board for your ideas, and helps provide inspiration, giving you the experience and the confidence you need to publish.  Meeting four times spring semester, it is a group of fellow UMD writers who will collaborate with you from inception to publication.  With the support of this affirming group, your chances of writing and publishing success will improve vastly.  If you would like more information about how this group functions or you would like to be placed on the alias to receive announcements and updates, please contact  lrutherf or ssmith3.

Write Now Schedule, Spring 2008

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