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You can now view upcoming programs from the NIU Faculty Development and Instructional Design Center in a calendar view at http://www.facdev.niu.edu/facdev/programs/calendar.shtml. The schedule for this summer is already available.
You can also add the calendar to your Google calendar or iCal. You can even subscribe to updates by clicking on the XML button.
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This Friday, April 10, 2009 we will be facilitating an open online discussion about online teaching from Noon – 1pm CDT. At NIU we’ve offered face-to-face online teaching brown bag sessions in the past but this will be our first attempt at holding such informal discussions online. We’re not limiting the discussion to just NIU [...]

Upcoming MyNIU-Entering Final Grades Open Labs faculty sessions:

May 4, 2009 from 1:00 until 4:00 in Founders Library 297
May 5, 2009 from 8:30 until 11:30 in Founders Library 297

These sessions are come and go – come for 5 minutes or stay for longer to learn about entering final grades into MyNIU. The ERP [...]

Teaching Effectiveness Institute: Fundamental Principles of Effective Instruction will be offered on Thursday, August 13, 2009 from 8:00 am to 4:00 pm. Day one of the institute is geared toward an audience who is new to teaching and to those wanting to refresh their knowledge about teaching fundamentals.
Teaching Effectiveness Institute: “Raising the Bar: [...]

Faculty spend a lot of time crafting hour long lectures. The prospect of boiling them down to 60 seconds — or even five minutes — may seem daunting. David Penrose, a course designer for SunGard Higher Education who developed San Juan College’s microlectures, suggests that it can be done in five steps:

List the key concepts [...]