Enroll in Active Learning: Kolb's Experiential Learning Cycle

CETL Quick Start Guide features tutorials and videos to help you get started with Canvas.

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The Canvas Workshop Series is a sequence of nine workshops that provide practical pedagogical recommendations and technical training for using Canvas.

Modality: Virtual
Frequency: Self-paced

Enroll in the Canvas Workshop Series

Enroll here: Course Design Certificate

Enroll here: Course Design Workshops (Asynchronous)

This asynchronous course covers:

• • Effective Rubrics
  • Class Discussions: Silence to Higher Learning
  • Class Presentations: Raising the Bar
  • Grading Schemes to Support Active Learning
  • Kolb’s Experiential Learning Cycle-Certif. Opt.
  • Lesson Planning
  • Low Stakes Assessment
  • Pre-surveying Students
  • Scaffolding
  • Student Resistance to Active Learning
  • Ten Essentials for Large Classes
  • Transparency in Course Design
  • UWM Active Learning Classrooms
  • What is Learning? Explaining Learning to Students

Enroll here: Course Design Workshops (Synchronous)

This course covers:

• • Grading Schemes for Engagement
  • Aligning Your Syllabus with Active Learning
  • Class Discussions and Silence
  • Class Presentations: Who is Learning?
  • Lesson Planning for Engagement: Kolb’s Experiential Learning Cycle — Certificate Optional
  • Learning in Groups
  • Scaffolding for Success
  • Ten Essentials for Large Classes

The Teaching Assistant (TA) Orientation is held each fall for all new TAs. The orientation is designed to inform new TAs of their duties and responsibilities, provide instruction on teaching and learning tools (i.e., Canvas), and essential shared resources. Participation is mandatory for new teaching assistants to fulfill training requirements set by their respective academic units.

Enroll in the 2024 TA Orientation