CLTD Prospectus 2022 by witsmarketing

2022

1 Contents Overview....................................................................................................................... 3 Scheduling 3 Cost 3 Refreshments............................................................................................................. 3 Booking 3 Venues 4 Website....................................................................................................................... 4 Academic Professional Learning Opportunities........................................................ 5 Students at emotional risk 5 Basic Supporter Skills training 5 Learning and Teaching workshops, courses and programmes.............................. 6 Early Career Academic Development (ECAD) Programme 7 Enhancing Mid Career Academic Transitions (EMCAT) 8 Academic Role 9 Assessment in Higher Education: Strategies for the digital age 10 Curriculum Development Suite (Short Course) 11 CD 0: Learning and Teaching Philosophy 12 CD 1: Curriculum Orientation and Contexts 12 CD 2: Open pedagogies 13 CD 3: Assessment for learning in higher education 13 CD 4: Curriculum Development 13 Facilitating Online (FO) 14 Mentoring 15 Wits Tutor Professional Learning Programme (TPLP)........................................... 15 Supporting diversity in the classroom ..................................................................... 16 Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (UCDP Grant funded project) .................. 16 Developing Your Teaching Portfolio 17 Postgraduate Graduate Diploma (Education) in the field of Higher Education 18 Technologies for Teaching (T4T) ............................................................................... 19 Designing & building your course on ulwazi ........................................................... 19 Conceptualise, Design, Build and Evaluate your Course 20 Course Review: Through the Lens of a Learner 21 Digital Assessments ................................................................................................ 22 Using Gradescope in ulwazi 23 Using Mastery Paths in ulwazi 24 Intro to Conferences (“BigBlueButton”) in ulwazi 25 Creating engaging videos with Canvas Studio 25 Engaging approaches & strategies for facilitating learning 26

2 Using ulwazi’s New Analytics to improve student engagement 27 Smart Educational Technologies for Student centered (Inter)active Learning 28 Research and Postgraduate Supervision 30 Research Project Budgeting.................................................................................... 30 Publishing for Impact 30 Project Planning in the Research Context 31 Planning your Academic Career 31 Planning your Sabbatical......................................................................................... 32 Writing Winning Proposals 32 Lunchtime Talk How to Structure an Academic CV 33 Zotero 33 Enhancing Research Supervision........................................................................... 33 Postgraduate Supervision ....................................................................................... 34 Evaluation Services 35 Teaching and course evaluations to enhance students’ learning experience 35 Teaching and course evaluations to enhance students’ learning experience ...... 35 Peer Reviews........................................................................................................... 36 Student feedback on teaching and courses using Blue Explorance 37 Using Blue Explorance system to conduct student evaluations 37 Blue Explorance tools: Question Personalisation & Response rate monitor 37 Blue Explorance Open lunch hour discussions 38 Self help material..................................................................................................... 38 More information on evaluations ............................................................................. 39 Peer Reviews .................................................................................................... 39 Using Evaluations Constructively ..................................................................... 39 Wits Learning and Teaching Conference.................................................................. 41 About CLTD................................................................................................................... 42 Our Principles and Beliefs 42 Mandate 42 Vision........................................................................................................................ 43 Mission 43 Foregrounding the Strategic and Operational Plan................................................ 43 Faculty Collaboration / Partnership........................................................................... 44 Appendix A: Course Evaluation Form 45

• Higher education research and the scholarship of learning and teaching

3 Overview

• Curriculum renewal and transformation

CLTD provides research informed support in higher education learning and teaching. Our programmes and activities aim to enhance the quality of learning and teaching at Wits. We team up with faculties and service departments to support academics by providing:

• Hyflex blended learningand teaching

• Individual and institutional capacity building in learning and teaching

When workshops are conducted in contact mode on campus, we provide tea and coffee at tea breaks. You are welcome to bring your own food and beverages. Booking Bookings for most workshops are done via Oracle. From the Oracle log in page, click on Employee Self Service, and then on My Learning Gateway, then on My Learning.

• Academic professional learning courses, workshops and programmes

• Evaluation and peer reviews of teaching

Scheduling

Refreshments

Cost CLTD workshops are offered free to employees of the University. However, when workshops are conducted in contact mode on campus, the Centre incurs considerable costs in terms of catering, printing, and consultants’ fees. If a participant books a place in a workshop, and does not arrive, the attributable portion of costs so incurred will be recouped fromthe participant. There will be a penalty fee of R500 for non-attendance at a booked internal workshop, and R2 500 for non attendance at a booked external workshop, unless we are given two working days’ notice to allow us to fill the place. (External workshops are indicated by means of an asterisk next tothe workshop name).

This prospectus sets out the Centre’s academic professional learning opportunities for 2022. Where dates have already been scheduled, these are stipulated. The coordinators’ contact details are provided in each case if you have any queries about any aspect of the prospectus, including logistics.

Venues

Where workshops and courses are provided in contact mode, they will mostly be in one of the venues in the CLTD Building, West Campus. The nearest gate is Enoch Sontonga Gate 9. (CLTD is diagonally opposite the Flower Hall). The rooms are designated Frog, Tree, and Snow. Not all the venues are wheelchair accessible.

Please indicate on your booking form if you have specific needs related to being differently abled. As parking space is limited, it is generally advisable, where possible, to walk to the building rather than drive, particularly when students are writing exams in the Flower Hall.

Website Please visit the CLTD website at https://www.wits.ac.za/cltd/

All our workshops and courses will be offered in line with the university’s Learning & Teaching plan for 2022. A meeting link will be e mailed once bookings are confirmed.

All workshops are loaded under CLTD. Please book well in advance. All the workshops have limited capacity, and if your workshop of choice is full, you may need to be wait listed for the next one scheduled. Only a few workshops of aparticular typeare offered each year, and these arefilled on a first come first served basis. Please be advised that whilst every care is taken with the scheduling of training, due to unforeseen circumstances, there is a chance that dates and times may change.

Thestudent.primary objectives of this workshop are to provide university staff that lecture, support and/or work with students with relevant information to assist and support these students during their university career.

Students at emotional risk

Basic Supporter Skills training

Venue: Online (Meeting link will be e mailed once bookings are confirmed)

Date: 21 22 September 2022

Rezana Hoosain rezana.hoosain@wits.ac.za

Please note: Staff who are feeling emotionally fragile or who have experienced recent trauma or bereavement are advised not to attend at this point.

Facilitator: Esmeralda Vilanculos esmeralda.vilanculos@wits.ac.za

Academic Professional Learning Opportunities

The Counselling and Careers Development Unit staff are offering academic, support and residence staff a two day workshop on supportive skills and basic counselling. The requirement for the attendance of this Supportive Skills course is full attendance of the Students at Emotional Risk workshop. This training includes sections on self reflection and self awareness, as well as supporter and counselling skills.

The Counselling and Careers Development Unit is offering a half day workshop to Wits academic and administrative support staff. The workshop covers mental wellness, as well as basic skills to identify, contain and refer students in need of psychological or psychiatric intervention. This includes the identification of certain high risk characteristics/circumstances associated with the deterioration of the functioning of a

Contact: Candice Michael (011) 717 1475 Candice.Michael@wits.ac.za

Venue: Online (Meeting link will be e mailed once bookings are confirmed)

Facilitator: Esmeralda Vilanculos esmeralda.vilanculos@wits.ac.za

Time: 08:30 to 14:30

Dates: 24 Mar 2022 26 May 2022 28 July 2022

Rezana Hoosain rezana.hoosain@wits.ac.za

Lynn April lynn.april@wits.ac.za

Time: 09:00 to 12:00 09:00 to 12:00 09:00 to 12:00

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1. Academic Role (aka Teaching Role)

As part of the professional learning opportunities, CLTD offers the following core courses/workshops once per semester/twice a year. These courses aim to offer flexible engagement opportunities, requiring a self-directed approach to learning, with minimal, strategic contact or virtual sessions.

F 1 DIFFERENTIATED LEARNING PATHWAYS

3. New Academics Orientation Programme: New@Wits

Learning and Teaching workshops, courses and programmes

The three recommended learning pathways with associated, differentiated offerings are depicted in Fig 1, some with an added mentoring component, underpinned by Community of Practice (CoP) principles.

Emerging and Early Career Academic (ECA) Academic Role; Tutor Programme/Partnership; New Academics Orientation Programme: New@Wits; Early Career Academic Development Programme (ECAD); Facilitating Online (Intro); Assessment (Intro) Mid Career Academic (MCA) Academic Role; Curriculum Development Suite (CD0 4); Facilitating Online; Assessment in Higher Education: Strategies for the digital age; Postgraduate Supervision; PGDip (Education)in the field of Higher Education; Mentoring; Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Senior Career Academic (SCA) A community of practice (CoP) Assistant Deans

Emerging and Early Career Academics (ECA)

4. Early Career Academic Development Programme (ECAD)

5. Facilitating Online (Intro) 6. Assessment(Intro)

2. Tutor Programme/Partnership

While we identify and recommend three learning pathways, please note that all offerings are open and flexible as per individual need.

• provide the dialogical space and platform to explore continuously changing higher education context and the changing demand made on academics and their roles.

Early Career Academic Development (ECAD) Programme

Coordinator: Nazira Hoosen nazira.hoosen@wits.ac.za

7 Mid-Career Academics (MCA) 1. Academic Role (accredited short course) 2. Curriculum Development Suite (CD0 CD4: 4 weeks) 3. Facilitating Online (Accredited Short Course: 8 weeks) 4. Assessment in Higher Education: Strategies for the digital age 5. Postgraduate Supervision 6. Enhancing Post Graduate Supervision (Short course) 7. PGDip E(HE) (Accredited course) 8. Mentoring 9. SoTL (UCDP GrantRecipients) 10. Enhancing Mid Career Academic Transitions (EMCAT)

The programme is based on the intention to nurture new and emerging academics within the Wits context and specifically aims to:

• provide access to a supportive and collegial Wits and higher education network with opportunities for collaborations, mentorships, and a community of care.

Date:

Senior-Career Academics (SCA) In 2022, we aim to foster a community of practice (CoP) amongst Assistant Deans, to engage in conversation about the needs of senior career academics. The purpose is to decide on a suite of offerings to be designed, developed, and offered in 2023. TBC Time: TBC Venue: Online (Meeting link will be e mailed once bookings are confirmed)

Contact: Candice Michael (011) 717 1475 Candice.Michael@wits.ac.za

• Instil the value of holistic professional learning to enable the teacher, researcher academic citizenship and scholarly academic roles.

The Centre for Learning, Teaching and Development (CLTD) and the Wits Research Office have jointly developed a programme to support the professional learning of early career academics (ECAs).

• provide relevant resources and skills to mediate, negotiate and navigate the challenges experienced as early career academics within the Wits and higher education context.

8 The programme will be of particular interest to newly appointed academics at associate lecturer and lecturer levels, the academic pursuing a PhD qualification, the academic who has a PhD qualification for 5 years or less as well as those on the nap Theprogramme.ECADProgramme plans to provide support for ECADers to complement their disciplinary knowledge and skills by further developing their teaching, research, and interpersonal skills to enable them to effectively transition into productive academics within the Wits context. Successful completion of the programme will be based on participation in: • mandatory full day ECAD orientation • a choice of 3 research and teaching workshops, courses or programmes selected from the CLTD Prospectus • 4 Communities of Practice meetings • a 4-day facilitated online writing retreat • Mentoring • ECAD closing reflective valedictory session Date: Various dates throughout the 2022 academic year to be communicated to participants. Venue: Online (Meeting link will be e mailed once bookings are confirmed) Coordinators: Dr Robin Drennan robin.drennan@wits.ac.za Mrs Rieta Ganas rieta.ganas@wits.ac.za Contact: Candice Michael (011) 717 1475 Candice.Michael@wits.ac.za Enhancing Mid – Career Academic Transitions (EMCAT) This Carnegie funded programme is a new initiative for mid career academic staff members transitioning into professional and or academic leadership positions. In aiming to cohere the research, teaching and academic citizenship components of the academic role, this programme is a collaboration between the Centre for Learning, Teaching and Development (CLTD), the Wits Research Office and the Transformation and Employment Equity Office (TEEO). The professional opportunities will include: • Engagements in relation to leadership in teaching, research & academic citizenship • Creation of personally relevant transition plan supported by an academic portfolio writing retreat • Dialogue, conversation and networking opportunities through Communities of Practice and small group mentorship sessions Date: Various dates between February 2022 and June 2023.

Principles of facilitating for learning to occur includes:

Coordinators: Mrs Rieta Ganas rieta.ganas@wits.ac.za

• principles of learning

• feedback as well as reflective practice.

The aim of the workshop is to encourage lecturers to take up their teaching role in a scholarly manner with creativity, enthusiasm, and self reflection. Who should attend?

The experiential learning activities within the workshop is designed so that the academic will engage with the academic role within the higher education sector.

Venue: Online (Meeting link will be e mailed once bookings are confirmed)

The teaching role within the Wits context, has many dimensions: providing a broad context of knowledge; helping students to understand, locate and create personally and contextually relevant meaning of the knowledge; providing a learning environment that encourages students to think critically, solve problems and to be able to communicate in the language of the discipline or knowledge and it involves ongoing reflection on their practice. It also requires teachers to help students set and achieve their own aims through commitment and being responsible for their own learning.

Contact: Candice Michael (011) 717 1475 Candice.Michael@wits.ac.za

Academic Role Given the continuous change and those especially associated with the shifts to remote learning and teaching, within the Higher Education sector and its influence on the academic role within universities, there is a need for academics to unpack and explore their changing academic roles. This interactive workshop aims to bridge the age old teaching and research divide that exists within universities, specifically research intensive institutions. The workshop will introduce academics to the basic principles of their academic role within the South African higher education sector and within Wits in particular. The focus will then shift to academics exploring their scholarship through their learning and teaching role within a faculty.

• embedding writing within the curriculum

• an overview of curriculum knowledge and blended learning experience design

• an overview of assessment

The university teacher has an important and demanding role to play in the process of supporting student learning through the design of learning and teaching contexts in which students can learn most effectively.

• a micro teaching session (a scaled down teaching session), and

1 For example, student↔facilitator, student↔student, and student↔content interactions during the course of a learning conversation.

Assessment in Higher Education: Strategies for the digital age

Venue: Online (Meeting link will be e-mailed once bookings are confirmed)

Coordinator: Rieta Ganas Rieta.Ganas@wits.ac.za

Contact: Candice Michael (011) 717 1475 Candice.Michael@wits.ac.za

Venue: Online (Meeting link will be e mailed once bookings are confirmed)

Effective learning and teaching involve the integration and alignment of three core elements, namely curriculum, facilitation practices and learning interactions1, and assessment. In this context, ensuring alignment between course outcomes, content, learning interactions and assessment is important for curricular coherence, and contributes to the validity and reliability of assessments. Consequently, there is a need for academics to appreciate the role assessment plays in students’ achievement of structured learning outcomes, and to be able to design quality assessments for specific contexts. In addition to the need for understanding assessment practices, more generally, there is a growing need to understand and know how to develop different types of assessments. In response to this need, the Centre for Learning Teaching and Development (CLTD) at Wits has developed this short course on assessment with special focus on assessment in the digital space.

Date: 6 May 2022 Date: 7 Oct 2022 Time: TBC 8 weeks

Date: 17 19 & 23 May and 22 June Date: 18 20 &24 October and 25 January 2023 Time: 08:30 16:00 Time: 08:30 16:00

Coordinator: Ms Natasha Munsamy natasha.munsamy@wits.ac.za

New academics, early career academics or academics who have been at Wits for a while and who would like to improve their learning and teaching environments. Numbers are limited, and early booking is advised. Attendance is expected for all sessions.

Contact: Candice Michael (011) 717 1475 Candice.Michael@wits.ac.za

Curriculum lies at the heart of what Higher Education institutions dowith andfor their students and constitutes the main vehicle through which the aims of Higher Education can be achieved. It is thus vitally important for the design, development, implementation, and ongoing renewal of curriculum to be underpinned by sound educational principles, guided by the values espoused by the institution offeringthecurriculumandfitforclearly Whilearticulatedpurposes.thefundamental

The rate of change in the world demands that we re imagine and restructure the foundational learning relationships between student, knowledge, and teacher. New ways of thinking about curriculum are needed if we are to respond to the current challenges andfuturedemands for excellence in Higher Education.

questions around curriculum design and development remain the same, the contexts and challenges keep evolving and changing. It is therefore important to encourage and support academicstaff to develop appropriately structured and deepened curricula that promote the Wits key graduate attributes. This programme is structured for academics who wish to evaluate, revise, or develop a curriculum at course or preferably programme level. The various aspects of the programme will address selected curricular issues, including selecting, sequencing, and aligning the knowledge areas that underpin the discipline or profession and the creation of curricular ‘spaces’ to support and enhance student learning. Academics can opt to enrol for all 4 curriculum workshops within the series or may enrol for only selected workshops as needed. Please note that while each CD runs over one week, the synchronous/real time session might be a half day workshop, interspersed with asynchronous activities in Canvas/Ulwazi. Michael (011) 717

Dates: 2022 1st run 2022 2nd run • CD 0 3 6 May • CD 0 1 5 August • CD 1 9 13 May • CD 1 15 19 Aug • CD 2 16 19 May • CD 2 22 Aug • CD 3 23 27 May • CD 3 29 to 2 Sept • CD 4 30 May 3 June • CD 4 5 9 Sept Venue: Online (Meeting link will be e mailed once bookings are confirmed) Coordinator: Dr Najma Agherdien najma.aghardien@wits.ac.za Contact: Candice

Curriculum Development Suite (Short Course)

1475 Candice.Michael@wits.ac.za

Date: 3 6 May 2022 Date: 1 5 August 2022 Time: 09:00 12:00 Time: 09:00 12:00

CD 1: Curriculum Orientation and Contexts

This component of the curriculum development workshop series kicks off with an exploration of learning theories and how these theories inform personal learning and teaching philosophies. An understanding of how one views knowledge and how one comes to know is important as it shapes methodologies, approaches, and practices. Deep reflection on one’s philosophies (often tacit) goes a long way in being intentional about curriculum design.

Venue: Online (Meeting link will be e mailed once bookings are confirmed)

Coordinator: Dr Najma Agherdien najma.aghardien@wits.ac.za

Curriculum means different things to different people and operates within different levels at an institution. This makes the concept of curriculum highly contested and complex especially within the curriculum decolonisation and transformation debates. To enable coherent and meaningful curricula, academics should critically interrogate their curriculum orientations and the influence this has on their curriculum decisions. Their curriculum design and development should be approached in a scholarly manner especially when required to evaluate, design, interpret and implement Thecurricula.workshop will address curriculum as a concept and enable academics to further examine how curriculum policies are shaped by societal, institutional, personal, and interpersonal contexts and processes. The workshop will also introduce academics to key theories that underpin the principles of curriculum design. The workshop provides an opportunity to engage with the conceptual and contextual aspects of curriculum design like constructive alignment and being able to construct contextually relevant intended learning outcomes.

Coordinator: Rieta Ganas Rieta.Ganas@wits.ac.za

CD 0: Learning and Teaching Philosophy

Contact: Candice Michael (011) 717 1475 Candice.Michael@wits.ac.za

Date: 9 13 May Date: 15 19 Aug Time: 09:00 12:00 09:00 12:00 Venue: Online (Meeting link will be e mailed once bookings are confirmed)

Coordinator: Ms Natasha Munsamy natasha.munsamy@wits.ac.za

Coordinator: Ms Nazira Hoosen nazira.hoosen@wits.ac.za

Venue: Online (Meeting link will be e mailed once bookings are confirmed)

CD 2: Open pedagogies Discover practical ways of making your teaching practice more contextually relevant and open to diversity. In the (half-day), synchronous workshop, we will explore ways of using open educational resources, open education practices, open access, and open facilitation practices leading to more engaging learning experiences. We will focus on approaches which take into account who students are (student identities) and what they bring with them (experiences and practices).

Date: 23 27 May Date: 29 Aug 2 Sept Time: 09:00 12:00 09:00 12:00

Participants in this workshop will consider assessment from the viewpoints of the different stakeholders and will gain a deeper appreciation of assessment as an intrinsic part of the student learning process. Focusing on a particular course, participants will explore how learning outcomes, assessment tasks, and learning and teaching activities build and enhance the growth of desirable attributes, knowledge, skills and values using appropriate assessment methods and educational technologies that are diverse, complementary and embedded strategically throughout the course. Challenges associated with providing meaningful feedback for undergraduate and postgraduate students will also be considered.

Contact: Candice Michael (011) 717 1475 Candice.Michael@wits.ac.za

CD 4: Curriculum Development Do you currently teach a course you would like to revamp or improve? This workshop will give you practical ways to enhance your course through curriculum (re)design, adding multimedia and interactive elements, and developing authentic assessments. You will develop curriculum outputs to use in your course. Outputs may include a curriculum course map, module outline, student guide, assessment instruments and tools, multimedia, etc.

Date: 16 19 May Date: 22 26 August Time: 09:00 12:00 09:00 12:00

CD 3: Assessment for learning in higher education

14 *Please bring your own device Date: 30 May 3 June Date: 5 9 Sept Time: 09:00 12:00 09:00 12:00 Venue: Online (Meeting link will be e mailed once bookings are confirmed) Coordinator: Ms Nozuko Makhuvha nozuko.makhuvha@wits.ac.za Contact: Candice Michael (011) 717 1475 Candice.Michael@wits.ac.za Facilitating Online (FO) As a Wits academic, you are now required to follow a blended approach to designing your courses. The facilitating online course (FO), an open educational resource that has been reconceptualised for the Wits context, will support you in this new role as facilitator and designer of blended interactions and engagements. You will develop the design skills required to create interactive online learning experiences, the facilitation skills required to enable meaningful online discussions, and the technical skills to use tools (such as blogs, podcasts, and synchronous communication software) to deepen student engagement. At the end of this course, you are required to submit an e portfolio (electronic collection of evidence) of your personal growth as a facilitator of online learning interactions. As an end of course assessment, the e- portfolio will demonstrate your learning journey over a period of time. The course is offered twice a year with each offering facilitated over a period of eight weeks (week 0 7). The offering is fully online. Notional hours for this accredited course are calculated at 100 hours. • 60 hours online engagement readings/activities, discussions, desktop research • 20 hours self study research/following links • 10 hours live virtual sessions • 10 hours final assessment comprises approximately 60 90 minutes a day over a week to complete an e portfolio Dates: 1st Run May June 2022 (8 weeks) 2nd Run Aug Sept(82022weeks) Time: • Week 0 11 April • Week 0 1 4 August • Week 1 18 22 April • Week 1 8 12 August • Week 2 • Week 3 • Week 4 • Week 5 • Week 6 25 April 2 6 May 9 May 16 20 30MayMay 3 June • Week 2 • Week 3 • Week 4 • Week 5 • Week 6 15 19 Aug 22 26 Aug 29 Aug 2 Sept 5 9 Sept 12 16 Sept • Week 7 23 27 May • Week 7 19 Sept

Date: 22 June 2022 Date: 21 September 2022

Mentoring

The following topics will be covered:

Coordinator: Dr Najma Agherdien najma.aghardien@wits.ac.za

The Tutor Professional Learning Programme (TPLP) provides tutors with the necessary knowledge, skills, and values to enable them to execute their tutoring responsibilities.

Wits Tutor Professional Learning Programme (TPLP)

• Digital tools for learning and teaching

Coordinator: Ms Nazira Hoosen nazira.hoosen@wits.ac.za

• Teaching for learning in the tutoring space

• Exploring the tutoring space from the South African context

Contact: Candice Michael (011) 717 1475 Candice.Michael@wits.ac.za

Venue: Online (Meeting link will be e mailed once bookings are confirmed)

• Blended learning in the tutoring space

Duration:Time: 10:00 13:30 3.5 hours Time: 10:00 13:30 Time: 10:00 13:30

The programme consists of a series of asynchronous and synchronous learning opportunities that will provide tutors with practical insights on tutoring in a blended mode. The training workshops will focus on how design and facilitate for meaningful tutoring that will stimulate students’ learning.

Date: 24 Feb 2022 Date: 14 April 2022 Date: 21 July 2022

• Diversity in the tutoring space

This half day mentoring workshop aims to guide efforts towards adding a mentoring component to programmes. Come and explore skills, principles, concepts, and activities that may contribute to mentoring relationships and collaboratively suggest guidance on staying connected with mentees during a time of social and physical distancing.

Time: 9:00 11:00 Time: 9:00 11:00

Venue: Online (Meeting link will be e mailed once bookings are confirmed)

• Introduction to assessment and feedback

Contact: Candice Michael (011) 717 1475 Candice.Michael@wits.ac.za

Coordinator: Ms Natasha Munsamy natasha.munsamy@wits.ac.za

Contact: Muele Ndwambi Mueletshedzi.Ndwambi@wits.ac.za

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (UCDP Grant-funded project) As part of interrogating ‘good’ teaching practices what programme quality enhancement could look like this half day workshop explores an overview of the scholarship of learning and teaching (SOTL) in Higher Education. It further outlines several suggestions through which SOTL may be established and scholarship improved. We invite all UCDP SoTL Grant Funded participants to come and share your thoughts, ideas, and practices on enhancing SOTL.

Facilitator: Mr. Daniel Motlhabane Daniel.Motlhabane@wits.ac.za

Ms Nozuko Makhuvha nozuko.makhuvha@wits.ac.za

Contact: Candice Michael (011) 717 1475 Candice.Michael@wits.ac.za

The massive increase in enrolments at institutions of higher learning in South Africa resulted in increased diversity in the student population. A diverse classroom not only enriches the learning experiences for all students, but it also prepares them for the world of work and beyond. Diversity further enhances students’ cognitive skills particularly problem solving and critical thinking skills.

Venue: Online (Meeting link will be e mailed once bookings are confirmed)

Special requests for group training sessions outside of the designated slots can also be arranged. Supporting diversity in the classroom

This workshop aims to challenge your thinking while exploring the benefits of teaching a diverse group of students. In this session participants will deliberate and debate practical methods of creating a learning environment that ensures all students from all backgrounds, experiences and perspectives feel included, heard and valued.

Date: 9 & 11 March Date: 2 & 5 August Time: 9:00 12:00 9:00 12:00

Date: TBC Date: TBC Time: 09:00 12:00 09:00 12:00

Facilitator: Dr Rejoice Nsibande Rejoice.Nsibande@wits.ac.za

Venue: Online (Meeting link will be e mailed once bookings are confirmed)

Dr Najma Agherdien najma.aghardien@wits.ac.za

Developing Your Teaching Portfolio is hands on, and you may expect the following:

Contact: Candice Michael (011) 717 1475 Candice.Michael@wits.ac.za

• Engage in activities to help you think and draft your teaching philosophy and demonstrate how your philosophy translates into practice focused on student success.

Date: 20 July 2022 Date: 28 September 2022 Time: 12:00 14:00 12:00 14:00

Developing Your Teaching Portfolio As a requirement for probation confirmation or promotion processes, the Teaching Portfolio provides you with an opportunity to demonstrate your professional growth and excellence in teaching. Reflecting on these aspects in line with efforts to support student success in your course/s is an important process of being a teacher in higher education. Your teaching practice is informed by an understanding of who you are supposed to be as a teacher, what it means to facilitate learning, who are your students, and what it means to learn in your discipline. These conceptions are not static but evolve over time thus it is crucial to continuously reflect and improve on them, and the teaching portfolio provides the space for this.

There is, however, an assumption that academics participating in this session have the basic scholarly understanding of curriculum, learning and teaching, and assessment principles in higher education.

• Identify relevant evidence that you need to collect and include in your portfolio to demonstrate aspects of your teaching practice

• Develop awareness of aspects that should be included in your teaching portfolio

Venue: Online (Meeting link will be e mailed once bookings are confirmed)

Coordinators: Dr Kershree Padayachee Kershree.Padayachee@wits.ac.za

Contact: Candice Michael (011) 717 1475 Candice.Michael@wits.ac.za

The Postgraduate Diploma in Education (In the field of higher education) is offered by the School of Education in collaboration with the Centre for Learning, Teaching and Development (CLTD) at the University of the Witwatersrand. The broad aim of the PGDip E (HE) is to provide academics with a relevant tertiary teaching qualification in line with international trends. The programme is designed to foster a scholarly and professional approach to university teaching, assessment, and curriculum development and design.

Specific aims are to assist academics to:

The qualification consists of three core modules namely: Learning and Teaching in Higher Education; Assessment in Higher Education, and Curriculum Design and Development in Higher Education. New Directions or Enhancing research supervision can be selected as the elective. The PGDip E (HE) is a formal 120 credit qualification at NQF level 8 and the qualification is awarded by the Faculty of Humanities.

Participants must complete the post graduate registration procedures with Wits School of Education.

Postgraduate Graduate Diploma (Education) in the field of Higher Education

• Strengthen their roles in teaching, assessment, and curriculum development and course design

Date: Closed programme Time: TBC Venue: Online (Meeting link will be e mailed once bookings are confirmed)

Coordinators: Dr Laura Dison laura.dison@wits.ac.za Ms Rieta Ganas rieta.ganas@wits.ac.za

Contact: Candice Michael (011) 717 1475 Candice.Michael@wits.ac.za

• Update and extend their “working theories” and practices as educators

• Deepen engagement with the university as a rapidly changing site of research and scholarship

19 Technologies for Teaching (T4T) For 2022, CLTD’s emphasis on training will focus on course design to enhance the learning experience of students. Through this approach, we will focus on strengthening student engagement in course design, course review strategies, and redesigning assessments. These key focus areas will be covered in our “just in time” learning opportunities throughout the year. These opportunities are presented in the following webinars/workshops:1)Designing&building your course on ulwazi 2) Conceptualise, Design, Build and Evaluate your Course 3) Course Review: Through the Lens of a Learner 4) Digital Assessments 5) Using Gradescope in ulwazi 6) Using Mastery Paths in ulwazi 7) Intro to Conferences (“BigBlueButton”) in ulwazi 8) Enhance learning through video with Canvas Studio 9) Engaging approaches/strategies for facilitating learning interactions 10)Using Canvas New Analytics to improve student engagement 11)Smart Educational Technologies for Student centered (Inter)active Learning Designing & building your course on ulwazi This webinar will focus mainly on designing, building, and publishing your course site. Some topics that will be covered include: • Structuring course • Adding content to your course • Uploading and managing your files • Setting up your homepage Coordinators: Antoinette Malgas, Antoinette.Malgas@wits.ac.za Nkaba Senne, Nkaba.Senne@wits.ac.za Contact: Instructional Design Support IDSupport.cltd@wits.ac.za Date Session Facilitator(s) Tuesday, 8 February 2022 10:00 12:00 Click here to join the meeting Antoinette Malgas Nkaba Senne Tuesday, 15 February 2022 10:00 12:00 Click here to join the meeting Antoinette Malgas Nkaba Senne Tuesday, 8 March 2022 12:00 14:00 Click here to join the meeting Antoinette Malgas Nkaba Senne Tuesday, 5 July 2022 10:00 12:00 Click here to join the meeting Antoinette Malgas Nkaba Senne

20 Tuesday, 12 July 2022 12:00 14:00 Antoinette Malgas Nkaba Senne Conceptualise, Design, Build and Evaluate your Course So, you have been teaching during the pandemic for the past 2 years what now? This workshop is designed to help you plan, build, and evaluate your course taking into consideration grounded learning experience design principles. This includes prioritising equity and inclusion in blended learning strategies. Please note that this workshop will run for 3 mornings from 10am 12pm each morning. To attend this webinar, please contact the coordinators Coordinators: Antoinette Malgas, Antoinette.Malgas@wits.ac.za Nkaba Senne nkaba.senne@wits.ac.za Contact: Instructional Design Support IDSupport.cltd@wits.ac.za Date Session Facilitator(s) Session 1 Tuesday,5April 2022 10:00 12:00 Antoinette Malgas Nkaba Senne Session 2 Wednesday, 6April2022 10:00 12:00 Antoinette Malgas Nkaba Senne Session 3 Thursday,7 April2022 10:00 12:00 Antoinette Malgas Nkaba Senne Session 1 Tuesday, 24 May 2022 10:00 12:00 Antoinette Malgas Nkaba Senne Session 2 Wednesday, 25 May2022 10:00 12:00 Antoinette Malgas Nkaba Senne Session 3 Thursday,26May2022 10:00 12:00 Antoinette Malgas Nkaba Senne Session 1 Monday, 13 June 2022 10:00 12:00 Antoinette Malgas Nkaba Senne Session 2 Tuesday,14June2022 10:00 12:00 Antoinette Malgas Nkaba Senne

• Pillar 1: The initial learner experience: strategies on how to prepare and orientate students to the new “online” learning environment.

Course Review: Through the Lens of a Learner

The COVID19 Pandemic sent learning and teaching into a whirlwind spin for both students and staff. This changed experience has left some academics with courses that were not designed to provide engaging, memorable learning experiences. Course Review: Through the Lens of a Learner is an asynchronous course that focuses on how educators/facilitators could enhance an online/blended course that would positively contribute to students’ online learning experience. This course explores various strategies and frameworks that educators/facilitators could use to improve on an online/blended course design. The content of this course is based on four supporting pillars that are essential to a well designed online/blended course:

Tuesday, 22 Nov 2022 10:00 12:00 Antoinette Malgas Nkaba Senne

Antoinette Malgas Nkaba Senne

Session 2 Wednesday, 3 Aug 2022 10:00 12:00 Antoinette Malgas Nkaba Senne

Antoinette Malgas Nkaba Senne

Session 2 Wednesday, 23 Nov 2022 10:00 12:00

Antoinette Malgas Nkaba Senne

Thursday,4Aug2022 10:00 12:00

Antoinette Malgas Nkaba Senne Session 2 Wednesday, 28 Sep 2022 10:00 12:00

Antoinette Malgas Nkaba Senne

Session 3 Thursday, 29 Sep 2022 10:00 12:00

Session 1 Tuesday, 2Aug 2022 10:00 12:00

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Tuesday, 27 Sep2022 10:00 12:00

Antoinette Malgas Nkaba Senne

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Antoinette Malgas Nkaba Senne

Session 3 Wednesday, 15 June 2022 10:00 12:00

Session 3 Thursday, 24 Nov 2022 10:00 12:00 Antoinette Malgas Nkaba Senne

• Pillar 2: Guiding students and their learning: strategies how to provide frequent meaningful and relevant learning opportunities to establish a learning community

• Pillar 3: Accessibility, design and usability: Get insight on Universal Design for Learning and techniques for creating accessible content

2022 Asynchronous online course Shane

2022

Digital Assessments

Monday, 29 August to Friday, 9 September MeiPachagaduLuo

Effective education involves the integration and alignment of three core systems, namely curriculum, learning and teaching, and assessment. In this context, ensuring alignment between course outcomes, content and assessment is important for curricular coherence, and contributes to the validity of assessments. Consequently, there is a need for academics to appreciate the role of assessment in student’s learning and to be able to design quality assessments for particular contexts. In addition to the need for authentic, valid assessment practices, more generally, there is a growing need to become familiar with technologies for use with assessments. This workshop focuses on assessment in the field of Higher Education with special emphasis on assessment tools in ulwazi and other

22 • Pillar 4: Course Evaluation: course participants will use the adapted Quality Matter Rubric to review their own online courses and develop a course improvement plan. Mode of Delivery: Asynchronous and meet up sessions Course Running Time: 2 weeks Coordinators: Shane Pachagadu shane.pachagadu@wits.ac.za Mei Luo Mei.Luo@wits.ac.za Contact: Instructional Design Support IDSupport.cltd@wits.ac.za Please note that this course will run asynchronously during the following dates: Date Session Facilitator(s)

Monday, 27 June Friday, 8 July MeiPachagaduLuo

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Monday, 24 October 2022 to 4 November online MeiPachagaduLuo

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2022 Asynchronous online course Shane

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course Shane

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23 Session 1: Discussion & Assignment tool Discussion tool: • Setting up graded discussion topics. • Grading discussion topic using rubrics • Grading discussion topic using SpeedGrader Assignment tool: • Setting up an Assignment link • Setting up Peer review & group assignment • Grading assignments using rubrics • Grading assignments using Speedgrader • Setting up assessment weighting linked to gradebook Session 2: Quizzes (Quizzes tool & Studio) New quizzes • Setting up a quiz using various question types • Setting up question banks • Randomising from question banks • Moderate function for grading, adjusting attempt and time limit • Grading a Quizz (manual grading) • Regrading a Quizz. • Releasing feedback Studio tool • Embedding a quiz to a video. • Setting up an assignment with a quiz embedded video. Coordinator: Neo Petlele Neo.Petlele@wits.ac.za Contact: Instructional Design Support IDSupport.cltd@wits.ac.za Date Session Workshop Facilitator(s) Wednesday 9 February 2022 10:00 11:30 Session 1 Neo AntoinettePetleleMalgas Thursday 10 February 2022 10:00 11:30 Session 2 Neo AntoinettePetleleMalgas 16WednesdayFebruary2022 10:00 11:30 Session 1 Neo AntoinettePetleleMalgas Thursday 17 February 2022 10:00 11:30 Session 2 Neo AntoinettePetleleMalgas 9WednesdayMarch2022 12:00 1:30 Session 1 Neo AntoinettePetleleMalgas Thursday 10March2021 12:00 1:30 Session 2 Neo AntoinettePetleleMalgas

24 Thursday 31March2022 10:00 11:30 Session 2 Neo AntoinettePetleleMalgas 13WednesdayApril2022 10:00 11:30 Session 1 Neo AntoinettePetleleMalgas 14ThursdayApril2022 10:00 11:30 Session 2 Neo AntoinettePetleleMalgas Wednesday4May2022 10:00 11:30 Session 1 Neo AntoinettePetleleMalgas 5ThursdayMay2022 10:00 11:30 Session 2 Neo AntoinettePetleleMalgas Wednesday1June2022 10:00 11:30 Session 1 Neo AntoinettePetleleMalgas Thursday 2June 2022 10:00 11:30 Session 2 Neo AntoinettePetleleMalgas Wednesday6July2022 10:00 11:30 Session 1 Neo AntoinettePetleleMalgas 7ThursdayJuly2022 10:00 11:30 Session 2 Neo AntoinettePetleleMalgas Wednesday 10 August 2022 10:00 11:30 Session 1 Neo AntoinettePetleleMalgas Thursday 11 August2022 10:00 11:30 Session 2 Neo AntoinettePetleleMalgas Wednesday 7 September 2022 10:00 11:30 Session 1 Neo AntoinettePetleleMalgas Thursday 8 September 2022 10:00 11:30 Session 2 Neo AntoinettePetleleMalgas Wednesday, 5 October 2022 10:00 11:30 Session 1 Neo AntoinettePetleleMalgas Thursday, 6 October 2022 10:00 11:30 Session 2 Neo AntoinettePetleleMalgas Wednesday, 26 October 2022 10:00 11:30 Session 1 Neo AntoinettePetleleMalgas Wednesday, 27 October 2022 10:00 11:30 Session 2 Neo AntoinettePetleleMalgas 30WednesdayMarch2022 10:00 11:30 Session 1 Neo AntoinettePetleleMalgas

25 Using Gradescope in ulwazi Gradescope is an assessment tool that allows lecturers to grade and provide feedback on handwritten paper based student work, quizzes, and assignments in an online platform. The tool is well suited for grading assessments based on handwritten work, calculations, drawings or chemical structures, cells, circuits, coding, etc. With Gradescope, students can upload written assessments to be graded. Lecturers can mark student assessments with annotation tools using text and pencil comments as feedback with reference to a dynamic rubric. The session will cover the following: • How to create different question types in Gradescope • How to enable your students to submit their work to Gradescope. • How to grade assessments in Gradescope • How to create rubric items Coordinator: Neo Petlele Neo.Petlele@wits.ac.za Contact: Instructional Design Support IDSupport.cltd@wits.ac.za Date Session Facilitator(s) Thursday, 24 Feb 2022 10:00 11:30 Neo AntoinettePetleleMalgas Thursday, 3 March 2022 12:00 13:30 Neo AntoinettePetleleMalgas Thursday, 24 March 2022 10:00 11:30 Neo AntoinettePetleleMalgas Thursday, 28 April 2022 10:00 11:30 Neo AntoinettePetleleMalgas Wednesday, 21 July 2022 12:00 13:30 Neo AntoinettePetleleMalgas Thursday, 18 August 2022 10:00 11:30 Neo AntoinettePetleleMalgas Thursday, 15 September 2022 10:00 11:30 Neo AntoinettePetleleMalgas Thursday, 12 October 2022 10:00 11:30 Neo AntoinettePetleleMalgas

Contact: Instructional Design Support

Neo Petlele Shane Pachagadu Tuesday, October

2022 10:00 11:30 Neo

2022 12:00 13:30

26 Using Mastery Paths in ulwazi Mastery Paths allows you to create differentiated assignments that would enable you to customise a learning pathway for your students based on their performance of a particular assessment. The learning pathway could consist of different Content Pages, Quizzes, Discussions and Assignments. Coordinators: Neo Petlele Neo.Petlele@wits.ac.za

Thursday, March Petlele Shane Pachagadu 23 March Petlele Shane Pachagadu Tuesday, 27 April Petlele Shane Pachagadu Tuesday, 3 May

Neo Petlele Shane Pachagadu Wednesday, 29 June

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Neo Petlele Shane Pachagadu Wednesday, 27 July Neo Petlele Shane Pachagadu Wednesday, 24 August

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Shane Pachagadu Shane.Pachagadu@wits.ac.za IDSupport.cltd@wits.ac.za

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Neo Petlele Shane Pachagadu Tuesday, 20 September

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27 Intro to Conferences (“BigBlueButton”) in ulwazi This webinar will focus on facilitating synchronous online learning interactions in ulwazi. Some of the topics that will be covered include: • Accessing conferences • Setting up online meeting spaces • Facilitating synchronous learning in your course sites To attend this webinar, please contact the coordinators Coordinators: Mei Luo Mei.luo@wits.ac.za Nkaba Senne nkaba.senne@wits.ac.za Contact: Instructional Design Support IDSupport.cltd@wits.ac.za Date Session Facilitator(s) Wednesday, 23 February 2022 10:00 11: 30 Mei Luo Nkaba Senne Wednesday, 2 March 2022 12:00 13:30 Mei Luo Nkaba Senne Thursday, 21 July 2022 10:00 11:30 Mei Luo Nkaba Senne Creating engaging videos with Canvas Studio Canvas Studio is a modern video platform that allows instructors and students to actively collaborate through video media. Studio makes it easy for lecturers to create engaging videos and for students to participate in dynamic conversations and assessments. This webinar will look at how to: • Navigate studio • Create videos using studio • Design and deliver assessments that are embedded directly in the video • Use studio analytics to improve learning Coordinator: Mei Luo mei.luo@wits.ac.za Neo Petlele Neo.petlele@wits.ac.za Contact: Instructional Design Support IDSupport.cltd@wits.ac.za

Date Session Facilitator(s) Tuesday, 15 March 2022 10:00 11:30 Mei AntoinetteLuoMalgas Tuesday, 22 March 2022 10:00 11:30 Mei AntoinetteLuoMalgas

Tuesday, 1 March 2022 12:00 13:30 Mei Luo Neo Petlele

Wednesday, 20 July 2022 10:00 11:30 Mei Luo Neo Petlele

Thursday, 25 August 2022 10:00 11:30 Mei Luo Neo Petlele Wednesday, 16 November 2022 10:00 11:30 Mei Luo Neo Petlele

Date Session Facilitator(s)

Contact: Instructional Design Support IDSupport.cltd@wits.ac.za

Thursday, 21 April 2022 10:00 11:30 Mei Luo Neo Petlele

Tuesday, 22 February 2022 10:00 11:30 Mei Luo Neo Petlele

Engaging approaches & strategies for facilitating learning Have you ever been frustrated by the quiet whisperings of students in the background or students that simply do not engage during a lesson? These whisperings or nonresponsiveness of students may be perceived as a distraction. One could however encourage these whisperings and draw on students to engage interactively by creating a safe and collaborative learning environment. Depending on your teaching approach, this could be done by the creative use of tools such as chat, discussion forums, emoticons, or voice participation. This workshop focuses on how we can use various educational technologies to meaningfully enhance student engagement in both synchronous and asynchronous learning and teaching environments.

Coordinators: Mei Luo Antoinettemei.luo@wits.ac.zaMalgasAntoinette.malgas@wits.ac.za

Tuesday, 19 July 10:00

11:30 Mei AntoinetteLuoMalgas

2022

11:30 Mei AntoinetteLuoMalgas

Tuesday, 15 November 10:00

11:30 Mei AntoinetteLuoMalgas Using ulwazi’s New Analytics to improve student engagement In an online class we don’t receive feedback from our students in the same way that we do in a face to face class, so how do we know how our students are doing in an asynchronous learning environment? The Canvas New Analytics tool helps you see the interaction students are having with the course materials in your course on ulwazi. These analytics can help you identify which students may not be as engaged and allow you to reach out to those students. This webinar will look at how to: • enable the new analytics tool • view student page views and participation activity • track average course grades using interactive graphs or tables • message students who meet certain criteria • download student views and participation data Coordinators: Shane Pachagadu shane.pachagadu@wits.ac.za Mei Luo mei.luo@wits.ac.za Contact: Instructional Design Support IDSupport.cltd@wits.ac.za

2022 10:00 11:30 Mei AntoinetteLuoMalgas

Tuesday, 13 September 10:00

Tuesday, 25 October 10:00

2022 10:00 11:30 Mei AntoinetteLuoMalgas

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Tuesday, 23 August 10:00

2022

11:30 Mei AntoinetteLuoMalgas

Tuesday, 10 May

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Tuesday, 12 April

11:30 Mei AntoinetteLuoMalgas

Thursday, 12 May 2022 09:00 10:30 ShaneMeiPachagaduLuo

Day 2: Face-to-face (10:00 – 12:30/12:00 – 14:30 in Gatehouse building GH403, East Campus)

This face to face workshop occurs the day after the webinar and will demonstrate how smart technologies may be applied in real life teaching and learning situations and will offer participants an opportunity to test out various teaching and learning Pleasescenarios.note that due to COVID-19 regulations we will only be accepting 12 participants per training session. Bookings need to be made at least 48 hours prior to the training session and participants should arrive at the onsite workshops at least 15

ShaneMeiPachagaduLuo

Thursday, 14 April 2022 09:00 10:30

30 Date Session Facilitator(s)

ShaneMeiPachagaduLuo

Thursday, 13 October 2022 10:00 11:30 ShaneMeiPachagaduLuo

Wednesday, 16 March 2022 10:00 11:30

Thursday, 1 September 2022 10:00 11:30

Thursday, 3 November 2022 10:00 11:30 ShaneMeiPachagaduLuo

ShaneMeiPachagaduLuo

Smart Educational Technologies for Student centered (Inter)active Learning

The evolution of technology has changed the landscape of education. The use of smart technologies that could enable agentic, interactive learning and teaching have become widespread. Smart learning environments have been gaining traction in education since it allows the fostering of collaborative learning opportunities where educational technologies are used meaningfully. Our two day training webinar and face to face workshop consist of the following: Day 1: Online (9:00 10:30) This session will introduce participants to the Smart Classroom teaching and learning technologies and suggest ways to use these technologies to create an (inter)active student centered learning experience.

Tuesday, 17 May 2022 9:00Online10:30 Mei Luo Wednesday, 18 May 2022 10:00 12:30

31 minutes before the session begins. To support you further, we have also developed a self directed course that provides suggestions of various approaches that one could use in the Smart Classroom. To learn more about this course, click here. Coordinator: Mei Luo mei.luo@wits.ac.za Contact: Instructional Design Support IDSupport.cltd@wits.ac.za To attend this training, please book book here Date Session Facilitator(s)

Face to face Gatehouse (GH403) Mei Luo Tuesday, 21 June 2022 9:00Online10:30 Mei Luo Wednesday, 22 June 2022 10:00 12:30

Tuesday, 19 April 2022 9:00Online10:30 Mei Luo Wednesday 20 April 2022 10:00 12:30 Face to face Gatehouse (GH403) Mei Luo

Face to face Gatehouse (GH403) Mei Luo Tuesday, 12 July 2022 9:00Online10:30 Mei Luo Wednesday, 13 July 2022 10:00 12:30 Face to face Gatehouse (GH403) Mei Luo Tuesday, 16 August 2022 9:00Online10:30 Mei Luo Wednesday, 17 August 2022 12:00 14:30 Face to face Gatehouse (GH403) Mei Luo Wednesday, 21 September 2022 9:00Online10:30 Mei Luo Thursday, 22 September 2022 10:00 12:30 Face to face Gatehouse (GH403) Mei Luo

32 Tuesday, 18 October 2022 9:00Online10:30 Mei Luo 19Wednesday,October2022 12:00 14:30 Face to face Gatehouse (GH403) Mei Luo Tuesday, 8 November 2022 9:00Online10:30 Mei Luo Wednesday, 9 November 2022 10:00 12:30 Face to face Gatehouse (GH403) Mei Luo

Facilitator: Dr Robin Drennan robin.drennan@wits.ac.za

Facilitator: Wits Enterprise Facilitators

Contact: Candice Michael (011) 717 1475 Candice.Michael@wits.ac.za 2 Workshop being developed

Date: 21 and 22 July 2022 Time: 09:00 13:00 Venue: Online (Meeting link will be e mailed once bookings are confirmed)

Research and Postgraduate Supervision Research Project Budgeting2

A research project budget is a vital component of any funding proposal. Join the facilitators as they discuss how to develop a budget that supports and enhances your research or consulting proposal. The workshop allows delegates to develop their own budgets that account for direct and indirect costs (CORY). It covers issues such as VAT, student bursaries and charge out rates. You need not be an accountant to make sense of these issues. In fact, the course is intended for non accountants.

Publishing for Impact Whether you are driven by altruism and want your research to improve the world, or by a desire to increase your reputation as a research focused scholar, or a combination of both, you need to plan where, when, and how you publish your research. Too often we base our publishing habits on what we picked up from our PhD supervisors and colleagues without giving any thought to a careful strategy. Join Dr Robin Drennan in a workshop that looks at the wide array of possibilities for sharing your knowledge with others. In this workshop you will be exposed to ideas that may help you strategically decide where your research output is to be shared and / or published.

Contact: Candice Michael (011) 717 1475 Candice.Michael@wits.ac.za

Date: TBC Date: TBC Time: TBC Time: TBC Venue: Online (Meeting link will be e mailed once bookings are confirmed)

Date: 13 May 2022 Date: 9 September 2022 Time: 09:00 13:00 Time: 09:00 13:00

Contact: Candice Michael (011) 717 1475 Candice.Michael@wits.ac.za Planning your Academic Career Do you know what you need to do today to achieve your career goals in six years’ time? A successful academic career requires a considerable amount of juggling. Research, teaching, supervision, community engagement, funding, sabbaticals, conferences, promotion, NRF ratings they all need to be factored into your plan. Dr Robin Drennan, the Director for Research Development in the University Research Office, will help you develop a five to seven-year macro plan that will ensure you are well placed to make the best of your career. An emphasis is placed on research throughout this workshop.

Facilitator: Dr Robin Drennan robin.drennan@wits.ac.za

Venue: Online (Meeting link will be e mailed once bookings are confirmed)

34 Project Planning in the Research Context

How do you plan a research project? Is it possible to plan research? The classical project management body of knowledge (PMBOK) is often unsuitable for research projects simply because it is impossible to estimate the time for each task. Research is, after all, a step into the unknown. Take heart, this does not mean your research project will descend into chaos. There are other ways of managing research projects that are agile enough to deal with the complexities of volatile research projects. Dr Robin Drennan, the Director for Research Development in the University Research Office, will describe some of these more agile project management techniques that will allow you to plan, in the absence of information and despite uncertainty, for the unknown.

Venue: Online (Meeting link will be e mailed once bookings are confirmed)

Facilitator: Dr Robin Drennan robin.drennan@wits.ac.za

Date: 18 February 2022 Date: 3 June 2022 Time: 09:00 13:00 Time: 09:00 13:00

Contact: Candice Michael (011) 717 1475 Candice.Michael@wits.ac.za

Date: 11 March 2022 Date: 10 June 2022 Time: 09:00 13:00 Time: 09:00 13:00

Writing Winning Proposals

Date: 4 March 2022 Date: 20 May 2022 Time: 09:00 13:00 Time: 09:00 13:00

Facilitator: Dr Robin Drennan Robin.Drennan@wits.ac.za

Venue: Online (Meeting link will be e-mailed once bookings are confirmed)

Contact: Candice Michael (011) 717 1475 Candice.Michael@wits.ac.za

Discover, with the support of Dr Robin Drennan, Director for Research Development in the University Research Office, how to write a persuasive proposal for research funding. Having understood that every funder is contractually bound to deliver a return of some sort on the funds under their management, it is plain to see several ‘magical buttons’ that will get you funding. Some of these buttons are explicit but others are not. The trick is to find them. The workshop material also covers the differences between a research plan, a problem statement, rationale and motivation, and aims and objectives, all elements of typical proposals. The importance of selecting appropriate reviewers, leaving nothing to chance and the need to make every part of the proposal supportive of your bid for funding are also discussed. Finally, the workshop explores differences in writing styles: Persuasive writing used in proposals and standard writing techniques used in the publication of research outputs.

Date: 19 August 2022 Date: 14 October 2022 Time: 09:00 13:00 Time: 09:00 13:00

35 Planning your Sabbatical A sabbatical comes once every six years so it is vital to make the most of it. Dr Robin Drennan, the Director for Research Development in the University Research Office, will share some pointers on how, when and what to plan for a successful sabbatical. This workshop will help you develop a plan and so make the most of the opportunity. Your sabbatical plan should maximise the impact of the time on your research. Various funding options will also be discussed.

Facilitator: Robin Drennan robin.drennan@wits.ac.za

Contact: Candice Michael (011) 717 1475 Candice.Michael@wits.ac.za

Facilitator: Ms. Thuli Dhlamini Thuli.Dhlamini@wits.ac.za

Facilitator: Dr Robin Drennan robin.drennan@wits.ac.za

Date: 18 March 2022 Date: 20 May 2022 Time: 09:30 11:00 Time: 09:30 11:00

Lunchtime Talk How to Structure an Academic CV

The curriculum vitae, which is Latin for ‘course of life’ is a very important tool in the quest for academic achievement. At the simplest level it is a record of your achievements, a trace record, at the other extreme it can take on all the elements of a marketing campaign. Join us for a lunchtime (1 hour) discussion on different ways to layout your CV to best emphasise your achievements.

Further dates will be communicated via the Wits News, and Events on the Intranet

Venue: Online (Meeting link will be e mailed once bookings are confirmed)

Zotero This is a virtual workshop that will introduce you to Zotero, a free, open source alternative to reference manager systems. Zotero allows you to easily save bibliographic details, comments, indexing terms, and direct links to webpages, word documents, and even articles that are in library subscription databases. You will be shown how you can use Zotero to integrate your references into your research in many citation styles using Microsoft Word. For more information, please visit Library Libguides. http://libguides.wits.ac.za/zotero

Date: 8 April 2022 Time: 13:15 14:15

Venue: Online (Meeting link will be e mailed once bookings are confirmed)

Contact: Candice Michael (011) 717 1475 Candice.Michael@wits.ac.za

Enhancing Research Supervision

This course aims to enhance research supervisory capacity taking into account the diverse context and conditions in which supervisors work as well as the differences in institutional and disciplinary postgraduate supervisory practices and processes. After engaging with the course and the course materials the participant should be able to:

Date: 13 June 12 August 2022 Date: 19 September 11 November 2022 Time: 13:30 14:30 Time: 09:00 12:00

Venue: Online (Meeting link will be e mailed once bookings are confirmed)

• Develop a strategy to address power relations and create an inclusive and participatory learning environment in their supervisory context

• Evaluate the effectiveness of the supervisory processes in their context and recommend improvements

Contact: Yasmin Dadabhay (011) 717 1475 Candice.Michael@wits.ac.za

Date: 11April, 17 May, 30 Jun Date: 20 July, 15 Aug, 19 Oct Time: 09:00 12:00 Time: 09:00 12:00

Coordinator: Dr Najma Agherdien najma.aghardien@wits.ac.za

Coordinator: Anniah Mupawose Anniah.Mupawose@wits.ac.za

Contact: Candice Michael (011) 717 1475 Candice.Michael@wits.ac.za

Postgraduate Supervision Good supervision is central to successful graduate research, yet it is difficult to define and develop. This half day introductory workshop explores models and systems of supervision, institutional policy and procedures, and supervisor student relationships.

• Participate in a collegial network of support and build a community of practice that enhances supervisory practice

Venue: Online (Meeting link will be e mailed once bookings are confirmed)

• Critically reflect on the importance of scholarship in their learning environment

• This 30 credit short course at NQF Level 8 comprises the following phases: 3 days face to face; 6 weeks on line; and 3 days face to face and includes assessment tasks. An e Portfolio (100%) inclusive of formative and summative assessments must be submitted at the conclusion of the course for credit assessment.

Emmanuel Ojo Emmanuel.Ojo@wits.ac.za

• Critique their supervisory practices and implement changes aimed at enhancing student learning

workshops are made available to all staff in order to support engagement with evaluation of teaching and courses. Staff are encouraged to enrol for the sessions according to need, alternatively contact the CLTD evaluations team for assistance.

CLTD offers support to academic staff to elicit feedback on effectiveness of teaching and courses for the purposes of continuous reflection to inform decisions on professional learning, enhancement of learning and teaching practice as well as accountability. Different methods should be used to ensure a holistic evaluation of teaching practice. Each method offers different benefits, and the technique chosen should be appropriate to the need or exigency which has prompted the evaluation

• Examine the purposes of evaluations and different tools that can be used

Theprocess.following

Academic staff with teaching responsibilities are required to conduct evaluations of their teaching and courses, and further reflect on this as part of a process to enhance the quality of offerings. CLTD believes that effective evaluation of teaching and courses requires academic staff to understand the purpose of evaluations and further create opportunities for evaluations that support reflective practice. The workshop aims to provide participants with an opportunity to do the following:

Teaching and course evaluations to enhance students’ learning experience

38 Evaluation Services

Teaching and course evaluations to enhance students’ learning experience

• Familiarise themselves with the processes and the platform used at Wits to conduct student evaluations

Date: 9 February 2022

Time: 12:30 14:00 Venue: Online (Meeting link will be e mailed once bookings are confirmed)

Venue: Online (Meeting link will be e mailed once bookings are confirmed)

• Explore different models that are used when conducting peer reviews

Duration: 12:30 14:00

• Examine the purpose of peer reviews and relevance in supporting development of teaching competence

• Explore ways in which students can be encouraged to participate constructively in evaluation processes

• Explore the idea of a peer review as a scholarly and collaborative reflection activity

• Engage with the guidelines for conducting meaningful peer reviews (i.e. clarify roles and responsibilities)

Contact: Nompumelelo Mazibuko Nompumelelo.Mazibuko@wits.ac.za

• Prepare for using evaluation feedback in processes of continuous improvement of teaching and courses

Date: 10 February 2022

• Address different concerns or challenges related to peer review processes

Peer Reviews Peer Review is a process through which valuable feedback on teaching practice and courses could be solicited by engaging the expertise of academic peers. Engaging in peer reviews provide academic staff an opportunity to triangulate data drawn through student feedback (questionnaires) in the process of self reflection. Peer reviews create an opportunity for academic staff to examine and reflect collaboratively on teaching practice based on observed lessons and other selected teaching artefacts. The process is meant to be collegial and supportive in a manner that allows for professional learning of both the reviewer and the reviewee. The workshop targets all staff tasked with the responsibility to conduct reviews in the respective schools and those that want their teaching and course to be reviewed. The workshop provides participants with an opportunity to:

Contact: Nompumelelo Mazibuko Nompumelelo.Mazibuko@wits.ac.za

The CLTD recommends that lecturers use student feedback as a formative opportunity to learn from input. The results offer useful indicators of trends but have limited value in getting to the heart of facilitation practices. They are most useful when contextualised in information obtained from the more qualitative forms of evaluation as scores can often be the consequence of multiple factors, e.g., mismatched Inexpectations.2020theBlue

Using Blue Explorance system to conduct student evaluations

Explorance system was launched across all faculties. This means all academic staff should use the online system for conducting student evaluations. CLTD will continue to on board staff to the Blue Explorance system and further stabilise the use of the platform. This will be done through self help material and webinars open to all staff. Faculties or schools may request for customised sessions.

Blue Explorance tools: Question Personalisation & Response rate monitor

Date: 21 February 2022 Time: 12:30 14:00 Venue: Online (Meeting link will be e mailed once bookings are confirmed)

40 Student feedback on teaching and courses using Blue Explorance

Contact: Nompumelelo Mazibuko Nompumelelo.Mazibuko@wits.ac.za

Target: Academic staff Description Blue Explorance Basics To create awareness of Blue Explorance: how the system works, the process followed when using the system, and the responsibilities of the different stakeholders (Lecturers, students and Evaluations Team).

Target: Academic Staff Description Established user aiming to enhance student participation and quality of evaluations To consolidate knowledge on Blue Explorance and further explore features that will enhance user experience. The focus is on: • Question personalisation tool (design evaluation forms for quality feedback) and

Facilitators: Ms Nompumelelo Mazibuko Nompumelelo.Mazibuko@wits.ac.za Ms Nthabiseng Mokoena Nthabiseng.Mokoena@wits.ac.za

Blue Explorance Open lunch hour discussions

Target: Academic Staff Description Blue Explorance Open discussion Open forum where CLTD Evaluation Services staff respond to questions and challenges experienced by staff when using Blue Explorance system. There will be 1 session per semester to address challenges experienced by academic staff when using the online system. Session dates are as follows: Date: 18 April 2022 Date: 18 July 2022 Time: 13:00 14:00 Time: 13:00 14:00

Facilitators: Rejoice Nsibande Rejoice.Nsibande@wits.ac.za

Nompumelelo Mazibuko Nompumelelo.Mazibuko@wits.ac.za Nthabiseng Mokoena Nthabiseng.Mokoena@wits.ac.za

Contact: Nompumelelo Mazibuko Nompumelelo.Mazibuko@wits.ac.za

Self help material The CLTD appreciates that academics have busy schedules hence not everyone will have the opportunity to participate in organised sessions. To address this, easy to follow materials are developed and will be made accessible to all staff. For example, the material includes step by step guides (on how to select questions, monitor students’ participation, and access reports). Related short video clips and a ‘Frequently Asked Questions’ document will be made available on the ‘Better Blended Learning’ site on ulwazi, as well as on the CLTD website

Venue: Online (Meeting link will be e mailed once bookings are confirmed)

Facilitators: Rejoice Nsibande Rejoice.Nsibande@wits.ac.za

Nompumelelo Mazibuko Nompumelelo.Mazibuko@wits.ac.za

Nthabiseng Mokoena Nthabiseng.Mokoena@wits.ac.za

• Response Rate complete forms) monitor (encourage students to Date: 22 February 2022 Time: 12:30 14:00

Venue: Online (Meeting link will be e mailed once bookings are confirmed)

Contact: Nompumelelo Mazibuko Nompumelelo.Mazibuko@wits.ac.za

More information on evaluations Peer Reviews CLTD recommends that lecturers use expertise from within their Faculty or disciplines to conduct peer reviews. The CLTD is open to School/Faculty requests for a peer review workshop to support both staff identified as reviewers and those staff that require a review. As part of peer reviews staff are encouraged to use External Examiners Reports as they are produced by experts with extensive knowledge in subject matter and teaching in the discipline. External Examiners’ reports can also be useful in providing feedback on the quality and standards of teaching. Learning and Teaching Advisors in the Faculties may be contacted for advice on using Peer Reviews. It is highly recommended that all reviewers go through training so that they are prepared for the responsibility. It is important to remember that Peer Review is a highly intensive form of getting quality feedback. The process is labour and time intensive and given the limited resources in the university it is advisable to prepare for and schedule for the review well in advance. As CLTD has limited resources we cannot offer this service as freely as we would like to, and we are encouraging academic staff to engage faculty or school colleagues to conduct reviews. Using Evaluations Constructively Academic staff need to make informed choices and interpretations of what kinds of feedback each form of evaluation offers and about the value or weight of the different types of evidence garnered. CLTD’s preferred stance is to use evaluation of teaching and courses in a formative approach aimed at improvement, rather than to make categorical judgements about an individual’s teaching practice. CLTD is happy to assist academic staff and academic managers in this regard. For general information on Evaluations of Teaching and Courses at Wits University, please use the following link to access the relevant policy: Forhttp://intranet.wits.ac.za/exec/registrar/Policies/Forms/AllItems.aspxinformationontheBlueExplorancesystemandotherevaluation matters, please contact the following CLTD staff:

• Mpumi Mazibuko  (011) 717 1483  Nompumelelo.Mazibuko@wits.ac.za

• Nthabiseng Mokoena  (011) 717 1469  nthabiseng.mokoena@wits.ac.za

43 For further information on conducting an evaluation of your teaching or interpreting and use of feedback data collected: • Dr Rejoice Nsibande  011) 717 1474  Rejoice.Nsibande@wits.ac.za

44 Wits Learning and Teaching Conference Traditionally, CLTD hosts a Lekgotla (for Wits staff) and a Learning and Teaching Symposium (open to the higher education community) annually. This year we will only host a Learning and Teaching Conference during the second semester. More information to follow. Date: TBC Contact: Candice Michael (011) 717 1475 Candice.Michael@wits.ac.za

Our distinctive approach to facilitation, learning, and research promotes a “non judgmental” culture as the basis for the creation of transformative and creative communities, where tensions and diversities of opinions are welcomed as norms, but where independent thought and opinion are welcomed as we recognise others as we recognise self not lower or higher. In this context, there is a genuine meeting of the minds where knowledge production is inward and outward looking, resulting in authentic collaborations and partnerships locally, nationally, and internationally. Our fundamental ideal is that of ‘trust’ and ‘acceptance’, where we all become culturally, socially, and environmentally responsible in our diverse aspirations of academic support provision. We are rooted in Johannesburg with its strong cosmopolitan edge, and we intend using this to our advantage, to ensure that the city is both the focus for our teaching and research work, and the platform from which our local and international relationships grow.

• Support for academics, mostly through hands on workshops, to design and develop hyflex blended learning courses

• Informal workshops such as Postgraduate Supervision, Teaching/Academic role, and Assessment in Higher Education

We nurture and accept conditions that promote agency and creativity in order to endorse critical thinking, purposeful research informed trialling or experimenting, re discovery, renewal and innovation in African Higher Education contexts. We do this because in the past we have tended to accept learning and teaching solutions borrowed from elsewhere, often divorced from our own contexts.

CLTDoffers:

Our Principles and Beliefs

• Formal programmes such as the PG Dip (Education) in the field of Higher Education

• Student and peer evaluation of and self-reflection on courses and teaching

Mandate The Centre for Learning, Teaching & development (CLTD) focuses on Continuous Academic Professional Learning, modelling hyflex Active Blended Learning. As part of a broader Curriculum Design and Development strategy, and by applying and engaging in research on facilitation practices, we aim to contribute towards deepening student learning and enhancing university teaching practices.

About CLTD

• Support academics as university teachers and researchers, and explore, integrate, evaluate different approaches to learning, teaching, & assessment

• Promote and support effective lecturer and course evaluation practices

• Enrich the status of learning and teaching at Wits by engaging with, encouraging, and celebrating Wits teachers

• Promote inclusivity and diversity through collaborative curriculum design and renewal

In developing our Operational Plan, four drivers have emerged as key in achieving our goals for CLTD. These will underpin our service and support delivery over this year, including:

• A ‘Distributed Leadership’ (Spillane, 2005, 2012) approach in delivering educational programmes in partnership with others locally, nationally, and internationally

Foregrounding the Strategic and Operational Plan

• Promote and develop a culture of research and scholarship of learning and teaching (SoTL) in Higher Education

Mission We collaborate with individuals, academic departments, and academic support units to build capacity and foster community development around good university teaching, and the stimulation of an institutional culture that values meaningful learning, guided by the Wits Learning and Teaching Plan 2020 2024. To achieve the CLTD mission, we strive to:

46 Vision Our vision is to inspire, influence and contribute to the development of transformative, effective, and innovative facilitation practices that enhance student “access with success” in meaningful higher education practice.

• Promote and support the adoption of a hyflex blended learning approach to Active Blended learning and teaching approaches and practices

• Commitment to the continuous professional learning of CLTD staff

• Our research and its growing impact on the Higher Education landscape, and

• Modelling the application of, and engagement with digital technology in providing hyflex blended learning opportunities for our course participants.

• Anticipate and address evolving issues and opportunities within Higher Education Academic practice by offering expertise locally, nationally, and internationally

• Promote university wide Communities of Practice (CoPs) by creating dialogue around and conversations about learning and teaching

47 Faculty Collaboration / Partnership Table 2 shows the CLTD reps and Faculty reps (mostly faculty learning and teaching reps) that will collaborate to offer customised, contextually relevant learning opportunities to faculties. As far as possible, the teams aim to negotiate: a. customised learning opportunities (early career, mid-career and senior career) to identified cohorts b. customised/faculty specific offerings (if/when needed) to groups/schools on an ad hoc basis c. staff engagement in reflection/evaluation at the end of each semester (all Faculties). d. a scholarly approach to learning and teaching e. the fostering of communities of practice f. quality enhancement Due to capacity constraints, we strongly recommend working with groups/schools as opposed to individuals Table 1 Faculty Reps Faculty CLTD Representatives Faculty Representatives CLM Rieta Ganas and Neo Petlele Greig Krull, Fiona Macalister, and Myrtle Adams Gardner Engineering Nozuko Makhuvha and Nkaba Senne Tebatso Phala Health Sciences Nazira Hoosen and Mei Luo Shirra Moch, Hilary and Ann George, Paula Barnard Ashton, and Mark Allen Humanities Najma Agherdien, Antoinette Malgas and Rejoice Nsibande Catherine Tam and Nora Lee Wales Sciences Natasha Munsamy and Shane Pachagadu Kershree Padayachee, Ashwini Jadhav, and Phiwe Dlamini

48 Appendix A: Course Evaluation Form In order to assess the effectiveness of our courses/workshops, and to gauge future needs, it would be appreciated if you would complete this course evaluation form. Course name: FacilitatorDate: details: 1. What did you expect to gain to from the course? 2. How did the course match your expectations? What new applied competence have you acquired as a result of your participation in this course? How will you apply what you have learned in your future facilitation practice? How would you rate the facilitator & course with regards to:

49 Subject matter expertise Very poor Poor Average Good Excellent Planning & preparation Very poor Poor Average Good Excellent Level of interaction Lecture only Lecture discussion& Facilitatedstructuredactivities Selflearningdirected+artefact Course guide None Very poor Poor Average Good Excellent Ulwazi course site None Very poor Poor Average Good Excellent Suggest constructive ways on how CLTD can improve this course to make it more Commentvaluable? on any challenges or tensions regarding timing (timeslot/day) and modality (Online, blended and/or hyflex) that you may have experienced. General comments

CLTD Prospectus 2022

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About CLTD

Evaluation Services

Faculty Collaboration / Partnership

Academic Professional Learning Opportunities