The professional development opportunities are sponsored by the Center for Teaching and Learning Enhancement. The CTLE is located in 311 Magnolia Building on the Mid City Campus. They are provided as continuing education opportunities for all teaching faculty and staff. If you would like to request a specific topic, please send an email to Dr. Todd Pourciau. The resources listed directly below are available anytime. The events listed below for each semester can be accessed live on the date listed and anytime after they are archived.

ON-DEMAND
NISOD offers an archive of their past professional development webinars and since we are a member institution, we have access. Click here to get started with webinar. You will need to create a user login.


TurnItIn has a podcast series that explains the different features and how you can use them in your teaching. The various topics covered include: Reading and Writing; Collaborative Writing; Writing in the Digital Age; Authentic writing; and, Writing About Writing
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Cengage has a podcast series focused on the brain and learning. You can access the short podcasts here.

The Cultural Implications of Contract Cheating Professional Development Webinar
Tricia Bertram Gallant, Director of Academic Integrity, UC San Diego and Kenneth Balibalos, Marketing Manager, Turnitin
Cheating is not a new problem and even the act of contracting another to complete one’s academic work has a protracted history. However, with the globalization and commodification of higher education, contract cheating has become big business and is quickly embedding itself within the education culture and dramatically altering institutional cultures across the globe. This session with Tricia Bertram Gallant, will walk you through the cultural implications of contract cheating—both how culture affects the spread of contract cheating and how its presence is affecting the culture of education and students as we speak. Bertram-Gallant will also provide some key takeaways for educators and educational institutions who wish to stem the tide and minimize the damage to our educational system. View Professional Development Webinar

Looking Under the Hood: Making Course Redesign Transparent Professional Development Webinar
Lisa Kidder, Senior Instructional Technologist, Idaho State University
This is a webinar presented earlier this year and is available on the Quality Matters (QM) website. BRCC holds a membership with QM that allows access to free webinars from time to time. Once you click on the view now link, you will be asked to create a login. You must use your mybrcc email address as that will allow you access. The Center for Teaching and Learning Enhancement is pleased to facilitate this opportunity for our busy faculty. View Transparent Professional Development Webinar Now

Teach Students How to Learn: Metacognition Is the Key! Professional Development Webinar
Today’s students come to college with widely varying academic skills, interests, and motivation levels. Faculty often lament that students are focused on achieving high grades, but do not want to spend time necessary to learn the material. Too many students think that memorizing information before an examination is tantamount to learning the material. Consequently, they spend considerably less time studying than what is commensurate with their grade expectations. This workshop introduces participants to cognitive science findings that can be used to improve teaching and learning. It also provides a variety of strategies useful in helping students experience meaningful and transferable learning. This NISOD sponsored archived session was facilitated by Dr. Saundra McGuire, Professor of Chemistry (Retired) and Director Emerita, Center for Academic Success, Louisiana State University. View Teach Students How to Learn Now

Online Courses and Student Success Professional Development Webinar
Online learning is no longer an anomaly in U.S. higher education, but many still question its efficacy, especially for students most at-risk for failure. This Webinar will showcase the exciting results of recent research that suggests that taking online courses is not necessarily harmful to students’ chances of being retained at an institution. Designed to further explore the recent report, “Retention, Progression and the Taking of Online Courses” in the special Learning Analytics edition of Online Learning, the expert panelists will explain how a large scale analysis on the effectiveness of learning modalities compiled within the Predictive Analytics Reporting (PAR) Framework revealed that online courses can provide both flexibility and access while improving student completion. View Online Courses and Student Success Professional Development Webinar