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Fall Faculty Forum Tips for Increasing Faculty Effectiveness and Student Success

This article discusses the Center for Teaching and Learning's Fall Faculty Forum, held November 8, 2012, an event designed to promote deeper learning and transfer of the knowledge shared at the 2012 Virtual Global Faculty Institute. Presentations emphasized using sound pedagogy with free or low-cost technologies for faculty and student engagement. The article mentions and includes links to a number of research, polling, and multimedia tools that faculty may consider using in their classrooms. View entire article

A Rose by Any Other Name: The Use of Honorifics in University Adult Education

This article offers a brief summary of the identity resource of facework, applying its concepts to the discussions in an undergraduate capstone class to explain student behavior associated with the use of honorifics in student-faculty interaction. View entire article

Improving Knowledge of Quantitative Methods

This article reports on the results of a study and the efforts by two UMUC faculty to assist students in enhancing their ability to use with greater effectiveness the quantitative methods associated with finance, accounting, and statistical analysis. Faculty provided information, reference sources, and tools related to these methods to students in three existing classes. The purpose of the study was to test quantitatively the associated value and benefits of the interventions. View entire article

Second ShareFair on UMUC Faculty Research and Scholarship

The second annual ShareFair conference on UMUC Faculty Research and Scholarship was held at the Academic Center at Largo in September. This half-day event gave UMUC faculty members an opportunity to present and share research through poster sessions and roundtable discussions. View entire article

TED-Ed: Using and Creating Customized Educational Video Lessons

This article introduces another resource that faculty can use in building upon their online course materials, providing some background about the new TED-Ed site and its educational videos, how to "flip" a lesson, and an opportunity to submit your own educational videos to TED-Ed. View entire article

Important Information

UMUC Classroom Interruption Planning Guide

These guidelines emphasize effective strategies that will allow faculty to continue teaching and communicating with students if online or onsite classes become inaccessible for extended periods of time.

Expectations of Faculty Teaching for GSMT

All Graduate School of Management & Technology (GSMT) faculty members, whether teaching online or face-to-face, use UMUC's online course delivery system, WebTycho. Expectations of Faculty Teaching for GSMT outlines requirements including instructors' use of WebTycho to achieve UMUC's goal of providing the highest-quality education to its students. The document is available for download from the Faculty Resources section.

Expectations of Faculty Teaching for SUS

All School of Undergraduate Studies (SUS) faculty members, whether teaching online or face-to-face, use UMUC's online course delivery system, WebTycho. Expectations of Faculty Teaching for SUS outlines requirements including instructors' use of WebTycho to achieve UMUC's goal of providing the highest-quality education to its students. These documents are available for download from the Faculty Resources section.

Calendar

Please refer to the UMUC's Academic Calendar for semester start and end dates. Also, don't forget about the UMUC recognized holidays. In many cases there is a difference in the scheduled holidays between online and F2F classes.

For Face to Face classes: The start and end date for your class will depend on the day of the week your class meets. Please refer to the Schedule of Classes for the exact start and end date.

Information and Library Services

New One-Stop Access to Faculty and Student Research and Scholarship: Faculty and Student Research @ UMUC

Visit the new Faculty and Student Research @ UMUC Web page from Information and Library Services, which provides one-stop access to the growing body of research-related materials produced by UMUC faculty, students, and visiting scholars. View entire article