Below are some of the workshops and seminars available in the coming months. To RSVP please email Karen.Fritz@gcu.edu with your GCU username and employee ID number.

Registration will close for all workshops on the Thursday prior to the start date.
 
9/3/2012
 Turnitin Workshop
 
Registration open until 8/30/2012
 This is a short self-paced workshop that can be completed on the faculty member's own time within a 2 week timeframe from the start date. The workshop provides faculty with…

The ILA is pleased to partner with The Jepson School of Leadership Studies at the University of Richmond on the 2012 Fredric M. Jablin Doctoral Dissertation Award. This award is given annually to a scholar whose doctoral dissertation research, while on any topic and from any discipline, demonstrates substantial insights and implications for the study of leadership. The award was established to honor and celebrate the life of Dr. Fredric M. Jablin (1952-2004).

In order to be eligible for the…

Today, teachers are expected to be mentors and social workers as well as educators. Sometimes even substitute parents. How do we educate teachers differently to reflect this? Do they need to teach differently in light of these expectations? As teacher enrollment declines, how do we attract the best teachers from college (or earlier) through training and ongoing professional development? What are the best ways to evaluate and enhance teachers' skills?

These are among the urgent questions this…

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A Travel Grant of up to $1,000 for expenses related to travel and housing at the 2012 ILA conference in Denver will be presented by Union Institute & University (UI&U) for the best student paper completed for a class in a master's degree program between July 1, 2009 and June 30, 2012, on a topic related to the theme of ILA's 14th Annual Global Conference, Leadership Across the Great Divides: Bridging Cultures, Contexts, and Complexities, taking…

Check it out... TED-Ed (http://ed.ted.com/tour).

A primary focus of TED-Ed is to provide high-quality lessons taught by exceptional educators. You can see engaging videos to create customized lessons. One of our goals is to make the TED-Ed video library as engaging, thorough, and robust as possible. You can use, tweak, or completely redo any lesson featured on TED-Ed, or create lessons from scratch based on any video from YouTube. If you or someone you know is an engaging expert that you think…

Due to low enrollment, the summer MIST teaching webinars are postponed until fall. Please watch your emails for the newly scheduled dates. I apologize for any inconvenience.

Join the GCU community of teaching scholars and provide your feedback on the current discussion papers for the Journal of Instructional Research.
The Journal of Instructional Research (JIR) is an annual publication by the Center for Innovation in Research and Teaching at Grand Canyon University that highlights faculty research relevant to best practices in post-secondary instruction. Unique to JIR is the use of a two-stage evaluation process with public peer review, interactive discussion and…

Grand Canyon University is committed to providing materials and resources to promote student success in the online environment. Through Office Online, GCU students have the ability to access and share Word documents with Microsoft SkyDrive. This resource has facilitated successful completion of CLC group projects, enabling students to contribute to the same document and make live edits. Students who used the resource in past classes have commended it for reducing revision time on group…

TED-Ed's commitment to creating lessons worth sharing is an extension of TED's mission of spreading great ideas. Within the growing TED-Ed video library, you will find carefully curated educational videos, many of which represent collaborations between talented educators and animators nominated through the TED-Ed platform. This platform also allows users to take any useful educational video, not just TED's, and easily create a customized lesson around the video. Users can distribute the…