Upcoming Workshops
Previous Workshops
Enhancing Research Impact: Institutional Repository & the Web of Science, May 3, 2022
Library experts will highlight ways that professors can greatly enhance their research impact through the use of AUA’s institutional repository and by fully understanding and using the Web of Science. Additionally, a subject matter expert will be on hand to answer any questions dealing with copyright.
Facilitated by AUA Papazian Library Staff
Presentation: Introduction to Web of Science
Advanced Uses of Moodle and Other Tech Tools, April 28, 2022
This hands-on workshop familiarized faculty with advanced uses of Moodle and other tools in order to make the best use of them in the classroom. Faculty practiced creating interactive content through the H5P interactive media tool in Moodle, setting up social reading activities through the Hypothes.is annotation tool, using Moodle reports to track student/participant activity, as well as using interactive polling tools, such as Poll Everywhere.
Facilitator: Tatevik Zargaryan, Library Systems and Electronic Services Librarian
AI in Higher Education: Adverse Distraction or Helpful Tool: March 25, 2022
As AI continues to develop and become more prevalent in higher education and all industries, it is important for the faculty to understand it and see how it is important to their teaching and student learning experience. This presentation, run as a Q/A session, familiarized faculty with the new realities of modern technology, highlighted how it can help students and faculty and explored how it can complicate learning if not properly used.
Special guest presentation facilitated by Armen Kherlopian and Brent Anders
Classroom Management: Brown Bag Discussion, February 28, 2022
Effective classroom management enhances student engagement and directly correlates with student achievement (Marzano et al, 2003). A key to successful classroom management is use a holistic approach to managing students by establishing a positive climate in the classroom, building quality teacher-student relationships, and using a wide variety of classroom management strategies (Hardin, 2014; Seeman, 2010). This leads to better rapport, smoother running classes, and improved student learning.
Facilitators: Brent Anders, Anna Gevorgyan
Handout: Classroom Management Strategies
Instructional Design Certificate Workshop for AUA Faculty
This four-day professional development workshop supported faculty in continuing to enhance their teaching skills by improving their course-design approaches and incorporating more active learning strategies. Various components of instructional design were covered, such as using backward design to course development, constructive alignment, formative and summative assessment, scaffolding student learning, and embedding active learning strategies in teaching and learning. Faculty that attended all four days of the workshop earned a certificate of completion in instructional design.
Facilitator: Anna Gevorgyan, Adjunct lecturer, MATEFL
Presentations:
Day 1: Course Outcomes and SLOs
Day 2: Course Alignment
Day 3: Assessment Strategies
Day 4: Active Learning Strategies
Spring New Faculty Orientation 2022
Presentation: New Faculty Orientation Spring 2022 Agenda
Presentation: AUA Students An Overview
Presentation: Human Resources: What do I need to know
Presentation: ICTS
Presentation: Office of Student Affairs
Presentation: Counseling and Disability Services
Presentation: Math and Writing Center
Presentation: Policies: What New Faculty Should Know
Presentation: Teaching and Learning
- August
Pandemic, war and resiliency (or survival): the challenges we have all faced
Presenter: Garine Papazian-Zohrabian
Presentation: Post-war and post-pandemic educational realities and tools
Classroom Questioning.
Facilitator: Anna Gevorgyan, Lecturer, College of Humanities and Social Sciences.
Presentation: Classroom Questioning
Moving back on site: Classroom Management.
Facilitator: Roza Selimyan
Teaching First-Year Students.
Facilitator: Suzanne Daghlian
Presentation: Teaching First Year students
Aligning learning activities and methods of evaluation to student learning outcomes: Improving Outcome-based Instruction.
Facilitator: Anna Gevorgyan, Lecturer, College of Humanities and Social Sciences.
Presentation: Aligning learning activities and methods of evaluation to student learning outcomes: Improving Outcome-based Instruction.
Developing course-based student learning outcomes.
Facilitator: Anna Gevorgyan, Lecturer, College of Humanities and Social Sciences.
Presentation: Developing course-based student learning outcomes.
An Introduction to Hypothesis. A Moodle Tool to Help Students Read and Write in an Online Environment.
Facilitator: Jeremy Dean
August 19. 6:00 PM. Post-war and post-pandemic educational realities and tools. (On Zoom)
Presenter: Presenter: Garine Papazian-Zohrabian
Fall New Faculty Orientation 2021
Presentation: New Faculty Orientation Fall 2021 Agenda
Presentation: AUA Students An Overview
Presentation: Human Resources: What do I need to know
Presentation: ICTS
Presentation: Office of Student Affairs
Presentation: Counseling and Disability Services
Presentation: Math and Writing Center
Presentation: Policies: What New Faculty Should Know
Presentation: Teaching and Learning
Handout: Moodle How To
Handout: Library Guide
Handout: Math and Writing Center Pamphlet Online
Providing Positive and Constructive Feedback on Student Writing (On Zoom)
Facilitator: Alina Gharabegian, Associate Professor at New Jersey City University
Presentation: Responding to Student Work
Course Syllabus Preparation Open Office Hours.
Introduction to Moodle.
Photovoice methods in teaching and research.
Facilitator: Inna Mirzoyan, Fulbright Scholar and PhD Candidate in Sociology, Michigan State University
Presentation: Photovoice in Research and Teaching Methods
- June
Faculty Workshop: Open Educational Resources: An Introduction. What are OERs and what resources are available for teaching and research, and library subscribed multidisciplinary databases. Facilitator: Hasmik Galstyan, Head of Reference / Circulation Department, AUA AGBU Papazian Library
Faculty Workshop: An Introduction to Hypothesis. A Moodle Tool to Help Students Read and Write in an Online Environment.
Facilitator: Becky George, Customer Success Specialist, Liquid Margins: Hypothesis.
Faculty Workshop: Developing course-based student learning outcomes.
Presentation: Course-Based SLOs
Facilitator: Anna Gevorgyan, Lecturer, College of Humanities and Social Sciences.
- March
Webinar: The effects of the war and the pandemic on learning –Understanding in order to improve intervention.
Presenter: Garine Papazian-Zohrabian, associate professor in the Department of Psycho-Pedagogy and Andragogy of the Faculty of Education of the University of Montreal, the scientific Director of the interdisciplinary research group on refugee and asylum seeking families (FRQSC)
- January
Spring New Faculty Orientation 2021.
Presentation: New Faculty Orientation Spring 2021 Welcome
Presentation: AUA Students An Overview
Presentation: Policies: What New Faculty Should Know
Presentation: Teaching and Learning
Presentation: AUA Office of Student Affairs
Presentation: Math and Writing Center: Concept and Services
Presentation: Human Resources
Handout: Library Guide
Quizzes in Moodle.
Facilitator Yevgenya Paturyan, Associate Professor College of Humanities and Social Sciences.
Open Educational Resources: An Introduction. What are OERs and what resources are available for teaching and research.
Facilitator: Hasmik Galstyan, Head of Reference / Circulation Department, AUA AGBU Papazian Library.
Using the Workshop Activity in Moodle.
How to use the Moodle Workshop activity for project-based learning and evaluating the implementation of real life projects.
Facilitators: Tatevik Avetisyan, Adjunct Lecturer College of Humanities and Social Sciences, and Tatevik Zargaryan, Library Systems and Electronic Services Librarian.
Developing course-based student learning outcomes.
Facilitator: Anna Gevorgyan, Lecturer, College of Humanities and Social Sciences.
An Introduction to Hypothesis: A Moodle Tool to Help Students Read and Write in an Online Environment.
Facilitator: Becky George, Customer Success Specialist, Liquid Margins: Hypothesis.
- December
Developing Course-Based Learning Outcomes.
Facilitator: Anna Gevorgyan, Lecturer, College of Humanities and Social Sciences.
Presentation:Developing Course-Based Student Learning Outcomes.
Aligning Assignments to Student Learning Outcomes.
Facilitator: Anna Gevorgyan, Lecturer, College of Humanities and Social Sciences.
Presentation: Aligning Teaching and Learning to Course Outcomes.
Workshop Tool in Moodle. Facilitators: Tatevik Avetisyan, Adjunct Lecturer at College of Humanities & Social Sciences, and Tatevik Zargaryan, Library Systems and Electronic Services Librarian
Open Educational Resources: An Introduction. What are OERs and what resources are available for teaching and research. Facilitator: Hasmik Galstyan, Head of Reference / Circulation Department, AUA AGBU Papazian Library.
Moodle and Zoom Tools for Teaching. This webinar is an introduction for the faculty to various Moodle and Zoom tools to enhance teaching and learning. Tools such as discussion boards; chat; quizzes; surveys and feedback; and creating and integrating interactive content such as videos, quizzes, games, presentations through H5P.
Tatevik Zargaryan, Library Systems and Electronic Services Librarian
Presentation: Moodle and Zoom Tools for Teaching
Structuring your online course: Course rhythm and deadline days.
Facilitator: Alex Vartan Gubbins, Adjunct Lecturer • College of Humanities & Social Sciences.
An Introduction to Hypothesis: A Moodle Tool to Help Students Read and Write in an Online Environment.
Facilitator: Elitza Kotzeva, Assistant Professor College of Humanities & Social Sciences.
- October
Faculty Brown Bag: Research Ethics. Looking Back and Looking Forward
Facilitator: Kristina Akopian
Useful Links:
https://aua.am/aua-institutional-review-board-guidebook/
https://chsrmd.aua.am/
Faculty Professional Development Webinar: Advanced Moodle Tools: Creating Interactive Content in Moodle with H5P
Facilitators: Maro Aghazarian, Parandzem Sargsyan, Yevgenya Paturyan
Presentation: Advanced Moodle Tools: Creating Interactive Content in Moodle with H5P
- September
Faculty Brown Bag Discussion: Talking With Students About The Current Situation
Facilitators: Yevgeny Paturyan, Associate Professor; and Steven Donatelle, Adjunct Lecturer
Faculty Brown Bag Discussion: Strategies that work (and maybe add some that didn’t) in online teaching and asynchronous learning. Engaging students.
Facilitator: Vahram Elagoz, Adjunct Lecturer Acopian Center for the Environment
Faculty Brown Bag Discussion: Classroom Activities and Assignments with Hypothesis
Facilitator: Elitza Kotzeva
Workshop: Creating and Using Quizzes in Moodle
Facilitator: Yevgenya Paturyan
- August
Faculty Retreat 2020-2021 sessions (online)
Presentation: Tips for teaching online from faculty who taught this summer
Presentation: Updates from HR
New Faculty Orientation 2020-2021 (online)
Presentation: Agenda
Presentation: AUA Students An Overview
Presentation: Policies What New Faculty Should Know
Presentation: Teaching and Learning
Presentation: AUA Office of Student Affairs
Presentation: Human Resources
Presentation: Office of Student Affairs: Services and Disability Services
Workshop: Considerations in Online Teaching: Synchronous vs Asynchronous (will be held in Armenian)/ Առցանց դասընթաց` Նկատառումներ առցանց դասավանդման վերաբերյալ՝ համաժամանակյա և տարաժամանակյա ուսուցում (լեզուն՝ հայերեն)
Facilitator: Roza Selimyan
Presentation: Նկատառումներ առցանց դասավանդման վերաբերյալ Համաժամանակյա և ապաժամանակյա ուսուցում/ Considerations in Online Teaching Synchronous vs Asynchronous Learning in Armenian
-July
Workshop: Tools for online teaching and learning
Workshopping your course: preparing for online teaching (CHSS, SPH, and Gen Ed Faculty)
Facilitator: Roza Selimyan
Faculty brown bag discussion: Sharing online teaching strategies
Presenters: AUA Faculty Members Brent Anders, Hasmik Khalapyan, Vahe Odabashian
- June
Considerations in Online Teaching: Synchronous vs Asynchronous Learning (CBE, CSE Faculty)
Facilitator: Roza Selimyan
- April
- March
Faculty Workshop: Intro to Hypothesis--Annotation Tool in Moodle
Facilitator: Elitza Kotzeva
Faculty Workshop: Using the Bells and Whistles in Zoom
Facilitator: Satenik Mnatsakanyan
- February
Faculty Brown Bag: Making Group Work 'Work'
Handout: Group Work
Handout: Group Work Strategies to Ensure Students Pull Their Weight Faculty Focus
Handout: Group Work: How to Create & Manage Groups Center for Teaching Innovation
Handout: Challenges of Group Work
Faculty Workshop. Providing Positive and Constructive Feedback to Student Writing.
Presenter: Elitza Kotzeva
Presentation: Feedback to Student Writing
Handout: A Brief Guide of Responding to Student Writing
Handout: AFOSP Assessment Criteria
Handout: Deep Reading
Handout: Listening theories
Handout: Rhetorical Listening
Handout: Teach Writing as a Process Not Product
Handout: Tutoring ESL Students
- January
Faculty Workshop. Student Engagement/ Classroom Management
Presenter: Alen Amirkhanian
New Faculty Orientation
Presentation: Agenda
Presentation: AUA Students
Presentation: Office of Student Affairs
Presentation: Office of Student Affairs: Counseling Services and Disability Support Services
Presentation: Human Resources
Presentation: Moving Forward
Handout: Faculty Senate Bylaws, Faculty Senate Committees
Handout: Few Tips from Registrar
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OctoberFaculty Brown Bag Discussion. Principles of Effective College TeachingPresenters: Satenik Mnatsakanyan, Norayr Ben Ohanian, and Karena Avedisian
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August
Faculty Retreat (All-day event, off campus)
New Faculty Orientation (One and a half-day event, on campus) - May
Faculty Brown Bag Discussion. E-Resources
Facilitated by Sargis Zeytunyan and Hasmik Galstyan -
AprilFaculty Brown Bag Discussion. Faculty Research: Nanotechnology: Science of making small stuff do big things.Facilitated by Amalya Kostanyan
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MarchFaculty Workshop. Project-Based Learning.Handouts are available to members of the AUA community upon request.
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February
Faculty Workshop. Classroom Assessment Techniques.
Facilitated by Rubina Gasparyan.
Presentation
Handouts
- December
Faculty Brown Bag Discussion: Project Based Learning: Strategies. Facilitated by Norayr Ben Ohanian.
Faculty Workshop: Avoiding Plagiarism. Facilitator by Michael Andrews Bashan. - November
Faculty Brown Bag Discussion. Getting Published.Faculty Workshop: Developing Rubrics for Presentation - October
Faculty workshop. Providing Feedback
Faculty Brown Bag Discussion. Avoiding Plagiarism -
September
Faculty Workshop: Implementing Creative Formal and Informal Classroom Assessment Tools - April
Faculty Workshop: PBL 2.0 Taking Project Based Learning (PBL) to the Next LevelFaculty Workshop: Student Engagement: An Active Mindset from Week 1 to Week 15
Presentation
Hand out
Faculty Workshop: PBL 1.0: Fundamentals of Project Based Learning (PBL)
Presentation
Hand out - March
Faculty Brown Bag Discussion: Using technology in the classroom.
A look at polleverywhere.com and Kahoot.com
Faculty Brown Bag Discussion: Innovation in Education: Problems, Solutions and Success Stories.
Presentation: Innovation in Education - February
Faculty Workshop: Developing Rubrics
Presentation: Developing Rubrics - January
Faculty Brown Bag Discussion: Classroom Management
Presentation: Building a Learning Culture: Managing a Classroom to Enhance Learning
New Faculty Orientation
Agenda
Presentation: AUA Students
Presentation: AUA policies. What I need to know
Presentation: Human Resources
Presentation: ICTS. Integrated classrooms
Handout: Tips from the Office of Registrar
Handout:Library Guide
- November 2017: Faculty Workshop on Aligning Assignments
Presentation: Aligning Assignments
Worksheet: Aligning Assignments with Course-Based SLOs and Program SLOs
Worksheet: Bloom's Taxonomy - October 2017: Faculty Workshop on Scaffolding Writing Assignments
Presentation: Scaffolding Assignments
Handout: Scaffolding Assignments
Handout: Organizing Brief Article Reviews and Avoiding Plagiarism - October 2017: Faculty Brown Bag Discussion: Responding to Student Writing
Handout: Responding to Student Writing
Handout: Peer Review Worksheet
Handout: Your Essay Must Contain - September 2017: Faculty Brown Bag Discussion: Classroom Management
Presentation: Building a Learning Culture: Managing a Classroom to Enhance Learning - August 2017: New Faculty Orientation
Agenda
Presentation: ICTS
Presentation: Human Resources
Presentation: Provost: Where are we going
Handout: Few Tips From the Office of Registrar
Handout: Library Guide - August 2017: Faculty Retreat
Agenda
Presentation: Erasmus+ Inclusion Project
Handout: Faculty Senate Committees
- July 2017: Developing Course-Based Student Learning Outcomes
Presentation: Developing Course-Based Student Learning Outcomes
Handout: Bloom's Taxonomy
Handout: Worksheet
- May 2017: Project Based Learning
Presentation
Worksheet - May 2017: Faculty Brown Bag Discussion: A recap of Integrating Information Literacy into Your Disciplinary Course, from the recent AMICAL Workshop
- February 2017: Faculty Brown Bag Discussion. Engaging and Active Learning and Assessment Strategies (including an introduction to www.polleverywhere.com)
- December 2016: Grading Methods (Faculty Discussion) Handout: Multi-section Course Grading - Suggestions Handout: Specification Grading
- December 2016: Engaging Students Handout: Student Engagement Revisited
- August 2016: Setting Up Rubrics in Moodle Handout: Using Moodle Rubrics
- August 2016: Course Syllabus Development Presentation Worksheet: Aligning Assigments Handout: Bloom's Taxonomy
- August 2016: Faculty Retreat Agenda Workshop: Student Engagement Workshop: Managing a Classroom to Enhance Learning Resource: Student Engagement in Campus-Based and Online Education Resource: Student Engagement Literature Review The Higher Education Academy Handout: Five Things to Do on the First Day of Class
- August 2016: New Faculty Orientation Agenda Presentation: Provost: Where are we going Presentation: Human Resources Presentation: Policies: What I need to Know Handout: Library Guide Handout: UMS for Faculty Handout: Center for Student Success
- May 2016: Project-based Learning Presentation Worksheet
- April 2016: Backwards Design Presentation Backwards Design Sample Backwards Design Template
- January 2016: Program Chairs: On Classroom Observations
- December, 2015: Brown Bag: Tips for Final Exams
- November 2015: Developing Student Learning Outcomes and Aligning Assignments Presentation Handout/Worksheet: Aligning Assignments
- November 2015: Brown Bag presentation on Twinning Training on Grading
- August 2015: Faculty Retreat Agenda Modifying Your Course to Meet Student Learning Needs Adkin Kevin Helping Students Succeed Adkin Brown Palandjian Policies: A brief overview Handout: 5 Things to do on the First Day of Class Handout: The First Day of Class A Once a Semester Opportunity Handout: Course Syllabus Checklist Handout: Course Syllabus Template
- July 2015: Assessment for Learning, Classroom Assessment, Questioning to Learn Agenda Presentation: Insley Kim Conceptions of Assessment Links Presentation: Pachler Norbert Grade-related Criteria and Their Use in Marking Presentation: Brant Jacek Questioning to Learn Handout Driving Lessons Scenario Handout Examples of Two Teaching Approaches
- December 2014: Aligning Assignments
Presentation
Activity
- August 2014: Faculty Retreat
Agenda
Center for Student Success Presentation
Engaging Students: An MPH Case Study Presentation
What is General Education? Presentation
- June 2014: Developing Student Learning Outcomes
Presentation
Handout
Activities
- June 2014: Engaging Students Using Social Media
Presentation - April 2014: Brown Bag Discussion. Curbing Cheating
- April 2014: Interactive Teaching Strategies
- 2014 January: Classroom Assessment Strategies
Presentation
Presentation by Center for Student Services
- 2013 October: Teaching and Learning with Professor James M. Lang Motivating Assessing Connecting Testing
- 2013 October: Promoting Strategy Instruction Across the Curriculum Presentation Handout
- 2013 August: Faculty Retreat Presentation
- 2013 June: Developing Student Learning Outcomes Presentation Handouts: Developing SLOs Handout Aligning Assignments to Outcomes Worksheet June 2013 Developing SLOs Handout Bloom's taxonomy Developing SLOs Handout Freshman English 1 Example of Alignment
- 2013 May: Ugrad Program Chairs: Student Learning Assessment Plans: A review of direct and indirect evidence
- 2013 April: Using Technology in the Classroom to Enhance Collaborative Learning Agenda Handout: Resources
- 2013 March: Undergraduate Course and Syllabus Development Presentation Handouts
- 2013 February: Introduction to eTexts Agenda Presentation Handout
- 2012 December: Undergraduate Assessment for Deans and Program Chairs
- 2012 June: Syllabus Workshop
Agenda
Presentation
- 2011 December: Developing Rubrics
Agenda
- 2011 November: Institutionalizing Assessment of Student Learning
Agenda
Presentation