Indiana University will be hosting its second annual Learning Analytics Summit on April 3-5, 2019, in Bloomington, IN. Sponsored by the Center for Learning Analytics and Student Success (CLASS), this years' theme is Engaging Faculty in the Research of Student Success. Registration is free but space is limited! The purpose of the annual summit is to foster the widespread use of learning analytics by faculty, providing them with the support and tools they to conduct scholarly research about … [Read more...]

BVA’s RAC1, TRESTLE, has a brown bag webinar scheduled January 28 at 3PM Central time.  “Seeing the Forest for the Trees: Leveraging Course Transformation for Broader Curriculum Design,” will be facilitated by Andrea Greenhoot and Joshua Potter of KU. You can find a link to register for the webinar here. Previous brown bag webinars included: Colloquium: “How to be a great embedded expert,”  Stephanie Chasteen (University of Colorado Boulder) and Warren Code, UBC) ,December 3, … [Read more...]

The BVA aims to support and sustain the widespread adoption of instructional methods leading to better student learning.  That, in turn, means being more aware of the challenges students face as learners.  This short YouTube video captures the experience of faculty at Indiana University Bloomington as they reflect on the need to provide students with explicit guidance about the “mental moves” of their discipline or field.  As research makes clear, doing so is key to helping students overcome … [Read more...]