6th Annual Celebration of Teaching and Learning Symposium
Thursday, February 10, 2022 | Virtual
9:15 am - 2:30 pm CST | 10:15 am - 3:30 pm EST
Sponsored by the University of Southern Indiana's Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL)
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Register | Program | Abstracts You are invited to participate in the sixth annual Celebration of Teaching & Learning Symposium, hosted virtually by the University of Southern Indiana. The Symposium showcases works focusing on improving student learning, academic success, and curriculum in higher education. It provides opportunities to share teaching and learning efforts as the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) or Teaching Practice. |
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The program includes a keynote session "Responding to Exhaustion: A Mental Bandwidth Approach to Increasing Learning and Success" presented by Dr. Tina D. Bhargava (Kent State University), a student panel session, SoTL presentations, and lightning presentations/ discussion sessions.
Program Overview - All times are shown in Central (CST).
9:15 - 9:30 am Welcome
9:35 - 10:20 am Lightning 1 and SoTL 1 Sessions
10:30 - 11:50 pm Keynote Session
12:00 - 12:45 pm Lightning 2 and SoTL 2 Sessions
1:00 - 1:45 pm Student Panel
1:45 - 2:00 pm Concluding Remarks
2:00 - 2:30 pm Networking Break
Why Participate?
The virtual Symposium will provide you with opportunities to engage with other participants across disciplines and areas of work. Benefits include the opportunity to share your work, spark new ideas, get feedback on your work, make your scholarship visible, and initiate or strengthen connections. Presenters will have the option to include their abstracts and presentation materials in USI's Scholarly Open Access Repository (SOAR).
Keynote Presentation
"Responding to Exhaustion: A Mental Bandwidth Approach to Increasing Learning and Success"
Slides and Recording
In the dregs of the COVID-19 pandemic, our students show up to our colleges with extremely depleted “mental bandwidth” from constantly changing expectations, persistent uncertainties, and disheartening mental and physical health strain. Low-income, non-traditional, and non-majority students often struggle with additional burdens of unrelenting financial insecurity, insufficient institutional supports, and systemic discrimination. This severe deficit of mental bandwidth—a resource critical to learning, creativity, and nuanced thinking—leads to disengagement, demoralization, and poorer outcomes, not just for students, but for faculty, staff, and institutions as a whole.
In this presentation, Dr. Tina Bhargava will discuss mental bandwidth and its impact on success and satisfaction in higher education. Many common classroom and institutional practices can unintentionally contribute to mental bandwidth drains. Dr. Bhargava will share some simple principles and practices that can protect and prevent the loss of mental bandwidth, and streamline bandwidth demands to increase opportunities for learning, success, and revitalization.
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About the Speaker: |
Dr. Bhargava is a thought leader in the application of dual-process theories of cognition to the field of public health and beyond. Her “mental bandwidth” research started in 2009 and was initially focused on the cognitive resource availability issues that influenced individuals’ success with the Diabetes Prevention Program, as implemented virtually with a wide diversity of participants, ranging from primary care patients in Pittsburgh, to active-duty Air Force members and their families in Texas.
Dr. Bhargava's current work focuses on developing mental-bandwidth informed actions for improving effectiveness and increasing equity in health services, higher education, workplaces, and everyday life. You can explore some of her work at http://everydaybandwidth.com.
Registration
Registration is free. Pre-register by February 8 to be entered into the "door prize" drawing. All faculty and instructional staff working with students in higher education are welcome.
Health Professional Continuing Education (CE) may be earned by participating in the Symposium. CE contact hours are available for a small fee.
Questions? Please contact us at cetl@usi.edu
Key Dates
To provide flexibility and encourage participation, two sets of proposal submission and notification dates are available.
Presentation abstracts and materials are available through USI's Scholarly Open Access Repository (SOAR), which is a searchable repository to provide broader dissemination of our presenters' works.
Call for Proposals
Presentations focus on improving student learning and success by facilitating student engagement and motivation; learning in specific contexts (such as face-to-face, online, hybrid, laboratory, clinical, or studio environments, or within disciplines); curricular improvements; or fostering diversity, inclusion, equity, and civility. They also may focus on specific groups of learners (such as first-year, graduate, adult, minoritized, and/or marginalized students, or students with disabilities), or academic success at the course or program level. Presentations that focus on takeaways and lessons learned from adaptations and issues related to teaching and learning during the COVID-19 pandemic are welcomed.
2022 Symposium Sponsors
The Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning (CETL) is proud to offer the fifth Celebration of Teaching & Learning Symposium. We are grateful for the support provided by the Office of the Provost, David L. Rice Library, Online Learning, Information Technology, and Office of Planning, Research, and Assessment.
About the Celebration of Teaching and Learning Symposia
The Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning (CETL) at the University of Southern Indiana is proud to sponsor this annual symposium for the community. The goal of the Symposia is to provide participants opportunities to share their teaching efforts to support student learning, engage in conversations to enhance one's teaching practice, and build community. The Symposium is an example of CETL’s focus on Making Teaching and Learning Visible.
Abstract Collection
Presentation abstracts from the Symposium series are available publicly through USI's Scholarly Open Access Repository (SOAR).
2021 Celebration of Teaching and Learning Symposium
February 25, 2021, University of Southern Indiana
Over 130 individuals attended the fifth annual Symposium, with participants from more than ten institutions in the region. The program included 18 oral and poster presentations, a student panel, and a keynote interactive session "Balancing Flexibility and Rigor to Support Student Success" presented by Drs. Carie Cardamone and Heather Dwyer (Tufts University).
2020 Celebration of Teaching and Learning Symposium
February 5, 2020, University of Southern Indiana
Approximately 90 individuals attended the fourth annual Symposium, with participants from five institutions in the region. The program included 23 oral and poster presentations, a plenary luncheon presentation "In the Company of Others: Learning Analytics and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning" by Dr. Jennifer Meta Robinson (Indiana University Bloomington).
2019 Celebration of Teaching and Learning Symposium
February 6, 2019, University of Southern Indiana
More than 100 individuals attended the third Symposium, with participants from nine institutions in the region. The program included 30 oral and poster presentations, a plenary luncheon presentation "Good Teachers, Scholarly Teachers, and Scholars of Teaching and Learning" by Dr. Jennifer Friberg (Cross Endowed Chair in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Illinois State University).
2018 Celebration of Teaching and Learning Symposium
January 25, 2018, University of Southern Indiana
More than 90 individuals attended the second Symposium, with participants from five institutions in the region. The program included 26 oral and poster presentations, a plenary luncheon presentation "Active Learning in the 21st Century" by Dr. J. Ana Donaldson, and a reception.
2017 Celebration of Teaching and Learning Symposium
January 26, 2017, University of Southern Indiana
The program included 35 oral and poster presentations, an invited panel of teaching award recipients, and a reception. We were thrilled that over 110 participants attended this inaugural event.
