Instructional Design & Technology (IDT) is always happy to meet with our Rutgers–Camden faculty on your schedule—on campus, by phone, or via Zoom. We can also present to your academic department or any small group of Rutgers–Camden instructors on pedagogical best practices, or on the many edtech tools Rutgers offers in support of your teaching and learning goals. To schedule a group workshop or a one-on-one consultation with IDT, reach out to us at idt@camden.rutgers.edu or 856-225-6090. We look forward to working with you!
Faculty Webinars (Dec 2024)
Start the Spring Semester with an Impactful Welcome
Set your students up for success with a syllabus that promotes their sense of belonging, clarifies your expectations and course policies, and bolsters students’ confidence.
Crafting the Learner-Centered Syllabus
This session will detail actionable, research-based strategies for ensuring your course syllabus is meaningful, clear, inclusive, and ready to meet learners where they are in the age of AI. Some of the approaches we’ll explore during this session include:
- tailoring a tone of positivity, inclusivity, and openness
- providing a rationale for course topics and activities
- identifying course challenges, encouraging student responsibility, and suggesting strategies for success
- allowing student input into class policies and procedures through co-creation and community-driven development
- developing or refining course policies regarding the use of artificial intelligence
This webinar will provide you with a conversation with peers at Rutgers–Camden, as well as sample syllabi, policies, and rubrics.
- Tuesday, 12/3 (12:45-1:30) on Zoom
- Wednesday, 12/4 (11:20-12:05) on Zoom
Faculty Webinars (Aug/Sept)
Crafting the learner-centered syllabus
This session will detail actionable, research-based strategies for ensuring your course syllabus is meaningful, clear, inclusive, and ready to meet learners where they are in the age of AI. Some of the approaches we’ll explore during this session include:
- tailoring a tone of positivity, inclusivity, and openness
- providing rationale for course topics and activities
- identifying course challenges, encouraging student responsibility, and suggesting strategies for success
- allowing student input into class policies and procedures through co-creation and community-driven development
- developing or refining course policies regarding the use of artificial intelligence
This webinar will provide you with a conversation with peers at Rutgers–Camden, as well as sample syllabi, policies, and rubrics.
- Wednesday, 8/28 (3:30-4:15pm) in Zoom
Canvas 101 series
Interested in learning more about Canvas? Eager to get your course site organized for the upcoming semester? Please join us for our Canvas webinar series, where we take a closer look at Canvas functionality and how it can help your students.
Canvas: Prepping your course site
- Monday, 8/5 (12-12:45pm) in Zoom; or
- Tuesday, 8/20 (3:30-4:15pm) in Zoom
This workshop will highlight some of the most helpful ‘to-do’s before making your site available to students, whether you’re copying content from a previous semester or starting from scratch. Join us to help ensure your course site is ready to go and set up for success!
Canvas: Assignments & Discussions
- Monday, 8/12 (12-12:45pm) in Zoom; or
- Wednesday, 8/21 (3:30-4:15pm) in Zoom
These Canvas tools allow you to engage your students with both formative and summative assessment.
- Explore the many types of assessments you can offer your students through the Canvas Assignment tool, like paper uploads, worksheet annotation, link submissions, and more. We’ll also take a look at group assignments and peer review.
- Engaging students with the Canvas Discussion tool can help your online classroom come alive—or allow classroom discussions to overflow into virtual space.
We will review the basics of using each tool and discuss potential uses in your courses.
Canvas: Grades & Speedgrader
- Thursday, 8/8 (3:30-4:15pm) in Zoom; or
- Wednesday, 8/21 (12-12:45pm) in Zoom
This session will feature a ‘how-to’ of setting up your Canvas Grades, including weighted course grade calculation. Say good-bye to downloading and uploading student assignments! Speedgrader allows you to provide meaningful feedback to students, including annotations on their submission, directly from Canvas. We’ll take a look at the options for you to record audio or video feedback as well.
EdTech for Engaged Learning series
Collaborative Learning tools
- Tuesday 8/13 (12-12:45pm) in Zoom; or
- Monday 9/9 (11:20am-12:05pm) in Zoom
Promote a community of inquiry in your classroom to foster a strong sense of belonging. Using tools like Hypothesis (social annotation of course readings), YellowDig (social media-style chat), Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive, you’ll create or re-design a classroom activity.
Interactive Lecture tools
- Wednesday 8/14 (12-12:45pm) in Zoom; or
- Thursday 9/12 (12:45-1:30pm) in Zoom *[This session is now part of the Camden Faculty Lunch & Learn program; send email to idt@camden.rutgers.edu to attend either in person or via Zoom!]
Engage students in active learning, whether online or in the classroom. Tools we’ll review may include PlayPosit (add an interactive layer over your video), interactive whiteboard tools, and polling tools like Slido and Kahoot. Whatever your lecture style, online or in the classroom, you’ll update a lecture by adding student input.
Multimodal Student Presentation tools
- Thursday 8/15 (12-12:45pm) in Zoom; or
- Wednesday 9/11 (11:20am-12:05pm) in Zoom
Encourage students to create exciting solo or collaborative projects, using audio, video, graphics, and/or text to allow authentic assessment of their learning. Explore tools including VoiceThread, Canva, and Adobe Express. You’ll update an assignment to encourage students to engage with each other and with these rich-content tools.
Previously-recorded workshop videos
If you’re happiest with recorded sessions, feel free to watch some of our most popular recorded webinars:
- introductory & intermediate webinars on teaching in Canvas
- webinar series on teaching online
- edTech for engaged learning series
Faculty eLearning Conference
The inaugural Faculty eLearning Conference on April 29, 2014 started an annual tradition of celebrating great teaching and learning at Rutgers–Camden. IDT hosted the one-day conference under the auspices of the provost from 2014-2019 in person at the Campus Center, with a full schedule of faculty presentations about their teaching challenges, innovations, and successes. In 2020, during the pandemic, we hosted a fully-online version of the conference. Since then, the conference has been on hold, but we have high hopes for a re-launch!
Information from previous years is available from our Past Conferences page.
Digital Teaching Fellows
In an initiative inspired by Dean Kris Lindenmeyer of FAS, the first cohort of DT Fellows was selected in the spring of 2014—and all four of our Camden deans continued their support of this transformative program. Over the years, the Fellows explored new classroom technologies such as untethered projection from iPads, high-def classroom recording, interactive apps, and other engaging tools. We enjoyed robust debate about pedagogical applications of technology and how best to transform the classroom into an engaging, interactive learning environment for students. Previous Fellows contributed in subsequent years with presentations based on their own experiences with applying new ideas in the classroom.
View Digital Teaching Fellows reports: 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2014