Academic Affairs New Faculty Notes - Message #18

The Profiles
The Profiles of Learning for Undergraduate Success (“the Profiles”) were co-created by faculty, staff, and students as the guiding framework for undergraduate learning at IUPUI. The Profiles became the official undergraduate learning outcomes in fall 2019 and all undergraduate programs mapped program level learning outcomes to the Profiles in the spring of 2019. In the spring of 2020, programs are mapping learning outcomes from their capstone courses and one other course midway through their program to the Profiles.

Each of the four profiles (communicator, problem solver, community contributor, and innovator) supports and enhances the others, and students have many opportunities to reflect on and make connections between their classroom and co-curricular learning as they deepen their disciplinary understanding and refine what it means to be a well-rounded, well-educated person prepared for lifelong learning. To learn more about connecting your course outcomes to the Profiles and to attend workshops, please contact the Center for Teaching and Learning.

ePortfolios
ePortfolios are a framework for learning, a space for students to collect evidence of, reflect on, articulate, and create new learning over time. ePortfolio practice can help students integrate learning across the curriculum, co-curriculum, and experiences outside school, and help students see the connections to the Profiles. As part of the IUPUI Institute for Engaged Learning, the ePortfolio Initiative provides guidance to instructors interested in incorporating ePortfolio pedagogies into their courses. To learn more, attend a workshop or consultation, contact Amy Powell (ude[dot]iupui[at]aallewop).

An important role for faculty at IUPUI is engaging in graduate education. Revising courses and developing new degree programs can embody significant contributions in teaching. This work can sometimes lead to new scholarship or impact faculty research. As you think about making curricular changes or proposing new courses for graduate and professional students, look to the Principles of Graduate and Professional Learning. Use these principles to build measurable outcomes into your proposal and to facilitate program review. These principles touch on four core areas:

1. Demonstration of essential knowledge and skills in a subject/research area
2. Effective communication and dissemination of information
3. Critical and creative thinking
4. Ethical and responsible behavior personally and professionally

These same criteria should be applied in evaluating graduate and professional student research and creative scholarship. Students should be evaluated and graded each semester when engaged in research to ensure they are aware of their progress. Many departments on campus have developed rubrics for evaluating student research based on the Principles of Graduate and Professional Learning. For more guidance, visit the websites for the IUPUI Graduate Office and the IUPUI Graduate Mentoring Center.

Associate Vice Chancellor for International Affairs Hilary Kahn introduced the IUPUI Dimensions of Global Learning to the IFC at their March meeting. The Dimensions “are designed as a tool for faculty, staff, and administrators to help them develop more intentionally global and intercultural learning experiences across the curriculum and co-curriculum.” They address the IUPUI Strategic Plan goal to: Develop curricular and co-curricular activities that enable all IUPUI students to have at least one substantial global learning experience during his or her IUPUI career, either internationally or locally. Use of the Dimensions are not required and will not be assessed, but it is hoped that faculty use the Dimensions in the construction of their courses to provide a global learning experience for students even if they are not studying abroad. Kahn provided teaching examples for using the Dimensions.

Below we have listed several resources faculty may need during the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) situation for up-to-date information and for teaching online:

• coronavirus.iu.edu
• keepteaching.iu.edu
• Center for Teaching and Learning at IUPUI