The OTL Celebrates LGBTQ+ Pride Month

Happy Pride Month! Interested in learning more about how to better support the LGBTQ+ community at DU? Explore the Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity module of our Inclusive Teaching Practices website and read our blog, Sharing Pronouns as an Inclusive Teaching Practice.

Summer Learning Opportunities With the OTL

We know that you are all looking forward to a fun and rejuvenating summer. If you are also planning to use this time to advance your teaching practice, join the OTL for the short courses and institutes we will be offering this summer!

This summer our programs include:

• Teaching Online Short Course
• Teaching Online: Advanced Practice
• Course Design Institute
• Teaching with Canvas Short Course
• And more!

Visit our OTL Events Calendar and our Summer Programming handout for more information.

Please note, the OTL will have alternate hours during the summer. Starting this week, we will be available in the office in person from 8:30-4:30 M-Th. On Fridays, all "walk-ins", support requests, and consultations will be held virtually from 8:30-4:30. Contact us directly or reach out to [email protected] with any questions. We will return to our regular schedule, M-F 8:30-4:30 including in-person Friday options, the week of September 5.

As we transition to our summer hours, we will also be pausing our newsletters. Visit our OTL website and OTL Events Calendar for resources and event information, or email us at [email protected] if you have questions. We will start sending regular newsletters again in the lead-up to the fall term!

Accessibility Summer Camp 2022 This Friday!

Join a wide range of accessibility partners this Friday, June 17, for a free, virtual, day-long program that talks all things accessibility. Visit the website to register and learn more about the programming for Accessibility Summer Camp 2022!

MyDU Show & Tell

The DU community is invited to join IT@DU for a demo of the new MyDU Portal, the replacement for PioneerWeb. The portal is now live and available to the DU community. The MyDU Portal Show & Tell will allow users to see all the new features of the portal (and what's coming soon). Then, feedback is welcome. We'll show you MyDU - you tell us what you think! Please login using your DU email and password and complete the required DUO authentication and one-time security questions.

Register for the MyDU Show & Tell session

Wednesday, June 22, 2:00 - 3:00p.m.

Online

View previous Show & Tell recordings (must be logged in to view).

COIL Institute This Summer

This summer the Office of Internationalization and the Office of Teaching and Learning will hold an institute on August 8th and 9th designed to support faculty in understanding and applying the principles of Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL). 

COIL is a type of virtual mobility, where students from DU and a partner institution engage in purposeful interaction for intercultural and global learning in a joint course. COIL can work with a course that faculty currently teach at DU, or a completely new course can be developed. Students from both classes may interact synchronously or asynchronously for a few weeks or an entire term through whichever technologies are most relevant and useful. Often culturally diverse students work together on a project, class discussions, or similar group work with discipline-based and intercultural learning outcomes. COIL is ultimately about building connections and new relationships with people, knowledge systems, and perspectives across numerous types of borders. It a powerful opportunity to help students engage in cross-cultural and global learning.

COIL Institute

Monday, August 8 and Tuesday, August 9

9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.

On-campus - location to be determined

Participating faculty will be given a stipend from the Office of Internationalization. Contact Casey Dinger, Executive and Academic Director for Internationalization, at [email protected] for more information.