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            <title>Spectrum Newsletter - Fall 2009</title>
            <description>Spectrum is a newsletter for faculty published by the Faculty Development and Instructional Design Center during fall and spring semesters of each academic year at Northern Illinois University. The Fall 2009 issue is now available online at: &lt;a href="http://www.niu.edu/spectrum/2009/fall/"&gt;http://www.niu.edu/spectrum/2009/fall&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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            <title>TA Connections Newsletter - Fall 2009</title>
            <description>TA Connections is a newsletter for graduate teaching assistants published by the Faculty Development and Instructional Design Center during fall and spring semesters of each academic year at Northern Illinois University. The Fall 2009 issue is now available online at: &lt;a href="http://www.niu.edu/taconnections/2009/spring/"&gt;http://www.niu.edu/taconnections/2009/fall/&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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            <title>November 2009 TA Program Schedule</title>
            <description>The schedule of programs for NIU graduate teaching assistants for  November 2009 is now available online at: &lt;br /&gt;
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            <title>November 2009 Faculty/Staff Programs</title>
            <description>The schedule of programs for NIU faculty/staff for November 2009 is now available online at: &lt;a href="http://www.facdev.niu.edu/facdev/programs/november2009.shtml"&gt;http://www.facdev.niu.edu/facdev/programs/november2009.shtml&lt;/a&gt;.</description>
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            <title>Learner-centered Curriculum, Pedagogy, and Feedback = Student Success</title>
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                <![CDATA[<b>Workshop by Amy Driscoll, Ph.D., Consulting Scholar with the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and Senior Scholar at Portland State University</b><br />
<b>Executive Director, Office of Assessment and Quality Enhancement</b><br />
<b>Texas Christian University</b><br />
<b>Thursday, January 7, 2010, 8:00 am to 4:00 pm</b><br />
<b>Sky Room, Holmes Student Center</b><br />
This workshop will integrate components of curriculum pedagogy and assessment with research on learner-centered education such as service learning, collaborative learning, project-based approaches, and learning outcome-based assessment. Examples and models of practice will be provided and learner-centered processes will be tailored for immediate use within a collaborative faculty/staff community directed to student success. Faculty are invited to bring their syllabus and program materials to apply a lens of learner-centeredness to the curriculum content, the pedagogical strategies, and assessment approaches used to promote student success in their courses and programs. Advanced registration is required. For registration or more information, <a href="http://www.niu.edu/facdev/programs/01072010.shtml">please click here</a>.]]>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:02:45 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Resources for Teaching During a Health Crisis</title>
            <description>The H1N1 virus, formerly referred to a Swine Flu, is &lt;a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-swine-college-side-18-aug18,0,3726593.story"&gt;expected to make a comeback in the United States this school year&lt;/a&gt; and officials say that college campuses could be impacted. Information and resources regarding preparing for teaching during a health crisis are available at &lt;a href="http://www.niu.edu/facdev/resources/healthcrisis"&gt;http://www.niu.edu/facdev/resources/healthcrisis&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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            <title>FacDev Program Calendar Now on Google Calendar</title>
            <description>You can now view upcoming programs offered by the NIU Faculty Development and Instructional Design Center in a calendar view at http://www.niu.edu/facdev/programs/calendar.shtml. The schedule for this summer is now available.

You can also add the calendar to your &lt;a href="http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=sldlgjeujah46lqdc3qfu0n21s@group.calendar.google.com&amp;ctz=America/Chicago"&gt;Google calendar&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href="http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/sldlgjeujah46lqdc3qfu0n21s@group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics"&gt;iCal&lt;/a&gt;. You can even subscribe to updates by &lt;a href="http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/sldlgjeujah46lqdc3qfu0n21s@group.calendar.google.com/public/basic"&gt;XML&lt;/a&gt;.

We hope to see you at one of our upcoming workshops!</description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 11:40:40 -0500</pubDate>
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