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SUMMARY:Summer Break
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SUMMARY:Active Learning Institute Online (For Faculty)
DESCRIPTION:CTL Active Learning Institute website \nLooking for ways to increase student engagement in your face-to-face or online classroom? In this four-day immersive online experience\, Columbia faculty will explore the purposes and benefits of active learning and learn how to apply these research-based practices by developing their own active and learner-centered (face-to-face or online) course units.  \nDuring the institute\, faculty will complete a series of hands-on activities and discussions over Zoom and CourseWorks (Canvas) to work through the essential components of designing engaging student learning experiences. Topics addressed include facilitating individual and collaborative learning activities\, planning and creating effective online materials\, and fostering and maintaining an inclusive course climate.  \nColumbia faculty are invited to apply by Monday\, May 17\, 2021. \nPlease visit the CTL Active Learning Institute website to learn more and apply:\nhttps://ctl.columbia.edu/faculty/seminars-institutes-for-faculty/active-learning-institute/\nColumbia University makes every effort to accommodate individuals with disabilities. Contact ColumbiaCTL@columbia.edu or 212.854.1692 for accommodations. \nThis event may be photographed. Note\, if this is an online event\, CTL staff may take screenshots. For concerns\, contact ColumbiaCTL@columbia.edu. \n
URL:https://ealac.columbia.edu/event/active-learning-institute-online-for-faculty/
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SUMMARY:Teaching Online with CourseWorks
DESCRIPTION:Online teaching presents its own opportunities and challenges. Join us in exploring how to create community\, support student engagement\, and assess student learning in the online context using CourseWorks\, Columbia’s learning management system. This workshop will give you an overview of the CourseWorks interface and highlight a toolset that will allow you to set up a course with clear expectations for students\, create opportunities for a variety of assignment engagements\, and nurture an environment that encourages a culture of inclusive communication.  \nPlease note that this session takes place via Zoom and is not a Zoom training session. Before you attend this session\, we recommend that you familiarize yourself with Zoom. You can access CUIT’s Zoom training sessions on their Zoom training page. \nRegister here. \nBy the end of the session\, participants should be able to:  \nDetermine which CourseWorks tools will meet the teaching and learning goals of their course(s).\nIntentionally integrate CourseWorks into their courses.\nUnable to join us for this workshop? Check the CTL events calendar for future offerings of this workshop. Engage with our asynchronous offerings on this topic: Introduction to CourseWorks (Canvas) Online (self-paced course)\, Assessment and Grading in CourseWorks (Canvas) (self-paced course\, and Teaching with CourseWorks (on-demand resource); or receive customized assistance through office hours\, or by scheduling a consultation. \n
URL:https://ealac.columbia.edu/event/teaching-online-with-courseworks-6/
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SUMMARY:Understanding Climate Change on the Tibetan Plateau: Climate Data and Community Knowledge
DESCRIPTION:Register here.  \nThe Tibetan Plateau spans more than one million square miles at the center of Eurasia with an average elevation of over 12\,000 feet – by far the most extensive high-altitude region on Earth. Resulting from the collision of continental plates more than 50 million years ago\, the Tibetan Plateau continues to play a major role in determining the climate that we experience today. More recently\, the Tibetan Plateau has seen more significant warming than surrounding regions due to its higher altitude. As such\, Tibetan communities are at the forefront of experiencing the impacts of climate change and their knowledge of such changes may contribute to better understanding the effects of a changing climate on this most significant region.  \nThis round table brings together social science researchers working with Tibetan pastoralist communities on the Tibetan Plateau and climate scientists who have worked in the Himalayas and Asia to discuss how interdisciplinary approaches might enrich understandings of climate change on the Tibetan Plateau and contribute to our knowledge of global climate change. \nSpeakers: \nEmily Yeh is a professor in the Geography Department at the University of Colorado Boulder and currently president-elect of the American Association of Geographers. She conducts research on development and nature-society relations in Tibetan parts of the PRC\, including the political ecology of pastoralism\, the intersection of the political economy and cultural politics of development as a project of state territorialization\, the relationship between ideologies of nature and nation\, and the conjunctural production of environmental subjectivities. She has also conducted interdisciplinary\, collaborative research on vulnerability to and indigenous knowledge of climate change amongst pastoralists in Tibet. \nHuatse Gyal is an environmental anthropologist at the University of Michigan. His research explores Tibetan pastoralists’ ways of theorizing and relating to their ancestral land. His publications include a co-edited volume in Nomadic Peoples on mass relocation of Tibetan nomads\, a peer-reviewed article in Critical Asian Studies\, as well as a number of widely-read online academic essays advocating for the interdependent relationship between land\, language\, and the well-being of people and community in Tibetan and English. \nKelly Hopping is an assistant professor in Human-Environment Systems at Boise State University.  Her interdisciplinary research examines how global change is affecting ecosystems and livelihoods\, particularly in pastoral/rangeland systems.  Her work in Tibet has focused on the impacts of climate change from Western scientific and local perspectives\, the role of livestock grazing in alpine meadows\, and the sustainability of harvesting an economically valuable medicinal fungus (yartsa gunbu) across the Tibetan Plateau and Himalayan region. \nHung Nguyen is a postdoctoral research scientist at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. He uses tree rings to infer changes in the water cycle in the distant past\, and apply that knowledge to water resources management. He has reconstructed centuries of discharge history for many rivers in Asia. \nBoniface Fosu is a postdoctoral research scientist at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. One aspect of his research is understanding and modeling the interactions between weather and climate\, emphasizing the linkages between extreme weather and human-induced climate change without undermining the role of naturally driven climate variability. Some of his research contributions border on Asia’s susceptibility to the impacts of weather and climate extremes\, including Tibet. \nBrendan Buckley holds the position of Lamont Research Professor\, and has been a long-time member of the Tree Ring Lab at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University (LDEO). While he has worked in locations around the globe\, Buckley has been one of the pioneers of tropical dendroclimatology\, having produced the longest and best replicated records of absolutely dated tree ring sequences from Southeast Asia. Among his most important discoveries were the identification of two key periods of drought that coincided with the two most tumultuous periods of the past millennium over Southeast Asia – the Angkor droughts of the late 14th/early 15th century\, and the Strange Parallels Drought of late 18th century\, respectively. He continues this important work by using new methods to develop discrete seasonal reconstructions of regional hydroclimate\, including measures of the strength of summer and winter monsoons\, as well as the “shoulder” seasons that lead into and out of them\, over the past millennium. Buckley is a proponent of interdisciplinary research\, working with historians\, archaeologists\, geochemists and atmospheric scientists. \nEveline Washul is Director of the Modern Tibetan Studies Program at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and Adjunct Professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University. She received her Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology and Tibetan Studies from Indiana University in 2018. Her research methods combine ethnography with Tibetan historical sources from the 12th to 20th centuries. Her research studies how the particularities of Tibetan relationships to places shape their transition from rural to urban livelihoods in the late-socialist reform period in the People’s Republic of China. \n
URL:https://ealac.columbia.edu/event/understanding-climate-change-on-the-tibetan-plateau-climate-data-and-community-knowledge/
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