Training Resources | Faculty Development | Instructional Technology Resources
EP Training
Welcome EP Faculty! This web page is designed to provide you with the information about EP Faculty services. EP offers a wide variety of resources and training opportunities for our faculty- ranging from teaching resources to current publications, and important forms you need for your course. The goal of this training is to help faculty and staff determine the appropriateness of new technologies and to become competent in using them. The majority of these resources are located inside the Faculty Intranet. The Faculty Intranet provides news and important documentation (such as teaching resources, instructional technology, library information, class roster information, etc) for faculty members.
We will be adding new information and services to this section of our website, so check back often!
Training Resources
Faculty Training covers a wide variety of topics and is meant to help faculty with instruction, classroom management, and understand the technology and its best-practice uses in courses. Training is offered in various modalities including face-to-face courses, online, teleconferencing, and individual appointments.
Current training offerings are viewable on the Training Calendar at ep.jhu.edu/trainingcalendar.
For specific information about how to receive assistance with resources please view our Tech Support page.
Faculty Intranet
The Faculty Intranet provides news and important documentation (such as how to order textbooks, parking information, library information, class roster information, etc) for faculty members. The Faculty Intranet also provides an interface for creating and managing Course Homepages. To log in to the Faculty Intranet, you will need your JHED ID and password. If you do not have a JHED ID, have forgotten your JHED ID or password, or would like more information about JHED, please see our JHED Instructional Guide or call HITS at 410.516.HELP (4357). APL Staff should contact the APL Online Education Center to obtain JHED Information at 443.778.6510.
Log onto the Faculty Intranet at ep.jhu.edu/faculty.
Faculty Development
Faculty Information Sessions (January and August)
At Applied Physics Lab and at Montgomery County Campus. Meet your site support staff, hear the latest EP updates, attend mini-sessions, receive teaching tips.
Guest Expert Workshop for Instructors (February)
A team of outside experts in engineering education will give one or more half-day Saturday workshops on topics relevant to teaching engineering classes to adult professionals. These interactive workshops offer something for all instructors.
Annual Faculty Meeting (March)
The Annual Faculty Meeting includes a number of sessions on topics relevant to instruction, classroom management, classroom technology, etc.
Introduction to Teaching at EP (May, October/November)
Workshop for new and nearly-new instructors. Jump-start your experience with EP with a crash course introducing you to the EP setting, teaching tips, policies & procedures, answers to FAQs.
Instructional Technology Resources
Course Homepages
Course Homepages are intended to deliver information about your course that doesn't change significantly from term to term. Your Course Homepage includes a list of topics to be covered, the official course description as it appears in the course catalog, and much more. It is important to offer our students more information about our courses than what is available in the course descriptions to help them decide during registration. Course Homepages are created dynamically using information that the instructor enters into a web based form through the Faculty Intranet. Once created, the homepages are accessible from EP's official web site.
Sakai
Sakai is a set of software tools designed to help instructors, researchers, and students create websites for collaboration. Using a web browser, users choose from a set of features to create a site that meets their needs. Sakai contains many tools for keeping a class organized, such as an annoucement feature, a calendar/schedule, and uploads for class resources and information. Assignments can also be assigned and submitted through Sakai, along with quizzes and assessments. Faculty can also use the gradebook tool to keep track of their classes' grades. It is an excellent tool to keep the students up to date with important dates and information, as well as assignments and assessments.
Adobe Connect
JHU has licensed a software called Adobe Connect that serves as a companion to Sakai. It serves as an alternative to Sakai's built in synchronous communication tools, Chat and Whiteboard. Adobe Connect has a more advanced whiteboard, text chat capability, full duplex audio using voice over the internet, and two-way streaming video capabilities. Sessions may be recorded so that you can view all the content and interactions later if you can't make the session. It is an excellent tool for office hours, student meeting space for group projects, and occasional guest lectures.
JHU Wireless
The JHU wireless network, "Hopkins" can be accessed at the Dorsey, Homewood, and MCC locations. For instructions on how to access it, please see http://it.jhu.edu/networking/wireless.
Course Websites
Course websites are intended to house information that is specific to a particular term, including syllabus and topics covered, but also announcements, deadlines or calendar information, class notes, example problems, assignments, test scores, etc. The instructor may wish to restrict all or a portion of this site to just the currently registered students. Instructors are completely responsible for the development and maintenance of these course websites and must have or acquire some web development skills in order to do so.
APL Staff
There are some subtle differences in resources for APL staff who also teach for EP. For more information please contact the APL Education Center at 443.778.6510 (Faculty Only.).