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Workshop: Organizing Course Content in Canvas
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This session will cover best practices for organizing your course content in a way that you and your students can easily navigate. Participants will have …
Who Are You Not Reaching? Designing Your Course to Gain Maximum Engagement from All Students
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Reaching students can be a significant challenge for any course. Research suggests that we gain a broader response when attending to principles of inclusive teaching …
Using Learning Mastery in the Canvas Gradebook
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The vast majority of students pass their courses and progress through their major even as they accumulate gaps in their knowledge. The Mastery approach prevents …
Too Much or Not Enough: Quantifying the Time Students Spend in Engaging Courses
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Instructors thoughtfully create high-quality, engaging course design experiences, but is time dedicated to assessing the rigor that’s placed on students? This session will first focus …
Too Little or Too Much: How to Gauge the Right Amount of Course Content
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In this session, presenters will share resources that will help you decide the appropriate amount of content and activities for your course. Participants will have …
Teaching Writing with Google Docs in the Post-Pandemic World
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Google Docs can be a powerful tool to teach writing, both face to face and remotely. Now that so many people are familiar with them, …
Switching it Up: Using Adobe Spark (Adobe Express) for Course Assessment
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Join us to learn creative ways of using Adobe Spark Post and Video for both course content assessment and student reflection. This session may be …
Succeeding as an Adjunct Faculty Member
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Adjunct faculty bring tremendous dedication and innovation to their teaching but they rarely receive the support and encouragement that their work deserves. In this session, …
Reflective Teaching and Learning Techniques
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Reflective teaching involves using reflection techniques to convey, analyze, and deliver information, in the goal of generating feedback. In this session, you will hear how …
Reducing Students’ Temptation to Cheat
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The high stakes exam fosters a strong temptation to cheat. Rather than focus on policing that exam, consider changing your approach to assessment. In this …
Quality within Constraints: Course Design in a Hurry!
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Join us to discuss how a rapid prototyping model was used to design a quality online course in a hurry. We will also share how …
Providing Feedback That Students Will Use
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Feedback is valuable but only when students take advantage of it. In this session, presenters will provide examples of how and when to provide useful …
Planning for Student Engagement
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Presentations and workshops, both live and archived, designed to help deliver online coursework that gets students involved.
Perusall: A Collaborative/Social Annotation Tool
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Faculty will discuss their use of Perusall for building community in their courses and increasing content engagement with journal articles, popular news articles, podcasts, and …
Open and Affordable Teaching and Collaboration – Two Examples
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This session will present two faculty approaches to working with open and affordable educational materials. Half of the session will focus on potential sources of …
Methods & Modes of Engaging and Enhancing Learning in STEM Courses
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Faculty will share diverse methods of engaging students in their learning through a variety of teaching methods, strategies and instruction in STEM courses which can …
Making the Business Classroom More “Profitable”
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This trio will share a combination of using computer simulations to accommodate specific business course instruction, student application of classroom discussions to real-world scenarios, and …
Make Discussions Great Again: We Actually Mean It
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Nurturing professional outcomes in asynchronous online discussions.
Leveling the Academic Playing Field with Open Educational Resources (OER)
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Students often report not purchasing a textbook because it is too expensive or deferring a course due the high cost of texts. In this session, …
Lessons Learned from Small Teaching
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In his book Small Teaching, James Lang explains how minor modifications to our teaching can have a major impact on student learning. In this session, …
Introspection Toward Academic Engagement
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Back to basics reflection on our core principles and broader professional goals and the value of these reflective “real life” practices for our students and …
Introducing Top Hat at Penn State
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The University has a new tool for student participation in your courses. Top Hat is a cloud-based audience participation solution with presentations, questions and assignments …
Instructor Panel (Instructor Day, Spring 2022)
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Instructors will share their perspectives, experiences, and tips for starting the semester in a way that fosters a sense of community, motivation, and inclusivity in …
Incremental Learning Strategies
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Teachers and students can benefit from assignments that promote incremental learning. We may all benefit from designing and rewarding step-by-step project development, re-assessment opportunities, and …
Increasing Student Engagement with Top Hat
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The University has a new tool to enhance student participation in your courses. Top Hat is a cloud-based audience participation solution with presentations, questions, and …