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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 …
Inclusive Teaching Practices: Creating a Classroom Where Everyone Can Thrive
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As classrooms become more diverse, educators are re-evaluating teaching methods. This presentation provides background on the importance of developing cultural competency and creating an inclusive …
You Can’t Teach That!
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Struggling with how to take your subject area online? Join this conversation to see how martial arts, Spanish, chemistry, choir, and more can be taught …
Helping Students Succeed with Embedded Tutors and Learning Assistants
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We have been using an Embedded Tutor/Learning Assistant enabled classroom. These programs have increased student understanding by enabling them to personally engage with the tutors …
Fostering Engagement in Asynchronous Courses
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Ensuring supportive and productive student-faculty engagement can be challenging in any learning environment, but particularly in the asynchronous online setting. In this session, faculty share …
Faculty Forum: Designing Online Discussions to Promote Engagement
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In this Faculty Forum hosted by the Center for Teaching and eLearning Initiatives at Penn State Behrend, faculty will share their experiences in designing and …
Facilitating Effective Group Work
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Group projects are very useful assignments but are hated equally by both students and instructors when things don’t go as expected. This session will provide …
Engaging Students Through Assessment (SITE Version)
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Are you looking for ways to revise and improve your online assessments? This session covers using online assessments (both formative and summative) to engage students. …
Engaging Students Asynchronously
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Topics include how to help students engage with the content, you, and their fellow students, as well as how to structure asynchronous discussions, group work, …
Embedding Retention Strategies into Teaching Practices
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Retaining students starts with experiences in the classroom and interactions with faculty. In this session, faculty will share their teaching practices that promote student retention, …
Creative Course Design: Examples of Transformative and Experiential Learning in the Classroom
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This session explores three distinct ways faculty infused experiential learning into their classrooms. We will explore topics such as telecollaboration, enthusiastic engagement, getting students to …
Creating, Finding, and Assessing Instructional Video to Engage Students
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Instructional video allows for visually explaining information, assists in bringing contextually relevant examples to class, and, if instructor-created, can allow for an increase in instructor …
Creating Community in Your Courses
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Getting students to engage in class can be difficult but establishing a positive classroom community can go a long way to help with that. In …