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 engaging discussions in both synchronous and asynchronous online environments.
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 built-in. Join us for this introduction to Top Hat.
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 feedback to your students and discuss several grading tools that can make the process more efficient.
Educators are increasingly called upon by the public and the press to sharpen students’ digital literacy skills. In this session, faculty and librarians will address strategies and resources that can be easily incorporated across the curriculum to teach digital literacy.
Educators have shared a number of strategies and techniques during this event for enhancing the practice of teaching. In this session, Dr. Laura Cruz of the Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence will discuss the various opportunities for faculty to continue these conversations as part of a small, focused faculty community. Dr. Cruz will explore the myriad approaches that faculty communities might take and address how faculty can incorporate their faculty community experiences into their tenure or promotion materials.
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 some of the strategies they have used in their asynchronous courses to foster student engagement and create opportunities for student-faculty connection.
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 assignments built-in. In this session, faculty and learning designers will share the ways that Top Hat is being used in the classroom.
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, faculty discuss the ways they have incorporated the lessons from Small Teaching into their courses and the benefits they have seen with student learning and engagement.
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, faculty share their experiences using freely available (OER) to replace or augment their textbooks and traditional lectures.
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 videos. Panelists will discuss lessons learned, give examples of student discussions, and answer questions.
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 session, faculty share their approaches to creating assessments that reduce the desire to cheat and ensure fairness across students.
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 the opportunity to assess the existing workload in one of their courses and reflect on possible changes to improve student learning.
