Please join us for a welcome address with Dr. Richard Brazier, Senior Associate Dean for Faculty and Research & University College Interim Dean. Dr. Brazier oversees all aspects of faculty development from hiring through promotions and sabbaticals, including grant proposals.
In this session, attendees will learn activities, strategies, and suggestions for strengthening student engagement with learning through real life application of concepts. The focus will be on examples from economics and supply chain courses, and will include online resources and ideas for partnering with local businesses.
What can a grade convey? In our classes, we track student proficiency in each course learning objective and allow students multiple opportunities to demonstrate their understanding of each objective. This gives students the chance to continue working on skills past traditional deadlines such as exam dates, and it gives instructors more detailed information about student progress. We will discuss how we have implemented these alternative grading techniques in our math courses, ways to test-drive these techniques in a traditionally graded course, and how to build learning objectives and track student progress using Canvas.
This session will share our ideas and experiences with the integration of online and physical audiences in hybrid classes utilizing tools such as Zoom and Nearpod, and we will discuss the challenges and opportunities of the hybrid environment.
This session will highlight two projects designed to enhance student learning through real-world, workplace-applicable project-based instruction.
Student mental health is an increasing concern for college campuses to grapple with, especially post-COVID. Join this session to learn how two professors spearheaded the creation of a course called “Balancing Wellness.”