Commonwealth Campus Teaching Support

Continuing the Conversation: Faculty Communities

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.

Combatting Fake News with Digital Literacy

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.

College Students’ Use and Acceptance of Emergency Online Learning Due to COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced higher education institutions around the world to offer education through the Internet. This new modality is called “emergency online learning.” Understanding the factors that affected students’ use and acceptance of this new modality is essential for its success and the achievement of its maximum benefits.

Collaboration and Channels in MediaSpace

Learn options for uploading and sharing media, as well as collaborating on media or media collections within Penn State’s Media management and streaming service, Kaltura MediaSpace.

Allow Students to Author Their Own Learning Path

Giving students a voice in how their learning is structured can make their learning journey more relevant, meaningful and enjoyable. During this session, you’ll hear how student-designed lessons and assessments were successfully implemented in two very different disciplines. Through a series of scaffolded assignments, biology lab students designed their own experiments as the culminating activity in the course. Art students worked in groups to design assignments for classmates and grade peers’ final presentation of the resulting work.