Course Design & Plannning
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Quality within Constraints: Course Design in a Hurry!
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 we prioritize enhancements and use an iterative design strategy to achiev...
Planning for Student Engagement
Presentations and workshops, both live and archived, designed to help deliver online coursework that gets students involved.
Open and Affordable Teaching and Collaboration – Two Examples
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 OER materials for Math and Statistics...
Make Discussions Great Again: We Actually Mean It
Nurturing professional outcomes in asynchronous online discussions.
Lessons Learned from Small Teaching
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 th...
Introspection Toward Academic Engagement
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 ourselves. The session examines several ins...
Instructor Panel (Instructor Day, Spring 2022)
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 their classrooms.
Increasing Student Engagement with Top Hat
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 thi...
Fostering Engagement in Asynchronous Courses
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 o...
Facilitating Effective Group Work
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 strategies for effectively setting up and...
Engaging Students Through Assessment (SITE Version)
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. Topics include making changes to...
Engaging Students Asynchronously
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, lecture content, and more to benefit stud...
Embedding Retention Strategies into Teaching Practices
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, including settin...
Creative Course Design: Examples of Transformative and Experiential Learning in the Classroom
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 pa...
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 a...
Adobe Spark for Creative and Engaging Assignments
Join us to discuss using Adobe Spark Pages to replace a more traditional research paper including the parameters and guidelines provided to the students in order to support the learning objectives. Al...
Active Learning Through Gameplay
Capturing and securing student attention can be a struggle for even the most seasoned instructors. As educators strive to create meaningful learning experiences for students, we will share two game-ba...
Enhancing STEM learning through 3-D Visualization and Digital Collaboration Tools
Enhance student learning in the Sciences with free or low cost tools for interactive and customizable 3-D visualizations then use these tools to create collaborative learning activities for the lab, c...
Designing Projects to Enhance Understanding and Engagement
Designing student projects to increase student engagement and understanding. We will discuss two types of student projects, 1) utilizing case studies to review theories and incorporating an incrementa...
Continuing the Conversation
How often do you have a chance to talk with other instructors who teach similar topics and/or courses as yourself? Join your colleagues in discipline-specific breakout rooms for round-table informal d...