Month: September 2021

Datafication of Education

Tonight, I watched the opening keynote of ALT 2021 day 1: Sonia Livingstone. The co-chairs started the session by talking about the ALT 2021 conference. I didn’t realize that the awarded twenty scholarships that went to students! Also, they have several sponsors including Open Academia, Talis, Open LMS, Turnitin, and Canvas. Livingstone is a professor […]
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Promoting Connectedness

A session from ALT 2021 caught my attention: “Promoting Connectedness – the importance of peer mentors in an intra-curricular online learning space” since I am working on instructor presence this week. The speakers of this session were Peter Bryant, Juliette Overland, Danielle Eden and Natasha Arthars. Bryant acknowledged the indigenous people in Australia. Bryant teaches […]
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Digital Competencies and the Future of Teaching and Learning

Tonight I started watching sessions from Day 1 of the ALT 2021 conference. “The future of teaching and learning in the Arts and Humanities: The student view” was presented by Neil Hughes. Hughes talked about how different faculty have responded to teaching online, with some wanting to return to in-person teaching while others are thriving […]
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What is a Learning Technologist?

Tonight’s ALT 2021 workshop we watch was entitled “Being a learning technologist: designing an open primer course” presented by Stuart Nicol, Tracey Madden, and Marcello Crolla. They spoke about the “rapid increase in new Learning Technologists” during the pandemic and the need to “create a supported short course on what it is to be a […]
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The Journal of Research in Learning Technology

Saturdays are always full of… emotions and cleaning! Tonight I watched another ALT 2021 session entitled “Getting published in ‘Research in in Learning Technology’: A Workshop with the editors” with speakers: Sarah Honeychurch, James Brunton, and Louise Drumm – all professors and editors. They are all editors for the journal Research in Learning Technology. Honeychurch […]
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QualiChain to Decentralize Education

After a long day working on the computer and (finally!) with the robot and samples, I watched another ALT 2021 session entitled “Decentralising Education Using Blockchain Technology” by Dr. Alexander Mikroyannidis, a research fellow from The Open University. I don’t know much about blockchain technology and listened to a podcast that discussed it. Further, I […]
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Be Specific, Transparent, and Mindful

I got to play in the lab today with students and the BitBot liquid handler. That made me so happy! I also started watching ALT 2021 conference sessions I missed. I started with the pre-conference workshop 4 presented by Dr. Miranda Melcher from City University of London. The session’s title was “Pre-Conference Workshop 4: Practical […]
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Approachability, Adaptability, and Vulnerability

Tonight, we watched the last session of the Elon Teaching and Learning Conference 2021. The session was “Building Community in the Class and Beyond: Strategies and Self-Reflection”  presented by Jennifer Ibrahim, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Temple University College of Public Health with contributing authors: Anne Frankel, PhD, Associate Professor, College of Public Health, Temple University; […]
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Transdisciplinary Education during the Pandemic

We are almost finished with the Elon Teaching and Learning 2021 Conference recordings! The sessions have been great and address a variety of issues and emerging trends. Tonight, we watched a session entitled “Maintaining Transdisciplinary Training in Developmental Screening in the Time of COVID-19” presented by Katrina Fulcher-Rood, Associate Professor in the Speech-Language Pathology Department, […]
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Teaching for Equity and Inclusion

The Elon Teaching and Learning Conference this summer had several session formats including 30 minute and 60-minute talks. Tonight, we watched a 60-minute talk entitled “Teaching for Equity and Inclusion”by Mary Jo Festle, Maude Sharpe Powell Professor, Professor of History, and Associate Director of the Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning, Elon University. […]
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