Year: 2021

Low-Bandwidth Considerations

Dr. Michelle Bartlett from North Carolina State University shared several considerations for online course design for teaching and learning for students with low-bandwidth access at the 2020 Lilly Conference. Bartlett has extensive experience teaching online. Do students in the courses we teach have internet access or device limitations? Bartlett started the presentation by reminding us […]
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Padlet and Flipgrid Uses in Different Disciplines

Drs. Maria Ortiz and Annette Redmon from the University of Cincinnati presented how they use Padlet and Flipgrid in their courses. Their 2020 recorded Lilly Conference session provided near examples of uses in different disciplines. Redmon uses Vengage and Padlet to have students create and share infographics. The free version of Vengage allows users to […]
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Nearpod and Clickers

Laura Cruz, Daniel Mallinson, and colleagues from Pennsylvania State University presented a session at the 2020 Lilly Conference on their analysis of the use of Nearpod engagement tool. Cruz, an instructional designer and educational researcher, briefly summarized educational research on student response systems and engagement. Cruz asked: “do clickers work?” adding that it depends on […]
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Student Engagement on Virtual Boards

Martha Brown and Dr. Kim Bush from North Carolina State University recorded a session for the 2020 Lilly Conference Online. I watched it tonight and learned a different way of using Padlet.com in courses, valuing student privacy and anxiety concerns, and engagement research. Bush began by defining student motivation by quoting Barkley 2010 as “student […]
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Busywork, Workload, and Online Courses

The Leading Lines podcast with Derek Bruff recently (episode 090) had Betsy Barre from Wake Forest University and Karen Costa, faculty developer specializing in online pedagogy and trauma-aware teaching and author of the 2020 book 99 Tips for Creating Simple and Sustainable Educational Videos. I enjoyed Costa’s book and have found Barre’s workload estimator really […]
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Mobile Devices and Fluid Learning

Christina Moore from Oakland University is a faculty instructional designer and engaging presenter. Moore recorded a session for the 2020 Lilly Conference entitled: “Now Is the Time to Embrace Mobile Learning” and writing a June 2020 article for EduCause on the topic. I loved the slide design and interactivity of the session: slides were simple […]
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Advancing Online Teaching

Drs. Kevin Kelly and Todd Zakrajsek were guests on the Tea for Teaching podcast. The discussed their new book entitled Advancing Online Teaching: Creating Equity-Based Digital Learning Environments, recently published by Stylus publishing. This one is on my reading list, and it was great to hear about it on a podcast I enjoy! The book […]
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Why wouldn’t you?

I was listening to an episode of the podcast Teaching in Higher Ed. This episode had Archana McEligot. McEligot spoke about epidemiology and courses they teach. I had never considered it, but they described how epidemiology is one of the first data science and analytics disciplines. McEligot described how big data requires interdisciplinary approaches and […]
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