Year: 2023

From Course Preparation to QM Review

Tonight I watched the Quality Matters session entitled “Two Sides of the QM Equation: Perspectives from a Course Representative and Course Reviewer” presented by Cindy Ambrose (Low Country Virtual), Jenna Wells (Berkley County School District), and Sharon McMahon (Beaufort County School District). They shared their experience submitting and reviewing courses. The first part of the […]
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CHLOE 7

Tonight I watched the QM session entitled “CHLOE 7: Tracking Online Learning from Mainstream Acceptance to Universal Adoption. CHLOE stands for The Changing Landscape of Online Education. Richard Garnett, Eduventures Chief Research Officer at Encoura, was the first speaker. Dr. Bethany Simunich, Director of Research and Innovation at Quality Matters was the co-presenter. Over the […]
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Fifty QM Course Reviews

Paula McDougald from Virtual Arkansas and Dr. Brandie Benton (Virtual Arkansas) presented a QM session I watched tonight entitled “My Circus and My Monkeys: Sharing What We’ve Learned Through Simultaneous QM Reviews.” Virtual Arkansas is funded through the Department of Education to provide supplemental instruction in the state. They have 130 teachers and students from […]
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Supporting Teachers to Create Better Learning Experiences Online

Tonight I watched the QM recording for the session entitled “Student Connection and Rapport in the Virtual Environment,” presented by Lisa Pizzuto, Program Specialist/Coordinator at Fulton County Schools. Pizzuto has been teaching online for seventeen years! Pizzuto’s objective was to share ideas for how we can personalize a generic course and develop connections with students. […]
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Emails! Really?!

Since I am taking a Quality Matters Peer Reviewer Course, I thought it was appropriate to start watching QM YouTube videos. Tonight, I watched the recording with Dr. Jason Neiffer, Executive Director at Montana Digital Academy entitled “Email (No, seriously, email).” Neiffer began with a Jamboard activity asking participants to share responses to the prompt […]
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Quantifying Talk-Turns and Graphing Group Dynamics

The Online with LSE Webinar series recording I watched tonight was one I missed. It was from three years ago and entitled “Applying Graph Theory to Examine the Dynamics of Student Discussions in Small-Group Learning” with Dr. Stanley Lo. The session began with a diagram of the inputs and outputs affecting group work. The study […]
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Fourteen Recommendations and Several Great Questions about Creating More Inclusive Environments

“Creating More Inclusive Environment for LGBTQ+ Bio” is the title of the Online with LSE Webinar recording I watched tonight. It is from almost two years ago. Sara Brownell was the speaker and presented work from a SABER Special Interest Group (SIG) that worked on recommendations. Brownell shared recommendations that language matters (I paraphrase and […]
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Challenges for Undergraduates with Disabilities with Online Courses

After watching Dr. Logan Gin moderating an Online with LSE Webinar session, I was reminded about the session he did and rewatched it tonight. The title of the session was “COVID-19 and STEM Undergraduates with Disabilities: Challenges Resulting from the Transition to Online Course Delivery” and it happened a little over a hear ago, around […]
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A Survey of RECR Education in CUREs

Tonight I watched the Online with LSE Webinar with Dr. Laura Diaz-Martinez. This session was in late fall 2021. It was moderated by Dr. Tissyana Camacho, and Assistant Professor of Child and Adolescent Development at California State University. Dr. Diaz-Martinez is an Assistant Professor of Biology at Gonzaga and was my NSF ENCOUR pod mentor! […]
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A Study on Self-Advocacy of Undergraduates with ADHD and/or Specific Learning Disabilities in STEM

Dr. Logan Gin was the moderator of the Online with LSE Webinar with Dr. Mariel Pfeifer on “Inside and Out: Factors that Support and Hinder the Self-Advocacy of Undergraduates with ADHD and/or Specific Learning Disabilities in STEM.”I remember watching this recording earlier but wanted to revisit it as I am going over recordings from this […]
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