Academic Development

April 25, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Discussions, Pedagogy, Presentations & Talks, Reflections

Taking Care of Ourselves and Listening to Student Voices

As part of Domains21, Lee Skallerup Bessette and Susannah McGowan presented on Taking Care and affective or emotional labor. Skallerup Bessette described the history of the term “emotional labor” and explained how even in academia there is a need to manage emotions. McGowan talked about how they looked into emotional labor as part of faculty […]

April 24, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Delftia, Discussions, Diversity, Interprofessional Education, Open Pedagogy, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, Why

OERs in Spanish-speaking Countries

Another OERxDomains21 session that caught my attention is entitled “Links between Open Education and DEI – Findings from a Latin American Study” presented by Carina Bossu and Viviane Vladimirschi. This project was funded by the Open University an Hewlett Foundation. They interviewed 12 key stakeholders from Latin America, coded and analyzed the data using NVivo, […]

April 23, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Community of Practice, Course Design, Discussions, Online Learning, Open Pedagogy, Pedagogy, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, Wellbeing, Why

Open Communities and Publications During the Pandemic

Another great session from day 1 of OERxDomains21 was entitled “Open Reading with Your Eyes Shut: Demystifying Foo-Foo the Snoo” presented by Mark Brown. The title was referring to Dr. Seuss, and Brown introduced the challenge of having so many open access journals and filtering resources for reliability! The National Institute for Digital Learning publishes […]

April 22, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Course Design, Instructor Behaviors, Interprofessional Education, Online Learning, Open Pedagogy, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, Teaching techniques, Why

Agile Open Online Education

Tonight I watched another OERxDomains21 session entitled “Pathways to Learning: Open Collaboration to Support the Online Pivot” that included a long list of collaborators and numerous open collaboration examples. Rob Farrow described a project called Pathways to Learning that was funded by the Global Challenges Research Fund program. Farrow and colleagues rapidly created a pair […]

April 20, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Course Design, Online Learning, Pedagogy, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, Why

Reviewing and Improving

Penny Ralston-Berg (PennState) and Bethany Simunich (Director of Research & Innovation, QM) presented last October about the Quality Matters (QM) rubric. The session entitled “QM Balloon Animals: Twisting the Rubric to Meet Your Needs” and relates to the workshop I did this morning in which we did self-reviews. Simunich explained that the QM Rubric can […]

April 19, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Course Design, Diversity, Online Learning, Pedagogy, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, Softwares, Why

Unmet Standards and Accessibility Secrets

Thomas J. Tobin revealed “Seven Secrets for Standard Eight: Accessibility Review When You’re Not an Accessibility Expert” as part of a Quality Matters (QM) session on October 26, 2020. I was able to watch Tobin in person as part of the keynote for our Teaching and Learning Symposium last year. Tobin is fantastic, knowledgeable, and […]

April 18, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Course Design, Diversity, Instructor Behaviors, Online Learning, Pedagogy, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, Why

Transparent Assignment Design

Dr. Zakaria Jouaibi, Senior Instructional Designer at North Carolina Central University, was on another Quality Matters (QM) webinar that I watched. I’m also taking a QM course with Jouaibi this week and have been hearing about the TILT (Transparency in Learning and Teaching) assignment framework on a couple of podcasts. That’s why this video caught […]

April 17, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Course Design, Diversity, Instructor Behaviors, Mobile Learning, Online Learning, Pedagogy, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, Teaching techniques, Why

Five Suggestions for Creating Better Online Learning Environments

Dr. Loretta Brancaccio-Taras, from Kingsborough Community College, discussed creating successful online learning environments for undergraduate biology students as part of the 2020 ASMCUE plenary session. Brancaccio-Taras has taught ASM DBER courses (one I took in 2015!) and is the Director of the Center for e-Learning at their campus. This session was from the summer of […]

April 16, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, DBER and SoTL, Delftia, Molecular Biology Education Research, Pedagogy, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, Undergraduate Research

Which datasets should students analyze?

Dr. Katelyn M. Cooper from Arizona State University was on JMBE Live! this week (4/16/2021) to talk about their recent study: “Students Who Analyze Their Own Data in a Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE) Show Gains in Scientific Identity and Emotional Ownership of Research.” Maya J. Munstermann worked with Cooper on this study as a graduate student. They worked with […]

April 15, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, DBER and SoTL, Discussions, Diversity, Guest Speakers, Instructor Behaviors, Reflections, SABER

Gendered Experiences in STEM

Dr. Katie Hinde from Arizona State University presented as part of the SABER Diversity & Inclusion Speaker Series 2021 on Gendered Experiences. The presentation was entitled “Land of milk and “honey”: Confronting gendered experiences in field research” and focused on gendered issues in field research. Hinde started by providing a scenario and polling the audience. Then […]