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What is transformative learning?

Barbara Nadeau is a Quinnipiac University in Connecticut and presented on “Facilitating Transformative Learning in an Online Asynchronous Environment.” Nadeau wants to avoid chaos and shared a quote from Mezirow 2000. The Transformative Learning Theory from Mezirow 1991 is “an orientation which holds that the way learners interpret and reinterpret their sense of experience is […]
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An Initiative and Task Force for Eradicating Racism

Drs. Chaundra Scott, Danielle Ligocki, and Robert Martin from Oakland University presented a sixteen-minute recorded session at the Lilly Conference Online 2022. The session title is: “The Initiative for Eradicating Racism: Boldly Confronting Racism Through Academic Practices and Programs.” The team is composed of Scott, a Professor in Human Resources and Development, Ligocki is an […]
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A Tool for an Inclusive Syllabus

Sal Meyers, Professor of Psychology at Simpson College, presented at the Lilly Conference Online a recorded twenty-minute session entitled “Writing an Inclusive Syllabus that Students Read.” Meyers introduced the Social Justice Syllabus Design Tool: bit.ly/SJSDT22Lilly The tool draws on syllabus best practices, stereotype threat interventions, and social justice pedagogy principles. The researchers involved in the […]
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Keep on Teaching at NC State

Tonight’s Lilly Conference online 2022 session was from our NC State DELTA, Libraries, OIT, and OFE team! Entitled “Instructional Considerations for Academic Continuity: Mid- and Post-COVID-19,” Diane Chapman, Maria Gallardo-Williams, Stacy Gant, Jonathan Holloway, and David Woodbury from NC State University presented on efforts to improve instructional practices on our campus. They are, as Chapman […]
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Connectivism in a Cohort Program

Tonight I watched a recorded session entitled “The Connectivist Approach to Interactive Dialogue” and presented asynchronously during the TLC Lilly Online 2022 conference. The presenters were Kristen Carlson, an Assistant Professor of Leadership and Learning, and Andrew Burklund, both at Minnesota State University Moorhead. Their session focused on the use of connectivism and interactive dialogue […]
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Engaging Participants with Padlet Boards about Student Engagement

Todd D. Zakrajsek from UNC-Chapel Hill and ITLC Lilly spoke about “Game Changing Teaching Tips” at the Lilly Conference Online. Zakrajsek spoke about how to engage students. The prompt was “what strategies do you use for student engagement?” Zakrajsek explained that he first lets people know that there will be breakout rooms to prepare them […]
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Privileges that Hinder

Tonight we watched another ITLC Lilly ONline Conference plenary. Chavella Pittman has presented at other conferences and did a workshop with us last year. The title of the session at Lilly 2022 was “3 Surprising Ways Privilege Ruins Inclusive Teaching (& How they Provide Hope).” Pittman is a faculty member and faculty developer. At this […]
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OER Wealth!

What a great title for an Open Ed 2021 session: “Textbook Poor But OER Rich!” Ron Stafford and Mark Knockemus from Northeastern Technical College recorded together this ten-minute session. Stafford is the Library Director and Knockemus is an instructor for English and religion. Knockemus spoke about using handouts to supplement an expensive textbook and realizing […]
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Textual Analysis of Open Book by Pre-service Teachers

“A Textual Analysis of a Student-Created Open Licensing Book” was the title of a ten-minute Open Ed 2021 session by Pengtong Qu, Chaoran Wang, and Meina Zhu. I had watched another presentation by Qu and Wang about pre-service teachers yesterday and was curious about this session. Wang is at Colby College; Qu is at Indiana […]
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CUNY Teacher Education OER Hub

“Teacher Educators as OER Storytellers” was the title of the ten-minute Open Ed 2021 session. Niki Fayne is the Program Director at CUNY OER hub. Fayne described the support from Lehman College. Naliza Sadik, the Teaching and Learning Manager at Lehman College, CUNY described the hub for teaching and learning, housed in the CUNY OER […]
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