Course Design

October 2, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
ALT, Course Design, Discussions, Information Literacy, Online Learning, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, Softwares, Why

Virtual Learning Environments and Donkey Sanctuaries

A fun Saturday with the family, scooters, and pumpkins. Tonight, I watched a recorded session from ALT 2021 entitled “Leading through listening: drawing from staff and student experiences to adapt the implementation of a new VLE” presented by James Youdale and Malcolm Murray from Durham University. VLE is the acronym for virtual learning experience. During […]

October 1, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
ALT, Constructivism, Course Design, Diversity, Online Learning, Pedagogy, Podcasts, Reflections, Softwares, Why

Supporting Online Teaching for Vision Impaired Instructors

Happy Friday! This evening we watched an ALT 2021 session entitled “The unexpected transition to online teaching for a vision impaired lecturer: Overcoming accessibility issues during the pandemic” presented by Vanessa Mar-Molinero and Karla De Lima Guedes. De Lima Guedes spoke about working with an instructor with visual impairment and cited data that there are […]

September 30, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
ALT, Constructivism, Course Design, DBER and SoTL, Online Learning, Pedagogy, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, Softwares, Wellbeing, Why

Student Creation of Digital Resources and Perceptions of Captions

I had an awesome day with our RLOE team! They are inspiring and wonderful people. That’s what I needed today. Tonight’s ALT 2021 session was entitled “Re-creating ‘Creating Digital Learning Resources’ online – lessons learned from a meta experience” presented by Anna Ruff, a learning designer. Ruff discussed a first-year medical student selected unit in […]

September 29, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, ALT, Course Design, Discussions, Guest Speakers, Online Learning, Open Pedagogy, Pedagogy, Podcasts, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, Student groups, Why

Students as Partners

Students as partners. We mention the phrase often, and I think it has a variety of different ways of being implemented. Cliodhna O’Callaghan from the University College Cork, Ireland presented at ALT 2021 on the Teach Digi project. O’Callaghan is the project lead on this initiative for “shared learning and students as partners.” The Enhancing […]

September 28, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
ALT, Constructivism, Course Design, Instructor Behaviors, Online Learning, Open Pedagogy, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, Softwares, Why

Co-creation in Accounting

Tonight’s ALT 2021 session was entitled “Creating a student led on-line inclusive community of learning and co-creation of programme content using digital technology” presented by Sue Evans, Ellen Spender, Tracey Williams and, Lesley Davies. Spender talked about the swift move to online teaching and learning of their accounting courses last year. They had the challenge […]

September 26, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
ALT, Constructivism, Course Design, Online Learning, Pedagogy, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, Softwares, Why

Embedding Inclusive Practice into Online Teaching Guides

I have been thinking a lot about blended learning as part of the QM courses and preparing for BIT 295 in the spring. An ALT 2021 session that caught my attention tonight was entitled “Embedding Inclusive Practice for Blended and Distance Learning” presented by Mark Maher, Robin Clarke, Carmen Miles, and Stephen Walker. They have […]

September 25, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
ALT, Constructivism, Course Design, Online Learning, Pedagogy, Reflections

PAL Learners

Tonight I watched an ALT 2021 session entitled ” Challenges and lessons learnt in building a student led online learning community in a pandemic” with several speakers from the University of Derby in the UK. This session had several speakers including mental health nurses (Longbone) and students (Hill): Jennifer Allam, Johanna Westwood, Sian Hill, and […]

September 23, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
ALT, Course Design, Online Learning, Pedagogy, Presentations & Talks, Reflections

How are students (in the UK!) experiencing their learning online?

The title of an ALT 2021 caught my attention tonight: “How are students experiencing their learning online?” presented by Sarah Knight and Clare Killen. Knight talked about the data they collected and “listening to the voices of our learners and students” with 62,658 student responses to the 2020/2021 surveys focusing on the online learning context […]

September 19, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
ALT, Course Design, Online Learning, Open Pedagogy, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, Softwares, Website, Why, Workshop

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 […]

September 16, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, ALT, Constructivism, Course Design, Discussions, Diversity, Instructor Behaviors, Pedagogy, Reflections

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 […]