Course Design

Feedback for Learners and Instructors

Natalia Yevgenyevna Collings, Central Michigan University presented on “Effective feedback: Building a community of learners” as part of the Lilly Conference online 2021. Collings is in the Department of Teacher Education and Professional Development and mentioned teaching undergraduates and graduate students. Collings spoke about teaching for fifteen years and being very interested in feedback, mentioning […]
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ARS?! Time to poll the class!

A 2021 Lilly Conference online presentation entitled “The Benefits of Using an Audience Response System in Class” caught my attention tonight. Frank Spors from the Western University of Health Sciences spoke about the optometry program there. At Western U, they have a four-year doctoral optometry program with class size between 75-90 and lectures for all […]
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Beyond the Text… and Instructor/Student Resources!

Tonight, I watched a 2021 Lilly Conference Online asynchronous session by Dr. Silvia Bartolic from the University of British Columbia. The session was entitled “Promoting Digital and Visual Literacy Through Multimodal Projects” and began with the numerous reasons why instructors should use multimodal assessments. The challenge, as mentioned by Bartolic, is how to design multimodal […]
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Ungrading through Specifications Grading?

I was reading the Ungrading book today and have been looking into Digital Pedagogy Lab resources. Tonight, I watched a presentation entitled “Specifications Grading: Ungrading :: Outcomes: Heart” by Dr. Jennifer McCrickerd from Drake University as part of the 2021 Lilly Conference online. McCrickerd has a Ph.D. in philosophy and specialized in ethics. McCrickerd described […]
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Action-Oriented Reflection

I started watching yesterday asynchronous sessions from the 2021 Lily Conference online. The second session I watched was by Stephanie Garrone-Shufran from Merrimack College and entitled “Using Reflection to Promote Social Justice in Coursework and Beyond.” Garrone-Shufran started by describing the importance of training teaching to better support English learners (ELs). Garrone-Shufran course is “focused […]
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Bundled Course Grading… with Tokens

I have been thinking about how to plan for an online section of our molecular biology semester-long course. Sandy Diec and Merlyn Joseph from Texas A&M College of Pharmacy are coordinators for a skills course in the pharmacy program. They have about sixty students in two lab sections that meet for 1.5 hours a week. […]
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Ungrading and Metacognition at the Elon T&L Conference

I love the Teaching & Learning Conference Elon University has each year. While I miss going to their beautiful campus, I was glad that the experience was virtual AND recorded this year. I was able to catch a couple of sessions today, though I missed the keynote by James Lang.  Christopher M. Jones, Assistant Professor of […]
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Interactive Presentations and Social Presence

I have heard several talks that mention the importance of relational teaching. I was happy to see that Rachel Hammond from Cornerstone University presented on “Developing Social Presence: Teaching Relationally and Creating Community in the Hybrid/Bimodal Classroom.” I watched another presentation by Hammond last year and enjoyed the emphasis on relationship-rich education regardless of modality. Using […]
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The NC State SoTL Institute

I spent the day in the office for a change. I had so much fun interacting with people and finding things in the lab. While I was in several Zoom meetings, I was still in the office and able to see students and our team during breaks. I can’t wait to work with Delftia and […]
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A Randomized Controlled Trial of the Adaptive Equity-Oriented Pedagogy

Andrew Estrada Phuong from the University of California, Berkeley was a speaker at the Lilly Conference Online 2021 and presented on the “Adaptive Equity-Oriented Pedagogy: A Framework for Increasing Student Engagement and Success in Your Classrooms.”Estrada Phuong used the Adaptive Equity-Oriented Pedagogy (AEO) to evaluate teaching strategies and challenges. I had not heard about AEO […]
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