Course Design

May 3, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Course Design, Online Learning, Open Pedagogy, Pedagogy, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, Website, Wellbeing, Why

#Openteach and the ACE Framework

I continue watching OERxDomains21 sessions and loving them! They provide happiness and lots of ideas. Tonight, I started by watching Orna Farrell , James Brunton, Eamon Costello, Caitriona Ni She, Matthew Waters, Cliona Olohan, Aleksandra Shornikova and Aodan Farrelly present about “Open Course, Open Textbook, OpenTeach” and how this team developed this project. Orna Farrell […]

April 29, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Constructivism, Course Design, Delftia, Discussions, Open Pedagogy, Pedagogy, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, Why

Data Analytics and Open Practices at the Institutional Level

I continue watching OERxDomains21 sessions this week. Tonight, I started by watching a session by Nicole Allen “Open Education, Data Analytics, and the Future of Knowledge Infrastructure” that addressed open education and surveillance analytics. Allen gave a talk without slides and started by explaining the new market for data analytics. Several examples of mergers and […]

April 26, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Course Design, Instructor Behaviors, Mobile Learning, Online Learning, Open Pedagogy, Pedagogy, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, Teaching techniques, Wellbeing, Why

Modalities and Engagement

I have been thinking about openness and collaborative projects in Spanish lately. Another OERxDomains21 session about openness and collaborative spaces presented by Giovanna Carloni focused on “Digitally-enhanced collaborative international spaces for content and language learning” and provided some ideas of how other countries approached emergency remote learning. Carloni discussed how the course was structured and […]

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 14, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Course Design, Instructor Behaviors, Pedagogy, Podcasts, Reflections, Why

Student Workload Perceptions

Episode 183 of the Tea for Teaching podcast discussed student workload this week. Dr. Betsy Barre, Executive Director of the Center for Advancement of Teaching at Wake Forest University was on the show. Barre wrote a blog post about workload recently and discussed how at Wake Forest results from a student survey frequently mentioned work […]