Course Design

Active Teaching for Today’s Students

It has been an interesting week! Classes started, and I have enjoyed the energy that students bring. I observed a Zoom synchronous session, launched our online yeast course, participated in a virtual workshop, and attended a faculty and instructional design virtual break. At the same time, I’m working on scheduling and planning our summer programs […]
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PIVOT and LOTTO: Preparing Faculty to Teach Online at Two Different Institutions

Dr. Katrina Kardiasmenos from Bowie State University and Dr. Mariann Hawken from UM Baltimore County presented a recorded Lilly Conference session about preparing faculty to teach online at their institutions. Both presenters have extensive experience with course design, Blackboard, and Quality Matters (QM). They are Certified QM Reviewers and coordinated efforts to prepare faculty to […]
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The Process of Onboarding Online

What do you think about when you hear the word orientation? Michelle Fitzpatrick and Chelsea Biggerstaff Austin Community College described their efforts to launch and a year later completely relaunch due to COVID the Faculty Onboarding and Orientation program they oversee. The program was carefully designed, rolled out in phases, and beautifully described by these […]
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Integrative Thinking

The asynchronous Lilly Conference session by Brad Sottile, Maggie Slattery, and Laura E. Cruz from Pennsylvania State University described a multi campus initiative to create general education courses with integrative thinking. I was immediately captured by their description of wicked problems, grand challenges, and UN Sustainability Goals and the importance of integrative thinking. They defined […]
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Studying Student Self-efficacy through Writing and the Influence of Instructors

NaTasha Schiller (Wingate University) presented at the Lilly Conference on an ongoing study with Eileen Camfield and Kirkwood Land. Schiller and Land have infused high impact practices into their courses, including large introductory biology at Wingate. They also added writing assignments intended to activate students’ growth mindsets, critical thinking, and learning skills. They described in […]
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Critical Pedagogy and Information Literacy

Katie Greer from Oakland University discussed critical pedagogy and critical literacy during an asynchronous session at the Lilly Conference. Greer discussed a course they teach as a general education requirement with several really useful assignments and tips! The idea of students as partners, co-creators, and new experts resonates with me! I took away these great […]
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Assignments for Performance Improvement

I watched another though-provoking session by Barry Sharpe this afternoon, from the asynchronous Lilly Conference sessions on Educational Theory and Pedagogy. Sharpe used key ideas and quotes from two great books I was able to read this year: Josh Eyler’s How Humans Learn and Flower Darby and James Lang’s Small Teaching Online. The presenter used […]
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Questions, Generation, and Provocative Metacognition

Barry Sharpe from Western Governors University gave a thought provoking recorded talk at the Lilly Conference I was able to watch tonight as Amada fell asleep. Sharpe invokes Socrates and the teacher as a gadfly and midwife to encourage us to use practice questions that push students to overcome desirable difficulties and self-reflect on their […]
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