DBER and SoTL

Online Course Design Findings from Surveying Students

Michelle Bartlett and Carroll Warren from North Carolina State University recorded several presentations for the Lilly Conference Online 2021. This is the second one I watch. Entitled “Impact of the Aficionado: Online Learner’s Perceptions of Learning Online,” this session caught my attention because yesterday the one we watched focused on perceptions of instructor presence. Bartlett […]
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Analyzing Instructor Presence in an Online Business Course

We came back from the beach, and I don’t feel well… however, Amada demanded a story. Therefore, I played a Lilly Conference Online 2021 recorded session entitled “Instructor Presence in Asynchronous Online Classes: Not Just a Façade” by Sharon Watson from the University of Delaware. Watson began describing the empirical research study they developed that […]
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Motivation and OER Adoption

Katherine Williams, Rachel Messer, and Eric Werth from the University of Pikeville presented at the 2021 Lilly Conference online on “Faculty Motivation and Concern During a Campus-wide Free Textbook Initiative.” Their objectives included identifying areas of faculty concern from transitions to free materials and what faculty found motivating and demotivating. They defined Open Educational Resources […]
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Tips for Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) and Edutainment Podcasts

Dr. Marilyn Moore from National University in California serves as a chair of a student success program. Moore presented at the 2021 Lilly Conference online a recorded presentation entitled: “Supporting and Promoting Student Success in Higher Education.” Moore asked: “what do you want your students to achieve in social-emotional competencies? Moore uses a CASEL system […]
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A Case Study for Multiple Courses

Today was day one of the HHMI Inclusive Excellence workshop at NC State. It was fun to see people and interact (not over Zoom). I just finished reading one of the two articles assigned as homework and paused to watch a 2021 Lilly Conference Online recorded session by Maung Min, Laura Cruz, Jennifer Parker, Kelsey […]
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Supporting Engaged Teacher Scholars

As part of the 2021 Lilly Conference online asynchronous sessions, Dayna Henry from James Madison University presented on “A Case Study of SoTL Leaders as Catalysts Toward Institutionalizing SoTL Cultural Change.” Along with Ashley Taylor Jaffee, they described SoTL as: “evidence-based, teaching and learning scholarly activities which include systematic inquiry into what works and does […]
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Scaffolding the Online Student Learning Experience

Madhu Mahalingam and Elisabetta Fasella from the University of the Sciences presented at the 2021 Lilly Conference online in May a recorded session entitled “‘Scaffolding’ Student Learning in General Chemistry for Online Synchronous Classes.” I have been learning about what others are doing with their labs to offer an online experience. At the University of […]
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The Different Stages of Metacognitive Teachers

Anton Tolman and Nathan Martin from Utah Valley University and Greg Mullen from Exploring the Core presented at the 2021 Lilly Conference Online in May on “Building Better Teachers: Metacognition Enhances Student Transfer to Higher Education.” Nate Martin is an undergraduate research assistant doing this research, and Greg is an educator. Nate began by defining […]
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OER-enabled Pedagogy

Eric Werth and Katherine Williams from the University of Pikeville recorded a 2021 Lilly Conference online session entitled “Empowering Student Voice: Using Open Pedagogy to Motivate First-Year Students.” They are both in the Office of Professional Development. This topic is appropriate today because as part of the BIT SURE program, we discussed open pedagogy and […]
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Connecting Classes and Developing Intercultural Competency Skills

It is always great to see what good friends are doing and presenting at Lilly! Erin A. McKenney from North Carolina State University and Diana J. R. Lafferty from Northern Michigan University (NMU) presented a session entitled “Leveraging Remote Learning for Cross-Institutional Collaborative Scholarship” that highlights how they joined forces to teach together! Students were […]
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