Dr. Peter Hessling, a professor in the North Carolina State University College of Education, Created an Antiracist Module for a course they teach. This course is online and asynchronous and has received QM approval. Along with Elizabeth Uzzell (a graduate student in education with experience teaching), Hessling created a presentation entitled “Antiracist Education in Asynchronous […]
Dr. Aaron Gierhart from Columbus State University presented at the 2020 Lilly Conference online on course design, theory, and course participation during the pandemic. Gierhart shared their career experiences and family life. Gierhart completed a doctoral dissertation in February 2020 on narrative studies of five elementary school teachers that integrated technology in different ways at […]
Dr. Travis Thurston from Utah State University has a neat system for discussion forums. I heard Thurston on a podcast and was happy to be able to see slides to help me understand the way #DigitalPoweups are implemented. Thurston presented at the 2020 Lilly Conference online. The recorded session was entitled “Empowering Students with Choice […]
Dr. Travis Flohr from Penn State University presented a recorded session for the 2020 Lilly Conference online entitled “The Virtual Studio: An Emerging Tacit Learning Management System Framework” describing a visually stunning new virtual course environment. Flohr and colleagues re-envisioned and designed a virtual environment for their architecture/landscaping design courses that provided the interactions and […]
I heard Kevin Gannon on the Tea for Teaching podcast (episode 174) discussing with the hosts HyFlex teaching on their campus in the fall. Gannon offered an honest summary of challenges with student engagement and attendance in online and in person courses in the fall at their institution. I appreciate how Gannon explained some of […]
Drs. Katherine Wilford, Demetrius Collins, and Megan Flores from the University of St. Augustine described how they engage students in their health science courses in a virtual setting in a recorded 2020 Lilly Conference session. Wilford defined student engagement and the relationship between engagement and satisfaction. Some of the studies mentioned by Wilford using active […]
Drs. Carrol Warren and Michelle Bartlett recorded a short session for the 2020 Lily Conference entitled “Applying Improvement Science to Promote Online Course Delivery Successfully” with examples of the application of this method/mindset for their courses. The Carnegie Foundation identifies six core principles of improvement. Warren explained this framework and focused on one aspect or […]
Dr. Michelle Bartlett from North Carolina State University shared several considerations for online course design for teaching and learning for students with low-bandwidth access at the 2020 Lilly Conference. Bartlett has extensive experience teaching online. Do students in the courses we teach have internet access or device limitations? Bartlett started the presentation by reminding us […]
Laura Cruz, Daniel Mallinson, and colleagues from Pennsylvania State University presented a session at the 2020 Lilly Conference on their analysis of the use of Nearpod engagement tool. Cruz, an instructional designer and educational researcher, briefly summarized educational research on student response systems and engagement. Cruz asked: “do clickers work?” adding that it depends on […]
Martha Brown and Dr. Kim Bush from North Carolina State University recorded a session for the 2020 Lilly Conference Online. I watched it tonight and learned a different way of using Padlet.com in courses, valuing student privacy and anxiety concerns, and engagement research. Bush began by defining student motivation by quoting Barkley 2010 as “student […]