Instructor Behaviors

November 4, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Community of Practice, Course Design, Instructor Behaviors, Learning Communities, Online Learning, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Reflections, Teaching techniques, Wellbeing, Why

OER Faculty Learning Communities

Today we did two RLOE sessions about Open Pedagogy and student choice & voice. They were a lot of fun. The student panels were excellent! Tonight, we watched the Open Ed 2021 session entitled “OERs & Faculty Learning Communities” with panelists Jenna Steigerwalt, Ella Smith-Justice, and James King. During the transition to remote online teaching […]

November 3, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, DBER and SoTL, Instructor Behaviors, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Pedagogy, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, Why

A Systematic Review of Open Pedagogy

A long rough day with equipment smoking, computers not working, and lots of things going on. I ended the day by watching an Open Ed 2021 session entitled “Open Pedagogy: A Systematic Review of Empirical Findings” presented by Dr. Virginia Clinton-Lisell, an associate professor from the University of North Dakota. Clinton-Lisell spoke about the Creative […]

November 1, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
DBER and SoTL, Information Literacy, Instructor Behaviors, Mobile Learning, Online Learning, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Presentations & Talks, Publishing, Reflections, Why

OER Awareness Trends and COVID-19

What are the trends in OER awareness and adoption in higher education? This is a question I wonder about. Tonight I watched an Open Ed 2021 session that addresses OER awareness: Julia Seaman the Director of Research at Bay View Analytics talked about “OER Awareness and Adoption Trends in US Higher Education through the COVID-19 […]

October 26, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Community of Practice, Constructivism, Course Design, Instructor Behaviors, Learning Communities, Open Pedagogy, OpenEd, Pedagogy, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, Why

A Supportive Community of Practice for OER

It was a day of nanopore sequencing… and lots of emails. Tonight, we watched the OpenEd 2021 session entitled “Institutional Transformation Towards OER: Community of Practice, Diversity, Assessment, and Policy,” and Patricia Westerman from Towson University started by describing their OER Community of Practice and the partnership with the Maryland Open Source Textbook (M.O.S.T.) initiative. […]

October 22, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
DBER and SoTL, Diversity, FALCoN, Instructor Behaviors, Metacognition

A New Framework for Instructor Awareness and Improvement

Today, Amber Heidbrink was the presenter at the NIST FALCoN session entitled “Faculty Conceptions of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.” Heidbrink started by asking us to think about what diversity means and post thoughts on a Jamboard. Then, we discussed why we should care about diversity in higher education. Their research team interviewed 30 full-time and part-time instructors from 2- and 4-year […]

October 20, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Community of Practice, Course Design, DBER and SoTL, Instructor Behaviors, Pedagogy, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, ROSE, Why

Messaging on Day 1

Today I watched a ROSE seminar agbout first-day experiences in STEM courses. Claire Meaders presented work done as a postdoctoral scholar with Michelle Smith, Brian Couch, and A. Kelly Lane, among others. Meaders asked the audience: why does the first day matter? Citing Vygotsky 1978: “Every class is a social context in which learning is shared between people. Meaders […]

October 19, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
ALT, Constructivism, Course Design, Instructor Behaviors, Online Learning, Pedagogy, Reflections, Why

Support for Course Improvement

It was a rough long day, yet we were able to learn in lab and troubleshoot together. Tonight, we watched a session entitled “When support and quality assurance collide: A learning technologists’ journey to maintain staff wellbeing in a world full of data” by Laura Hollinshead from the University of Derby. Hollinshead worked with their […]

October 18, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
ALT, Discussions, Instructor Behaviors, Online Learning, Pedagogy, Reflections, Wellbeing, Why

Cameras Off? Cameras On?

We had an awesome OpenEd 2021 session despite a tough day. Tonight, we watched a recorded presentation from ALT 2021 entitled “Should we see students’ cameras when we teach online synchronous sessions?” presented by Catherine Bazela, Pete Mella, and Robert Spark. Mella began by asking the audience: “if we asked you to switch on your […]

October 17, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
ALT, Course Design, Discussions, Instructor Behaviors, Online Learning, Reflections, Softwares, Student groups, Why

Making Media Accessible for an Entire Campus and Comparing Discussions

It was a busy day with scooters, painting, chalk, and baking. Tonight, we watched an ALT 2021 day 3 session entitled “Making Video and Multimedia for Learning Accessible and More Inclusive, at Scale” presented by Sandra Partington, Maria Kaffa, and Sandra Guzman Rodriguez. Partington spoke about the transition to online teaching and use of video. […]

October 12, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, ALT, Instructor Behaviors, Online Learning, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, Workshop

Professional Development at The Open University

Today was the first metagenomics lab session. It was a lot of fun… though also a long session. Tonight we watched an ALT 2021 session entitled “The show must go on: reflecting on transitioning a programme of face-to-face staff development events online.” The presenters, Charlotte Stevens and Karen Hamilton, are part of the instructor development […]

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