Lilly Conference

July 17, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, DBER and SoTL, Instructor Behaviors, Lilly Conference, Pedagogy, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, Teaching techniques, Why

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 […]

July 16, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Books, Constructivism, Course Design, Instructor Behaviors, Lilly Conference, Pedagogy, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, Teaching techniques, Why

Pausing to Think about Expert Blindspots

Barry Sharpe and Shannon Scotece from Western Governors University presented at the 2021 Lilly Conference Online on “Teaching and Learning Without Grading.” I have watched presentations by Sharpe before. Sharpe started by defining Course Instructors (CIs) that design, direct instruction, and do not grade! The presenters talked about frequent recommendations from the literature and their book […]

July 15, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Community of Practice, Constructivism, Diversity, Instructor Behaviors, Lilly Conference, Pedagogy, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, Student groups, Why

Student-Faculty Partnerships

As part of the 2021 Lilly Conference online, Molly Robinson from Lewis & Clark College presented a recorded session entitled “Improving Pedagogy through Faculty-Student Collaboration.” Robinson helps run a program through their Teaching Excellence Program. The idea of faculty-student partnership was inspired by a similar project at Bryn Mawr college. The partnerships contribute to inclusive […]

July 14, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Course Design, Instructor Behaviors, Lilly Conference, Online Learning, Pedagogy, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, Student groups, Why

Students Teaching Each Other

Tonight’s session from the Lilly Conference online 2021 was entitled “Peer teaching: Mastering Concepts Through Active Learning” and presented by Sherry Lin from Texas A & M University. Lin defined active learning as “a method of learning where students are involved in the learning process” and “engages students in their own learning by doing things […]

July 13, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Constructivism, Course Design, DBER and SoTL, Delftia, Instructor Behaviors, Lilly Conference, Open Pedagogy, Pedagogy, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, Teaching techniques

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 […]

July 12, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Constructivism, Information Literacy, Lilly Conference, Pedagogy, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, Wellbeing

Brainstorming and The Thesis Table

Arna Shines from Tougaloo College recorded a session for the 2021 Lilly Conference online entitled: “The Thesis Is In the Table” that intrigued me. Shines teaches first-year students and “has the privilege of teaching the essay” and wanted to focus on the thesis. Shines believes “the thesis must be one sentence, the last sentence of […]

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 […]

July 10, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Course Design, Instructor Behaviors, Lilly Conference, Pedagogy, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, Service Learning, Student groups, Why

Campus Clients and Networking

Dr. Melinda Adams from the University of the Incarnate Word recorded a session for the Lilly Conference online this past may entitled “Clients and Experiential Learning” that I watched tonight. Dr. Adams is a full professor and teaches a draping class for more than ten years. Over the years, Adams learned that students were not […]

July 9, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Course Design, DBER and SoTL, Instructor Behaviors, Lilly Conference, Mobile Learning, Online Learning, Pedagogy, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, Student groups, Teaching techniques, Why, Writing

Two Different Flips

Jessica Peacock from Merrimack College and Kathryn Lewis from American International College presented on “Active Learning through the Flipped Classroom: Success, Failure, or Both” as part of the Lilly 2021 Conference online. The presenters defined flipped learning as students doing work prior to class in an individual space, focusing on understanding and remembering of the […]

July 8, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Articles, Constructivism, Information Literacy, Instructor Behaviors, Lilly Conference, Metacognition, Pedagogy, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, Teaching techniques, Why

Public Science Writing

Tonight I watched a Lilly Conference online session from this past May entitled: “Who needs writing?”: Engaging STEM Majors in Public Science Writing” by Jennifer Osterhage and Katherine Rogers-Carpenter from the University of Kentucky. They described the writing course they developed and the biology program at the University of Kentucky, reaching 1,400 people. Their “Writing […]

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