Lilly Conference

Spiderweb Discussions?

How do you visualize a round circle discussion? If you were to draw connections between speakers, it may look like spiderweb! Ian Wolf from Fayetteville Technical Community College presented an asynchronous session at the Lilly Conference entitled “Leveraging Curiosity, Sociality, and Authenticity to Create Impactful, Student-Led Discussion”. Wolf uses questioning and a structure to set […]
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Library Information Science Education and Collaborations

Michael Crumpton and Joanna DePolt from UNC Greensboro presented a recorded session at the Lilly Conference emphasizing the collaborative opportunities among adjunct faculty, faculty, practitioners, and students in Library Information Sciences (LIS) education. The presenters described examples of collaboration in the LIS department. The value of adjuncts and practitioners in working with research faculty and […]
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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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Faculty Support and Community During a Pandemic

I watched another Lilly Conference recording that was uplifting and demonstrates the resourcefulness and ability of faculty development units to support instructors during the pandemic. Kathryn Zawisza and Don Johnson from the University of Arkansas described the efforts of their units to support instructors. They, like many other instructor support units, had to quickly launch […]
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Connecting Students from Different Programs: A Study on Interprofessional Research Groups

An asynchronous session from the Lilly Conference by Jessica Jochum, Ed Jones, and Joanne Klossner caught my attention with the title: “Learn with Me: The Perceived Benefits and Barriers of Collaborative Interprofessional Research Groups”. This was a collaboration between the University of Indianapolis and the University of Maryland School of Public Health. Programs in MS […]
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Instructor Quality and Grade Distribution

Another Lilly Conference session by Emily Faulconer and John Griffith (and Bobby McMasters) from Embry Riddle Aeronautical University presented results from their study comparing grades in courses taught by instructors rated average or high quality. Their introduction presented by Faulconer reviewed previous studies addressing similar questions. For their study, they analyzed 9-week terms offered in […]
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SoTL and DBER Research Dissemination

This being I listened to Emily Faulconer’s asynchronous workshop about Getting Published. Faulconer is from Embry Riddle Aeronautical University and gave a fun and motivational presentation on the writing and submission process. I was intrigued by the information presented about title choices and downloads and citations. While titles with semicolons may have more downloads, apparently […]
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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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