Mentoring

May 9, 2025
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Course Design, Mentoring, Online Learning, QM, qualitative research, Reflections

Enhancing Active Learning Through Peer Mentoring

Tonight I watched Dr. Andria Schwegler and Dr. Madelynn Shell from Texas A&M Central Texas present on “Peer Mentoring as a tool for Achieving Outcomes through Active Learning.” Dr. Malin K. Lilley taught the class. They are faculty members in psychology and presented at the Quality Matters (QM) conference. They are unique because they are […]

March 24, 2025
By Carlos C. Goller
Accessibility and UDL, annotation, Constructivism, Course Design, DBER and SoTL, Mentoring

AI and Assessment Strategies for Online Courses

Tonight I watched the Quality Matters (QM) Research Connect Conference session on assessment. The title of this session was “Assessment in Online Courses in Higher Education: Perspectives of Instructional Designers in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.” The presenters were Florence Martin, Jennifer DeLarm, both from NC State University, and Stella Kim from UNC Charlotte and […]

August 17, 2024
By Carlos C. Goller
Mentoring, Oxford Nanopore Technologies, Reflections, sequencing

Nanopore Technology Origins: Expert Panel Insights

Tonight, I watched the London Calling 2024 session on Nanopore’s origins. The session was a panel with attendees and presenters in person and online. Dave Deamer was one person I was able to meet in person this summer. Dave Deamer spoke from the University of California, Santa Cruz, about the origins of life and nanopore […]

February 6, 2023
By Carlos C. Goller
Mentoring, Metacognition, Oxford Nanopore Technologies, Presentations & Talks, sequencing, Softwares, Undergraduate Research

Nanopore Sequencing Identifies Cable Bacteria

Mantas Sereika from Aalborg University in Denmark presented at the nanopore Community Meeting 2022 on “Targeted deep metagenomics for the recovery of novel closed microbial genomes from highly complex communities.” I thought this ten-minute session had an intriguing title, as I begin to wonder what we will do next in the BIT 295 course in […]

January 27, 2023
By Carlos C. Goller
Instructor Behaviors, Mentoring, Oxford Nanopore Technologies, Reflections, sequencing, Teaching techniques, Undergraduate Research, Why, Workshop

Learning to Troubleshoot by Exploring the Capabilities of Adaptive Sampling

Continuing with Devin M. Drown’s work, today I watched their Nanopore Community Meeting 2022 session entitled “Portable genomics hackathon for pathogen detection: a practical application of adaptive sampling to engage undergraduate learning.” Drown is at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Drown explained that the MinION can be used to engage students in problem-solving and applications […]

January 7, 2023
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Articles, Case Studies, Course Design, DBER and SoTL, Discussions, Diversity, Information Literacy, Mentoring, Pedagogy, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, Teaching techniques, Undergraduate Research, Why

A Survey of RECR Education in CUREs

Tonight I watched the Online with LSE Webinar with Dr. Laura Diaz-Martinez. This session was in late fall 2021. It was moderated by Dr. Tissyana Camacho, and Assistant Professor of Child and Adolescent Development at California State University. Dr. Diaz-Martinez is an Assistant Professor of Biology at Gonzaga and was my NSF ENCOUR pod mentor! […]

January 5, 2023
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Accessibility and UDL, Articles, Community of Practice, DBER and SoTL, Discussions, Diversity, Information Literacy, Instructor Behaviors, Learning Communities, Mentoring, Reflections, Wellbeing, Why

Perceptions of Faculty Culturally Diverse Mentor Training

Dr. Damani White-Lewis is a postdoctoral scholar and presented at the Online with LSE Webinar series. Along with coauthors Ana Romero, Justin Gutzwa, and Sylvia Hurtado, they presented on their article “Moving the Science Forward: Faculty Perceptions of Culturally Diverse Mentor Training Benefits.” The problem White-Lewis stated was the need for STEM faculty to become […]

January 4, 2023
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Accessibility and UDL, Articles, Constructivism, Course Design, DBER and SoTL, Discussions, Diversity, Guest Speakers, Instructor Behaviors, Mentoring, Pedagogy, Presentations & Talks, Publishing, Reflections, Undergraduate Research, Wellbeing, Why, Writing

A Course on Feedback, Mentoring, and Science Communication

Dr. Diedra Wrighting presented at the Online with LSE webinar series on “Teaching Undergrads to Communicate Science, Cultivate Mentoring Relationships, and Navigate Science Culture.” Wrighting is Executive Director of the ADVANCE Office of Faculty Development at Northeastern University in Boston. They emphasized the importance of mentoring and obtained funding to create a two-credit course in […]

December 31, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Accessibility and UDL, Constructivism, DBER and SoTL, Discussions, Diversity, Information Literacy, Instructor Behaviors, Mentoring, Pedagogy, Presentations & Talks, Publishing, Reflections, Student groups, UDL, Wellbeing, Why

Interpreting and Communicating in Undergraduate Research Experiences

To end the year, I watched the JMBE Live session with Laura E. Ott entitled “Supporting Deaf Students in Undergraduate Research Experiences.” This session was recorded over a year ago.Ott was at UMBE when she started this work and now has been at UNC for several years. She began by sharing the statistics on Deaf […]

December 16, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Accessibility and UDL, annotation, Constructivism, Course Design, Discussions, Diversity, Instructor Behaviors, Mentoring, Metacognition, Open Pedagogy, Pedagogy, Podcasts, Presentations & Talks

Two Sessions with Maha Bali

This morning the ASCN group hosted Maha Bali. It was a fun session and timely, as tonight I am watching the keynote of the Alternative Assessment Institute 2022. It was really interesting to watch the session after having participated in one earlier. Bali shared slides at: https://bit.ly/altassessBali Bali starts with a check in to learn […]