Online Learning

Keep on Teaching at NC State

Tonight’s Lilly Conference online 2022 session was from our NC State DELTA, Libraries, OIT, and OFE team! Entitled “Instructional Considerations for Academic Continuity: Mid- and Post-COVID-19,” Diane Chapman, Maria Gallardo-Williams, Stacy Gant, Jonathan Holloway, and David Woodbury from NC State University presented on efforts to improve instructional practices on our campus. They are, as Chapman […]
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A Study about Social Presence in Online Courses

How do you establish a social presence in online courses? Trish Harvey from Hamline University presented about this topic at the Lilly Conference Online earlier this year. Harvey was a K-12 social studies teacher and digital learning facilitator and also helped several teachers move their courses online. At Hamline, Harvey is a member of the […]
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Student Wellbeing and Mindfulness

Eve Hoover from Midwestern University presented at Lilly Conference online 2022 about “A Mindful Approach to Student Well-Being.” Hoover is an Associate Professor in the Physician Assistant Program. They are very interested in wellbeing and stress. Along with a colleague, Hoover worked on a curriculum focused on the well-being and avoiding burnout that is now […]
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PIVOT and Community Based Learning

“Tips for Developing and Maintaining CBL Partnerships in a Virtual Environment” was the session I watched by Jodie Parys from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. CBL is community-based learning, and the goals for this session were to learn strategies to modify face-to-face CBL partnerships into virtual and hybrid offerings and consider the needs of stakeholders. Parys […]
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Improving through Choice and UDL

“Using Choice as an Active Teaching and Learning Technique” is the title of the Lilly Conference online session I watched tonight. Tiffany Wigington is an Associate Professor at Tarleton State University along with Misty Smith, both in the Department of Social Work. Their objectives were to explore the use of choice in their curriculum. They […]
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Redesigning Assignments to Engage Students

Tonight Amada and I watched the Lilly 2022 session entitled “Combating “Study Sites” Through Engaging Assignment Re-Design” with presenters from Texas A&M. The presenters were part of a Faculty Learning Community to discuss engagement strategies. Presenters included Joyce Juntune (Instructional Professor at Texas A&M), Suzanna Ramos (Assistant Lecturer at A&M), Hector Ramos Garcimartin (Lecturer at […]
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Tips and Theory for Increasing Doctoral Student Motivation and Persistence

Dr. Justina Kwapy is a full-time online professor at Grand Canyon University and presented at Lilly Conference online a session entitled “Increasing Doctoral Students’ Motivation and Persistence.” Kwapy has a background in special education & educational/organizational leadership and serves on the committee of several students. The presentation goals were to explore the effects of internal […]
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The OT Jigsaw Study

Olivia West Hammond from Penn State presented “The Occupation of Learning: Re-imagining the OT Classroom Post-pandemic” as a recorded twenty-minute session at Lilly Conference online. West Hammond teaches at a smaller Penn State campus in the occupational therapy assistant program. This is a 2.5-year program with mostly commuter students. West Hammond also defined occupational therapy […]
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The Immersive Reality Classroom Learning Experience

“Traveling to Inexperienced Realms: Immersive Reality for Classroom Learning” is the title of the Lilly Conference session I watched tonight. Amy Kuntz, an Instructional Designer at Penn State, along with Eileen Grodziak, another instructional designer at Penn State, worked with Kate Morgan, the Director of Virtual Education at Penn State Lehigh Valley. They defined Immersive […]
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Students Teaching Students

Tonight we watched the Lilly Conference session entitled “Students-Teaching-Students: How social sciences students leading classes can create greater engagement and enjoyment in the course.” Ethan Engelhardt and Andrew Reynolds were the presenters. Engelhardt is from Asbury University and Reynolds is from Malone University. They began by describing the “dead” classroom with students not engaged, fatigued… […]
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