Open Pedagogy

Empowering Online Learning with Self-Determination Theory

Dr. Heather Olson, Director of Online Teaching and Learning Experience at Florida SouthWestern State College, presented at the QM research conference. The title of the session was “Transforming Online Learning Through Self-Determination Theory.” Olson spoke about gardening and learning from a landscape designer. The prompt: “When did learning feel alive for you?” was used for […]
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Interpreting Structure with Pore-C

Pore-C is a method I hear about, yet I don’t fully understand the details. Eoghan Harrington from Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) presented at London Calling 2019 a session titled “Pore-C: a method for genome-wide, multi-contact chromosome conformation capture.”Harrington is part of the applications team and focuses on genomic applications. They collaborate with various partners. The […]
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Identification of Mutations in Cell Lines

Yukata Suzuki from The University of Tokyo in Japan presented at London Calling 2019 on “Identification of a new class of local copy number aberrations in lung cancer genomes using PromethION.” I thought this was timely since today, in class, we started sequencing redbud samples using a PromethION flow cell. Suzuki spoke about starting PromethION […]
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Low-cost Nanopore Transcriptomics Classification

Jeremy Wang from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill presented at London Calling 2023 on “Low-cost nanopore transcriptomics enables robust characterisation of diverse tumour types in low- resource settings.” They spoke about the variation in global childhood cancer five year survival. It was startling to see on a map the differences by region/country. […]
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Antiracist Opportunities

Chelsey Nardi from the University of Colorado Denver is a doctoral candidate and presented at JMBE on their article about antiracist opportunities. The overview Nardi presented summarized the article: Nardi focused in the recorded session on the finding that “active learning does not equal inclusive teaching.” She also mentioned that authentic research experienced with unpaid […]
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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 […]
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Adaptable Assessments

Suzanne Wakim presented a session entitled “Adaptable Assessment Design” at the Alternative Assessment Institute 2022. Wakim is a biology and honors faculty at Butte Community College in California. Wakim also trains faculty in online course design. They spoke about disasters and the need to shift to online education. Wakim noticed that courses with adaptable assessments […]
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Assessment with Student Partners

“Engaging Students as Partners in Assessment” was the title of the session Madison Taber presented at the Alternative Assessment Institute 2022. Taber is a Director of Assessment at the Our Lade of the Lake University in Texas. Taber is also a Ph.D. student interested in identity and equity in education. Taber self described as a […]
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Drafting and Learning about Summative and Formative Assessments

“Student Empowerment through Demystifying Assessment” was the title of the Virtual Institute of Alternative Assessment 2022 session I watched tonight. John Andelfinger was the presenter. Andelfinger is an English instructor at SUNY Orange and wanted to share how teaching with the terms summative and formative can be powerful. Since 2012, Andelfinger has taught first-year composition; […]
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CT Simulations and Mock Interviews

I continue to watch the Alternative Assessment Institute 2022 recordings. Tonight I watched Eileen Giles and Lisa Cunningham present “Simulated Clinical Competency Testing and Mock Interviews.” They presented together on their alternative assessments within the bachelor of radiation therapy: a four-year undergraduate program. The fourth year has clinical placements and several clinical blocks. Since 2019, […]
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