Tonight’s ALT 2021 session was entitled “Creating a student led on-line inclusive community of learning and co-creation of programme content using digital technology” presented by Sue Evans, Ellen Spender, Tracey Williams and, Lesley Davies. Spender talked about the swift move to online teaching and learning of their accounting courses last year. They had the challenge […]
Tonight’s ALT 2021 workshop we watch was entitled “Being a learning technologist: designing an open primer course” presented by Stuart Nicol, Tracey Madden, and Marcello Crolla. They spoke about the “rapid increase in new Learning Technologists” during the pandemic and the need to “create a supported short course on what it is to be a […]
After a long day working on the computer and (finally!) with the robot and samples, I watched another ALT 2021 session entitled “Decentralising Education Using Blockchain Technology” by Dr. Alexander Mikroyannidis, a research fellow from The Open University. I don’t know much about blockchain technology and listened to a podcast that discussed it. Further, I […]
This long weekend was full of gardening and playing outside… and cleaning! It was a lot of fun, though I am now exhausted. Tonight, we watched another session from the Elon Teaching and Learning Conference. The session was entitled “Continued connections: using community-and technology-rich education post-pandemic” with several presenters from Elon: Patti Burns, Senior Lecturer […]
We are at the beach for a short vacation! After a long day of morning meetings, afternoon travel, and evening chaos, I sat down and watched Sal Meyers and Pascasie Redhage from Simpson College present at the 2021 Lilly Conference online on “Videos for Teaching Undergraduates about Stereotypes and Bias.” Pascasie is a student working […]
Katherine Williams, Rachel Messer, and Eric Werth from the University of Pikeville presented at the 2021 Lilly Conference online on “Faculty Motivation and Concern During a Campus-wide Free Textbook Initiative.” Their objectives included identifying areas of faculty concern from transitions to free materials and what faculty found motivating and demotivating. They defined Open Educational Resources […]
Shannon Murray from the University of Prince Edward Island, Jessica Riddell from Bishop’s University, and Lisa Dickson from the University of Northern British Columbia presented at the 2021 Lilly Conference online. Their joint presentation was entitled “A ‘Back to the Studs’ Pandemic Teaching Philosophy.” Murray talked about how we all have teaching philosophies yet had to […]
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 […]
Tonight we (Amada and I) watched a Lilly 2021 session entitled “SUNY Exploring Emerging Technologies for Lifelong Learning and Success (#EmTechMOOC)” by Roberta (Robin) Sullivan from the University at Buffalo. Sullivan is an instructional strategist, and their colleague Cherie van Putten at Binghamton University is an instructional designer. Their goal was to inform all learners […]
This weekend I worked with an undergraduate student on a research proposal for undergraduate funding in the fall. I also talked to a colleague on Friday about the difficulties of publishing undergraduate (mostly summer) research and continuation with different students. Replication and continuation are always a challenge. That’s why I thought tonight’s Lilly Conference online […]