Reflections

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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SoTL… and SoAD and SoLC!

Professor Emeritus Milt Cox from Miami University of Ohio presented a recorded Lilly Conference session about the commonalities and differences of three scholarships: Teaching and Learning, Academic Development, and Learning Communities. Cox has done extensive scholarly research and is editor of a Scholarship of Learning Communities journal. Cox compared the processes of the three scholarships […]
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Communities of Practice for Reflective Teaching and Learning

In another fun asynchronous Lilly Conference session on faculty development, Steven Eberth and Lisa Singleterry from Western Michigan University presented on faculty learning communities and communities of practice. I love how they started by building online community with a graphic of equality and equity (fence with kids of different heights, in one case using different […]
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Rethinking Bias in Student Evaluations

Tonight I watched a webinar by Dr. Bedelia Richards entitled “How to Challenge Race and Gender Bias in Student Evaluations” and available through our institutional subscription to the National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity (NCFDD) and part of the RED Teaching Certificate. This hourlong webinar was truly eye-opening, and I have recommended it 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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