Service Learning

September 4, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Constructivism, Course Design, Diversity, Elon T&L, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, Service Learning, Student groups, Why

Cultivating Arts Leadership through Service Learning

After a fun day gardening and playing with the kids, we watched a session from the June 2021 Teaching and Learning Conference hosted (virtually) by Elon University. The session entitled “Cultivating Arts Leadership: A Student-led Arts Management Consulting Project” was presented by Wen Guo, Assistant Professor of Art Administration, Elon University and Shineece Sellar, Executive […]

August 25, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Lilly Conference, Pedagogy, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, Service Learning, Wellbeing, Why

The Cost of Delaying PT Clinical Experience

The last Lilly Online Conference recorded session for the 2021 conference was by Pamela Pologruto, Jennifer Jewell, and Laura Cruz from The Pennsylvania State University. I have watched now several talks by Laura Cruz and they range from professional development for instructors to in-depth educational studies. I was curious about the title of this session: […]

July 10, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Course Design, Instructor Behaviors, Lilly Conference, Pedagogy, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, Service Learning, Student groups, Why

Campus Clients and Networking

Dr. Melinda Adams from the University of the Incarnate Word recorded a session for the Lilly Conference online this past may entitled “Clients and Experiential Learning” that I watched tonight. Dr. Adams is a full professor and teaches a draping class for more than ten years. Over the years, Adams learned that students were not […]

July 3, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Constructivism, Course Design, DBER and SoTL, Instructor Behaviors, Lilly Conference, Pedagogy, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, Service Learning, Student groups, Teaching techniques, Team-based learning, Wellbeing, Why

A Sense of Classroom Community

It was an interesting day: minivan got serviced and we had a couple of kid meltdowns. Finally, Amada has calmed down and we are watching Angela Forde from Michigan State University and Shari L Dann from SUNY present on “Fostering Sense Of Classroom Community Belonging In A Project-Based Course” as part of the 2021 Lilly […]

May 8, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Constructivism, Delftia, Mobile Learning, Open Pedagogy, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, Service Learning, Undergraduate Research, Website, Why

nQuire and Jelastic?

Tonight’s OERxDomains21 session was by Nashwa Ismail and Christothea Herodotou and focused on online citizen science. This is timely since yesterday we were trying to figure out an appropriate way of mentioning in text citizen science and emphasizing that it is for all, not only citizens! This session was entitled “How can facilitation by experts […]

March 3, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
annotation, Course Design, Discussions, Diversity, Guest Speakers, Information Literacy, Lilly Conference, Online Learning, Open Pedagogy, Pedagogy, Reflections, Service Learning, Student groups, Teaching techniques, Why

Social Justice and Spanish

Amanda Petersen from the University of California San Diego presented at the 2020 Lilly Conference on “Through the Social Justice Lens: Cases from Language and Literatures” with colleagues. Petersen talked about the use of social justice language pedagogy in introductory courses. I did not think about this. Petersen defined social justice language pedagogy as: Social […]

January 18, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Lilly Conference, Pedagogy, Reflections, Service Learning, Why

Experiential Learning… Virtually

Dr. Laura Hunt Trull from James Madison University shared insights on teaching a grant writing course with significant experiential learning at the 2020 Lilly Conference. Hunt Trull began by introducing (for me, probably review for others familiar with experiential learning) National Society for Experiential Education (NSEE) Principles of Good Practice. There are eight principles: intention, […]

January 13, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Lilly Conference, Online Learning, Open Pedagogy, Reflections, Service Learning, Why