Student groups

Outdoor Activities and Campus Community for International Graduate Students

The last blended learning designs asynchronous session from the May 2021 Lilly Conference online is entitled “International Graduate Students’ Sense of Campus Community and Belonging” was presented by Angel S. Forde from Michigan State University, a graduate student. Forde looks at how students navigate a sense of belonging as international students using the Sense of […]
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Course Design with Podcast and “Psychological Fidelity”

Michael Tews and Laura Cruz from The Pennsylvania State University presented an asynchronous session at the 2021 Lilly Conference online entitled “Reconfiguring: Emerging Models of Integrated Course Design for the post-COVID world.” I’ve watched several Lilly sessions with Cruz and was curious about their new projects. The presenters started their session with a podcast clip […]
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A Consistent Structure for Supporting All Learners

Diane F. Morean from Elmhurst University and Katherine H. Cassidy from Cleveland Metropolitan School District presented at the Lilly Conference online 2021 in May a recorded presentation entitled: “Enhancing Equitable Online Condensed Course Learning Through Backward Design, including Meta-Learning.” Morean teaches a neurology class and sought Cassidy’s expertise in education. They wanted to condense the […]
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Remote Learning Engagement Techniques

Tonight I watched a 2021 Lilly Conference online asynchronous session entitled “Engaging STEM Students in the Remote Learning Classroom” by our own Miriam Ferzli from NC State. Ferzli is a Professor of Teaching in my home department, Biological Sciences, and teaches a number of large introductory biology and research methods courses. Ferzli has a lot […]
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Learning Compassion

It was an interesting and fun Saturday. The kids were wild, and it was hot outside. I also had a great time recording a podcast for ASMCUE with a panel of “veteran teachers” and I played the part of the host. Tonight, I watched a 2021 Lilly Conference online session by Emily Coderre from University […]
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A Randomized Controlled Trial of the Adaptive Equity-Oriented Pedagogy

Andrew Estrada Phuong from the University of California, Berkeley was a speaker at the Lilly Conference Online 2021 and presented on the “Adaptive Equity-Oriented Pedagogy: A Framework for Increasing Student Engagement and Success in Your Classrooms.”Estrada Phuong used the Adaptive Equity-Oriented Pedagogy (AEO) to evaluate teaching strategies and challenges. I had not heard about AEO […]
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Rethinking Education

Day 4 of the Lilly Conference was Wednesday, May 26th. I am watching the recordings a couple of weeks after the live session. I do like the format with four Wednesday sessions. Todd Zakrajsek from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and ITLC started each week with “Game Changing Teaching Tips” and this last […]
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Peer Feedback using Kritik

We have been talking about peer review for a while now. I use several assignments that have a peer review step. It is good practice for students to learn how to review the work of others and provide constructive feedback. Delivery of honest and useful feedback is a skills. I have used software to automatically […]
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Technology to Amplify Voices and Create Community

We just finished a fun 3-day HITS workshop! It is tough doing it virtually yet breakout rooms and engaged participants helped! Our challenge was having interdisciplinary groups of educators and researchers form and plan the design and implementation of a case study. Building community is critical, and helping participants form groups and define topics and […]
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Bias, Implicit Bias, and Teaching

​​Spencer Benson from the University of Maryland, College Park spoke at the 2021 Lilly Conference online in May about checking our implicit and unconscious biases. The talk is entitled “Fostering Inclusive Learning Spaces: Managing Inclusive Teaching and Implicit Bias” and presented using Adobe Spark! I thought that was really neat and haven’t seen anyone do […]
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