Tonight I watched a recorded session entitled “The Connectivist Approach to Interactive Dialogue” and presented asynchronously during the TLC Lilly Online 2022 conference. The presenters were Kristen Carlson, an Assistant Professor of Leadership and Learning, and Andrew Burklund, both at Minnesota State University Moorhead. Their session focused on the use of connectivism and interactive dialogue […]
Today I went to a virtual mental health training workshop that was very good! It lasted five hours and had several examples. Tonight, we watched the Open Ed 2021 session entitled “Open Education, Race, and Equity: Research-Based Communications Guidance” presented by Allie Chamberlin and Cerrone Lundy. Chamberlin is the vice president at GMMB, a communications […]
Today I watched a ROSE seminar agbout first-day experiences in STEM courses. Claire Meaders presented work done as a postdoctoral scholar with Michelle Smith, Brian Couch, and A. Kelly Lane, among others. Meaders asked the audience: why does the first day matter? Citing Vygotsky 1978: “Every class is a social context in which learning is shared between people. Meaders […]
Tonight I watched a session from the Elon Teaching and Learning Conference entitled “Teaching Re-Imagined: Reigniting Passion for Teaching and Learning by Implementing Relationship Based Teaching” presented by Ashley St. Martin, Course Instructor, Western Governors University and Muhsin Michael Orsini, Evaluation Scientist, Independent Consultant. They presented together and discussed the relationship based education research by […]
Drs. Marnie Vanden Noven, Michael Hudson & Mary Clark from Belmont University talked about the struggle students are facing and the difficulties of coming back to campus in the fall as part of the Lilly 2021 conference. I know this topic has been on my mind as I worry about teaching in the fall. Their […]
Dr. Loretta Brancaccio-Taras, from Kingsborough Community College, discussed creating successful online learning environments for undergraduate biology students as part of the 2020 ASMCUE plenary session. Brancaccio-Taras has taught ASM DBER courses (one I took in 2015!) and is the Director of the Center for e-Learning at their campus. This session was from the summer of […]
Dr. Lisa McDonnell is an Associate Teaching Professor at UC San Diego and was on the Online with LSE webinar series to discuss a recent publication about “Identifying Troublesome Jargon in Biology.” I like how Online with LSE is now having graduate students moderate the sessions! McDonnell began by highlighting how there is a lot […]
Drs. Shavonne Shorter and Robert J. Green from Bloomsbury University have a great program to support marginalized students. As we prepare for our summer programs, I watched this session again this evening with Amada (and bedtime routine). The title of Shorter and Green’s 2020 Lilly Conference asynchronous session “Increasing Marginalized Student Success Through the Frederick […]
Varun Singireddy and Kyle Bourcier from Ferris State University presented a detailed explanation and demo of the use of Discord for communication in courses. I had heard about Discord before and was interested in learning more about its capabilities. The presenters provided enough information for me to understand how Discord is useful and different from […]
Dr. Denise Ludwig and colleagues from Grand Valley State University presented a recorded session at the 2020 Lilly Conference. I watched the presentation today and learned about interprofessional case studies. Their presentation described interprofessional health/medical case studies with groups with up to fourteen different professions. The scenarios have defined goals and align with core competencies […]











