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Student Survey to Start a Quality Challenge

Dr. George Railey is in the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Academic Success at Alamo Colleges District and along with Rudy Lopez and Amy Gates (instructional designers), presented at the Quality Matters (QM) conference in April. The topic was “Are you up for the Quality Challenge?” Lopez and Gates shared some information about their […]
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Understanding the Details of Plagiarism Checkers

I watched the Quality Matters (QM) Quality in Action recording “Plagiarism: The Devil is in the Details” with Rebecca Graetz, an instructional designer at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh and Thomas More University. Graetz asked the audience what plagiarism checker they use with options like Quettext, Turnitin, Grammarly, and Ouriginal (now part of Turnitin). They […]
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Interactivity with H5P

Dr. Sacha Johnson from Idaho State University presented at the Quality in Action Quality Matters (QM) conference in April a session entitled “Don’t just click next! Increase instructional interactivity instead.” Johnson is a Senior Instructional Designer. The session outcomes were to define instructional interactivity and identify ways to add instructional interactivity with direct connections to […]
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Bulbs for Interaction and Engagement

“Catch-up If you Can | Preventing Learning Loss” is the title of the Quality Matters “Quality in Action” April 2022 conference session I watched tonight. Bill Krasner from PlayPosit spoke about using recorded content and making it more engaging. Krasner spoke about how PlayPosit started with K-12 as a product to increase engagement. They spoke […]
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Communication Tips and Strategies for Educators

“Effective Communication for Success: A Structure for Designing Specifications Grading System” was the title of a session by Drs. Lesley Casarez and Tia Agan from Angelo State University. They work with advanced certification programs and educational leadership candidates. The goals of the session was to apply strategies for professional communication. They shared a quote by […]
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What is transformative learning?

Barbara Nadeau is a Quinnipiac University in Connecticut and presented on “Facilitating Transformative Learning in an Online Asynchronous Environment.” Nadeau wants to avoid chaos and shared a quote from Mezirow 2000. The Transformative Learning Theory from Mezirow 1991 is “an orientation which holds that the way learners interpret and reinterpret their sense of experience is […]
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Professional Podcasts for Education

Rachel V. Smydra from Oakland University recorded a 45-minute session for the Lilly Conference online. The title of the session is “Using Podcasts to Facilitate Learning and Skill Application in Online Courses.” Smydra defined podcasts and mentioned that the medium has grown during the pandemic. However, I agree that it may be difficult to find […]
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The Bitmoji Classroom

Amy Kuntz from Penn State University presented at the Lilly Conference online a twenty-minute recorded session entitled “Humanizing ONline & Remote Learning Through Bitmojis.” Kuntz is an instructional designer and adjunct faculty member. They create a virtual online environment for meetings with students! Kuntz defined bitmojis and how they can be used in courses. One […]
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Two Approaches to Humanizing the Classroom

“Humanizing the Classroom: Tips, Tools, and Strategies for Effective Assessment and Communication” was the Lilly Conference Online 2022 session I watched tonight. Anna Divinsky, Assistant Professor of Art at Penn State University, began by describing their approach to humanizing the classroom. They begin by using video introductions and Cookie Redding shared their animated avatar that […]
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Asynchronous Courses with Required Video Meetings

Sharon Claffey, Professor a the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, and Eve Sledjeski, presented at the Lilly Conference Online on “Improving Student Engagement in Asynchronous Online Courses with Required Meetings.” Asynchronous learning interests me since I enjoy teaching this way and want to improve. Claffey taught in the fall of 2020 online and was frustrated […]
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