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The Delftia Project Presented at SENCER

I am impressed by the creativity and motivation that students generate when they latch onto something they are passionate about. The Delftia Citizen Science group of undergraduates launched an entirely online collaborative research, annotation, and public science initiative last fall. Lauren Ramilo and Daiza Norman helped coordinate a group that at times had a dozen […]
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Network Analysis and Classroom Management

Dr. Eric Hogan from Georgia Southern University presented on one-mode networks and classroom management at the 2020 Lilly Conference online. Hogan is faculty in the Education Department and teaches on learning, motivation, and assessment. I didn’t know about one-mode networks and, while I have seen a couple network analysis studies in education, I had not […]
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Text Sets for Courses… and Graduate Projects?

Drs. Greta Freeman and Brooke Hardin from USC Upstate presented at the 2020 Lilly Conference on Text Sets. Freeman and Hardin are both faculty in the School of Education with extensive experience as teachers and in literacy. I didn’t know about text sets, and as the name suggests, these are collections of texts on a […]
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Storytelling in the Classroom!

Dr. Corrie Whitmore, Professor of Health Sciences at the University of Alaska Anchorage presented at the 2020 Lilly Conference on the use of storytelling as a high impact educational practice. The welcoming native land acknowledgement was beautiful, honest, and thoughtful! Whitmore recommended two books supported by the Ford Foundation and available online: Stop Talking, Dialogues […]
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Service Learning During a Pandemic

Tonight I watched a Lilly Conference presentation by Dr. Mary Marshall from Cal State Long Beach on incorporating service learning elements into courses. This is a topic I’ve been thinking about but know very little… yet have been hearing great examples in podcasts. Course-based service learning, as mentioned by Dr. Marshall, helps participants increase personal […]
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Cases, Skills, and Deliverables: the CBC Model

Drs. Nicholas Grahovec and Tyler Wood from Northern Illinois University presented a recorded session at the 2020 Lilly Conference I watched tonight. They described a type of case study I didn’t know about: case-by-collaboration (CBC). The presenters began by discussing the importance of critical thinking and project-based learning. Grahovec and Tyler teach courses in occupational/physical […]
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Three Low-Intensity Instructional Practices to Support Student Engagement

Christine Kenney, Melissa Sreckovick, and Eric Common from the University of Michigan – Flint presented an asynchronous session at the Lilly Conference on easy to implement practices to promote student engagement. Their perspective as teacher educators was evident, and while the activities they described are used in K-12, they can also be beneficial in higher […]
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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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