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April 12, 2025
By Carlos C. Goller
Community of Practice, DBER and SoTL, MAXQDA, qualitative research, Reflections

How to Analyze Qualitative and Quantitative Data with MAXQDA

Stefan Radiker presented on “Mixed Methods: Integrating QUAL and QUAN with MAXQDA” as part of MAXDAYS 2025. Radiker spoke about how MAXQDA supports data import, exploration, analysis, and reporting of qualitative data. For quantitative data, frequency tables, crosstabs/correlation, charts, descriptive statistics, inference statistics, and other quantitative analysis features ara available. Radiker presented data from a […]

March 27, 2025
By Carlos C. Goller
Information Literacy, Online Learning, QM, Reflections

2025 AI Landscape: Key Findings from EDUCAUSE Research

Jenay Robert, a Senior Researcher with EDUCAUSE, presented at the Quality Matters (QM) Research Connect Conference on the EDUCAUSE 2025 AI Landscape Research study. The full report can be found at: bit.ly/2025AILandscape The survey had fifty-two closed and open ended questions (but depending on branching fewer questions). Responses that met the inclusion criteria totaled 788. […]

March 18, 2025
By Carlos C. Goller
Constructivism, Course Design, DBER and SoTL, qualitative research, Reflections

Exploring Mentoring Needs for Instructional Designers

Tonight I watched the Quality Matters conference session titled “Mentoring Instructional Designers in Higher Education: A Needs Assessment.” Barbara Frey, Assistant Professor at the School of Education of Point Park University and Rae Mancilla, Executive Director of Online Learning at the University of Pittsburgh shared findings from a survey they conducted. The defined professional mentoring […]

January 14, 2023
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Accessibility and UDL, Constructivism, Course Design, Discussions, Instructor Behaviors, Online Learning, Pedagogy, Presentations & Talks, Reflections

CHLOE 7

Tonight I watched the QM session entitled “CHLOE 7: Tracking Online Learning from Mainstream Acceptance to Universal Adoption. CHLOE stands for The Changing Landscape of Online Education. Richard Garnett, Eduventures Chief Research Officer at Encoura, was the first speaker. Dr. Bethany Simunich, Director of Research and Innovation at Quality Matters was the co-presenter. Over the […]

January 8, 2023
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Accessibility and UDL, Articles, Course Design, DBER and SoTL, Discussions, Diversity, Instructor Behaviors, Online Learning, Reflections, Student groups, UDL, Wellbeing, Why

Challenges for Undergraduates with Disabilities with Online Courses

After watching Dr. Logan Gin moderating an Online with LSE Webinar session, I was reminded about the session he did and rewatched it tonight. The title of the session was “COVID-19 and STEM Undergraduates with Disabilities: Challenges Resulting from the Transition to Online Course Delivery” and it happened a little over a hear ago, around […]

January 7, 2023
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Articles, Case Studies, Course Design, DBER and SoTL, Discussions, Diversity, Information Literacy, Mentoring, Pedagogy, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, Teaching techniques, Undergraduate Research, Why

A Survey of RECR Education in CUREs

Tonight I watched the Online with LSE Webinar with Dr. Laura Diaz-Martinez. This session was in late fall 2021. It was moderated by Dr. Tissyana Camacho, and Assistant Professor of Child and Adolescent Development at California State University. Dr. Diaz-Martinez is an Assistant Professor of Biology at Gonzaga and was my NSF ENCOUR pod mentor! […]

January 1, 2023
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Accessibility and UDL, Articles, Books, Constructivism, DBER and SoTL, Discussions, Diversity, Information Literacy, Instructor Behaviors, Pedagogy, Reflections, Student groups, Why

Perceptions of Evolution by Community College Students

I start 2023 by returning to the ASCB YouTube playlist! The Online with LSE CBE Webinar Series is a lot of fun, and I missed several sessions. Tonight I watched the session entitled “Understanding and Perceptions of Evolution by Students in Community College and Other Institutions” presented by Elizabeth Barnes, an Assistant Professor at Middle […]

December 19, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Accessibility and UDL, Articles, Course Design, DBER and SoTL, Discussions, Diversity, Guest Speakers, Instructor Behaviors, Pedagogy, Reflections, SABER, Why

The BER Field

The JMBE live session I watched tonight was about Getting Started in Biology Education. I was able to participate in the course and today worked with Jeremy! Jeremy Hsu and Stanley Lo shared the open access article published in JMBE that describes biology education research (BER). Lo shared quotes from JMBE and SABER about how […]

November 28, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Constructivism, Course Design, DBER and SoTL, Discussions, Instructor Behaviors, Reflections, Student groups, Wellbeing, Why

Impact of Personal Medical Experiences on Engagement and Motivation in Science Courses

Porter Bischoff is an undergraduate student who spent months in the hospital as a child. They worked with Anette Lewis, Dr. Joshua Premo, and Dr. Brittney N. Wyatt on this educational study funded by NSF. They presented their work at ASMCUE 2022 as a recorded poster session entitled “Medical Experiences’ Influence on Science Motivation.” Bischoff […]

November 25, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Accessibility and UDL, Course Design, DBER and SoTL, Discussions, Diversity, Instructor Behaviors, Pedagogy, Reflections, Why

Convenient Office Hours?

Tonight’s ASMCUE 2022 poster session recording was entitled “A simple intervention to schedule unique weekly office hours increases student access.” Caitlin Lee Williams is a SPIRE postdoctoral fellow at UNC and taught at UNC-Pembroke. They spoke about barriers to office hours and little research on these barriers. Williams mentioned there is one large exploratory, survey-based […]