2020-2021
Did your LMS pass the pandemic test? Pros and Cons of Learning Management Systems
As we are all analyzing the tools we have with online and remote learning at the forefront, it'll be critical to share findings and design approaches. Selfishly, HCC is going through an LMS review next year and I am sure many institutions will be doing the same. I'm hopeful this conversation can help us 1- learn better methods of using the LMS we currently have and 2- consider the pros/cons of the most heavily used LMSs in the area. As an employee of a community college, I'd also like to know what we should be preparing our students for as they transfer to schools in the New England region. I would envision two workshop sessions: two LMSs reviewed in each; 30 min presentation and 15 min Q&A (total 90 mins) on two consecutive Tuesday afternoons.
Student Success Mobile Apps
This session would cover what this space is (or could be), maybe a quick overview of what it has been (clunky and outdated portals), and what it is shaping up to be. Ideally, a few vendors could be discussed and/or someone like Vicki Tambellini could present an unbiased assessment of how the landscape is shaping up.
Identity and Access Management: Authentication and Access Control and how they work
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Pivotless Semesters: Using Hybrid Flexible Course Design to Navigate Complicated Times
This 3-session workshop will walk participants through the hybrid-flexible course design in a manner that will best prepare them to create courses that they can teach entirely face-to-face, entirely synchronously remote, and entirely asynchronously in response to their and their students' needs.
Developing pathways for engagement
As institutions continue remote learning, hybrid models, and fully online learning strategies there is a need to focus specifically on the experience of STEM faculty and students. These sessions will enable participants to share ideas, discuss strategies, and assess methods of providing science education online.
Building Community in Online Classes
In this series, three microlearning videos will explore how to create and strengthen a sense of community by establishing teaching, social, and cognitive presence in the course design.
Instructors’ Social Presence: Increasing Student Engagement in the Online and HyFlex Learning Environment
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Using a CMS to create platform-agnostic content
At Bay Path, we have learned the hard way to keep content platform-agnostic. I'd like to do a brief demo to show people how to scale their content development processes. Using a CMS not only allows content to be organized in an accessible, printable way, it also makes for less manual entry when it comes time to updating. For example, instead of updating a broken link in 12 different Canvas shells, we update it once in Pressbooks and it syncs to anywhere and everywhere this content has been linked.
Creating a Living Instructional Technology Inventory
I'd love to toss in an idea for a project I've been working on - an instructional technology inventory, which is a collab between ID, IT, and faculty. This would likely be best suited for a workshop so folks could customize their own plan as a takeaway. The inventory includes all tools used across the university, which courses they live in, the requirements for set up (LTI codes, passwords, etc) and a workflow for organizing tools by the next time they're running.
Moving behavioral science research and teaching online
Learn what behavioral research can be done online and how to move teaching and research in behavioral methods to the cloud.