Teaching & Learning (2020-21)
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.
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.
Teaching Visual and Media Skills to Students
Bringing Visual and Media projects into the classroom can help students learn. WPI has created a number of resources for helping student to successfully complete these projects both in and out of the classroom. This session will focus on how to get faculty buy in to these projects and how to support the students that will be undertaking them to be able to create fantastic deliverables.