All Session Ideas
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.
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.