Session Schedule 2023 (Stay tuned for updates!)
Current Session: November 17, 2023
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Thirty Years Adrift, Landing on the Island of the Affective Domain. Content vs Feeling?
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Alan听Lester, PhD., Geological Sciences and Continuing Education, University of Colorado, 麻豆影院
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After three decades and numerous teaching modalities (on-campus and online), I鈥檝e come to realize that how students feel about a subject is probably more important than what is learned.听 It鈥檚 reminiscent of an old Carl Sagan quote, more appropriate than ever in a world credulously enamored with whatever someone with a bit of influence wants to post or tweet鈥鈥淭he method of science, as stodgy and grumpy as it may seem, is far more important than the findings of science.鈥鈥The Demon-Haunted World.
Taking Carl鈥檚 admonition a step further, I share pedagogical research that supports targeting the often neglected 鈥渁ffective domain鈥濃攖he realm of feelings and attitudes, where a discipline or topic becomes more than just knowledge, but potentially something exciting and alluring.听
Beyond rocks and fossils, my goal is for students to feel that science is capable of casting a trustable light on big issues like resource consumption, climate change, and vaccines; and, ultimately, a societal tool worth voting for and spending on.
We鈥檒l talk about the challenges of addressing student attitudes, particularly in the online mode. Come share your thoughts, ideas, and approaches!
Date:听Friday, November 17, 2023
Time:听12:30pm, MST
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Past Sessions
October 27, 2023: Journey from Reflection to Academic Action: Implementing Department-wide Inclusivity Initiatives
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Dr. Jennifer Fluri, Chair, Department of Geography, CU 麻豆影院
Gabriela Subia Smith, GA, Department of Geography, CU 麻豆影院
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Jennifer Fluri, Professor and Chair of the Department of Geography, and graduate student Gabriela Subia Smith will provide an overview of the diversity, equity, and inclusion activities and projects they have initiated. Their process included gathering information from faculty and students about the department culture and curriculum, initiating workshops for faculty and graduate students focusing on inclusive language, anti-blackness in nonblack communities, inclusive pedagogy, and sub-discipline-specific DEI workshops.
Date:听Friday, October 27, 2023
Time:听12:30pm, MST
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April 28, 2023:听Generative AI: Faculty Support for Teaching and Learning
Facilitator:听Geoff Rubinstein, PhD.听 Director of听Online听Learning, Division of Continuing Education and Professional Studies. CU 麻豆影院
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What do faculty and students need to know about how generative AI works? How can some of the perils of generative AI be turned into teachable moments and possibilities? How do faculty prepare for the ongoing changes to student experiences and needs that generative AI will introduce?听
Join us for a community discussion that will harvest participants鈥 useful resources, as well as their insights and concerns about generative AI. Our aim is to support faculty as they orient themselves, settle into, and leverage the influences and implications of generative AI on the present and future of the higher education landscape.
Date:听Friday,听April 28, 2023
Time:听12:30pm, MST
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Feb 17, 2023: Supporting your Students' Writing
Facilitators:听Hannah Kim, PH.D. Student and Chelsea Kent, Ph.D. Candidate
Comp Hub Coordinators, CEOC &听School of Education, CU 麻豆影院
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During this Cafe Ped session, participants will learn about different approaches to assessing students鈥 writing, and ways of offering writing feedback to students that is constructive and听humanizing. This session will be interactive, and will invite participants to share their experiences, their successes, and their growing edges around supporting their students with their writing. We look forward to learning with you during this session!
Date:听Friday, February 17, 2023
Time:听12:30pm, MST
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Facilitator: Grace Rexroth, Assistant Teaching Professor, LA Pedegogy Program, CU 麻豆影院
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Have you been wondering about how to better foster community engagement or participation in your CE course? Come hear about the Learning Assistant program! This session will provide an overview of the Learning Assistant (LA) Program and its essential elements. Instructors will also learn about how LAs could enhance student engagement and learning in online courses by hearing first-hand from CE Online faculty. We will also cover the LA recruitment and hiring process/timeline for those of you who may want to apply for LAs this summer or fall!
Date:听Friday, February 3, 2023
Time:听12:00pm, MST
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Active Learning and Public Facing Student Work: Potentials and Examples from Two听Online听Environmental Studies Courses
Facilitator:听Lee Frankel-Goldwater, PhD Student and Graduate Part-time Instructor, Environmental Studies, UCB
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Through much of a student's educational career they work hard on projects, papers, and assignments - and yet oftentimes the only ones who see their work are professors, graders, or classroom peers. This can create a troublesome learning feedback loop, where the outputs and artifacts of learning fail to reinforce the potential听for using lessons and working hard to create impact in the world, which can lead听to a disconnect between in-class motivations and "real-world"听passions. Modeling real-world activities and sharing them broadly through class projects may help in turning this feedback loop from troublesome to generative, helping students see that lessons in the classroom can lead to real-world impacts. Through this workshop, we'll extend the ideas of project-based learning into 'public facing' project-based learning. We'll look at examples from two听online听environmental studies courses and then brainstorm ways that our own class projects can extend to (or already are!) helping students share and experience their work in new, publicly facing, and exciting ways.
Date:听Friday, November 11, 2022
Time:听12:30pm, MST
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Online听Teaching Strategies for Neurodivergent Students and Faculty
Facilitator:听Sarah Barkin, Teaching Assistant Professor, Program for Writing & Rhetoric, UCB
听Description: 听Online听learning offers a number of challenges鈥攁nd benefits鈥攆or neurodiverse students and faculty. In this session we'll discuss some of the issues that neurodiverse learners face and then explore and brainstorm practical, effective ways to engage with neurodiversity in terms of overall course design, assignments, lectures, grading practices, etc.听
Date: Friday, October 14, 2022
Time: 1230 pm, Mountain Standard Time听
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April 22, 2022 "Improving Student Outcomes with Frequent Low Stakes Assessments"
Facilitator: Karen Gebhardt, Director of the Online Economics Program
Description: 听Research on the science of learning shows us that frequent low-stakes quizzing can measure learning, enhance learning, and reduce achievement gaps. So how do educators use this knowledge to help our students? More frequent low-stakes assessments! This presentation will briefly review the research related to low-stakes assessments and will include a discussion of听how to integrate more low-stakes assessments in your class using Canvas, publisher鈥檚 tools, or other tools.听
Date: Friday, April 22, 2022
Time: 1230 pm, Mountain Standard Time听
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February 25, 2022 "Regular & Substantive: Interactions in the Digital Classroom鈥"
Facilitator: Erika G. Swain, Assistant Director for Compliance and Authorization
Description: 听In this session we'll explore the flexibility that comes with the federal regulation requiring that all distance education courses and programs have evidence of regular and substantive interactions, how you can find the best way to design your courses and the opportunities for scheduled and predicable academic engagement.
Date: Friday, February 25, 2022
Time: 1230 pm, Mountain Standard Time听
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November 19, 2021 "Methods and Observations for Creating an Asynchronous, Group Lab Course鈥"
Facilitator: Fran莽oise Bentley, Department of Continuing Education & Integrative Physiology, CU 麻豆影院
Description: We will discuss how to adapt and/or create a virtual lab class. Methods include considerations of the learning platform, course learning goals and how to make live labs at home (not just pre-made publisher labs), creating asynchronous groups that submit a common weekly assignment, peer evaluations, group contracts, and a group project. In addition, how to balance percent of grade for individual vs group work. The class in particular was designed for physiology students, but the content of the talk can be applied across all disciplines.
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Date: Friday, November 19, 2021
Time: 1230 pm, Mountain Standard Time听
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Friday Oct 8, 2021 "Instructor Presence in the Online Classroom听"
Facilitator:听Conny Cassity, Department of English.听CU 麻豆影院
Description: How can we be 鈥減resent鈥 in spaces where we don鈥檛 interact with our students in real time? How can our students get to know us when what they mostly see are pre-recorded videos or voiceless text? This session will offer some ideas and insights into how to connect course content and assignments in asynchronous听online听courses to your development of an听online听teaching persona. Part of this session will include a brief tutorial on using the Canvas add-on annotation and close-reading tool听Perusall.
Date: Friday October 8, 2021
Time: 1230 pm, Mountain Standard Time听
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April 9, 2021: "The Politics of Online Teaching/Learning: Critical/Core tools for Understanding Biases and Power Dynamics in regard to pedagogical practices and Communication Technologies听"
Facilitators:
Carolin Aronis, PH.D. Instructor. Department of COMM, CMCI. CU 麻豆影院
Description: This workshop will provide an overview of a few "core" scholarly concepts about Power, discrimination and biases that relate to communication technologies and pedagogical practices that surrounded them, in order to provide participants (i.e. online instructors) tools to reflect on their own courses, their pedagogical practices, and plan a learning environment that strengthens diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging.
Date: 4/9/21
Time: 12:30pm 鈥 1:30pm
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March 12, 2021: "Regular & Substantive"
Facilitator: Erika Swain, Assistant Director for Compliance and Authorization, Institutional Research. CU 麻豆影院
Description: a look at the new federal requirements for interactions in distance and online education听In this session we鈥檒l examine the new federal regulations (eff. 7/1/21) surrounding required interactions in the digital classroom and how to satisfy those requirements..
Date: 3/12/21
Time: 12:30pm 鈥 1:30pm
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Resources:听FAQ Document
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February 12, 2021:听"Leveraging Humanities Computing Tools Online and In the Classroom"
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Rachael Deagman Simonetta, Ph.D. Instructor and Director of Internships, Department of English. CU 麻豆影院
Description: Curious听about the Digital Humanities but don鈥檛 know where to begin?听听This presentation will share development tips and lessons learned from听two DH courses in the English department.听听The session also introduces a few tools for DH beginners to try in their own classes.
Date: 2/19/21
Time: 12:30pm 鈥 1:30pm
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November 13, 2020: "Depth and Intention: Contemplative Approaches to Online and Remote Learning"
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Geoff Rubinstein, Ph.D. Director of Online Learning, Continuing Education. CU 麻豆影院
Dawn Fleurette Colley, Ph.D. Instuctor, Program for Writing and Rhetoric & Liaison to Continuing Education. CU 麻豆影院
Description:听Contemplative pedagogies help students integrate information into long-term memory. While the online environment is transformative in augmenting short-term working memory, students immersed in the online world tend to lose sight of the deep inquiry and reflection needed to make knowledge, understanding and meaning 鈥渢heir own.鈥 As educators we need to call long-standing contemplative approaches to education back into the foreground of intention in order to help students step into their own knowing and cultivate depth and authenticity in their educational experiences. In this interactive workshop we will reflect on and share insights, approaches, best practices and resources.
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Date: 11/13/20
Time: 12:30pm 鈥 1:30pm
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Session Oct 2, 2020: "Learning Assistants (LAs) in Online and Remote Courses"
Facilitator: Laurie Langdon, CU 麻豆影院 LA Program
Session: Partner Up! Learning Assistants (LAs) in Online and Remote Courses
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This session will provide an overview of the Learning Assistant (LA) Program including its foundational origins at CU 麻豆影院 and development to its current status as a national platform. Instructors will also learn how LAs could enhance student engagement and learning in online courses, hear from CE Online LAs and faculty, and explore their own ideas for how LAs could enhance student engagement and learning in online courses. We鈥檒l briefly review the LA recruitment and hiring process/timeline.
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Date: 10/02/20
Time: 12pm 鈥 1pm
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