Virtual Conference Library

• Are You Teaching What You Think You Are Teaching

• Designing Authentic Assignments to Engage Students

• Developing Mobile Friendly Content

• Digital Engagement for Student Success

• Does Your Presence Matter to Students? Teaching Presence in Online Education 

• Faculty Development for Engaging Online Discussion Participation

• Flip Classes & Lectures - We Know Why - But How?

• Gamification: It's Easier Than You Think 

 

 

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Are You Teaching What You Think You Are Teaching (Watch)

Rick Holbeck, Director of Online Full-Time Faculty at Grand Canyon University

Emily Bergquist, Instructor & Manager of Online, Full-time Faculty for the College of Education at Grand Canyon University

Research involving assessment within a traditional classroom has been well documented; however, adaptation of formative assessment to the online classroom hasn't been thoroughly explored. “Classroom Assessment is an approach designed to help teachers find out what students are learning in the classroom and how well they are learning it” (Angelo & Cross, 1993). During this session, we will share modifications of Angelo and Cross’s Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs) and present a theoretical model to their application within asynchronous online environments.

PASSHE Virtual Conference Session
Friday, February 20, 2015
54 Minutes 35 Seconds

Designing Authentic Assignments to Engage Students (Watch)

Anita Fernandez, Ph.D, Instructor of General Biology, Genetics, & Development Biology at Fairfield University

Joan Clark, Reference and Instruction Librarian at the U. S. Coast Guard Academy

This session offers strategies to empower participants to design authentic research assignments that engage students and encourage the development of critical thinking and information literacy skills. The presenters will share and discuss their collaboration at Fairfield University to design an authentic assignment on the topic of the regulation of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) for an honors seminar course that would incorporate information literacy skills

PASSHE Virtual Conference Session
Friday, February 20, 2015
55 Minutes 47 Seconds

 

Developing Mobile Friendly Content (watch)

Nell Eckersley, Director, New York City Regional Adult Learning Network, Literacy Assistance Center

Do your students have smart phones and tablets? Are you using mobile devices in your classes? In this session learn about free tools you can use to develop mobile friendly content which can be accessed inside and outside the classroom. The presenter will look at developing web sites, QR Codes, polls, and quizzes, which can turn smart phones into content delivery machines.

PASSHE Virtual Conference Session
Tuesday, February 17, 2015
56 Minutes 56 Seconds

Digital Engagement for Student Success (watch)

Rosemary Hayes, Director of External Relations at Starfish Retention Solutions

Student success is arguably the most important issue facing today’s higher education institutions. At any given institution, many different initiatives can be underway to address to the needs of specific types of students, or the specific problems of students. In decentralized community college environments, fragmented efforts occur more frequently in the absence of a plan to coordinate and communicate about ways to address retention issues. 

Communication about retention initiatives often fails to cross organizational and functional boundaries . Vital data generated by advising, tutoring, early-alert, and departmental programs, Student Information systems, and learning management systems stays trapped within organizational and data silos. The implementation of programmatic and technological interventions outside a cohesive digital engagement strategy leads to fragmentation of effort, resulting in: 

• Limited traction on student outcomes 
• Incomplete pictures of student success 
• Inefficient use of valuable resources 
• Lost opportunities for communication and collaboration among instructional and student support personnel. 

The next big idea, Digital Engagement, can address these issues. It involves using data and online tools to inform and motivate the entire campus community in order to underscore its student success efforts and drive change in completion outcomes. Through this coordination the efforts of advisors, faculty, student support staff, and administrators become additive. The focus on engagement — on supporting student efforts to achieve academic and learning objectives — can become the shared objective of academic affairs and student affairs. 

Technology can be used to support the engagement of the entire campus in student success. The key is to use technology in ways that make information accessible; decision making and communication about students more comprehensive; and interactions among the faculty, staff, and administration easier. This means finding a way for technology to bridge the organizational and structural divides of institutional units, programs, and data.

PASSHE Virtual Conference Session
Thursday, February 19, 2015
58 Minutes 3 Seconds