Our final 2016 monthly gathering of T&LI’s Online and Blended Faculty Community discussed current openCI progress. OpenCI is our Affordable Learning Solutions Initiative. We also deepened our understanding of Open Educational Resources (OER), shared experiences along the continuum of OER approaches and finished with an interesting conversation about Open Pedagogy that engages students in the creation […]
In October, I shared ways to use Google Slides to support UDL and critical thinking. Since then, Google Slides has become an essential instructional tool in my class sessions for disseminating content and facilitating student collaboration in physical and digital classrooms. More than a presentation tool, Google Slides is a launchpad to learning, providing […]
Simone Weil (1909-1943) was a French philosopher, social and political activist, mystic and teacher. In Waiting for God, she wrote: “The capacity to give one’s attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it is a miracle. Nearly all those who think they have this capacity do not possess […]
FIT, T&LI, ISLAS, ALAS, OLAS … oh my! Where’s a faculty member to go for support? The alphabet soup on our campus can be overwhelming. As the new Interim (part-time) Faculty Development Coordinator this year, I am working with others to create a more cohesive sense of what’s available to faculty and to begin to […]
This month’s gathering of T&LI’s Online and Blended Faculty Community discussed the results of a year-long research project that explored community building in online classrooms. This research project and subsequent workshop was completed by 3 undergraduate students at CI – Kellie Prather, Brandon Burns, and Maia Smidt – alongside their faculty mentor, Jacob Jenkins. The project […]
Ever wonder how many of your students are grasping content as it is currently being delivered? In looking over the sea of students in the classroom, I notice a vast collection of electronic devices – cell phones, tablets, and laptop computers. Learning tied to technology could make a connection to not only content, but also […]
This semester, I was asked by the Teaching and Learning Innovations team to develop a workshop for faculty centered on the teaching of writing. As Composition Director at CI, I engage in several conversations with faculty across campus about the challenges they face in assigning and responding to student writing. I relish being part of […]
Aligning with openCI efforts, we recently attended the openEd conference in Richmond, Virginia to gain a deeper understanding about the advances and innovative practices being made around Open Educational Resources. According to UNESCO, “Open Educational Resources are educational materials in the public domain or introduced with a public license” (UNESCO, 2012). To help […]
The Embodied Lecturer Identity: dancer, choreographer, dance educator, dance researcher, embodied lecturer. I move. If there was a way to calculate the amount of information I wish to convey by using my body in addition to my words, I am sure the data would reveal a pie chart divided cleanly down the middle. Before my […]
Faculty came together to share ideas about how to best engage students and promote active learning. They learned to incorporate active learning “high-impact practices” into everyday teaching. Strategies for redesigning the way a challenging concept or topic are taught were explored and resources were shared to expand faculty repertoire of strategies to promote students’ active engagement in […]
