Pellissippi State Community College
2022 Distance Learning Conference
Session 4 Descriptions and Links
2:15 PM EST - 3:15 PM EST
Option 1:
2:15 - Assessing Who? - Using Peer Review to Foster Deeper Student Engagement; 2:35 - Walk the Talk; 2:55 - Online Teaching and Face-to-Face Teaching: What Successful Educators Know
Presenters: 2:15 - Heather Moore, 2:35 - Teresa Handy, 2:55 - Leona Johnson
2:15 - By the end of this session, participants will be able to describe and apply best practices for peer feedback in online classes. (Audience engagement through polls and Q&A). Online classes present a different grading burden, often with increased grading requirements than traditional classes. Further, effective student learning requires timely feedback, but if an instruct has a heavy teaching load, this can be challenging – especially for adjuncts. Peer feedback is a way to embed deeper student engagement, more timely feedback, and a lower grading burden. This presentation will describe a strategy for creating effective peer review in asynchronous online courses.
2:35 - How do institutions help faculty and staff move from a discussion of equity to the implementation of equity practices in the learning environment to help positively impact student retention and success? This workshop will present the preliminary findings of a study that used a multi-pronged approach (gamification and book study) to support the personal journeys of faculty and staff as they increased their understanding of their role, their personal belief system, and the impact of their values on the learning environment.
2:55 - This presentation seeks to address the best practices of online learning and face-to-face teaching and discuss how these skills converge in the classroom to maximize learning. It will also address creative instructional strategies to help faculty overcome some of the challenges in teaching online. Advantages and rewards of online teaching will also be discussed. This research has powerful implications for advancing student educational outcomes. Participants will be able to modify instruction so that classroom learning can take place in the most effective way and have the skills to further develop their own knowledge of effective teaching.
Option 2:
Micro-credentials and Badging Revisited
Presenter: Rachel Glazener
The concept of Micro-credentials and Badging are not new concepts but are being revisited in higher education as a way to motivate students and allow them to walk away with accomplishments in the course in addition to a final course grade. This session will focus on giving examples of what micro-credentials and badging could look like in the classroom and school level. We will discuss how this can engage students and help them have a better understanding of their successes in the course. This is not focused on a particular learning management system though many do have the capability of using badging.
Option 3:
To Accessibility and Beyond: Specific strategies for leveraging accessibility tools to improve classroom experience for students
Presenter: Ekateryna O'Meara, Sarah McMurray
A disability specialist and a faculty member have teamed up to take accessibility beyond individual accommodations, and to create innovative pedagogical tools inspired by accessibility accommodations. Participants will have the opportunity to learn about specific accessibility interventions and then work together to create pedagogical tools and strategies they can immediately implement in their courses to improve the overall student experience and learning outcomes.
Option 4:
Gone in 60 Seconds: Crafting Fast & Convenient Faculty Professional Development
Presenter: Marla Cartwright
Even before COVID, Centers for Teaching and Learning sometimes struggled with delivering succinct and engaging professional development information to a time-constrained faculty audience. One of the best approaches is to craft a multi-faceted approach so that faculty can select the topics and options that best fit their interests and schedules and a cornerstone of this approach for Columbia State Community College is use of a weekly newsletter: The Monday Minute. This comprehensive communication provides faculty with layers of information they can access and consume in multiple ways, investing just 60 seconds of their day, or longer if time permits. By providing fast, engaging content to faculty they become more aware of time sensitive professional development opportunities, increasing their satisfaction and putting them in the drivers’ seat of their learning. ** Session Outcomes ** Learners will: --Relate their past experiences with Centers for Teaching and Learning (CTLs), --Understand importance of delivering faculty professional development (PD) to better meet users' needs, --Identify advantages of leveraging a weekly PD newsletter, and --Explore the key components of a successful weekly PD newsletter.
If you need assistance today, please contact:
Dr. Paul Ramp - pframp@pstcc.edu/(865) 539-6691
Dr. Stephanie Markowitz - ssmarkowitz@pstcc.edu/(865) 539-7031
