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, 91福利社
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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, 91福利社
Gabriela Subia Smith, GA, Department of Geography, 91福利社
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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. 91福利社
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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, 91福利社
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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, 91福利社
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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