Are you overwhelmed by the facilitation of student interaction and content development for your course? Do you feel disconnected and overwhelmed by the process of creating culturally responsive environments? This interactive keynote and workshop will offer applicable strategies to increase interactions in learning spaces. Using the community of inquiry theory as the framework, we will explore the system of strategies that help build inclusive environments for diverse learners.
9:00am
Keynote Presentation and Workshop: Teaching and Culture, Community, and Considerations
Presenter: Dr. Courtney Plotts
Are you overwhelmed by the facilitation of student interaction and content development for your course? Do you feel disconnected and overwhelmed by the process of creating culturally responsive virtual environments? This interactive keynote and workshop will offer applicable strategies to increase interactions in learning spaces. Using the community of inquiry theory as the framework, we will explore the system of strategies that help build inclusive environments for diverse learners.
10:30am
Report on the Student Experience: Fall 2021 Student Survey
Presenter(s): Dr. Emily Isaacs and Dr. Masela Obade
Emily Isaacs, OFA, and Masela Obade, IR, will share the results of the Fall 2021 Student Survey, Educate the Educators. With responses from 1,500 undergraduate and graduate students on questions relating to instruction, the MSU experience, modalities, and academic support, this survey provides insight for instructors and other community members as we plan for the spring semester. Report includes population-specific findings and comparisons with pre-pandemic responses from students at MSU and peer institutions.
11:15am
During this time slot, we will be offering three workshops highlighting different teaching technologies that will be running simultaneously. Read through the session descriptions below to determine which workshop might interest you most!
1. Multimedia Discussion using VoiceThread
Presenters: Abigail Hunte and Pam Pallivene
VoiceThread is a multimedia discussion tool allowing students to record audio and/or video responses to slide-based prompts.
2. Social Annotation with Hypothesis
Presenters: Joe Russo and Chris Petrillo
Hypothesis is a collaborative web annotation tool that allows students to annotate digital text like websites, pdfs, and more.
3. Using Panopto to Create DIY Videos for Courses
Presenters: Rosi Lamela and Terry Steckowich
Panopto is an easy-to-use video platform that provides screencasting, lecture capture, live streaming, and video content management. Whether you are on camera or just recording a screencast, learning tips to improve your on camera presence and utilizing the features that Panopto offers will help you create more engaging videos for your courses.
12:30pm
Developing a New Online Degree Completion Program
Presenters: Dr. David Hood, Jane Sanchez Swain, Dr. Pablo Tinio, and Dr. Victoria Larson
This session will share how a new online degree completion program in Liberal Studies was initiated, developed and delivered. It will include the context and rationale for the program initiation, structure of the program, the collaboration between University College and academic departments, the student audience and support, how faculty prepare and design online program courses, the delivery and quality of teaching and learning, faculty’s observations, students feedback, etc.
1:30pm
Removing Troublesome Subjectivity: Labor-Based Grading
Presenters: Dr. Caroline Dadas and Susan Wright
Educators who have observed inequities in student outcomes (grades) have developed strategies to reduce inequity and simultaneously focus student attention on doing — reading, writing, calculating, experimenting, LEARNING — through radically reconfiguring assessment. Labor-based contract grading (Inoue) is an approach that a pilot group Writing Studies faculty have undertaken with positive results. In this session, Writing Studies faculty Susan Wright and Caroline Dadas will share their strategies and experiences so that other instructors can learn about and consider this approach to improving student engagement and success.
2:30pm
Getting Spring Courses Ready: Updates and Hidden Gems in Canvas
Presenters: Daniel Stratthaus and Pam Fallivene
This session will showcase the new features of Canvas to help you prepare your Spring courses.
3:00pm
Partners in Teaching: Sprague Library Research Librarians
Presenters: Justin Savage, Siobhan McCarthy, and Catherine Baird
In this session, research librarians Justin Savage, Siobhan McCarthy and Catherine Baird will briefly present the primary ways that they are able to support instructors in the teaching enterprise. Most instructors are aware that they can bring their classes to the library for a research class or do a Zoom class with a librarian. However, there are a number of other other ways librarians can support instructors in their teaching such as: finding and organizing materials to replace textbooks, creating and embedding disciplinary-specific research guides in your course, and designing better research assignments.
