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Pre-Service Teachers and the Next Generation of Agile Teaching Through Crisis
Makayla Carmichael and Marie L. Manning
Pre-service teacher candidates have experienced extreme stressors from COVID-19 through both the lens of postsecondary students and clinical practices. This duality provides a complex understanding of crisis management as an educator. This presentation will describe personal experiences and teaching practices fostering the next generation of agile teachers.
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Analyzing Critical Reading Assessments through Randomized Trials
Anne Cizmar and Benjamin Tyler Holt
Reading is an important skill for college and life beyond. Students might be more reading compliant when class points are on the line, but what type of assignment provides the best results? This randomized trial compares student outcomes and preferences from reading quizzes and Course Preparation Assignments.
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Let’s Talk: Alternatives to Traditional Discussion Board
Shannon M. Eastep
This session will focus on three tools that provide faculty with alternatives to traditional LMS discussion boards. We will learn the basics of Wakelet, Padlet, and Flipgrid for gathering student thoughts, comments, and feedback. All three tools are free and offer a variety of options for student content.
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Dear Faculty: Utilizing Student Committees As A Formative Assessment Strategy
Brianna Henson
This session provides a description of the design and application of a Student Liaison Committee (SLC) as a formative assessment strategy. The SLC is used to evaluate teaching, learning, obtain timely student perspectives of program performance, as well as to identify curricular gaps.
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The Importance of Building a Social Presence in the Online Classroom
Amanda W. Joyce
The purpose of this session is to explore, within a Community of Inquiry model, the importance and utility of building a social presence within an online learning environment. Strategies for creating this presence, as well as student reactions to these strategies, will be discussed.
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Who is it for? Creating More Equity-Minded Syllabi
Stacey J. Korson and Sonja Heer Yow
In this session, we share a syllabus review framework used to inquire into our course syllabi and identify ways to make them more equity-minded. We will begin by explaining the perspectives and practices of the equity-minded syllabus. After exploring these tenants, participants will apply the tools to analyze their syllabi.
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Dynamic Faculty Development: Leveraging New and Existing Partnerships for Responsive Faculty Support
Danielle Lusk, Daron Williams, and Larry Cox
Two faculty support units will share how they collaborated to create responsive faculty development programming and services. Our story will help frame a discussion around how to offer dynamic faculty support as well as the challenges it presents. Participants will also be guided through a partnership development exercise.
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Collaborative Academic Marketing Strategies
Brandon Moore
How do you effectively raise student awareness of programs, courses, or initiatives that encourage them to succeed in academic ventures? This presentation covers methods for advertising, email campaigns, blog posts, and other strategies relevant to success for students and institutions alike.
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Using a Technology Integration Content Plan to Align Course Components for Enhanced Student Learning
Melony Shemberger
In education, students simply consuming technology is not sufficient. Rather, we as educators want students to become effective producers of technology. That takes planning. Writing a plan that integrates the right technology to align with course components can assist instructors to design lessons that would encourage and challenge students cognitively.
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Open Educational Resources (OERs): A Unique Tool in Agile Learning Design
Kelly Smith, Dominic Ashby, Lisa Day, Jacob Johnson, James Maples, Erin Stevenson, David Stumbo, and Matthew P. Winslow
OERs are teaching and learning tools, including textbooks, that are licensed to allow free reuse, modification, and redistribution. Learn why faculty should consider using these alternatives to traditional textbooks. Explore the high-impact pedagogical opportunities of OERs for agile teaching from a panel of instructors at a regional comprehensive university.
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Reflections on Culture: Incorporating Culture into an Online Career Counseling Course
Samuel Stapleton and Amber Hughes
As online learning increases, we observe in real time the intersection of school and home life. Agile teachers recognize the role culture and family play in student’s lives. In this presentation, we will give an example of how to include cultural reflections into a course followed by discussion.
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Microsoft Teams: Why and How to Use it for Classes
Matthew P. Winslow
While the LMS is ubiquitous and feature-packed, there are good reasons to leave it behind. Microsoft Teams provides many features that align with common student (and faculty) learning objectives. I will describe why I quit the LMS and how I use Teams in its place.
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Change at a Moment's Notice Due to COVID-19: Using an Onsite Long-Term Care Simulation Program in a Fully Online Environment
David Wolf and Kevin Hansen
This presentation describes an innovative teaching method that enabled senior long-term care capstone students to create simulation scenario managerial decisions based on their education and experiences to date and allowed them to lead online simulations and partake in self-reflection and peer-review activities in a fully online environment.
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