Keeping Students “On Track” with Course Progression in Blended/online Courses (Session 1 of 4)
ZoomWith students and instructors having fewer live contact hours in blended formats, students can lose track of class expectations, deliverables, or their standing in the course. We will discuss a number of techniques that I have found useful for keeping students on track and current with course progression. This includes standardizing class format from week […]
Supporting Student Learning
ZoomSupporting Student Learning June 23 @ 10:00 am - 10:40 am CDT This 45-minute presentation and discussion will focus on the following topics: Supporting students with learning challenges Communicating with students Facilitating group work Making room for student input Event Details Presenter: Tho Nguyen Academic Unit: School of Nursing and Health Science Bio: https://sonhs.umkc.edu/directory/tho-nguyen/ Event format descriptions are […]
Keeping Students “On Track” with Course Progression in Blended/online Courses (Session 2 of 4)
ZoomWith students and instructors having fewer live contact hours in blended formats, students can lose track of class expectations, deliverables, or their standing in the course. We will discuss a number of techniques that I have found useful for keeping students on track and current with course progression. This includes standardizing class format from week […]
Let’s Get Physical! What Olivia Newton John Knew About Active Learning
ZoomIn this virtual popup, we’ll discuss the benefits of incorporating active learning into class settings, explore logistics of both face to face and online active learning, and swap ideas for engaging active learning activities. Bring your questions, curiosity, and ideas and we’ll work together to share active learning strategies that will work for a wide […]
Keeping Students “On Track” with Course Progression in Blended/online Courses (Session 3 of 4)
ZoomWith students and instructors having fewer live contact hours in blended formats, students can lose track of class expectations, deliverables, or their standing in the course. We will discuss a number of techniques that I have found useful for keeping students on track and current with course progression. This includes standardizing class format from week […]
Keeping Students “On Track” with Course Progression in Blended/online Courses (Session 4 of 4)
ZoomWith students and instructors having fewer live contact hours in blended formats, students can lose track of class expectations, deliverables, or their standing in the course. We will discuss a number of techniques that I have found useful for keeping students on track and current with course progression. This includes standardizing class format from week […]
Perspectives in Online Teaching from the Conservatory
ZoomJoin us as we discuss teaching strategies developed by Conservatory faculty in response to COVID-19. Topics will include integration of contemporary issues in music history classes, pivoting research/bibliography courses online, pros/cons of Canvas Chat vs. Zoom, teaching applied music/aural skills online, and overseeing GTAs with varying access and experience in online instruction. Event Details Presenters: […]
Tips for Teaching Highly Interactive and Engaging Small Classes Online
ZoomThis session will have a show and tell format, followed by Q & A and an opportunity to brainstorm ideas for how faculty might address specific needs in classes they are designing. Planned topics and examples are peer-to-peer feedback, graded discussion boards, using media comments for instructor feedback, announcements, summary feedback, and weekly instructor work […]
Incremental Change – Making It Better Without Making Yourself Crazy
July 21 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDT Have you wondered about totally revamping your course and thought it would be great, but realized that it would be a lot of work? This presentation will assist you in understanding how to modify your course incrementally, creating assessments to determine if the change has been […]
July 21 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDT Collaboration and online interactions. Learner to learner interaction can be achieved by assigning small group projects, by requesting responses to discussion board postings and by engaging students through peer-evaluated assignments or critiques (QM Standard 5.1). In this session, we will discuss our experiences with a variety […]
The 21st Century Student: Engaging Students with Effectiveness and Positive Indelibility (Session 1 of 3)
ZoomAs educators, we have many rich experiences that will help us connect to the 21st-century student in ways we may not have seen. Students have needs that we don't understand. We have to realize that we, too, have to learn something new every day to help us understand the needs of those we teach. This […]
Media Walk Through for Managing Video and Other Production Projects Online (working title)
July 7 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm CDT Event Details Presenter: Caitlin Horsmon, Associate Professor, Film & Media Arts & Chair, Department of Communication Studies Academic Unit: College of Arts and Sciences Bio: https://cas.umkc.edu/directory/Horsmon-Caitlin/ Event format descriptions are available at UMKC PROFFCourses. Registration Link After signing up for this event, you will receive an email confirmation. […]
PROFFcourses T-shirt Pick Up – Cherry Hall
We have free t-shirts and are beginning distribution July 8! Everyone loves a t-shirt so please get yours. Feel free to pick up a t-shirt for colleagues. Sizes: S, M, L, XL, 2XL, 3XL They will be organized in boxes with an array of sizes behind Cherry Hall on the Volker Campus (west doors). I […]
Emulating the Physical Classroom Experience Online
July 8 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am CDT This brief session will revolve around the online class interaction techniques that Dr. Rahman experimented during the Spring’20 semester. The focus will be on student engagement and learning. Continuous assessment techniques per lesson will be discussed to bridge students learning gap due to the move to online. […]
What We’ve Learned From Students About Online Teaching and Learning
July 9 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm CDT This session will feature a small panel of faculty describing the lessons they’ve learned about students, and the tips and tricks (or words of wisdom?) these faculty wish to share with those preparing to teach online this fall. The panel presentation will be followed by a Q&A […]
PROFFcourses T-shirts – Cherry Hall
We have free t-shirts and are beginning distribution July 8! Everyone loves a t-shirt so please get yours. Feel free to pick up a t-shirt for colleagues. They will be organized in boxes with an array of sizes behind Cherry Hall on the Volker Campus (west doors). I will set out t-shirts in the morning […]
Developing Your Canvas Course Site for Online Delivery: Canvas Open House
Are you converting your previously face-to-face course to a hybrid or online course? This session will offer examples for organizing course content and engaging students in online learning in Canvas. July 10 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm CDT Presenter: Margaret Kincaid, Associate Teaching Professor Academic Unit: School of Biological and Chemical Sciences Event format descriptions […]
Active Learning within Zoom – Using Polls, Breakout Rooms and Whiteboards
July 10, 2020 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Why active learning? Because students learning in an online environment experience interactions with you and/or their classmates differently than in a traditional face-to-face course and the evidence overwhelmingly supports that students that are engaged in the learning process, actually achieve higher levels of learning. Join us for […]
The 21st Century Student: Engaging Students with Effectiveness and Positive Indelibility (Session 2 of 3)
ZoomJuly 13 @ 9:00 am - 10:00 am CDT As educators, we have many rich experiences that will help us connect to the 21st-century student in ways we may not have seen. Students have needs that we don't understand. We have to realize that we, too, have to learn something new every day to help us […]
PROFFcourses T-shirts Pick Up – Cherry Hall – RAINED OUT 7/29/2020
We have free t-shirts and are beginning distribution July 8! Everyone loves a t-shirt so please get yours. Feel free to pick up a t-shirt for colleagues. They will be organized in boxes with an array of sizes behind Cherry Hall on the Volker Campus (west doors). I will set out t-shirts in the morning […]
Experiences Teaching a Required Sophomore Class Live Using Canvas
ZoomJuly 14 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am CDT In this session the experiences gained in transitioning from face to face classes to a fully online format for a required sophomore Engineering class will be presented. The challenges faced and steps taken to overcome them and the benefits derived will be presented. Event Details Presenter: Thiagarajan […]
Service-Learning Goes Online
July 14 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm CDT Service-learning is possible for online courses, both synchronous and asynchronous. It can also be format flexible and adaptable should we move online again. Come to this virtual popup session to share ideas, learn about new resources, and generally brainstorm. Objectives Learn about 3 new resources Pose […]
Rained out – PROFFcourses T-Shirts – Health Sciences District
RAINED OUT - STAY TUNED FOR ANOTHER DATE This is a low-tech operation - Alexis, a mask, a camp chair, and a box of t-shirts 6 ft away - outside With rain predicted over 60% chance all morning, today's t-shirt pick up will be delayed. We have free t-shirts and are beginning distribution July 8! […]
Creating and Sustaining Class Community
ZoomHow to actively engage students through asynchronous discussion boards and interactive blogging. Event Details Presenter: Jennifer Phegley Academic Unit: UMKC English Department Bio: https://cas.umkc.edu/directory/phegley-jennifer/ Event format descriptions are available at UMKC PROFFCourses. Registration Link After signing up for this event, you will receive an email confirmation. Prior to the event, you will receive a second […]
Designing a Blended Team Project Course
ZoomThis session will describe my experience designing and delivering a course that (1) culminates in a team project deliverable and (2) features an asynchronous component and a synchronous component that can be delivered in a classroom or online. Event Details Presenter: Mark Parry Academic Unit: Henry W. Bloch School of Management Bio: https://bloch.umkc.edu/faculty-directory-parry-mark/ Event format […]
Transforming Effective Face-to-face Teaching Strategies to the Online Format
ZoomTransforming Effective Face-to-face Teaching Strategies to the On-line Format Dr. Karyn Turla and Dr. Tara Allen combined have over 50 years of teaching experience, both at the undergraduate and professional levels. Many of the courses they teach are taken by students who are required to take professional board exams to receive licensure. It is the […]
Facilitating Active Learning through Group Work
ZoomThis workshop is an interactive introduction to the international academic support model known as Supplemental Instruction (SI) and it’s best practices related to the facilitation of effective small group learning. Participants will receive tangible ways to incorporate SI’s facilitation strategies and collaborative learning techniques to create active, student-centered in-class activities. Event Details Presenter: Jessica Elam […]
The 21st Century Student: Engaging Students with Effectiveness and Positive Indelibility (Session 3 of 3)
ZoomAs educators, we have many rich experiences that will help us connect to the 21st-century student in ways we may not have seen. Students have needs that we don't understand. We have to realize that we, too, have to learn something new every day to help us understand the needs of those we teach. This […]
Supporting Student Learning Challenges: Share Your Ideas with Colleagues
ZoomEvent Details This informal popup discussion will focus on student learning challenges across flexible format courses. Presenter: Hari Bhat Registration Link After signing up for this event, you will receive an email confirmation. Prior to the event, you will receive a second email containing the Zoom invite link.
COVID Communications: Making the Most of the Mask
Event Details It is an uncomfortable time. We can resist this discomfort or embrace it. In choosing the latter, might we experience a greater sense of presence, creativity and connection in the classroom? Might we find that masks have the potential to reveal rather than hide our authentic selves? This session braves our new reality […]
Think-Pair-Share Questions for Facilitating Active Learning in Face-to-Face and Online Courses
I will present my emergent strategy for facilitating collaborative `active learning' in a large-enrollment, asynchronous online course utilizing Canvas, Panopto, and Zoom. I will briefly share my motivations and guiding principles for fostering active learning (it's what the students do that matters, fundamentally) in my courses at all academic levels as a means to achieving […]
Communication, Engagement, and Community
Collaboration and online interactions. Learner to learner interaction can be achieved by assigning small group projects, by requesting responses to discussion board postings and by engaging students through peer-evaluated assignments or critiques (QM Standard 5.1). In this session, we will discuss our experiences with a variety of interactions and online engagement, such as peer-evaluated assignments, […]
So Are You Burnt Out?!
So you are burnt out?! Identifying and understanding burnout in faculty members. This presentation will provide an overview of burnout and secondary trauma while helping you to identify strategies for self-care. Agenda: Open discussion about faculty experiences with burnout and secondary trauma Laurel will present on: Vicarious & Secondary Trauma Sarah will present on: The […]
Project Based Learning Across Asynchronous and Face to Face Landscapes
July 24 @ 12:30 - 1:15 PM CDT Project-based learning (PBL) is a teaching and learning method that fundamentally develops 4 C's of 21st Century Learning: creativity, critical thinking, collaboration, and communication. In this interactive presentation, I talk about PBL strategies to transform classroom teaching into a high impact educational practice. Event Details Presenter: Majid Bani […]
Experience With Online Testing Using Proctoring Technology
July 28 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDT Event Details Online examinations have moved front and center during this time of online learning. What are options for providing a secure testing experience for online courses? This session will cover the popular online examination automated proctoring technologies, Respondus Monitor and Proctorio, as well as other options. […]
Making Courses Format Flexible for Fall – Seriously?
Event Details The need to design our courses as format flexible this fall is bringing anxiety for many. Format flexible adds intentional online elements to the course structure, so should there be a need to transition, we teach and students engage in online learning rather than remote learning. Join us for a conversation on the challenges […]
Creating an Inclusive Classroom Environment in Consideration of Free Expression
July 30 3:00 - 4:30 pm (repeated August 3) Event Details Many of us are struggling with finding balance between our commitment to inclusion and desire to support our students and colleagues with our responsibility to uphold the right to free expression as a public institution. This balance may be elusive, especially in the classroom, […]
Creating an Inclusive Classroom Environment in Consideration of Free Expression
August 3 @ 10:00 am - 11:30 am CDT (repeat of July 30) Event Details Many of us are struggling with finding balance between our commitment to inclusion and desire to support our students and colleagues with our responsibility to uphold the right to free expression as a public institution. This balance may be elusive, especially […]
Use of Webcams in Online Learning and Student Privacy
Event Details Use of Webcams in Online Learning and Student Privacy Many faculty have asked questions about how to manage the use of cameras, including whether or not they can require students to have cameras, and whether or not they can require students to turn on the cameras during synchronous class meetings. While the policy […]
Compliance or Community-Building?
Event Details Compliance or Community-Building? How to Help Students Hold One Another Accountable for Covid-19 Safety in the Classroom Description - This session will offer tips for establishing classroom community for safe and conducive learning environments. Focus will be on norm-setting and establishing expectations in which students hold one another accountable for meeting the norms […]
