teaching
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 […]
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: […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
