assessment

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 positive, or negative, and how to document the changes and their impact on the course.

Presentation objectives: The participant will:

  • Understand the importance of incremental course modification
  • Understand the need for assessment to determine the impact of course modification
    • Assessment tools
    • Tracking outcomes
  • Understand tools used to document changes made to the course and the impact
    • Course summary
    • Course changes
    • Plans for future offerings

Event Details

Presenter: Karen Gorton

Academic Unit: College of Arts and Sciences

Bio: https://sonhs.umkc.edu/directory/karen-gorton/

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 email containing the Zoom invite link.

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.

Event Details

Presenter:

  • Mostafizur Rahman
  • Mostafizur Rahman is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at University of Missouri-Kansas City. He leads the Nanoscale Computing group at UMKC. His group’s research focus is on unconventional computing architectures for efficiency, hardware security, and hardware intelligence. His research is funded by NSF, Navy, Industry and UM Internal Funds.

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 email containing the Zoom invite link.