course design

Use of Webcams in Online Learning and Student Privacy

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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 provides insights, this workshop provides the opportunity to ask questions.

Presenter(s): 

  • Amy Cole, UMKC Registrar
  • Heather Hunt, Faculty Fellow for Strategic Initiatives, Office of eLearning at University of Missouri System
  • Charles Rigdon, Technology Resource Coordinator at University of Missouri
  • Danna Wren, Senior Director of Academic Technology at University of Missouri System
  • TBD – UM System attorney

Event format descriptions are available at UMKC PROFFCourses.

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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.

Making Courses Format Flexible for Fall – Seriously?

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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 that faculty are facing in preparing format flexible courses and some ideas to make the transition easier.

Message from Provost: “Many courses will be offered as hybrid/blended or hy-flex in the fall semester as a means to increase accessibility, flexibility, and reduce classroom demand.  Both hybrid and fully-face-to-face courses must be designed as format flexible so that if we need to make a quick shift to remote instruction, it will occur as a seamless transition to an online experience for students that continues to be highly engaging and continues to meet all of the student learning objectives for the course.”

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Event format descriptions are available at UMKC PROFFCourses.

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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.

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 are available at UMKC PROFFCourses.

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The 21st Century Student: Engaging Students with Effectiveness and Positive Indelibility (Session 1 of 3)

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 understand the needs of those we teach. This course will hopefully help us reveal teaching tools we never thought we had. This course will offer insight into how professors can tap into their lives outside of the academic environment to glean information about how to work with the 21st-century student during this COVID-19 long-distance learning period that confronts us. Ideas about reaching students can come from raising children or taking care of elderly parents, or growing a garden, or singing in the church choir, for example. Connect with what engages you to find ways to engage students.

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Presenter: Michael Blake

Academic Unit: Conservatory

Bio: https://conservatory.umkc.edu/profiles/faculty-directory/michael-blake.html

Session 1 of 3: Please note: this faculty learning community meets three times: July 6, July 13, and July 20, from 9:00 – 10:00 am

Event format descriptions are available at UMKC PROFFCourses.

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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.

Tips for Teaching Highly Interactive and Engaging Small Classes Online

This 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 plan and how to use these tools to maximize interaction while trying to reduce instructor time required. I also hope to hear your tips during our session as I am always trying to learn new and better ways to do things.

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Presenter: Kati Toivanen

Academic Unit: UMKC Art Department

Bio: https://cas.umkc.edu/directory/toivanen-kati/

Event format descriptions are available at UMKC PROFFCourses.

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Designing a Blended Team Project Course

This 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.

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Presenter: Mark Parry

Academic Unit: Henry W. Bloch School of Management

Bio: https://bloch.umkc.edu/faculty-directory-parry-mark/

Event format descriptions are available at UMKC PROFFCourses.

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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.