Friday, 01 May 2020
Webinar, Team-Based Learning (TBL) in Online Courses
Spend the lunch hour with Drs. David Cantor (Supply Chain Management) and Meghan Gillette (Human Development and Family Studies) as these instructors share how they implemented Team-Based Learning (TBL) in their online courses.
Monday, 04 May 2020
Discuss Published Education Research in Your Discipline (DBER Journal Club)
How do students learn best in your discipline? Where can you publish the way you solved instructional problems? You are invited to share and discuss DBER journal articles, seek feedback as you begin designing your own educational research projects, and form collaborations with participants from other disciplines.
Wednesday, 13 May 2020
What is Team Science? And Other Tips for Working with Interdisciplinary Teams
Upcoming research challenges require a diverse depth of knowledge and set of skills often found across disciplines. To overcome these challenges, researchers will need to create teams of interdisciplinary experts.Dr. Christophe Marchand, a Health Scientist Administrator at the NIH National Cancer Institute (NCI) Center for Research Strategy, will host an online seminar on the principles of Team Science.
Friday, 22 May 2020
Webinar, Applying Principles of Student Engagement to Address the Online Assessment Dilemma
The transition to remote instruction has left instructors wondering how to conduct meaningful assessment in online environments, where they have less oversight of student behaviors. Our mixed methods investigations have provided a deeper understanding of how instructor-based activity characteristics affect student buy-in and utilization of in-person and online assessment activities.
Webtalk, Prioritizing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the Age of Covid-19
The coronavirus crisis has been a great amplifier, magnifying not only health and socio-economic inequities, but also the disparities in American higher education. Join us for this week's SI Happy Hour to discuss why continuing the work of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is more important than ever.
Friday, 29 May 2020
Web talk, Designing Virtual Labs
Our last virtual labs happy hour produced a plethora of crowd-sourced resources for use on the fly. With the end of the term upon us, faculty are faced with the task of purposefully designing labs for online instruction- a whole different animal. ow does one incorporate active learning, inclusivity, assessment and good sound learning strategies into a course one has time to prepare?