Remote Instruction Support Workshops

Participants will learn ADA rules for accessibility for recorded lectures and LMS content pages They will learn techniques to ensure course materials are compliant as well as practical universal design applications that promote engagement, representation, action and expression.

This workshop will introduce and help you apply a useful and systematic process for re-designing/thinking the course in transitioning it to remote instruction. We will also briefly review the QLT guidelines. Please bring a course you would like to work on. Level: All levels

This training focuses on the pedagogical practices that work best in synchronous online courses. Teaching strategies that address the needs of communal and independent learners will also be examined, along with directed and learner-centered instructional approaches that support student engagement.

This training focuses on assessment strategies that can be used in virtual classroom settings. Informal, student-self, and formal assessment strategies, will be examined, along with a discussion that highlights the importance of assessment driven instructional practices.

Participants will explore the Community of Inquiry and learn techniques to promote interaction prior to, during and after lectures that promote student to student and student to instructor engagement.

Preparing and teaching online courses can be more time-intensive than teaching face-to-face courses (especially when taught for the first time).This presentation/discussion will provide opportunities to discuss strategies for focusing on core learning outcomes and student engagement, selecting modes of content delivery and assessment that support these outcomes efficiently and effectively, and ways to streamline grading and student support. Come prepared to share your experiences and strategies as well as to learn from others in this guided conversation.

Participants will build on skills learned in level one and apply UDL principles to documents, powerpoints, and pdf files

This workshop will focus on cooperative learning strategies in online spaces. Accountability measures, group assessment strategies, and the establishment of group norms will also be discussed.

Many STEM assessments, such as problem solving and multiple choice exams, pose additional challenges during remote learning. Together we will consider assessment approaches that are responsive to learning outcomes, faculty workload, and students' lives.

Many online courses rely heavily on e-books, open educational resources, and videos (video “lectures,” documentaries, etc.). In this workshop we’ll address strategies you can share with students to help them to most effectively read/watch online texts, and strategies and tools that promote meaningful notetaking when engaging with texts. This is an introductory level discussion of these topics.

This workshop will focus on the ways in which Google Docs, Slides, Forms, and Sheets can be used to teach and assess in online or hybrid courses.

Participants will discuss specific challenges associated with teaching during the pandemic. We’ll examine how care and relational pedagogy can be used to increase student success and explore techniques for instructor self-care.

A discussion of strategies for designing and teaching meaningful, engaging asynchronous courses (or courses with asynchronous components), and some of the benefits and challenges to offering asynchronous courses. Introductory/Intermediate level

Shifting the focus from stopping cheating to promoting Academic Integrity. This panel will focus on ways to promote academic integrity, including: trusting students; using pool or test bank, randomization of questions, honor codes/statements etc

The workshop is introductory to Google Classroom, a semi-LMS with a flat learning curve that incorporates all Google Apps for Education (GAFE: Docs, Slides, Sheets, Drive, Forms, Meet, etc.) The workshop will cover creating and populating classes; making and reusing announcements, assignments, and rubrics; responding to student submissions and resubmissions; using forms for quizzes and data collection; using Meet (similar to Zoom); the grade book; and other areas requested by participants. See a brief video clip to see if you are interested in Classroom: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fkhdqWr8PCNzP7KOBx-NqNzsad_g8LiD/view?usp=sharing Please direct any questions to profmthompson@gmail.com.