CoTL 2020 Flipped Forums & Workshops | Series 01 | 10:10am - 12:10pm

10:10am - 10:30am | Flipped Forum

Five Strategies to Inspire and Facilitate Learning
Tony Holland | Alabama Community College System
tony.holland@accs.edu

This session is a must for faculty, staff, and administrators committed to student learning. Participants will begin by providing probable responses to a list of students and learning problems. After a detailed discussion of how five basic strategies can address each problem or issue on the list, participants revisit their list of responses from the first part of the session and provide a more detailed and condensed response which serves as an action plan for immediate implementation for course redesigns. These strategies address major issues including why students leave college, best indicators of future academic success, creating time for more active learning, enhancing rigor through relevancy, and teaching the way the brain naturally learns. Incorporating these strategies into course redesigns allows for a more intentional approach to achieving learning outcomes while significantly improving more lagging performance indicators, such as retention and completion.

10:35am - 10:55am | Flipped Forum

Impacts of Suddenly Changing to Remote Teaching
Daniela Wolter Ferreira Touma | University of South Alabama
dtouma@southalabama.edu

Many schools use distance learning and they and their students are prepared for it. Now with COVID-19, several other schools suddenly moved to remote teaching without much time for planning. There is a slight difference between teaching online and remotely teaching. Schools used to teaching face to face are not completely prepared for teaching online nor are their students. And now, they are trying to teach remotely. How will it affect the learning rate of the students? How about labs or hands-on classes? This investigation wants to interact with CoTL attendees to build a community to explore in other schools how this transition to remote teaching was performed and accepted, and collect data about the students’ performance and perception. It is studying the usage of remote teaching, which is supported by digital resources. Before the presentation, participants will receive questions to explore about their students. Then during the presentation, we will discuss the answers.

11:00am - 11:20am | Flipped Forum

Adding Just-in-Time Tools to Your Teaching Toolkit
Ashley Flagge | University of South Alabama
aflagge@southalabama.edu
Barbara Rodriguez | Association of College and University Educators (ACUE)
brodriguez@acue.org

Because of the novel coronavirus pandemic, institutions across the nation and world transitioned to remote instruction; thus, the CoTL 2020 theme is timely. The urgency to design, build, and sustain communities of learners during this time and beyond is paramount. This flipped forum will focus on ACUE’s online teaching toolkit, created to support faculty who needed to make a quick transition to utilizing an online environment. The toolkit focuses on innovative pedagogies that incorporate digital resources. The resources in the toolkit are divided into six key topic areas for teaching remotely: (1) Welcoming students to the online environment, (2) Managing your online presence, (3) Organizing your online course, (4) Planning and facilitating quality discussions, (5) Recording effective micro-lectures, and (6) Engaging students in readings and micro-lectures.

11:25am - 12:10pm | Workshop

Beyond Coursework - Creating Student Engagement, Retention, & Success through Technology for Online Students
Kate Nelson | Point University & Auburn University
knelson@point.edu

As the online student population grows for undergraduate programs that contain multigenerational learners, instructors and professors are tasked with delivering traditional on-ground courses in an online environment. This delivery meets the logistical needs of these students; however, based on survey data from these students, the perception of their experience in these classes has not been as favorable when compared to survey data taken from traditional students. Allowing instructors to work directly with instructional design teams as well as view the course from the student's perspective highlights gaps where instructors can enhance their delivery. An intensive training program created at Point University specifically for those who will teach online courses has resulted in an increase in student performance, engagement, and positive end-of-semester evaluations. This program, called the Faculty Mentorship Program, can serve as a model for other schools.

CoTL 2020 Schedule - Program at a Glance