ISETL Innovate! – Conference Schedule
Session 1 - Active Learning
To reflect the technology-rich world that our students now inhabit, educators are increasingly considering how educational technology tools can be used to support, extend, and transform our teaching. In this interactive presentation, I focus on audience-response tools and how audience-response activities can be meaningfully integrated into our teaching to accomplish specific pedagogic goals. I explain my purpose-driven approach to the use of audience-response tools, discuss the central role that teachers play in designing the learning experience for students, and give concrete examples of how I have used audience-response activities in my classes to serve a range of very different purposes.
Through a panel discussion, students will share (and the professor will moderate) the structure, outcomes, and learning take-aways of a senior seminar about community needs assessment (CNA) that scaffolds information and lessons through the use of a carefully crafted, semester-long hypothetical and additional materials such a mock data sets and focus group reports. The students will discuss their teamwork and how they moved step-wise through the development and execution of a complete CNA. By using a hands-on case study approach, students learned theoretical underpinnings, statutory basis, and approaches for conducting CNA resulting high-caliber reports and presentations.
Session 2 - Assessment/Evaluation
This action research reports on an intervention aiming at enhancing students’ assessment literacy through engaging them in digitally-enhanced feedback. The case study was conducted with 18 students in a teacher education program, participating in a Media Literacy course, during the Corona pandemic in three phases. Data were collected both from instructors and students. The results were coded in MAXQDA thematically. Issues related to reliability, affective factors, as well as the effectiveness & challenges of using digital feedback in online courses will be discussed in the light of the findings.
University of Passau, Passau, Bayern, Germany
As the COVID 19 pandemic impacted the world in all daily-living and work aspects, it has affected the higher education landscape in numerous ways such as shifting to remote teaching across campuses nationwide, faculty and staff isolation, enhanced stress and anxiety among students, staff and faculty, alike and finally initiation and implementation of administrative policies for course modifications (even if they were originally distance learning courses and /or hybrid courses). The purpose of this project was to demonstrate quantitative and qualitative student assessment outcomes from a shift from an e-hybrid service learning based course to an extreme e-service learning course.
University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, AR, USA