Monday, January 8
8:30 am – 8:50 am
New Year, New Horizons: Empowering Educators Virtual Coffee Break
Open Forum
Join colleagues from across Nashville State in a virtual coffee break at New Year, New Horizons: Empowering Educators.
Moderators: Neely Ann Sheucraft, Associate Professor, Communication Studies and Fellow, Teaching Center and Amy Bryant, Associate Professor, Communication Studies and Director, Teaching Center
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Monday, January 8
9 am – 9:50 am
Engagement in Asynchronous Courses: Can AI save our online students? (L, E, A, D, S, CRTP, ACUE)
Presentation
Combining ACUE Principles from LE3 (Ensuring Equitable Access to Learning) and LL2 (Providing Clear Directions and Explanations) of the ACUE certification, this presentation will focus on the early implementation of announcements and intelligent agents to keep and promote student engagement; we will compare two courses that ran simultaneously to demonstrate to argue for how effective automated news announcements and intelligent agents help ensure students retention and engagement from week to week.
Presenters: Kristen Bradley and Robert Ladd
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Monday, January 8
10 am – 10:50 am
Save Time and Engage Your Students Using “Smart” Tools in D2L (E, A, S)
Workshop
This workshop will review Intelligent Agents, a powerful tool inside D2L that can both save you time and personalize course communications for your students. Intelligent Agents can automatically identify students who meet certain criteria in your course and send them a message tailored to their current learning needs in the course. For instance, you can set an IA to identify students who scored below a particular threshold on an assignment. It will then automatically send a message with helpful resources or reminders about course grading policies to students who meet those criteria. You can even set up IAs to send messages of praise for a job well done! While writing each of these emails on your own would normally take hours, IAs allow you to add a greater sense of personal care and connection to your online course, with minimal time invested.
Presenter: Hannah Hurdle, Online Learning
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Monday, January 8
11 am – 11:50 am
From At-Risk to Retention: Improving Outcomes & Experience for First-Year Students (L, E, A, D, S, CRTP, ACUE)
Presentation
A survey was conducted to gather information from 150+ students across Learning Support (Writing) sections. Based on interesting findings, whereby new students self-reported roadblocks, this session offers ACUE-based strategies to help guide and retain our most vulnerable yet promising students as they navigate their way through their Gen Ed courses.
Presenters: Amy Blum, Michele Singletary, and Laura Burridge
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Monday, January 8
12 pm – 12:50 pm
Setting up your Online Gradebook in D2L (D)
Workshop
Grades are important to students not only because they measure their progress in a course, but they can also provide guidance on how to improve their performance / learning going forward. Because of this, it is important to set up your gradebook in a well-designed and easily accessible way. To ensure that the instructor’s gradebooks are ready to go from the very start of the semester, this presentation will cover the basics of gradebooks including how to set up grades and rubrics for assessments as well as cover common issues that tend to happen inside the gradebook.
Presenter: Hannah Hurdle, Instructional Designer, Office of Online Learning
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Monday, January 8, 2024
1 pm – 1:50 pm
Pedagogy of the Oppressed Professional Learning Community Introduction
Seminar
This spring, join us on a journey through Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed. In this first session of the PLC, we will discuss the impact that Pedagogy of the Oppressed has had on our approach to teaching and provide an overview of the book. PLC Sessions will be held throughout the spring semester, and a limited number of books are available for participants.
Presenters: Dr. Michael Sundblad, Dean, School of Arts and Humanities, and Amy Bryant, Associate Professor, Communication Studies, and Director, The Teaching Center
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Monday, January 8
2 pm – 2:50 pm
Navigate Course Design with Mindset GPS (G-Growth, P-Purpose, S-Social Belonging) (L, E, S, CRTP, ACUE)
Presentation
The University of Virginia’s Motivate Lab has helped me navigate Mindset GPS and incorporate it into class assessments, policies, and feedback. I’ll share what I have learned and there will be time for you to share too.
Presenter: Jessica Rabb, Professor
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