Session Schedule 2023 (Stay tuned for updates!)
Current Session: November 17, 2023
Thirty Years Adrift, Landing on the Island of the Affective Domain. Content vs Feeling?
Facilitator:
AlanLester, PhD., Geological Sciences and Continuing Education, University of Colorado, Boulder
Description:
After three decades and numerous teaching modalities (on-campus and online), I’ve come to realize that how students feel about a subject is probably more important than what is learned. It’s reminiscent of an old Carl Sagan quote, more appropriate than ever in a world credulously enamored with whatever someone with a bit of influence wants to post or tweet―“The method of science, as stodgy and grumpy as it may seem, is far more important than the findings of science.”―The Demon-Haunted World.
Taking Carl’s admonition a step further, I share pedagogical research that supports targeting the often neglected “affective domain”—the realm of feelings and attitudes, where a discipline or topic becomes more than just knowledge, but potentially something exciting and alluring.
Beyond rocks and fossils, my goal is for students to feel that science is capable of casting a trustable light on big issues like resource consumption, climate change, and vaccines; and, ultimately, a societal tool worth voting for and spending on.
We’ll talk about the challenges of addressing student attitudes, particularly in the online mode. Come share your thoughts, ideas, and approaches!
Date:Friday, November 17, 2023
Time:12:30pm, MST
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Past Sessions
October 27, 2023: Journey from Reflection to Academic Action: Implementing Department-wide Inclusivity Initiatives
Facilitators:
Dr. Jennifer Fluri, Chair, Department of Geography, 鶹ѰBoulder
Gabriela Subia Smith, GA, Department of Geography, 鶹ѰBoulder
Description:
Jennifer Fluri, Professor and Chair of the Department of Geography, and graduate student Gabriela Subia Smith will provide an overview of the diversity, equity, and inclusion activities and projects they have initiated. Their process included gathering information from faculty and students about the department culture and curriculum, initiating workshops for faculty and graduate students focusing on inclusive language, anti-blackness in nonblack communities, inclusive pedagogy, and sub-discipline-specific DEI workshops.
Date:Friday, October 27, 2023
Time:12:30pm, MST
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April 28, 2023:Generative AI: Faculty Support for Teaching and Learning
Facilitator:Geoff Rubinstein, PhD. Director ofOnlineLearning, Division of Continuing Education and Professional Studies. 鶹ѰBoulder
Description:
What do faculty and students need to know about how generative AI works? How can some of the perils of generative AI be turned into teachable moments and possibilities? How do faculty prepare for the ongoing changes to student experiences and needs that generative AI will introduce?
Join us for a community discussion that will harvest participants’ useful resources, as well as their insights and concerns about generative AI. Our aim is to support faculty as they orient themselves, settle into, and leverage the influences and implications of generative AI on the present and future of the higher education landscape.
Date:Friday,April 28, 2023
Time:12:30pm, MST
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Feb 17, 2023: Supporting your Students' Writing
Facilitators:Hannah Kim, PH.D. Student and Chelsea Kent, Ph.D. Candidate
Comp Hub Coordinators, CEOC &School of Education, 鶹ѰBoulder
Description:
During this Cafe Ped session, participants will learn about different approaches to assessing students’ writing, and ways of offering writing feedback to students that is constructive andhumanizing. This session will be interactive, and will invite participants to share their experiences, their successes, and their growing edges around supporting their students with their writing. We look forward to learning with you during this session!
Date:Friday, February 17, 2023
Time:12:30pm, MST
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Facilitator: Grace Rexroth, Assistant Teaching Professor, LA Pedegogy Program, 鶹ѰBoulder
Description:
Have you been wondering about how to better foster community engagement or participation in your CE course? Come hear about the Learning Assistant program! This session will provide an overview of the Learning Assistant (LA) Program and its essential elements. Instructors will also learn about how LAs could enhance student engagement and learning in online courses by hearing first-hand from CE Online faculty. We will also cover the LA recruitment and hiring process/timeline for those of you who may want to apply for LAs this summer or fall!
Date:Friday, February 3, 2023
Time:12:00pm, MST
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Active Learning and Public Facing Student Work: Potentials and Examples from TwoOnlineEnvironmental Studies Courses
Facilitator:Lee Frankel-Goldwater, PhD Student and Graduate Part-time Instructor, Environmental Studies, UCB
Description:
Through much of a student's educational career they work hard on projects, papers, and assignments - and yet oftentimes the only ones who see their work are professors, graders, or classroom peers. This can create a troublesome learning feedback loop, where the outputs and artifacts of learning fail to reinforce the potentialfor using lessons and working hard to create impact in the world, which can leadto a disconnect between in-class motivations and "real-world"passions. Modeling real-world activities and sharing them broadly through class projects may help in turning this feedback loop from troublesome to generative, helping students see that lessons in the classroom can lead to real-world impacts. Through this workshop, we'll extend the ideas of project-based learning into 'public facing' project-based learning. We'll look at examples from twoonlineenvironmental studies courses and then brainstorm ways that our own class projects can extend to (or already are!) helping students share and experience their work in new, publicly facing, and exciting ways.
Date:Friday, November 11, 2022
Time:12:30pm, MST
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OnlineTeaching Strategies for Neurodivergent Students and Faculty
Facilitator:Sarah Barkin, Teaching Assistant Professor, Program for Writing & Rhetoric, UCB
Description: Onlinelearning offers a number of challenges—and benefits—for neurodiverse students and faculty. In this session we'll discuss some of the issues that neurodiverse learners face and then explore and brainstorm practical, effective ways to engage with neurodiversity in terms of overall course design, assignments, lectures, grading practices, etc.
Date: Friday, October 14, 2022
Time: 1230 pm, Mountain Standard Time
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April 22, 2022 "Improving Student Outcomes with Frequent Low Stakes Assessments"
Facilitator: Karen Gebhardt, Director of the Online Economics Program
Description: Research on the science of learning shows us that frequent low-stakes quizzing can measure learning, enhance learning, and reduce achievement gaps. So how do educators use this knowledge to help our students? More frequent low-stakes assessments! This presentation will briefly review the research related to low-stakes assessments and will include a discussion ofhow to integrate more low-stakes assessments in your class using Canvas, publisher’s tools, or other tools.
Date: Friday, April 22, 2022
Time: 1230 pm, Mountain Standard Time
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February 25, 2022 "Regular & Substantive: Interactions in the Digital Classroom"
Facilitator: Erika G. Swain, Assistant Director for Compliance and Authorization
Description: In this session we'll explore the flexibility that comes with the federal regulation requiring that all distance education courses and programs have evidence of regular and substantive interactions, how you can find the best way to design your courses and the opportunities for scheduled and predicable academic engagement.
Date: Friday, February 25, 2022
Time: 1230 pm, Mountain Standard Time
Recorded Session:
November 19, 2021 "Methods and Observations for Creating an Asynchronous, Group Lab Course"
Facilitator: Françoise Bentley, Department of Continuing Education & Integrative Physiology, 鶹ѰBoulder
Description: We will discuss how to adapt and/or create a virtual lab class. Methods include considerations of the learning platform, course learning goals and how to make live labs at home (not just pre-made publisher labs), creating asynchronous groups that submit a common weekly assignment, peer evaluations, group contracts, and a group project. In addition, how to balance percent of grade for individual vs group work. The class in particular was designed for physiology students, but the content of the talk can be applied across all disciplines.
Date: Friday, November 19, 2021
Time: 1230 pm, Mountain Standard Time
Recorded Session:
Friday Oct 8, 2021 "Instructor Presence in the Online Classroom"
Facilitator:Conny Cassity, Department of English.鶹ѰBoulder
Description: How can we be “present” in spaces where we don’t interact with our students in real time? How can our students get to know us when what they mostly see are pre-recorded videos or voiceless text? This session will offer some ideas and insights into how to connect course content and assignments in asynchronousonlinecourses to your development of anonlineteaching persona. Part of this session will include a brief tutorial on using the Canvas add-on annotation and close-reading toolPerusall.
Date: Friday October 8, 2021
Time: 1230 pm, Mountain Standard Time
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April 9, 2021: "The Politics of Online Teaching/Learning: Critical/Core tools for Understanding Biases and Power Dynamics in regard to pedagogical practices and Communication Technologies"
Facilitators:
Carolin Aronis, PH.D. Instructor. Department of COMM, CMCI. 鶹ѰBoulder
Description: This workshop will provide an overview of a few "core" scholarly concepts about Power, discrimination and biases that relate to communication technologies and pedagogical practices that surrounded them, in order to provide participants (i.e. online instructors) tools to reflect on their own courses, their pedagogical practices, and plan a learning environment that strengthens diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging.
Date: 4/9/21
Time: 12:30pm – 1:30pm
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March 12, 2021: "Regular & Substantive"
Facilitator: Erika Swain, Assistant Director for Compliance and Authorization, Institutional Research. 鶹ѰBoulder
Description: a look at the new federal requirements for interactions in distance and online educationIn this session we’ll examine the new federal regulations (eff. 7/1/21) surrounding required interactions in the digital classroom and how to satisfy those requirements..
Date: 3/12/21
Time: 12:30pm – 1:30pm
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Resources:FAQ Document
February 12, 2021:"Leveraging Humanities Computing Tools Online and In the Classroom"
Facilitators:
Rachael Deagman Simonetta, Ph.D. Instructor and Director of Internships, Department of English. 鶹ѰBoulder
Description: Curiousabout the Digital Humanities but don’t know where to begin?This presentation will share development tips and lessons learned fromtwo DH courses in the English department.The session also introduces a few tools for DH beginners to try in their own classes.
Date: 2/19/21
Time: 12:30pm – 1:30pm
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November 13, 2020: "Depth and Intention: Contemplative Approaches to Online and Remote Learning"
Facilitators:
Geoff Rubinstein, Ph.D. Director of Online Learning, Continuing Education. 鶹ѰBoulder
Dawn Fleurette Colley, Ph.D. Instuctor, Program for Writing and Rhetoric & Liaison to Continuing Education. 鶹ѰBoulder
Description:Contemplative pedagogies help students integrate information into long-term memory. While the online environment is transformative in augmenting short-term working memory, students immersed in the online world tend to lose sight of the deep inquiry and reflection needed to make knowledge, understanding and meaning “their own.” As educators we need to call long-standing contemplative approaches to education back into the foreground of intention in order to help students step into their own knowing and cultivate depth and authenticity in their educational experiences. In this interactive workshop we will reflect on and share insights, approaches, best practices and resources.
Date: 11/13/20
Time: 12:30pm – 1:30pm
Session Oct 2, 2020: "Learning Assistants (LAs) in Online and Remote Courses"
Facilitator: Laurie Langdon, 鶹ѰBoulder LA Program
Session: Partner Up! Learning Assistants (LAs) in Online and Remote Courses
Description:
This session will provide an overview of the Learning Assistant (LA) Program including its foundational origins at 鶹ѰBoulder and development to its current status as a national platform. Instructors will also learn how LAs could enhance student engagement and learning in online courses, hear from CE Online LAs and faculty, and explore their own ideas for how LAs could enhance student engagement and learning in online courses. We’ll briefly review the LA recruitment and hiring process/timeline.
Date: 10/02/20
Time: 12pm – 1pm