Vol. 12 (2020): Teaching Towards the Future

2020 Editorial Information

Message from the Conference Director: What to Expect as an Attendee

Original Conference Announcement

2020 ITL Welcome Videos

WORKSHOP: Facilitating classrooms: Enhancing skills and expanding toolkits through simulations (40 mins)

WORKSHOP: Creating and Adapting Instructor Resources for Teaching Hybrid Courses (90 mins)

GRADUATE EDUCATION TOWNHALL: Strengthening Models for Mentoring and Advising Graduate Students at Mason (2 hours)

PANEL & ROUNDTABLE: Building Communication Competencies for STEM Graduate Students (40 mins)

Lunch Session: Monday Teaching Squares (30 mins)

Lunch Session: Social Lunch Hosted by the Executive Director for Online Operations, Charlie Kreitzer, M.Ed., and the Co-Director of the Stearns Center, Faisal Mahmud, Ph.D. (30 mins)

Lunch Session: Mindfulness Session: Being Intentional about Your Breaks (30 mins)

• Presentation Slides
• Additional Resources

PANEL & ROUNDTABLE: Supporting GTAs as They Teach Towards the Future (40 mins)

• Presentation Notes

PANEL & ROUNDTABLE: Survival Tips for Teaching Online (90 mins)

PANEL & ROUNDTABLE: Reimagining Student Projects (90 mins)

• Dieterich Presentation
• Frankenfeld Presentation
• Sklarew Presentation
• Supplementary Materials

WORKSHOP: Teaching Sensitive Topics and Managing Politically Charged Classroom Conversations (40 Minutes)

• Presentation
• Supplementary Materials

PANEL & ROUNDTABLE: Preparing all students for the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Learning Activities for Equity and Inclusion (40 mins)

• Presentation
• Supplementary Material

WORKSHOP: Synchronous Online Strategies for Engagement, Access, and Community (90 mins)

WORKSHOP: Active Learning Strategies for Online Teaching: From Lesson Plan to Program Development (90 mins)

PANEL & ROUNDTABLE: First Generation Faculty Forum: Supporting First Generation Faculty and Students (40 mins)

• Presentation

Lunch Session: WATCH PARTY: Teaching Professional Development for STEM GTAs (30 mins)

• Presentation Video
• Presentation Announcement

Lunch Session: Teaching Squares (30 mins)

Lunch Session: Social Lunch Hosted by the Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education, Bethany Usher, Ph.D. [Conversation Starter: The Future of College General Education: Balancing liberal arts knowledge, technical skills, and “soft skills" (30 mins)

WORKSHOP: Co-Creating a Culture of Well-Being: How to Bring the Power of Coaching Into Your Online Classroom (90 mins)

PANEL & ROUNDTABLE: Digital Student Portfolio Faculty Learning Community: Lessons Learned (90 mins)

PANEL & ROUNDTABLE: Preparing Students To Land The Jobs of Today and Tomorrow (90 mins)

PANEL & ROUNDTABLE: Teaching Introductory Identity Based and Social Justice Courses: Challenges and Successes (40 mins)

PANEL & ROUNDTABLE: Writing-To-Learn: Using Writing To Support Learning (40 mins)

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WORKSHOP: Strategies and Tips for Incorporating Peer Interactions into Online Courses (90 mins)

• Presentation
• Supplementary Materials
• Summary

WORKSHOP: Using Experiential Learning to Teach Toward Social Justice Awareness in the 21st Century (40 mins)

PANEL & ROUNDTABLE: You are Teaching this Class? Strengthening your Teaching Persona to Foster Inclusive Teaching (40 mins)

Lunch Session: WATCH PARTY: Student Initiated Courses (30 mins)

• Video Presentation
• Presentation Slides

Lunch Session: Teaching Squares (30 mins)

Lunch Session: Social Lunch Hosted by Associate Provost for Graduate Education, Laurence Bray, Ph.D. (30 mins)

WORKSHOP: Creating Meaningful Connections Between Students' Education and Life After College (40 mins)

PANEL & ROUNDTABLE: Active Learning Strategies that Transcend Physical Space: Lessons from Across Disciplines (90 mins)

• Summary

PANEL & ROUNDTABLE: Creating Community: Strategies for Equity and Inclusion in the Classroom (90 mins)

• Presentation Handout

SPONSOR WORKSHOP: Blackboard presents... Scaffolding Implementation of Computer Supported Collaborative Learning for First-Generation Students (90 mins)

WORKSHOP: Campus to Community: Community-Based Learning 101 (90 mins)

PANEL & ROUNDTABLE: Survival Tips for Teaching Online (90 mins)

Lunch Session: Teaching Squares (30 mins)

Lunch Session: Social Lunch Hosted by Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education, Bethany Usher, Ph.D. [Conversation Starter Topic: Teaching Towards Grand Challenges and UN Sustainable Development Goals] (30 mins)

WORKSHOP: Teaching Technology Tour and Q&A (90 mins)

• Presentation

PANEL & ROUNDTABLE: Libraries' Curriculum Center and Resources to Support Online Instructors (90 mins)

• Presentation

SoTL Showcase: Lightning Talks and Roundtable Session Overview (90 mins)

SoTL SHOWCASE: A Requiem for Exams, Discussion Questions, and Textbooks (5 min lightning talk in 90 minute roundtable)

• Video Presentation

SoTL SHOWCASE: Ungrading – ditching the numerical scores to improve learning and engagement (5 min lightning talk in 90 minute roundtable)

SoTL SHOWCASE: Learning with Community: Evaluating the Nonprofit Fellows Program (5 min lightning talk in 90 minute roundtable)

SoTL SHOWCASE: Accessible Assignments through Document Design (5 min lightning talk in 90 minute roundtable)

• Presentation

SoTL SHOWCASE: This is Going to Hurt: Re-Designing Courses with Previously Enrolled Students (5 min lightning talk in 90 minute roundtable)

• Video Presentation
• Supplementary Materials

SoTL SHOWCASE: Use The Library As Easily As You Use Your Phone! (5 min lightning talk in 90 minute roundtable)

• Presentation Video

SoTL SHOWCASE: Learning from an Unexpected Online Class: Student Feedback on Going Online (5 min lightning talk in 90 minute roundtable)

SoTL SHOWCASE: Incorporating Active Discourse & Facilitating Diverse Student Interactions through Group Work (5 min lightning talk in 90 minute roundtable)

SoTL SHOWCASE: Comparing Online, Hybrid and Face-To-Face Formats of a Neuroscience Course (5 min lightning talk in 90 minute roundtable)

SoTL SHOWCASE: Disrupting the boys club in the classroom (5 min lightning talk in 90 minute roundtable)

SoTL SHOWCASE: Re-Tooling the Digital Past: Lessons Learned from the Sudden Shift to Online-Only (5 min lightning talk in 90 min Roundtable)

WORKSHOP: Classroom Technologies: What to Expect in Horizon Hall  (40 mins)

• Presentation

WORKSHOP: Group Work and Collaboration Tools (40 mins)

• Presentation

WORKSHOP: Effective Video for Online Courses (40 mins)

• Presentation

KEYNOTE ADDRESS and Q&A: Teaching Towards the Future (90 mins) with remarks from GMU President Washington

MINDFULNESS SESSION: Being Intentional about Your Breaks (30 mins)

• Presentation
• Supplementary Material

Lunch Session: Teaching Squares (30 mins)

Lunch Session: GTA Social Lunch (30 mins)

Lunch Session: Social Lunch Hosted by Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs and Development, Kim Eby, Ph.D. (30 mins)

Lunch Session: "Preparing for Academic Careers" Program Students Virtual Lunch with Keynote Speaker, Bryan Alexander, Ph.D. (30 mins) [INVITE ONLY]

STEARNS CENTER FEATURED SESSION [for Instructors]: From COVID Crisis to Change: Pandemic Pedagogy and Small Changes Going Forward (90 mins) with remarks by Interim Provost Ginsberg

• Mendoza Presentation

STEARNS CENTER FEATURED SESSION [for deans, chairs, curriculum coordinators] : From COVID to Change: Rethinking Supporting Teaching in Your Unit (90 mins)

• Presentation
• Session Outline
• Session Activity

WORKSHOP: [For GTAs] Engaging Students and Giving Feedback as a GTA (90 mins)

MINDFULNESS SESSION: Mindfulness Activities to Incorporate into Your Courses (30 mins)

Keynote Workshop: Digital Storytelling Learning Activities for Any Discipline: Empowering the Student Voice (90 mins)

ON DEMAND: STEM Teaching with Active Learning: A Model Extracted from Software Engineering Classes (5 mins)

• Presentation Video
• Presentation Slides
• Presentation Transcript

ON DEMAND: Using Career Case Studies in Your Curriculum (15 mins)

• Presentation Video
• Presentation Slides

ON DEMAND: Inclusive Learning with Low-Tech Games (15 mins)

• Presentation Video

ON DEMAND: Student Profiles as Process and Content (15 mins)

• Presentation Video

ON DEMAND: Fostering Student Engagement with Reading Materials: Using a Social Annotation Platform (15 mins)

• Video Presentation
• Presentation Slides

ON DEMAND: Teaching Large Synchronous Online Classes with Blackboard Collaborate (15 mins)

• Presentation Video

ON DEMAND: Interteaching: An evidence-based strategy to increasing engagement through peer-based instruction (15 mins)

• Presentation Video
• Assignment Description
• Preparation Guide
• Clarifying Questions
• Performance Rating

ON DEMAND: Interactive Exam Preparation for Students: A Jigsaw Technique (5 mins)

• Video Presentation

ON DEMAND: Managing Online Weekly Assessment & Saving You Time (15 mins)

• Presentation Video

ON DEMAND: Designing, Scaffolding, and Evaluating Multimodal Assignments (15 mins)

• Presentation Video
• Worksheet

ON DEMAND: Starting With Why in University Life: Expanding Access Through Collaboration and a Shared Holistic Awareness of Contemporary Student Communities (5 mins)

• Presentation

ON DEMAND: Building Student Empathy and Perspective-taking Skills through Popular Music (15 mins)

• Presentation Video
• Presentation Slides

ON DEMAND: Moving In-Class Interactive Demonstrations Online: Staging Otherness in Shakespeare’s *Merchant of Venice* (5 mins)

• Presentation Video

ON DEMAND: Facilitating Productive Class Discussions in Large Graduate Seminars (5 mins)

• Presentation Video

ON DEMAND: Affecting Social Change Through Research for Multi-disciplinary International Students (15 mins)

• Presentation Video
• Presentation Slides (PDF)
• Presentation Slides (PowerPoint)

ON DEMAND: “Learn One, Do One, Teach One” Learning Strategy for Health Informatics Courses (5 mins)

• Presentation Video
• Presentation Slides

ON DEMAND: Teaching/Learning New Product Development from Active Learning Classroom to Online (5 mins)

• Presentation Video
• Poster PDF
• Presentation Transcript
• Word Cloud Exercise

ON DEMAND: Investigator: Facilitating Inquiry-based Teaching and Learning of Critical Thinking Skills (5 mins)

• Presentation Video
• Presentation Slides

ON DEMAND: What Could Go Wrong with a Textbook Order? (5 mins)

• Publisher Resources

ON DEMAND: Flipping a Student Research Course: Lessons Learned During the First Run (5 mins)

• Presentation Slides

ON DEMAND: Using a Master Course Copy to Ease Blackboard Course Maintenance (15 mins)

• Presentation Video
• Presentation Slides
• Demonstration Video

ON DEMAND: Feedback to the Future: Providing Writing Feedback to Foster Students’ Transfer of Knowledge (15 mins)

• Video Presentation
• Presentation Slides

ON DEMAND: Using Audiovisual Materials in a Flipped Language Classroom (5 mins)

• Presentation PDF

ON DEMAND: Efficient communication in fully online teaching & learning (15 mins)

• Presentation Video
• Presentation Video (shorter)
• Presentation Slides

ON DEMAND: Student Initiated Courses (15 mins)

• Presentation Video
• Presentation Slides

ON DEMAND: A Requiem for Exams, Discussion Questions, and Textbooks (5 mins)

• Presentation Video

ON DEMAND: Teaching Professional Development for STEM GTAs (15 mins)

• Presentation Video
• Presentation Announcement

ON DEMAND: Undergraduate Research: Enhancing Access for COS Transfer Students (5 mins)

• Presentation Video
• Presentation Slides

ON DEMAND: Use the library as easily as you use your phone!

• Presentation Video

ON DEMAND: Ungrading – ditching the numerical scores to improve learning and engagement

• Presentation Video

ON DEMAND: Designing and Evaluating a Learning Community that Integrates Formal and Informal Learning

• Video Presentation
• Presentation Slides
• Supplementary Material

ON DEMAND: This is Going to Hurt: Re-Designing Courses with Previously Enrolled Students (5 mins)

• Presentation Video
• Supplemental Material

ON DEMAND: Well-being breaks and Burnalong: Mason's On Demand Well-Being Break App for Instructors and Students (weblinks)

ON DEMAND: Creating Teaching through Technology Discovery Fairs to Make Teaching Visible (5 mins)

ON DEMAND: Blackboard Ally for Instructors