Past Events
The UB Educational Design Collaborative (EDC) has coordinated a series of workshops in response to topics departmental instructional designers, academic technologists, librarians, and faculty mentors frequently get asked about. Below is the schedule of workshop events information and links to register for each session.
UB EDC Summer 2022 Webinar Series
ALL SESSIONS are from 10:00 am - 11:00 am EXCEPT EndNote 20 - 12:00 - 1:00 pm
SUNY Conference on Instructional Technologies (CIT) Recap - Monday, June 6, 2022
Roberta (Robin) Sullivan, UB Libraries
The annual SUNY Conference on Instructional Technologies (CIT) http://cit.suny.edu is the highlight of the SUNY community where colleagues share a variety of topics related to the effective and innovative uses of instructional technology. Members of the UB Educational Design Collaborative (EDC), and others from UB, will engage in an informal conversation about what they learned at this year’s conference. This discussion will include topics relevant to faculty, Librarians, and instructional support professionals.
Beyond the Template: Creating Robust Web Resources for the Classroom with Google Sites - Wednesday, June 8, 2022
Michael Kicey, UB Libraries
The pandemic has raised expectations and expanded possibilities for online teaching: students have come to expect a baseline of well-designed and well-curated online content to support their coursework, and a number of freely available, low-threshold web design tools have expanded their range and deepened their offerings in ways that help instructors meet or exceed these new expectations. These tools also present parallel opportunities for faculty to collaborate with librarians in the creation of appealing, fully-featured online guides to scholarship to accompany their courses, which can significantly deepen student engagement with course content. In this webinar, I will describe how I created a robust and attractive course site for an introductory class in ancient Greek language and culture as well as a wide-ranging online guide to authoritative scholarship on ancient Greek civilization, both using the free and easy-to-use Google Sites platform.
Understanding Regular & Substantive Interaction (RSI): OSCQR 4.0 is here! - Thursday, June 9, 2022
Rob Piorkowski and Alex Pickett, SUNY Online
The SUNY Online Course Quality Review Rubric (OSCQR) ( https://oscqr.suny.edu ) has been updated to assist campuses, instructional designers (IDs), and faculty ensure that online courses can demonstrate designs comply with the new US Department of Education regulation requiring Regular and Substantive Interaction (RSI) between online learners and their instructor(s). You will be provided with an overview of OSCQR and the tools and information to improve the instructional design (including RSI) and accessibility in online courses.
Designing and Delivering Awesome Presentations - Friday, June 10, 2022
Jen Bement and Doug Stoll, School of Management
Presentation skills are crucial in and out of the classroom for coursework, interviews, and in many careers. Jen Bement and Doug Stoll (School of Management) created a wonderful series in their hybrid PMBA Communications course to assist students build these essential skills and how to combat typical presentation fears students have. This workshop will reveal some best practices for teaching a unit on presentation skills, with a focus on what makes presentations good (or bad), and how to get good at them.
Incorporating Career Competencies into your Courses - Tuesday, June 14, 2022
Jessica Kruger, School of Public Health and Health Professions
David Gray, College of Arts and Sciences
Creating students who are career-ready is everyone's job. Engaging students in career readiness competencies or NACE competencies is key to ensuring students think about and engage in skills that will result in a career after graduation. This presentation will focus on how two faculty have worked with the Career Design Center and engaged students in career readiness competencies.
Multimodal Learning and Visual Methods of Instruction - Wednesday, June 15, 2022
David Bruce, Graduate School of Education (GSE)
Multimodality examines how people communicate and interact with each other, and involves the complex interweaving of various modes such as text, image, audio, color, gesture/movement, speech, etc. These modes can be combined in different ways, presented through a range of media, and can be utilized in the classroom to engage a variety of learners. Dr. David Bruce, an Associate Professor in the Learning and Instruction department of the Graduate School of Education, has completed extensive research on multimodality and visual methods of instruction and will be sharing his experiences and ideas.
Peer Evaluations - Friday, June 17, 2022
Todd Sage, School of Social Work
Peer review can be an important part of the learning process, allowing students to develop skills in giving good feedback and reflecting upon their own practice. Todd will describe how he uses GoReact and Perusall to get students to collaborate, interact and build a learning community to facilitate the development of their professional skills for Social Work practice.
Accessibility & Advanced Universal Design (UDL) - Wednesday, June 22, 2022
Derek Farkas, School of Public Health and Health Professions
This session will share info and resources about Accessibility & Advanced Universal Design (UDL).
Beyond the Paper: Intro to Digital Options for Class Projects - Thursday, June 23, 2022
Natalia Estrada, UB Libraries
The class paper is a traditional way to assess whether students understand course content. This traditional mode of assessment can often cause more stress and anxiety and even discourage students from learning the subject matter. Alternative digital projects let students demonstrate their mastery of the class subject, while also giving them a chance to find joy and creativity in creation. Digital Scholarship Librarian Natalia Estrada will introduce faculty to tools and practices such as digital exhibits, game creation, and podcasting, as well as how partnering with the UB Libraries can help in planning these projects.
Let us Play to Learn! Escape Rooms for Engaging Learning Activities - Monday, August 1, 2022
Archana Mishra, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
In medical education, simulation is an effective tool for students to begin to understand what challenges they may face with their future patients, while also learning about working in team-based environments. Dr. Archana Mishra, a clinical associate professor and clerkship director who serves as associate program director for the internal medicine residency at the Jacobs School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, has developed innovative escape room simulation activities and games for her medical students and residents. She will share her experiences, provide an overview on developing such activities, and address how she aids students in creative thinking and problem solving through escape room simulations, games, collaborative learning, and other active learning strategies.
Immersive Xperiences (IX): Shifting Time, Space, Things & Learning (Creating 360° Virtual Tours) - Tuesday, August 2, 2022
Roberta (Robin) Sullivan, UB Libraries
We will consider how the affordances of simulations add value to today’s learning landscape to shift time and space to create authentic learning experiences to engage and motivate learners. Simulated environments using new genres of technology allow viewers to make choices and affect outcomes. Simulations are no longer restricted only to those who have access to expensive virtual labs.
Flipgrid for Self-Reflections & Video Responses - Wednesday, August 3, 2022
Dianna Cichocki, School of Management
This session will share info about using Flipgrid for Self-Reflections & Video Responses.
Ways to Integrate ELN Digital Badges into Courses - Thursday, August 4, 2022
Christina Heath, Experiential Learning Network (ELN)
UB Experiential Learning Network (ELN) Digital Badges were intentionally designed for seamless course integration. Join this session to explore the ways you can enhance your students' experience by integrating projects and digital badges in your courses. Already have a project as part of your course? Learn how to embed the ELN Digital Badge modules into your existing syllabus so students can earn a badge along the way. Looking for an alternative to an exam, traditional paper or extra credit project? Work with ELN to customize a project experience for your class, or give students the option to participate in a project from ELN’s Project Portal. https://buffalo.edu/eln
Building Great Learning Objectives - Monday, August 8, 2022
Jeremy Jungbluth and Mary Odden
Office of Curriculum, Assessment and Teaching Transformation (CATT)
This lab-style workshop will unpack the elements of good learning outcomes which are the backbone of effective teaching and learning. Participants will work in real-time in a ‘make-over’ format to transform existing learning outcomes. Well-written learning outcomes are essential to align course objectives with course learning activities, material and resource selection, assessments, and successful accreditation reviews. Join us and bring your current learning objectives along with you!
The Attendance Conundrum (Faculty Panel by members of UBTaLCK) - Tuesday, August 9, 2022
UBTaLCK, is an acronym for UB Teaching and Learning Community of Knowledge, a Community of Practice aimed to assist faculty with best pedagogical practices and classroom strategies.
Faculty Panelists (tentative):
Sarah Ford, College of Arts and Sciences
Grady Gambrel, College of Arts and Sciences
Stuart Inglis, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
Jessica Kruger, School of Public Health and Health Professions
Jennifer Zirnheld, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
A panel of faculty from UBTaLCK will address the attendance conundrum by sharing their challenges, insights, and opinions. Please join this informal and lively discussion of how faculty from various disciplines and class sizes handle the daunting task of tracking attendance. Come and share your ideas and strategies.
Organizing Your Panopto Videos - Wednesday, August 10, 2022
Kevin Hartman, School of Management, and Beth Fellendorf, UBIT
You've used video a lot for your teaching the last couple years and created some really useful content. There’s no reason to stop using that content just because the pandemic is slowing down. From asynchronous recordings made in your office or home to classroom lecture recordings, find out how to organize and reuse your Panopto recordings in future semesters.
Emerging Teaching Technology Assessment Initiative (ETTAI) - Thursday, August 11, 2022
Thomas Slomka, Curriculum, Assessment and Teaching Transformation (CATT)
The Emerging Teaching Technology Assessment Initiative (ETTAI) is a partnership to provide a collaborative and coordinated process to review, assess, and make recommendations on existing and emerging technology at UB. The ETTAI will be a gateway to a stakeholder-driven process to streamline comparing, requesting, and implementing new technologies and innovative teaching practices.
Designing Effective Poster Presentations - Tuesday, August 16, 2022
Fred Stoss, UB Libraries
Poster presentations are integral tools facilitating communication of ideas. Posters are NOT pasting a scholarly article on foam-core and discussing it. Effective poster presentations represent a "...well-designed, eye-catching, and engaging..." display of information in a brief format in classrooms, conferences, symposia and workshops. This workshop provides ideas and resources for the design of effective poster presentations. It includes resources from journal articles, books, and Internet sites that focus on the planning, design, construction, and presentation of a poster. We will "design" a poster as a single PowerPoint slide. [NOTE: this workshop is available for in-class presentation for student poster projects.]
Learning Management System (LMS) Transition: A Brightspace Sneak Peek - Wednesday, August 17, 2022
Michelle Connolly, Curriculum, Assessment & Teaching Transformation (CATT)
Come learn more about UB's upcoming move from Blackboard to Brightspace. You will hear more about the timeline and learn more about why we are making this move. Plus you will be able to have a quick preview of the new LMS and what things you can do to prepare.
How Can We Support Students' Success: Organizing, Planning Time, Creating Priorities, & Notetaking - Thursday, August 18, 2022
Jim Jensen, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Christine Tinnesz, College of Arts and Sciences
Tony Defranco, SUNY OER Services
iSucceed began at the University of Buffalo as an IITG-funded regional partnership between UB, Buffalo State College, and Erie Community College. The goal of this OER resource is to help students access self-paced, skill-building modules to boost college-level learning skills, and ultimately to scale this across the SUNY System. The developers of the iSucceed OER course resource successfully: • developed course content to share with students that is open, shareable, and portable • provide this content in a modular format • make the content adaptable and able to be used by multiple disciplines at multiple institutions
EndNote 20 for Beginners - Tuesday, August 23, 2022
Amanda McCormick, UB Libraries
This workshop will teach you to use EndNote 20 software for collecting, storing, organizing, retrieving, and automatically formatting references to journal articles, books, and more in your papers. In this introductory-level workshop, you will learn how to directly download references into your own personal EndNote library from major research databases like EBSCO and Web of Science; how to attach full-text PDFs of articles to these records in EndNote; and how to use EndNote with Microsoft Word to automatically insert and format in-text citations and end-of-the-paper references in your papers in over 6,000 citation styles, including ACS and APA.
UB EDC Summer 2021 Webinar Series
Engaging Students in Large Classes (Faculty Panel Session) July 8, 2021 10:00 am - 11:00 am (EST)
Muriel Anderson, Lance Rintamaki, Zachary Carr, and Jeanne Meyers, School of Management and CAS
Faculty teaching large classes will share their first-hand experiences and strategies such as participant engagement, effective host controls, course design, pre-recording content, using chat assistants, and more. Strategies for both online and in-class sessions will be discussed.
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Christine Marchese and Nicole Simon, Nassau Community College
Learn how to choose technology that supports your instructional goals. Utilize innovative and creative technologies to engage students in learning. SUNY’s #EmTechMOOC, a free self-paced learning opportunity, will also be introduced to help you identify appropriate tools using EmTechWIKI. http://suny.edu/emtech
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A Piazza picnic -- Your FAQs (and more) finally Answered! July 14, 2021 11:00 am - 12:00 pm (EST)
Corey Placito, CAS
Corey Placito, an instructor with the UB Mathematics Department, has been using Piazza since the Summer of 2016. In this casual info-session we will go over how to set up and streamline your very own Piazza course discussion board for your next digital classroom! We will also touch on a few best practice tips and guidelines while discussing various features available to instructors on Piazza. Feel free to bring your own snack, sandwich, and/or beverage as we take a bite out of the uneasiness that can coincide with using, yet another, new online learning platform.
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Bryan Sajecki and Tiffany Walsh, UB Libraries
The Library offers information resources for incorporation into your Blackboard course to provide up-to-date information to students in the virtual learning environment. This session helps you learn how to incorporate research guides, roadmaps, videos, databases, permalinks, research tools, and how to integrate discipline-specific information with your library liaison directly within a UBlearns course.
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Sarah Ford, CAS
A guided tour of a UB Learns course design and layout that worked well for online courses and can be easily adapted for face-to-face courses where significant content is disseminated via UB Learns. Pros and cons of the setup based on instructor use and student feedback will be shared. This session will also include plenty of time for discussion among participants about course layout and design options that work well for their courses and disciplines.
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Using Zoom for Online Proctoring July 20, 2021 10:00 am - 11:00 am (EST)
Dianna Cichocki and John Ringland, School of Managment and CAS
This past year, many had to face the challenge of delivering exams and quizzes electronically. However, what is the best way to proctor these online exams? We’ve all heard about Respondus and Lockdown Browser. In this session, you will learn about an effective alternative option for using ZOOM to proctor exams. Learn from faculty members who have used ZOOM online proctoring in their classes with great success. You will also receive a handout with information about how to implement this alternative proctoring option in your own classes. Bring your questions too!
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Creating and Sharing Course Videos July 21, 2021 10:00 am - 11:00 am (EST)
Robin Sullivan and Martha Greatrix, UB Libraries and SUNY Online
This webinar will explore and explain approaches and workflows for creating and sharing course content and creating instructor presence through video.
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Eryn Barker, Hypothesis
Learn from the Hypothesis Education Lead, Jeremy Dean, how this social annotation software makes reading visible, active, and social for students. Cindi Tysick, Head of Education Services in the UB Libraries, has arranged a campus-wide pilot of Hypothesis that will run until the end of this year. Info about participating in the pilot will be shared in this webinar.
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Molly Maloney and Emily Carlin, UB Libraries and Erie Community College
Universal Design for Learning is a set of principles to guide instructors in creating truly accessible learning environments in which all learners can thrive. Participants will gain a deeper understanding of the principles of Universal Design for Learning – multiple means of representation, multiple means of action and expression, and multiple means of engagement. Participants will have a chance to discuss potential barriers to implementing UDL and brainstorm ways of overcoming these barriers together.
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Journaling for Reflection July 28, 2021 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm (EST)
Steve Sturman, School of Social Work
In this session, we will discuss how to structure journaling assignments to ensure they are:
- grounded in adult learning theories;
- student-centered; and
- relevant to the students' needs and interests.
Journaling assignments:
- help students activate, and build upon their prior knowledge;
- provide ways to ascertain if students are doing required readings; and
- allow instructors to better understand misconceptions that students may possess prior to engaging with the course materials.
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Libraries Ed Tech Services for Instructional Support July 29, 2021 10:00 am - 11:00 am (EST)
Lori Widzinski, Chris Chueng, and Omar Brown, UB Libraries
UB Libraries’ Ed Tech Services provide instructional support for faculty and students. Some examples include training on the use of the One-button Recording Studios to create and edit high-quality video and audio, including podcasting, media equipment loaners (webcams, camcorders, laptops, & accessories), as well as consulting to help make engaging media presentations for your courses.
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Course Revision Process August 2, 2021 10:00 am - 11:00 am (EST)
Jessica Kruger and Derek Farkas, School of Public Health and Health Professions
Having built and delivered your online course, it is time to conduct a quality review. Through this informal process, you will apply evidence-based best practices to evaluate the components of online learning.
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Using UB ePortfolios for Student Reflection August 3, 2021 10:00 am - 11:00 am (EST)
Jeff Kohler and Dave Terry, UB Curriculum
The UB Curriculum culminates in a Capstone Course where students are able to reflect upon the impact of their learning experiences. This session will detail how students use the Portfolio tool in UB Learns to detail these experiences as a form of authentic assessment.
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Using WIKIs for Authentic Learning August 3, 2021 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm (EST)
Nick Henshue and Danielle Meyer, CAS and SPHHP
This session shares two faculty members' experiences relating to students' creation of wikis. The students’ work resulted in the creation of publicly available resources and authentic learning experiences. This real-world sharing of information; is not just another term paper.
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Jeff Kohler, Dave Terry, and Nick Henshue, UB Curriculum and CAS
Discord is a popular program for textual and visual communication. Many students are familiar with this tool as it is popular among gamers. Leveraging this familiarity, the platform becomes an opportunity for faculty to engage with students in a comfortable medium while also offering peer learning opportunities for the students as well. This workshop will discuss how to set up Discord for a class, best practices, and tips and tricks for successful integration.
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End of Summer Get Together in the Spatial VR Virtual World August 18, 2021 10:00 am - 11:00 am (EST)
Robin Sullivan and Steve Sturman, UB Libraries and School of Social Work
Join us virtually to get together, chat, and share with like-minded folks who are interested in innovative teaching practices to engage learners. We will use Spatial VR ( https://spatial.io/ ) to connect. This environment is browser-based; there is nothing needed to install. Join using any device in Virtual Reality or Augmented Reality. You can participate using a computer, phone, or using VR headset. This is a great opportunity for first-timers to experience virtual worlds.
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We would like to thank our presenters and the event planning committee from UBIT, UB Libraries, College of Arts and Sciences, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, School of Management, School of Nursing, School of Public Health and Health Professions, School of Social Work, and the Center for Educational Innovation.
UB EDC Winter Webinar Wonderland 2021 Series
The UB Educational Design Collaborative (EDC) has coordinated a series of workshops in response to topics departmental instructional designers, academic technologists, librarians, and faculty mentors frequently get asked about.
Course Design Basics January 14th, Noon-1pm (EST)
Jessica Kruger and Derek Farkas, School of Public Health and Health Professions
This brief workshop will help you to organize your courses for the spring semester. During this course, expect to walk away with tips and tricks on ensuring your course is easy to navigate for students and is organized using evidence-based practices. This course will discuss how to self-evaluate your course for continued course improvement.
Authentic Assessments January 15th, 10am-Noon (EST)
Jessica Kruger and Derek Farkas, School of Public Health and Health Professions
Want to adopt or create an authentic assessment for your course? This workshop is hands-on, working in teams to create an assignment that you can utilize next semester. By attending this workshop, faculty will walk away with assessments that can be implemented, strategies to reduce time grading, and the confidence to try this new assessment type.
Tracking Student Progress: Blackboard Analytics January 18th, Noon-1pm (EST)
Jessica Kruger and Derek Farkas, School of Public Health and Health Professions
Want to ensure that your students are accessing course content to ensure their success? This workshop discusses strategies to help you track students’ progress through Bb analytics to support student retention or serve as an early warning system. By attending this workshop faculty will learn about statistical tracking in UBlearns, adaptive release functions, and how to utilize these analytics to help keep your students on track.
Virtual Worlds for Virtual Times January 19th, 2pm-4 pm (EST)
Various Presenters from across the SUNY System
This 2-hour webinar highlights SUNY faculty and staff using virtual worlds and simulations to develop authentic learning opportunities. We will also discuss tools and platforms currently used and ones that are on the horizon that are appropriate for virtual exchange and learning in general. This event was initiated through a conversation within the COIL and VR groups on SUNY Workplace. Info about speakers and topics is located here: http://bit.ly/vr-worlds-sim
Creating Engaging Instructional Videos using Adobe Spark January 20th, 1pm-2pm (EST)
Steven Sturman, School of Social Work
Adobe Spark allows you to easily create instructional videos using images, text, voice overs, and music. This workshop demonstrates how to use this free app to create engaging course videos or slideshows. This app may also be useful for students to creatively respond to many project assignments.
Reusing Panopto Content from one Semester to Another January 21st, 1pm-2pm (EST)
Beth Fellendorf, UBIT
If you've already made Panopto recordings, we'll go over how to share those recordings with a new group of students.
Portable Lightboard January 22nd, 1pm to 2pm (EST)
John Pfeffer, UBIT
This session provides information on how to create your own portable lightboard which you can use to write out equations or diagrams for live classes or recordings. This session provides a list of materials and step-by-step instructions.
Streamlining Assessments January 25th, Noon-1pm (EST)
Jessica Kruger and Derek Farkas, School of Public Health and Health Professions
Want to reduce the amount of time you spend grading but still provide quality feedback for students? This workshop provides strategies to help you think of new ways to grade students’ assessments without adding hours to your grading. By attending this workshop, faculty will learn about creating and using existing rubrics and methods to break-up assignments to reduce your assessment load.
Encouraging Student Camera Use - Policies & Recommendations January 26th, Noon-1pm (EST)
Cynthia Tysick, UB Libraries
Tips and strategies to encourage students to use their cameras during synchronous sessions.
Streaming LIVE using Zoom, Panopto and Social Media January 27th, 1pm to 2pm (EST)
Beth Fellendorf, UBIT
Caryn Sobieski-VanDelinder, School of Public Health and Health Professions
This session covers using your favorite pandemic lifelines: Zoom, Panopto and social media to live-stream. This practice could be useful when working with very large groups and to reach and engage broader audiences everywhere!
Bryan Sajecki, UB Libraries
Tiffany Walsh, UB Libraries
The Library offers information resources for incorporation into your Blackboard course to provide up-to-date information to students in the virtual learning environment. This session helps you learn how to incorporate research guides, roadmaps, videos, databases, permalinks, research tools, and how to integrate discipline-specific information with your library liaison directly within a UBlearns course.
Engaging Students in Large Classes (faculty panel) January 29th, 1pm to 2pm (EST)
Jeanne Myers, School of Management (Facilitator)
Dianne Cichocki, School of Management
Jay Stockslader, CAS (Facilitator)
Sarah Ford, CAS Lara Hutson, CAS
Carl Alphonce, SEAS Matthew Hertz, SEAS
This session also includes a faculty panel who teach large classes.
Faculty teaching large classes will share their first-hand experiences and strategies such as participant engagement, effective host controls, course design, pre-recording content, using chat assistants and more.
We would like to thank our presenters and the event planning committee from UBIT, UB Libraries, College of Arts and Sciences, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, School of Management, School of Nursing, School of Public Health and Health Professions, School of Social Work, and the Center for Educational Innovation.
The University at Buffalo Online Learning Collaborative (UB OLC) and the Center for Educational Innovation showcased effective online teaching strategies from experienced faculty. See below to learn more about online teaching in UB courses or to develop new teaching strategies to apply in your own work.
Pecha Kucha Presentation
Rick Feero
Teaching Online for the First Time - things that worked!
MUS265: Rock History
Derick Evans
NSG 481 Nursing Therapeutics in Complex, Acute Care
Dr. Janice Jones, RN
Social Work 554 Motivational Interviewing (online)
Todd Sage
Using Images and Group Reading to Practice Close Reading
AED 199 - First Year Seminar
Beth Tauke
For the second poster presentation, the University at Buffalo Online Learning Collaborative (UB OLC) and the Center for Educational Innovation again showcased effective online teaching strategies from experienced faculty. See below to learn more about online teaching in UB courses or to develop new teaching strategies to apply in your own work.
Applying the Community of Inquiry Framework to Engage and Excite Students
SW510 and SW514 (Foundation Research Methods Courses)
Louanne Bakk
Partnering with Educational Software Companies
LAI686 - Instructional Design for Higher Education Faculty
Jeremiah Grabowski
Content Pitch
ELP 537: Educational Technology Policy & Planning: Disruption in Education
Christine Kroll
Comparison of Three Strategies to Promote Interaciton in Online Communities
LAI 685 and LAI 564
Douglas Hoston, Beth Etopio and Richard Lamb
Using Wikis to Simulate Debate in an Online Asynchronous Class
LIS 580 (Intellectual Freedom)
Val Nesset
Blended Instruction: Combining In-Person Classroom Experience and Online Student Interaction
LAI 597
Amanda Seccia, Kim Benowski, Beth Etopio and Richard Lamb
Point Accumulation
Introduction to Doctoral Studies in Learning and Instruction (and others)
Deb Moore-Russo
Leaderboards: Enhancing in Large Technology - Mediated Classes
MGO 302 Production and Operations Management
Natalie Simpson
Using Twitter to Engage Students Beyond the Online Classroom
LAi 640: Designing Course Content Using Digital Resources
Anne Reed
Choose Your Own Educational Adventure: Multi-Method Learning and Assessement in PSY 101 and 322 (Intro to Abnormal Pschology)
Erica Goddard
Date: April 3, 2017
Time: 1pm – 3pm
Location: Capen Hall, Room 212 (inside Silverman Library), North Campus
The SUNY Center for Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) is one of the leading international organizations focused on the emerging field of Globally Networked Learning (GNL). GNL is a teaching and learning methodology that fosters faculty and student interaction with peers abroad, through co-taught multicultural online and blended learning environments emphasizing experiential student collaboration.
This discussion will introduce participants to SUNY COIL, which UB is now a participating member campus. You will hear from fellow UB and SUNY faculty and staff that have taught/developed international courses through COIL and learn about the benefits that online international education experiences can bring your students.
Mara Huber
Associate Dean, Undergraduate Research and Experiential Learning, UB
Laura Lewis
Assistant Dean for Global Partnership, School of Social Work, UB
Mindy S. Kole, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Business, SUNY Ulster
Christina Heath
|Assistant Director, The Academies, UB
Douglas Hemphill
Instructional Designer, SUNY Oswego
Ann M. Giralico Pearlman
Senior Instructional Design Specialist, College at Brockport
Hope Windle
Instructional Designer, SUNY Ulster
This is an informal discussion that provides faculty members from across UB with an opportunity to share ideas and to learn from one another. All faculty members, regardless of experience in online teaching, are welcome to attend.
This event is sponsored by the UB Online Learning Collaborative (OLC). The Online Learning Collaborative is an independently-charged group consisting of individuals from the university instructional support community who are dedicated to the advancement and growth of online learning initiatives across UB.
The Spring SUNY Faculty Development Community of Practice Regional Meeting (March 31 from 9-noon) is a joint meeting with the Finger Lakes Faculty Development Network.
The purpose of the meeting is to bring together those who are involved in supporting teaching and learning and faculty/staff development efforts. Participants will attend the meeting at one of eight sites (Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Ithaca, Plattsburgh, Albany, Purchase, Suffolk) to network face-to-face with other faculty developers in their region. The meeting also featured a presentation by Cindy Burnett from Buffalo State who will talk about how to integrate creativity into teaching and learning.
Weaving Creativity into Every Strand of Your Curriculum
by Dr. Cyndi Burnett and Julia Figliotti
If you are a faculty developer, faculty or staff associated with a center for teaching and learning, a teaching, learning, and technology center, or a librarian, instructional designer, or other staff member involved with supporting faculty in their instructional development, please view the recorded session below:
Date: Monday, February 27, 2017
Time: 10 - noon
Location: Baldy Hall, Room 555, north campus
This webinar showed participants the different Blackboard Course Reports that are available in courses. We covered each report type and the information that it provides. We discussed how to read the reports for data on course access and when users have accessed different course content material. Going further into monitoring student progress, we talked about the Retention Center. The Blackboard Retention Center is used to monitor users using specific criteria including course access, activity, grades, and submissions. Instructors were encouraged to share their ideas on how they monitor students and how the retention center can be used in these ways.
Both Faculty and staff were in attendance.