Call for Presentations

Partially or fully online, hybrid, hyflex or flipped, either using synchronous or asynchronous tools, learning modalities continue to evolve as new technology is developed. What new tools are faculty members using? What is being learned through assessment? What are student and faculty perceptions of these evolving learning modalities?

How do you provide an active framework for delivering course content? Does your teaching leverage students’ competitive or collaborative natures? Do you use gamification or other strategies to increase student engagement? This track will provide an opportunity for faculty members to present the strategies they’ve developed for their courses and/or to talk about their experiences integrating active learning into their teaching.

How can we design lessons that meet students’ specific individual needs?  How can we unlock the full potential of each learner? Can technology assist in assessing students’ learning so that faculty members can pinpoint exactly where individual students need assistance, reinforcement, and additional support. This track will be dedicated to exploring flipped learning and differentiated instruction, and the technologies that can assist in providing individualized learning opportunities.

What resources are students using to supplement their course materials? What sources are they finding for their research projects? Are they properly paraphrasing and citing their information? Are they finding credible sources and how do they define authority? What tools are faculty members using to find incidents of plagiarism? How do students and faculty members connect on social media, and what links do they share with each other? This is an opportunity to talk about media and digital literacy in the classroom.

Academic institutions are being challenged by those with disabilities over lack of student accessibility to course materials. Resources such as skill, time, and expense are needed to create and retrofit course materials. This track addresses the state of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and Accessibility in the professional development of faculty pedagogy, the development of new course materials, and the revision of previously developed course materials.

As increasingly more no-cost educational resources are available, access to materials such as digital textbooks and learning modules have become widely available and accessible to students and faculty. This track will discuss and showcase some of the open educational resources currently being used in various disciplines.