AI's introduction in education brings both potential benefits and concerns regarding academic integrity and learning outcomes. This session will showcase examples of AI integration in courses, share student feedback, and provide faculty tips and lessons learned.
This session will introduce a number of games that have been developed or adapted to increase student engagement across disciplines and fit various modes of instruction including lectures, discussions, reviews, and more! These games and accompanying resources will include digital options (PlayingCards.io, Google Dice, etc.) that can support remote learning as well as games played face-to-face (Chameleon, Jenga, etc.) that can encourage more interaction from students within the classroom. Participants will also get to begin developing or adapting games for their own classes through “Game-Storming” sessions and prompts provided in a session workbook!
The ability to work in groups is a valuable learning outcome, but many of us assign students to them without sharing guidance on how to help them be successful. Let’s change that. There’s also a chance we could simultaneously learn how to work better in our own faculty and staff groups!
This session will provide participants with an understanding of the value of role-play experiences for active and reflective learning as a component of online courses across disciplines. The process of developing a virtual role-play simulation that can be delivered synchronously will be explored. The participant will leave with an introductory ability to select a content area, create pre-work, construct the role-play, and develop post-role-play debriefing activities to be delivered in a virtual synchronous environment.
Tenure Professor, School of Nursing, Boise State University
Jayne Josephsen earned her EdD in Curriculum and Instruction from Boise State University in Boise, ID, and her master’s degree in Nursing Education from Idaho State University in Pocatello, ID. Dr. Josephsen’s doctoral research focused on cognitive load theory and simulation in... Read More →
Join us to explore how the Think-Pair-Share approach might be adapted for graduate-level education, with insights from its application in biostatistics for nursing. We'll discuss potential benefits of collaborative learning strategies in enhancing understanding of complex concepts across various disciplines. Whether you're in STEM, healthcare, social sciences, or humanities, we invite you to share your experiences and ideas on active learning techniques in challenging courses.
Assistant Professor, University of Missouri - St. Louis
About MeI am an Assistant Professor at the College of Nursing, University of Missouri - Saint Louis, specializing in Data Science and AI. My work includes significant AI-related projects, such as contributing to the NHLBI’s DATA National Service Scholar Program and the University... Read More →
Targeted at beginner/intermediate online instructors, this session will examine the expectations of online instructors in efforts to assist them in building their online teaching and engagement skills. Examples of student feedback and practical tips will be shared.
This session explores using an AI-generated, interactive, self-directed review activity as an active learning component in an asynchronous, online course. Specifically, an AI “script” will be provided for attendees to paste into ChatGPT (or their preferred AI tool) to explore educational research concepts. The activity was adapted from several scripts provided in Kosslyn’s Active Learning with AI (2023). The session also reviews student feedback on the effectiveness of this activity to meet course learning outcomes.
This session collects a panel of faculty who are teaching in the HyFlex modality across disciplines and discusses strategies for making HyFlex teaching engaging, inclusive, dynamic, and effective. We'll talk frankly about the opportunities and challenges of this emerging format.
In this session you will be exposed to the perspectives of three generations of students and educators who have experience with compassionate practices in the classroom. Through interactive activities, discussions, and reflection you will identify compassionate practices to use in conjunction with your teaching style. This session is meant to be interactive. We want participants to walk away with an understanding of what compassionate teaching is, some tools to facilitate compassion, and a desire to enhance student experience in the classroom and learning process through compassion.
Objectives:
To promote an understanding of compassionate pedagogy across disciplines in the modern teaching environment, including the benefits and barriers for both student and instructor.
To support the analysis and evaluation of compassionate pedagogy in relation to participants’ current approaches.
To foster the application of compassionate pedagogy through the creation to personalized examples of practice.
LCSW, Adjunct Instructor, University of Missouri-St. Louis School of Social Work
CJ Jones (any/all) is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker currently serving as an adjunct instructor in the School of Social Work at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. In addition to skills gained as a graduate assistant, they also completed a certificate in university teaching... Read More →
Undergraduate Student, University of Missouri-St. Louis School of Social Work
Maddie Damann (she/her) graduated with a Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) and honors from the University of Missouri – St. Louis. She is currently an Intake Coordinator at the Children's Advocacy Services of Greater St. Louis. She served as an Active Learning Assistant (ALA... Read More →
This session showcases an in-class activity using GoogleSheets (that can occur in person or virtually) where students compete against ChatGPT for who can write the best first line to an argumentative essay. The rationale for using gamification to introduce students to the boons and pitfalls of artificial intelligence in a flipped classroom format will be discussed, along with the inclusivity and accessibility—for both types of learners and faculty across disciplines—of the activity.
Senior Lecturer, Washington University in St. Louis
Kasey Grady, who publishes under Kasey Perkins, is a teacher, freelance editor, and writer who completed her MFA in poetry from the University of Missouri - St. Louis in 2014. She also holds a MA in English with a focus on writing pedagogy and a BA in English with a focus on composition... Read More →
Transform feedback with audio and video! Discover how multimodal feedback enhances clarity, personalization, and engagement, and learn practical tools and techniques to implement this dynamic approach, transforming educators from evaluators to partners in student growth. Join us to revolutionize your feedback methods and inspire your students' learning journeys.
They keep telling us that AI is the future of education. But how does AI actually work? When you type text into ChatGPT, an ensemble of technologies spring into action to predict the response you'll be happy with: we'll open the hood and take a look at them; and in doing so, we'll build intuition for where this technology is headed and what it means for your classroom in the near and long-term.
Can our teaching affect actual change in behavior? In this session we will highlight the results of a study on what effect a targeted educational module on privacy literacy had on the social media sharing behaviors of 1st and 2nd year college students. On a practical level, this presentation will demonstrate how YOU can easily implement some of the impressive features in the H5-P interactive book and the Perusall marking tool.
In 2024, Google's announcement regarding the discontinuation of Jamboard raised significant concerns within the educational community. This presentation will include various challenges and opportunities presented by the discontinuation of Jamboard and the subsequent need for educators to explore alternative interactive whiteboard (IWB) solutions. Alternative IWB applications will be discussed. This session will involve interactive activities, enabling participants to engage directly with technology tools and actively discuss technology-related topics.
Delve into an enriching course designed for educators, focusing on gamification as a dynamic strategy to teach categorization in content heavy courses in an engaging manner. Embrace Herbert A. Simon's foundational insight that effective categorization marks the initial leap from novice to expert. Discover and implement diverse gamification techniques aimed at making learning enjoyable while cultivating mastery of this critical skill.
Associate Professor of Nursing, Maryville University
I am a Family Nurse Practitioner and an Associate Professor at the Catherine McAuley School of Nursing. I teach at all levels, most recently at the undergraduate level in pharmacology. I am intrigued with how we learn and retain information transforming it into meaningful knowledge... Read More →
This presentation will focus on supporting diverse learners in online courses. The discussion will include key considerations, such as offering course content in various formats, providing diverse assessment options, ensuring accessible technology, and fostering student engagement and community building.
Learning (and teaching) is often framed as work, the opposite of play. Play is framed as an improper pursuit in higher education; however, as academics, we play- with words, with ideas, with colleagues as we challenge and debate theories and approaches and build new ones. Let’s explore playful pedagogy and how “playful knowing” can strengthen learning, build community, and spark joy and imagination in both professor and learner. Come play with us as we explore the scholarship of playful pedagogy, the science and value of play in adult learning, and how you might incorporate playfulness into your courses as well as strategies to teach your students to play like a historian…or like a biologist…or like a literary critic…etc.
Interteaching is a teaching method based on behavior science that offers an alternative to traditional lecture by emphasizing self-directed learning and peer-based instruction. This presentation will review Interteaching as a viable strategy for higher education instruction and discuss its broad application possibilities.
Assistant Professor, University of Missouri-St. Louis
Dr. Andresa De Souza is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Educator Preparation and Leadership at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Her research and teaching focus on special education and applied behavior analysis (ABA). Dr. De Souza is the editor of Behavior Analysis... Read More →
Ph.D. Student & Graduate Instructor, University of Missouri-St. Louis
Katie Breneman is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst and Licensed Behavior Analyst in the state of Missouri. She is also a certified teacher K-6th in the state of Missouri. She has worked in the fields of education and applied behavior analysis (ABA) for over 20 years, working in... Read More →
This session will empower participants to identify topics to gamify and strategize how to find or build their own games to employ in the classroom. In my experience, games help students push past the habit of memorization into application in context. They are better able to predict outcomes and imagine real-life scenarios after playing games related to content they have already been exposed to in traditional contexts.
Saint Louis University’s Core Ignite initiative requires undergraduates to enroll in small-group seminars centered on the research interests of faculty. During these seminars, faculty spark the intellectual curiosity of students by introducing them to their own discipline and the core tenets of Ignatian learning (context, reflection, action, and experience). In this workshop, four Ignite faculty will offer examples of how they incorporate healing and community engagement in the disciplines of Education, Visual Studies, Physical Therapy, and Women’s and Gender Studies.
In this talk, we will present our study in Calculus III classes (both online and in-person) with semi-flipped teaching and team discussions incorporated. We will examine how TBL strategies can help improve students’ preparedness and engagement in class, and also, how students’ perceptions may change during the course. We will also share how student-centered course activities are designed as well as motives behind through a case study and how a similar framework may be adapted to different courses in math or other subjects.
The session will present lessons learned about working with neurodivergent STEM students. Each lesson represents a suggestion for educators about engaging and supporting students. Together, we will explore differences in the ways undergraduate students perceive, approach, and interact with new information and skills.
This session will introduce new process-oriented tools to cultivate academic integrity and higher-order thinking skills in students. It will also discuss how students can be allowed to use AI in a safeguarded manner. Participants can expect to learn from the co-presenter's experiences and depart with numerous new ideas to implement in their classes.
Computer Science Teacher, Mary Institute and Saint Louis Country Day School (MCDIS)
Travis Menghini is a Computer Science teacher at MICDS (Mary Institute and Saint Louis Country Day School) in St. Louis, Missouri. He obtained his undergraduate degree in Applied Computing Technology with a concentration in Computing Education and later went on to earn a master's... Read More →
Embedded tutoring is a structure that can help in high-risk/high-failure rate courses and can work for both online and on-ground classes. Maryville University has had recent success with a strengths-based, positive approach to embedded tutoring. Participations will understand the challenges of scaling an embedded tutor program and strategies for meeting those challenges.
Switching to an OER text can be intimidating to those who care about accessibility. This panel explores ideas on abandoning publisher created activities for more inclusive and affordable options while still maintaining a high standard of accessibility.
Professor of History, St Charles Community College
I'm a professor in history at St. Charles Community college where I strive to teach relevant and meaningful history to all of my students. I am a big believer in UDL and inclusive teaching. As someone who teaches at an open-enrollment, publicly funded college, I believe in the mission... Read More →
Join us for an engaging session aimed at fostering a culture of inclusive excellence. This session is designed to explore best practices, share experiences, cultivate awareness, and provide resources. Whether you are a seasoned educator or a new staff member, this session offers something for everyone interested in advancing diversity and inclusivity in academia. Together, we can create a more supportive and enriching environment for all members of our community. By framing the session as a collaborative opportunity to learn, share, and grow together, we can attract a diverse group of faculty and staff who are eager to contribute to a more inclusive academic environment.
Assistant Professor, Saint Louis Community College, Forest Park
With a Ph.D. and a master’s degree in mathematics, along with over twenty-one years of hands-on teaching experience, I’m excited about the opportunity to explore and apply new teaching methodologies in my math classes. I really enjoy engaging students through different modalities—whether... Read More →
This presentation outlines the redesign of a foundational data analytics course into a self-paced, competency-based learning experience. Through industry-aligned assignments and a mixed-methods approach, the redesign focuses on mastering essential skills such as statistical analysis, data wrangling, and programming using Excel, Power BI, SQL, R, and Python. The presentation includes an interactive component where participants can explore a sample module, demonstrating the flexibility and effectiveness of the competency-based model in enhancing student learning and preparedness for the data analytics field.