FTTC 2024: Focus on Teaching and Technology Conference

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.

This session will help you turn your "boring old online class" into an action-packed quest with adventure around every turn!  Ok, not quite, but it will show you how to use AI to make your class feel more like an adventure than an assignment for your students and open their minds to the exploratory nature of learning.  You'll also see how integrating standards-based grading can help shift students' mindsets away from accumulating points and focus them on gaining skills.  

The goal of this session is to provide scaffolding for institutional conversations surrounding the use of AI and its impact on academic integrity.  In addition, participants will collaborate and discuss practical strategies to support students in developing critical inquiry skills through alternative assessment options.

Join us as we explore how AI-powered coaching and assessments are revolutionizing the educational landscape. While AI has become synonymous with content creation and quiz generation, we'll delve deeper into its transformative capabilities, particularly in coaching students and assessing their progress. Learn how to elevate student engagement to unlock the full potential of AI in education.
Bongo’s video-based training and assessment platform empowers instructors to teach, track, and validate learning in one place—with an easy-to-use system that keeps them focused on their students.

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.

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.