You may have been teaching online for a while, or perhaps you're teaching online for the first time! Bring your own coffee (or beverage of choice) and join me for an engaging session to demystify U.S. Department of Education's Regular & Substantive Interaction (RSI) and attendance-taking requirements for online courses. By the end of the session, instructors, developers, and program leaders will be able to identify two or more methods by which your online course likely ALREADY satisfies current, and possibly future, federal regulatory requirements.
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!
In this session we will explore self-care and mindfulness principles to support educator wellness. We will practice activities focused on reflection, relaxation, and self-regulation, allowing you to bring your very best self to those you serve.
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.
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.
We are proud of our deep heritage, which dates back to the early 1900s. During the last one hundred years, Cengage Group has evolved into one of the largest education technology companies in the world. Today, we provide quality digital products and services to millions of students... Read More →
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.
In this active learning session participants will learn of a unique and highly adaptable mentoring program implemented to positively impact student’s academic, professional, and personal success. Participants will have the opportunity to engage in an activity, discuss with other attendees, and will leave with tangible mentoring documents that can easily be implemented at your institution!
What if there was a more efficient way to grade papers (no matter your assignment or course) and still provide students quality feedback? Join us to learn how this universal writing rubric can save you time and still leverage the feedback your students need to improve their skills. Discussion will also offer suggestions for streamlining your grading processes and improving writing using class time.
It's time syllabus publishing got simple. Over 400 colleges and universities utilize Simple Syllabus, 10 of which are in Missouri, including UMKC, S&T and MCCKC. Simple Syllabus is a centralized, template-driven platform that enables instructors to quickly personalize and publish interactive class syllabi—directly within the LMS.
It's time syllabus publishing got simple. Simple Syllabus is a centralized, template-driven platform that enables instructors to quickly personalize and publish interactive class syllabi—directly within the LMS.*Everything your campus needs to succeed with syllabi.*Built from the... Read More →
Learn about the steps and challenges involved in piloting an open access repository for assignments that challenge students to use AI in intellectually rigorous ways. Whether you’re new to generative AI or a seasoned ChatGPT user, this session will give you the tools to facilitate peer-to-peer sharing of faculty-generated and reviewed teaching activities at your institution. Ask questions and discuss potential difficulties with an interdisciplinary team of presenters, including a graduate instructor and fellow at WashU’s CTL, an award-winning professor and director of the CTL, and an experienced academic librarian and expert in digital publishing and repository services.
Director of Educational Development, CTL, Washington University in St. Louis
As Director of Educational Development, I help faculty and grad students develop their teaching skills and work with them to design powerful learning experiences for their students.
In this session, the presenters will describe the experience of adopting an open educational resource for a course, the motivation to adapt that open educational resource, and the steps they took to manage an OER adaptation project . The participants will be engaged with prompting questions and conversation points during each section of the presentation, and they will be given time to brainstorm and discuss the challenges, motivations, tools, and support they have at their own campuses to take on similar projects.
Copyright and Scholarly Communications Librarian, Washington University - University Libraries
Treasa is responsible for supporting copyright information policy and education, delivering services and outreach to faculty, students, and staff regarding topics such as fair use, authors’ rights, Creative Commons licensing, and privacy that connect to teaching, research, and library... Read More →
While “lunch and learns” and in-person and synchronous online faculty workshops still exist and serve a distinct purpose in building communities of practice in higher education, more and more faculty development happens when instructors are online, on their own time. This six-person, interactive panel seeks to explore how and why we design asynchronous faculty development opportunities for instructors at Missouri Online and Washington University in St. Louis and to share with others what we’re learning along the way.
Instructional Specialist, Washington University in St. Louis
Instructional designer by day; creative writer by night / instructor of analytical writing at a women's prison and online instructor for continuing and professional studies students @WashU / lover of all things digital, creative, and kind
Instructional Designer, Missouri Online.I am an instructional designer at Missouri Online where I collaborate with instructors to develop student-centered, digitally accessible, and inclusive online learning experiences for all learners. My work is informed by over 10 years of experience... Read More →
The development of course expectations, often in the form of syllabus statements, has been one of the most common responses of faculty to the use of generative AI by students; we have set expectations for the students we educate. For faculty and staff in higher education, however, it remains a “wild west” with the use of generative AI, but formulating expectations for these stakeholders is essential to ensure their use of this technology is feasible. This presentation will introduce and discuss a framework for determining and setting expectations for higher education faculty and staff.
How can you make a complicated image or graph accessible when you are limited to 120 characters of alternative text? Why can't tables have merged cells and what can you do with them? Attend this session to dive deeper into digital accessibility and learn how to address unique problems.
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.
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.
