Practical Strategies for Student Management in Medium to Large Classes: Engagement, Assessments, and Feedback (August 6, 2020)
Moving to online instruction has introduced a number of new questions around student engagement: How can we maintain relationships with our students in a virtual environment? How can instructors balance growing grading loads with the need for high frequency, low stakes assessments? How is pre-course preparation different for online teaching, and who do we contact for help?
In this webinar, Silvia Bartolic (Associate Professor of Teaching & Undergraduate Chair in the Department of Sociology) will be sharing practical strategies for managing students in an online environment. Attendees will learn about techniques that encourage and maintain student engagement, recommendations for course design that help reduce grading loads and maximize efficiency, and tips for optimizing teaching assistant support in the online classroom, using tools like Canvas, OnTask, and iPeer. The session will also provide a checklist of important pre-course tasks to complete before September in preparation for remote instruction.
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Silvia Bartolic
Associate Professor of Teaching & Undergraduate Chair |
Blending the Online Language Classroom: Synchronous vs. Asynchronous Activities (July 27, 2020)
Transitioning the language classroom to a fully online environment can be a daunting process, especially for instructors who will be teaching virtually for the first time this Fall. In these times, drawing on the experience of fellow language instructors saves valuable time and creates opportunities for collaboration.
In this session, Somayeh Kamranian (Sessional Instructor of French, FHIS) will share her learnings from blending a course at SFU in 2016 and her past online teaching experiences, bringing these lessons together in her transition to online courses during the pandemic. Join us to hear more about the successes and challenges of blending synchronous and asynchronous activities for the online language classroom, and share your own experiences with transitioning courses online.
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Somayeh Kamranian
Sessional Lecturer of French |
Creative Engagement in Online Learning (July 23, 2020)
Although many instructors have the tools to engage students in a face-to-face context, reproducing those relationships in an online environment presents new and urgent challenges as we approach a virtual Fall semester.
Janice Stewart, Associate Dean of Equity and Strategy and Associate Professor in GRSJ, shares her tips and techniques for maintaining student engagement in an online context. This session will cover topics such as classroom management strategies like micro-lectures and ongoing roadmaps, successful approaches to assignments and readings, and being present in your online courses.
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Janice Stewart
Associate Dean, Strategy and Equity Acting Director, Associate Professor & Chair of Undergraduate Programs |
Engaging Students through UBC Blogs and Multimedia (July 21, 2020)
For those who have been curious about alternate ways to deliver course content and more meaningful options to use blogs and videos in the classroom context, join this webinar with Jon Beasley-Murray, Associate Professor of Spanish and Associate Head of Hispanic Studies in the Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies.
Participants in this session can expect to hear how UBC Blogs can be integrated into the online learning environment as a means of involving students in the knowledge creation process, as well as ways to make use of video interaction in the classroom.
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Jon Murray-Beasley
Associate Professor of Spanish |