Our little learning community here has been meeting monthly for six years. Six years! We have been under the spell of our first leader Jane VanGalen for all these years! The rest of our community includes the following wonderful people: Becca Price, Sarita Shukla, Mark Chen, Gavin Doyle, Susan McNabb,…
I’ve been avoiding exams for a number of years, ever since my research began to involve concept inventories, the development of which explores how well students understand the questions we compose (e.g., papers here beginning ~ 2013). I started to interview students to assess their understanding of test questions, and…
On March 30th, my birthday, I presented at the Washington State Canvas Conference. It was the second time I had presented at the event on my birthday. How weird is that? Spending my birthday with the great people in the world of education. #2017wacc pic.twitter.com/LJVpQ3r0nV — Todd Conaway (@Todd_Conaway) March…
Our Fireside Guests – Shelly Rodrigo Possible founder of the CyberSalon, certainly one of the founders, Shelly is the Director of the Writing Program at University of Arizona. She has been giving presentations around teaching, learning and technology for years. Alisa Cooper Alisa is a faculty of 27 years at…
Faculty member Becca Price joins host Bonni Stachowiak once again as a guest on the podcast Teaching in Higher Ed. This episode is called “How to develop ourselves and others through classroom observations,” and Price discusses how much instructors can learn from watching each other teach. Her expertise in this topic grew from…
A common approach to grading is to use a rubric. They provide clarity to students about grading criteria, may reduce student anxiety around grading, provide transparency around grading, and possibly reduce friction between students and faculty about scores. And yet, rubrics have their own challenges in teaching. They follow a…
Little rituals help me start class. I’m always nervous to start, and the rituals ground me until my nerves calm. I walk into the classroom with a smile, and say “Hi folks! How’s everyone doing?” I turn on the projector, and I open the websites we’ll need for class. I…
I recently had a conversation about open pedagogy and renewable assignments with Marisa Petrich, Instructional Design Librarian at the University of Washington Tacoma. We touched on what open pedagogy is, how it relates to OER, the making (and value) of renewable assignments, and some related ideas. This was part of…