The Future of Learning: Every Learner Everywhere, Any Time?
Throughout 2020, higher education institutions engaged in a massive and rapid transition to remote learning that exposed a new cadre of faculty with no prior online teaching experience to the use of digital learning techniques. In partnership with the Every Learner Everywhere Network, we surveyed over 8,000 faculty at three points throughout the pandemic, with a focus on understanding the experiences of those instructors who worked to transition a course from face-to-face to a remote format to understand the experience, challenges, and applicable lessons moving forward.
While the institutional response to the pandemic was at times disorganized, our findings paint a picture of a flexible professoriate readily adapting to change and keenly focused on its students’ best interests. In this session we will address key learnings about instructional practices and student learning outcomes, usage of digital tools and impact on faculty time, and share key challenges we must continue to confront as well as the strategies faculty and institutions are deploying to better ensure that every student everywhere is able to learn.
March 5
Webinar
Speakers:
Kristen Fox
Managing Director
Tyton Partners
Nandini Khedkar
Principal
Tyton Partners
Adaptive Learning Beyond STEM
Instructors will share their experiences in redesigning the first-year sequence of a language course through a university initiative focused on increasing student success in gateway courses. Instructors eliminated the traditional textbook and publisher courseware and used only Open Educational Resource (OER) and self-authored materials employed in the Adaptive Learning program, Realizeit. Instructors focused on challenges, such as trials in the online delivery mode, students’ prior knowledge of subject matter, textbook and courseware fatigue, and DFW rates. Learn about the process, lessons learned, and strategies implemented to leverage the benefits of online, blended, adaptive, and active learning, while working toward program-wide implementation.
March 12
Webinar
Speakers:
Anne Prucha
Senior Instructor, Spanish and TESOL
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, University of Central Florida
Kacie Tartt
Associate Instructor of Spanish
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, University of Central Florida
Ask an Expert Live Q&A: Active & Adaptive Learning
Research tells us that a student-centered approach to teaching is more effective at helping students learn and succeed. As a result, higher education is moving away from faculty-centered instruction in favor of student-centered approaches such as active learning, which more effectively engages students in the learning process. Adaptive learning technologies can help support faculty in addressing the unique needs of students, while offering more active and engaging learning experiences. Bring your questions to this live Q&A session with our expert panel as we explore how active and adaptive learning strategies can engage students in blended and online environments, resulting in improved student outcomes and success.
March 19
Live Q&A
Moderator:
Megan Tesene, Ph.D.
Director, Personalized Learning Consortium
Association of Public and Land-grant Universities
Panelists:
Peter van Leusen, Ph.D.
Manager of Instructional Design
Arizona State University
Susan Adams, M.Ed
Instructional Designer
Achieving the Dream