Roundtable 1 Actively Assessing in Viral Times: Using Learning Assessment Techniques to Increase Active Learning Carrie Bailey and Sarah Jacobs (Oregon Health & Science University, USA) Inspired by the transition of Health and Science university students toward becoming practitioners, this session focuses on Learning Assessment Techniques (LATs), feedback messages, and timing. Mind wandering is a […]
Feedback As A Learning Tool: Promoting Student Enthusiasm and Improvement in Online Instruction through Effective Assessment and Feedback. Clifford Tyler and Terry Bustillos (National University, USA) Learning and assessment are academic and social processes that take place in interactions between students and instructors in face-to-face classrooms. This paper will examine the potential benefits of creating […]
Keynote 3: Advancing Online Teaching: Creating Equity-Based Digital Learning Environments Todd Zakrajsek (University of North Carolina, USA) This past spring, as a result of the COVID-19 world pandemic, most of higher education moved swiftly to remote emergency teaching. In the midst of this shift, higher education uncovered massive inequities in how students learn. These inequities […]
Panel Presentation 1: Online Assessment Scenarios in COVID-19 Times: Directions and Practices. Anna Serbati and Valentina Grion (University of Padua, Italy), Sally Brown (HE Independent Consultant, UK), Kay Sambell (Edinburgh Napier University, UK), Fabio Arricò (University of East Anglia) and Lan Li (Bowling Green University, USA) In Spring 2020, higher education institutions worldwide were urged […]
Assessing Online Learning/Assessment In Course Design: Resetting SET to the Goals of Higher Education: Quality Teaching or Learning? Mieke Clement and Herman Buelens (University of Leuven, Belgium) Like many universities, ours assesses the quality of faculty teaching with “Student Evaluation of Teaching” questionnaires. We studied the relationship of our SET-dimensions with two criteria: (1) overall […]
Keynote 2: The Power of Internal Feedback: Theory, Development, and Research in the UK and Italy. David Nicol (University of Glasgow, UK), and Anna Serbati and Valentina Grion (University of Padua, Italy) This keynote will outline research carried out through an Italy-UK collaboration on internal feedback, the feedback that students generate for themselves as they […]
Intercultural Reflection on Teaching: Guidelines and Experiences Supporting the Professional Development of Higher Education Teachers Fiona Dalziel, Alessio Surian, Fulvio Biddau, and Anna Serbati (University of Padua, Italy) This presentation focuses on training higher education (HE) teachers in using the innovative methods for reflection on teaching developed by the Erasmus+ IntRef project (Intercultural Reflection on […]
Conference Opening and Keynote 1 Regaining Control, Restoring Spirits: Student Engagement in Pandemic Times. Chng Huang Hoon (National University of Singapore) The vast and swift disruptions COVID-19 brought to our lives require no further elaborations–by now, all of us have at least one story to tell about it. The more important question is how we […]
The Road to Flexible Delivery of an Accredited Medical Laboratory Science Degree Wouter Kalle and Noelia Roman (Charles Sturt University, Australia) The Bachelor Medical Science (Pathology) is a professionally accredited (AIMS) degree taught at Charles Sturt University since 1998, and one of the first to be offered by distance education. In 2018 a course review […]
Adaptive Anatomy: Transforming Laboratory-Based Subjects for Online Students Kelly Linden (Charles Sturt University, Australia) Traditionally anatomy is taught using time intensive laboratory classes. But in the midst of global pandemic, can anatomy be taught online? Twenty-one adaptive online anatomy lessons were created to assist students in preparing for a high-stakes, end-of-session practical exam. High resolution […]
