Engaging Students Online How Students (and Teachers) Can Easily Create Educational Videos Sigal Tifferet (Ruppin Academic Center, Israel) In this paper, I will explain how to make videos using the free version of Biteable. Biteable allows creating professional videos in less than an hour, using existing templates and photos. Thus students are able to make a […]
Roundtable 3: Learning Together through Feedback Elizabeth Black (University of Glasgow, UK) Considering the engagement of both students and teachers as crucial for sustainable feedback, and drawing on the notion of feedback as dialogue (Nicol, 2010), we will lead a discussion based around our work with students and staff in a School of Education within […]
Toward Sustainable Assessment Academic-Industry Collaborative Lifecycle to Support Work-Integrated Learning. Simi Kamini Bajaj (Western Sydney University, Australia) Work-integrated learning (WIL) refers to student learning through industry engagement to bridge the gap between theory and practice-of-work. The aim is to develop professional capabilities to prepare students for professional workplace environment. WIL has its learning benefits apart […]
Roundtable 2: Pivoting Team-Based Learning Online Karen Hayes (Charles Sturt University, Australia) Engaging students with dry, theoretical material is often very challenging. Occupational therapy theory and processes are no different. Team-based learning, however, offers the advantages of engaging students in completing the content pre-work before they come to class, challenging them to apply the knowledge […]
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 […]
