For more than a decade, Educause has issued the annual Horizon report that “profiles key trends and emerging technologies shaping the future of higher education”. This year, Educause has partnered with Microsoft to discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic has transformed higher ed over the past year, key technologies & practices, and implications for what post-pandemic…
Planning a lesson can be tedious and confusing when you don’t have a framework for lesson structure in place. In this session, participants will be given tips for lesson planning and designing learning events. There are many methods to lesson planning and this session will review examples of some innovative and well-known approaches to lesson design. Session Objectives: Introduce lesson design structure and concepts of…
As online learning practitioners, we spend time trying to figure out how to develop active learning within our courses. This session will showcase a variety of content samples that have been implemented to foster student-to-content interaction.
Citations in peer-reviewed manuscripts have a legacy that conveys the writer gave proper attribution to owners of ideas or concepts. Advances in technology has brought forth additional dimensions on the importance of citations. Through this presentation, participants will learn about the emergence of citation errors and the impact citations errors have on authors and journals. …
“Canva is a graphic design platform, used to create social media graphics, presentations, posters, documents and other visual content.” The course will discuss how to use Canva and will show examples of visual content that can be created using the platform and in addition interactions and discussions on creating customs content.
In this workshop, we will discuss the differences between the surface web, the deep web, and the dark web. Examples of each will be given and attendees will learn what deep web resources they are able to access from the Pumerantz Library.
The past two years have been full of various changes, not just to our day-to-day lives, but also to our mental states as we were challenged to deal with isolation, physical distancing, and mental health struggles. As we begin the return to “normal” next semester, we will be faced with addressing the effects that the pandemic has had on our students as they prepare join our classes and clinical experiences both online and in-person. In this session, participants will learn a few tips for…
What is toxic positivity? In a Healthline article on toxic positivity it was defined by clinical psychologist Jamie Zuckerman as, “The assumption, either by one’s self or others, that despite a person’s emotional pain or difficult situation, they should only have a positive mindset or ‘positive vibes'.” This type of response to other people's pain has been shown to do more harm than good. In this CETL session, participants will look at…
There’s a mistaken belief in today’s working world that leaders need to be serious all the time to be taken seriously. The research tells a different story. Based on the course they teach at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, behavioral scientist Jennifer Aaker and corporate strategist Naomi Bagdonas delve into the surprising power of humor.…
Could this meeting have been an email? The phenomenon of "calendar creep," where meetings completely take over your workdays, is wasting time, energy and productivity -- but you can take back control. Leadership expert Cindy Solomon shares her five tips for clearing up your schedule and getting your calendar to work for you, not against…