Event Calendar
Academy of Distinguished Engineering Educators (ADE2) Seminar Series
Reflection, Metacognition, and COVID-19: Could They Be Related?
Date: Monday, August 2, 2021Time: 10:30 AM - 12:00 noon (You can choose out of several workshops and attend as few or as many as you want)
Location:ENB 109 or MS Teams (contact kaw@usf.edu to get the link)
The presenter is Dr. Renee Clark from the University of Pittsburgh. For a summary of the seminar, please visit https://bit.ly/3zwTLtp
The seminar is brought to you by our colleagues in the USF Department of Mechanical Engineering and the USF Academy of Distinguished Engineering Educators.
Friday, February 5 from 11 AM-3:30 PM
Please join ATLE for the February 5 workshop series. The meetings will be virtual. ATLE still wants us to have an informal way to chat, so they are keeping the Teaching Circles at its regular time, from 1:00 to 2:00 pm. You can attend any or all sessions. Teaching Circles is a great informal place to learn from peers and to help them with what you know.
Register here to be sent the specific URLs to join each virtual Teams meeting: https://usf.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eCKLIqXNTtUNugm
10:00-11:00
De-Escalating COVID Tensions in the Classroom: Responsive, Respectful, Resilient
A fast-paced workshop designed to equip faculty members with tools to effectively respond to students and peers stressed by continuing COVID safety measures. Refresh your perspective and focus on de-escalation strategies. We will conclude with an interactive discussion of resilience in this context.
Facilitated by Steven Prevaux and Jennifer Schneider, Ombuds Office
Maximizing Microsoft Teams for Teaching
Teaching using Teams can be difficult. Do students keep their videos off? Is it hard to engage them? Which method of screen sharing is best? What about poor Internet connectivity? We’ll tackle these problem statements and more, exploring workarounds, best practices, and creative solutions.
Facilitated by Kevin Yee, ATLE
11:00-12:00
Building (Synchronous Online) Classroom Community
Do you find that your students are often reluctant to "come out of their shell" in your online synchronous class meetings? Would you like to see more open discourse, sharing and collaboration among your students? Join us for a discussion of the theories and strategies related to establishing a sense of community in online synchronous courses.
Facilitated by Sara Friedman, ATLE
Creating and Managing Lecture Videos
Recording your lecture and posting it online for students to watch has become a common practice, especially with COVID 19. Although we spend a tremendous amount of time creating those videos, students may not watch them. In this session, we will identify the benefits, tools and best practices for creating video lectures and how to motivate students to watch those videos.
Facilitated by Emad Mansour, ATLE
The Most Common Forms of Online Cheating and Strategies for Prevention
Academic integrity is one of the most common concerns of teaching within the online environment. It is important for faculty to be aware of the latest tools used for cheating such as such WhatsApp and CourseHero. In this session, we will explore these platforms (and more) and discuss how you can deter cheating within your course and address it when it occurs. Come ready to participate and share your experiences.
Facilitated by Victor Ventor and Will Carpenter, Innovative Education
1:00-2:00
Teaching Circles
2:00-3:00
Teaching on Campus
Returning to campus has not been without surprises, some pleasant and some less pleasant. This workshop will focus on how to solve some of the challenges this “return to normality” has made us face. We will discuss what we learned about our students and what we can do with these lessons in a post-Covid teaching environment.
Facilitated by Oana Cimpean, ATLE
Academy for Teaching and Learning Excellence First Friday Workshops
Date: Friday, March 6, 2020Time: 10:00 AM - 3:10 PM (You can choose out of several workshops and attend as few or as many as you want)
Location:USF Library - Various Rooms
Description::
Practices That Enhance Cultural Competency in College Teaching
Transparent Course Design: How to Motivate Students by Telling Them the Why and the How
The Evaluation of Your Teaching Is Too Important to Be Left to Others
If Only They Prepared… Turning Wishes into Reality
Creativity in the Classroom
Does Everyone have a Computer? How to Incorporate Technology Equitably
Self-Efficacy Building Strategies for the Classroom
Facilitating Student Presentations
Ombuds: Conflict Resolution 2.0
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Academy for Teaching and Learning Excellence First Friday Workshops
Date: Friday, February 7, 2020Time: 10:00 AM - 3:10 PM (You can choose out of several workshops and attend as few or as many as you want)
Location:USF Library - Various Rooms
Description::
Your Memory Sucks
Lesson Planning
Classroom Management
Incorporating Kognito IRL
Should Learning Be Easy? Effortful Learning = Retained Learning
Attention: Getting It and Maintaining It
Using Digital Tools in the Classroom
What’s Your Policy?
Grading with Rubrics
Avoid Saying the Wrong Thing to Students: Maximize Learning by Minimizing Your Assumptions
Canvas Best Practices II
Making it HIP
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Academy for Teaching and Learning Excellence First Friday Workshops
Date: Friday, November 7, 2020Time: 10:00 AM - 3:10 PM (You can choose out of several workshops and attend as few or as many as you want)
Location:USF Library - Various Rooms
Description::
Your Memory Sucks
Lesson Planning
Classroom Management
Incorporating Kognito IRL
Should Learning Be Easy? Effortful Learning = Retained Learning
Attention: Getting It and Maintaining It
Using Digital Tools in the Classroom
What’s Your Policy?
Grading with Rubrics
Avoid Saying the Wrong Thing to Students: Maximize Learning by Minimizing Your Assumptions
Canvas Best Practices II
Making it HIP
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Academy for Teaching and Learning Excellence First Friday Workshops
Date: Frida, November 1, 2019Time: 10:00 AM - 3:10 PM (You can choose out of several workshops and attend as few or as many as you want)
Location:USF Library - Various Rooms
Description:: Flip Your Lecture!
Confidence in the Classroom
Incorporating Oral Communication in Teaching
Four Canvas Design Strategies to Promote Student-Centered Learning
Metacognition
New Canvas Gradebook Coming in December
Encouraging Student Buy-In and Ownership
Go Global: Strategies for a Global Classroom, Part III
How Can ATLE Help You Post-Consolidation?
Grading with Rubrics
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Academy for Teaching and Learning Excellence First Friday Workshops
Date: Frida, October 4, 2019Time: 10:00 AM - 3:10 PM (You can choose out of several workshops and attend as few or as many as you want)
Location:USF Library - Various Rooms
Description:: Several workshops will be conducted throughout the day including
Constructive Alignment: Aligning Student Learning Outcomes, Assessment, and Learning Activities
Better Presentations: Delivery and Visuals
Using Media Effectively (and Legally) in Your Teaching
Canvas-Based Online Homework System
The Power of High Expectations and Growth Mindset
Interrupting the Forgetting Process
Interactive Techniques
Peanut Butter and Jelly: Implicit Bias
Teaching Critical Thinking
Go Global: Strategies for a Global Classroom, Part II
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Academy of Distinguished Engineering Educators (ADE2) Workshop Series
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SOTL)
Date: Wednesday, May 29, 2019Time: 2:00 - 5:00 PM
Location: ENB 109
RSVP: vbjo@usf.edu
Description: Are you wanting to conduct research in engineering education by using data collected from one of your courses or write an engineering education proposal to a federal agency such as NSF? Are you applying for an NSF CAREER award and would like to strengthen the engineering education part of the proposal? In this workshop, we will discuss developing a research question, designing a study, implementing the methods, collecting data via surveys and examinations, analyzing the data, and then publishing the results. We will use examples and reflective exercises to get the participants to generate a pathway to conduct what is called SOTL – Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.
About the Facilitator: Autar Kaw is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of South Florida. His current research interests include engineering education research, open courseware, massive open online courses, flipped classrooms, adaptive learning, blended instruction, and learning strategies. He is a recipient of the 2012 U.S. Professor of the Year Award. He is the lead developer of the multiple award-winning online open courseware for an undergraduate course in Numerical Methods. He has received continuous funding from NSF since 2002 as a lead principal investigator for research in engineering education and learning sciences and has facilitated several STEM education workshops throughout the world. He has written more than 100 refereed technical papers and his opinion editorials have appeared in the St. Petersburg Times, Chronicle Vitae, and Tampa Tribune. You can learn more about him at http://AutarKaw.com
STEM Engaged Teaching Workshop
Date: Friday, February 15, 2019
Time: 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Location: To be announced - USF Campus
RSVP: https://bit.ly/STEM-engaged-teaching
Description: The University of South Florida System is hosting a STEM workshop which will explore how best to engage students in the class. Nobel Laureate, Dr. Carl Wieman will be speaking twice at this event. Dr. Wieman will discuss how to dramatically improve undergraduate science education through the following four steps:
1. Establish what students should learn.
2. Scientifically measure what students are actually learning.
3. Adapt instructional methods and curriculum.
4. Incorporate effective use of technology and pedagogical research to achieve desired learning outcomes.
There will also be a series of one-hour long five different workshops conducted by USF faculty to allow audience members to explore the high-impact practices such as
1. Audience Response Options and Questioning Strategies
In this session, faculty colleagues will share how they are using clickers and other student response systems in the classroom. We will focus on the effective use of these systems to maximize student learning, such as writing effective clicker questions and increasing student-student interaction in large classes.
2. Group and Peer Learning
Collaborative learning is a high impact practice that gets students working in groups and learning from their peers. Approaches include group assignments and projects, as well as peer-led team learning. In this session, you will learn how your colleagues are effectively implementing these practices in their classes.
3. The Flipped Classroom
Learn how faculty at USF have flipped their classrooms to take advantage of face-to-face time with students. In this system, the whole learning cycle is turned upside down with students receiving content (pre-recorded online lecture or reading assignments) BEFORE class begins. What can you do now that class time is freed up for application and synthesis activities?
4. Interactive Classroom Engagement Strategies In this session, faculty facilitators will share their favorite interactive techniques, such as the “one minute paper” or “think-pair-share,” and discuss how they can be applied in the face-to-face classroom. Numerous examples, benefits, and potential challenges to implementation will be discussed.
5. Interactive Online Techniques Whether teaching fully online or in a hybrid course engaging students and encouraging interaction is a must. Faculty will share their favorite tools and techniques for synchronous and asynchronous interaction and discuss best practices for their use.
Webinar on NSF Funded Research in Engineering Formation Grants
Date: Friday, November 9, 2018Time: 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Location: Webinar
Description: On invitation of Dean Robert Bishop, Dr. Julie Martin, NSF Program Director for Engineering Education has kindly agreed to host a webinar exclusively for USF COE faculty members to discuss the following two initiatives:
- Research Initiation in Engineering Formation
- This program is for faculty interested in engineering education.
- Grants are typically funded at $200,000 for two years.
- PIs are expected to have little or no experience conducting social science research.
- This program is not intended for established researchers in engineering education to initiate new projects.
- The program has a mentorship component.
- Deadline to apply is February of 2019.
- Research in the Formation of Engineers
- This program is geared more towards faculty already engaged in engineering education.
- Average award size for RFE is $350,000 for 36 months.
Multidisciplinary Design and Community Engagement
Date: Monday, October 8, 2018Time: 10:00 AM – 11:45 AM
Location:USF Advanced Visualization Center, CMC 147
Description: Preparing students to thrive in today’s global economy is central to the mission of our universities and colleges. Innovative approaches are needed to meet the ever increasing learning outcomes and standards with today’s constraints of time and resources. Community engagement has been shown to be a powerful pedagogy to meet academic outcomes including the core disciplinary skills as well as the broad professional skills to equip future leaders. Design is an area that can link community engagement with engineering, computing and technology. Real design projects within the community often require expertise from multiple disciplines and can offer a rich opportunity to engagement students and faculty in multidisciplinary design. Institutional traditions and structures can be barriers to creating and supporting multidisciplinary environments. This presentation will highlight successes and challenges of the EPICS Program linking community engagement and multidisciplinary design. Results will be shared including research findings on the impact of graduates and attracting higher percentages of female students.
About the Speaker : Bill Oakes is the Co-Director of the Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) Program and one of the founding faculty members of the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. He is a leader in service-learning at the university and K-12 level, conducting more than 70 workshops, publishing articles and contributing to nine books including co-authoring the first text for engineering service-learning. He was the first engineer to receive the U.S. Campus Compact’s Ehrlich Faculty Award for Service-Learning. He was a co-recipient of the National Academy of Engineering’s Bernard Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Educating, recipient of the National Society of Professional Engineers’ Educational Excellence Award and recipient of the American Society for Engineering Education’s Chester Carlson Award for Excellence. He is a fellow of the American Society for Engineering Education and the National Society of Professional Engineer.
Imroving Student Success in an Engineering Course
Date: Friday, September 21, 2018Time: 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Location: ENB 109
Description: Traditional lecturing has been the staple of engineering education for most courses but has been found to be less effective than other teaching methods. Without abandoning the lecture, what are the modifications that would improve student performance and emotional aspects of learning? In the first hour of this two-hour workshop, we will discuss pragmatic study strategies for students, the role of active learning, revealing of student misconceptions, improving classroom environment, making effective use of technology, designing homework, and applying universal design learning principles in a typical engineering course. The last hour of the workshop will be spent on an open question-answer session between the participants and the facilitator on any topic of teaching they may want to discuss.
About the facilitator: Autar Kaw is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of South Florida. His current research interests include engineering education research, open courseware, massive open online courses, flipped classrooms, and learning strategies. He is a recipient of the 2012 U.S. Professor of the Year Award. He is the lead developer of the multiple award-winning online open courseware for an undergraduate course in Numerical Methods. He has received continuous funding from NSF since 2002 for research in engineering education and learning sciences and has conducted several education workshops throughout the world. He has written more than 100 refereed technical papers and his opinion editorials have appeared in the St. Petersburg Times, Chronicle Vitae, and Tampa Tribune. You can learn more about him at http://AutarKaw.com