Fireside Chat with Online Education
Fireside Chat with Online Education is a collaborative space where faculty can share their innovative strategies and approaches for excellence in teaching and learning.
The series of talks aim to promote best practices in teaching and learning for all modalities - face-to-face, hybrid, and online.
Active learning method encourages students to fully and actively participate in their learning experience through thinking, discussing, asking, critiquing, reflecting, investigating, etc.
Active learning not only provides students the opportunity to create personalized connections with course content, but also allows students to practice skills such as collaboration and teamwork, build confidence and take ownership of their learning, as well as create a sense of community where they interact with their peers and instructors.
Open Pedagogy empowers faculty to make education more diverse and inclusive. It is an effective approach to reduce barriers that prevent equitable access to education, help learners to connect their learning experiences with communities, protect the agency and ownership of their learning, and facilitate knowledge building and sharing.
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“The hybrid flexible, or HyFlex, course format is an instructional approach that combines face-to-face (F2F) and online learning. Each class session and learning activity is offered in-person, synchronously online, and asynchronously online. ”
“The HyFlex approach provides students autonomy, flexibility, and seamless engagement, no matter where, how, or when they engage in the course.”
“For example, an instructor, along with some students, could attend class remotely, while other students join physically from a room on campus.”
Read more at the HyFlex Course Model.
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“Community Based Learning (CBL) is a pedagogical approach that is based on the premise that the most profound learning often comes from experience that is supported by guidance, context-providing, foundational knowledge, and intellectual analysis. The opportunity for students to bring thoughtful knowledge and ideas based on personal observation and social interaction to a course’s themes and scholarly arguments brings depth to the learning experience for individuals and to the content of the course. The communities of which we are a part can benefit from the resources of our faculty and students, while the courses can be educationally transformative in powerful ways.” - “What is Engaged Scholarship”, Swarthmore College
Types of Innovative Assessment
- Skill-based Assessment
- Performance-based Assessment
- Perform a complex skill or create a product to demonstrate that learners can apply the knowledge and skills they have acquired
- Peer assessment
- learner agency and ownership
- Peer interaction
- Peer support
- Alternative Assessment
Things to Consider:
- “What fits with your learning objectives? (course level & module/unit level)
- Which assessment methods would allow you to measure how well students are achieving learning objectives?
- Did you include various types of assessment methods?
- What needs to be graded versus ungraded?
- What type of assessment is sufficient?
- What can be done in and out of class?
- How much time will the grading take?
- Are course assessments manageable in terms of student and instructor workload?
- What are the demands on your students in their other courses?”
Read more at Sample Assessment Methods
Key takeaways for effective interactions:
- Include opportunities for active learning
- Allow for different types of interaction
- Provide sequential scaffolding so each one builds on the preceding one
- Include useful feedback on the activities
- Include opportunities for students to think and reflect on what they are learning, how they are learning, and the significance of what they are learnin
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