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Group work is the bane of most students' academic experience, yet an integral part of many courses. This session will demonstrate and discuss 3 primary grouping types (random, self-select, and purposeful) and will introduce an online tool designed to make grouping based on criteria (purposeful) easier on the instructor.

When developing online lab simulations for the new online biology degree, the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University, created a cross-discipline team to view content through a lens of inclusion. This team developed a framework for language, discussion examples, and successfully opened a dialogue with developers on the issue of inclusion.

Academic librarians support educators and design and implement instruction in a variety of formats and styles. Where do academic librarians obtain the innovative ideas they are supposed to adapt to and utilize? How do they implement them? How close are they to innovation? This presentation proposes a space to discuss these challenges.

Helping students apply what is learned in coursework to real-world situations is something educators and instructional designers strive for yet many online courses rely on discussion, videotaped lectures and quick knowledge checks and quizzes as their primary approach.

In this presentation, we will explore how educators and instructional designers can use collaborative and project-based learning approaches in online contexts and how to adapt or overcome some of the challenges associated with these approaches in an online learning environment.

Participants will come away with specific strategies and tips on creating an effective collaborative and project-based learning approaches in the online learning context.

Connect authentically with learners by assessing learning behaviors and cataloguing their metacognition. Join an interactive session exploring how self-awareness and personalized learning can be used as approaches to meet the challenges you face. Discover how a common vocabulary describing learning can make a measurable difference in instruction and student support!

This conference presentation will be based upon my personal experience gamifying a hybrid course offered during the Spring 2019 semester. I will share how I went through the gamification process for my Canvas LMS course shell and the resources I used along the way, including helpful tips and tricks from the online Canvas Community, blog posts from educational technology experts, journal articles, and gamification guide books, in combination with my personal research background in quest-based learning, gamification, and game-based learning techniques.

NOTE: While I am currently utilizing the Canvas LMS platform for my teaching, the techniques I am introducing in this interactive presentation can be adapted for other LMSes as well!

Game-based learning can enhance learning in a variety of ways, but creating these experience can seem out of reach for many university instructors (Lepper & Malone, 1987). This presentation looks at a case of implementing game-based learning in a masters-level public health course.

The way Generation Y, Z and beyond communicate and perceive technology is fundamentally different from their professors, most of whom span the Baby Boomer generation and Generation X.

Effective adoption of technology and future bleeding edge innovations hinges on adoption from both a generational standpoint and a technical standpoint. How can we foster both sides in pursuit of successful adoption?

This session will overview the concept of reflective practice relating to design, including “reflection-in-action”, “reflection-on-action”, and “frame analysis”, and provide examples of each. We will then consider how these practices can be applied to learning design and specifically to the common issues dealing with student group formation and process.

Motivation plays a central role in the adult learner’s ability to engage in classroom activities. This workshop explores recent findings in self-determination theory and introduces attendees to tools that can help them develop a motivational strategy as part of instructional planning.

The way you communicate with your students and colleagues impacts your professional presence and their motivation level to learn from and work with you. In e-mail messages and discussion boards, where we lose the visual and vocal cues humans often rely on, the words we choose are key.

Flipgrid is a free system that educators can use to improve student engagement.
It allows you to post a grid and have your students post video responses to a topic. It is simple to use and students love it! It can free up class time by having presentations posted online rather than given during class. Students get very excited about posting videos and viewing other student’s videos. Videos can be group presentations or individual presentations. You can engage with other classes around the world if you would like to.

A student team was charged with taking the face-to-face training they went through to get their job into a self-paced LMS module and learned valuable lessons about designing learning experiences.

Academic advising is a critical component to student success. There is a unique relationship between themselves and learners that begins from their first meeting until graduation. Having academic advisors prepared to assist learners navigate through the challenges of college is a significant task. To ensure those advisors are properly and consistently trained, the collaboration between Instructional Design and Academic Advising will explore how their joint efforts will assist in further establishing student success.