School of Life Sciences is a wonderful community focused on improving teaching, sharing new ideas, and working together to find solutions for our students. Join us for a minute to reflect back and lift up the many voices in this community. Here are some of the key ideas and popular posts shared last year from our SOLS Community:
Faculty Contributions:
Our blogs covered a number of different ideas generated by the strong relationship between instructional designers and faculty. Often new ideas are tested and written about from courses. Some of the highlights this year were seen here:- In How Active Learning is Implemented, Sara Brownell, shared various questions about how instructors help or hinder students when implementing active learning strategies.
- Gillian Clark shared her experiences with using specifications learning and shared the benefits and challenges in Adventures in Specifications Grading
- Reimagining classroom collaboration activities and teams became a topic for both blogs and webinars last year, with contribututions and ideas shared by Kevin McGraw, Pierre Deviche and Jon Harrison.
Graduate Student Contributions:
Our SOLS Graduate Students were incredibly busy helping us lead the way towards more inclusive teaching, and writing blogs with student success in mind. Below are some of their popular posts:- Tiffany Lewis shared ideas about including flexible policies for exams that would allow students to feel less anxiety in her "Ditching Proctoring" blog post. Tiffany also shared insights writing "Alt text on Scientific Images" for exams and online pages in our new intro courses. This makes sure that your courses are inclusive for all learners.
- The students in the biology education lab and RISE Center also contributed blogs. Tala Araghi shared how to make research opportunities for students more accessible. Elonna Okuagu shared information to help faculty get more voluntary student participation in their courses. Jinye He shared insights on how Christian students may feel stigmatized in biology courses, and what faculty can do to bridge that gap between science and religion.
ASU Contributions:
We were grateful to share out expertise from many instructional designers at ASU outside of the Teaching Innovation Center. Jill Roter from EdPlus shared tips for faculty to think about large-scale project management and breaking down the development of a course into manageable tasks. Ara Austin joined us for a workshop and blog on reimaging experiential learning opportunities and shared her information on the OURS initiative at ASU.We all know that "it takes a village" and TIC is extremely grateful for the many members of our community that contributed blogs this year! Keep them coming by submitting them to TIC@asu.edu!
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