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Social Media Gets Collegiate: Tweeting and Tagging Your Way to Student Engagement
Description: Faculty consider new strategies, best practices, pedagogy-first approaches, benefits and challenges, and next steps regarding social media integration within postsecondary educational settings. Goal is to share ideas for enlarging the conversation of course topics, beyond the confines of the classrooms—ways to easily bringing in experts or following experts to add to the class discussions and understanding. Examples focus on how social media can improve student engagement and content retention, and strategies focus on manageable ways for faculty of all technology comfort levels to integrate social media. The workshop focuses on the mainstream tools (including Twitter and LinkedIn) but also briefly discusses brand-new tools.
Formats offered: Keynote, short presentation, training session, workshop
How Do We Learn?
(Can be adapted to suit faculty groups or student groups)
Focus areas: How do adults learn? What are the key differences between learning and studying strategies for high school students and undergraduates? How should learning strategies change when they’re applied to adults (rather than to kids)? A review of the key strategies in adult learning research, plus an overview for how faculty can apply the principles of adult learning theory in their classes — or an overview of how students can apply best practices in learning to their studies.
Formats offered: Keynote, short presentation, training session, workshop
Technology and Teaching: Strategies for easier integration and improved student engagement
Description: In this interactive workshop, participants experiment with new tools while considering the theory and best practices supporting successful technology integration in in-person, hybrid, and online courses. Participants will learn more about how IT integration theory informs pedagogy while they practice using new educational technology tools to improve student learning and engagement.
Formats offered: Keynote, short presentation, training session, workshop
How Do Adults Learn?
Focus areas: How do adults learn, and how should learning strategies change when they’re applied to adults (rather than to kids)? A review of the key strategies in adult learning research, plus an overview of how companies, brands, consultants, and leaders can better apply the principles of adult learning theory in their work.
Formats offered: Keynote, short presentation, training session, workshop