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Best Teaching Practices Expo 2020, Melissa Bowles-Terry
Best Teaching Practices Expo 2020, Melissa Bowles-Terry
UNLV Best Teaching Practices Expo
UNLV Instructors will share mini-workshops on topics including in-class polling, leading discussions on difficult topics, and more. Join us for refreshments, check out the new Faculty Center space and learn from colleagues.
Motivating Autonomous Knowledge Exploration, Yvonne Houy
Motivating Autonomous Knowledge Exploration, Yvonne Houy
UNLV Best Teaching Practices Expo
Flow Learning Design: Autonomous Knowledge Exploration The feeling of “Flow” — forgetting time — while exploring online media is common: As online instructor & instructional designer I want to encourage Flow in my students as they interact with my online learning materials. Inspired by research on student motivation and autonomous learners, I developed learning activities allowing students to choose learning paths with increasing freedom, while emphasizing core disciplinary skills and student learning outcomes. In an online social history course, I emphasized high interest topics such as the devastating effects of the Black Plague, and how sugar, coffee, and syphilis changed …
Building Early Confidence In A Practice-Based Discipline, Lisa Nicholas, Angela Silverstri-Elmore, Tricia K. Gatlin
Building Early Confidence In A Practice-Based Discipline, Lisa Nicholas, Angela Silverstri-Elmore, Tricia K. Gatlin
UNLV Best Teaching Practices Expo
Front-loading coursework is an area that has little exploration and yet has many possibilities that may benefit beginning or entry-level students in academic practice-based programs. For the purposes of this proposal, front-loading is an educational approach to allow for a course to be reconstructed to focus first on skill attainment prior to entering the clinical setting. The premise of front-loading skills is to allow learners to engage in experiential learning, or learning by doing, which creates a frame of reference and context that can be drawn upon once the student moves to the clinical setting. Creating a frame of reference …