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Promoting Belonging And Equity Through Course Content., Primrose Igonor

Together We RISE (Making Excellence Inclusive)

As our education systems become increasingly diverse, it is crucial for “diverse” students to see themselves reflected in the course materials they consume as this may lead to higher persistence, retention and overall student success. It is also vital for “non-diverse” students to gain a better understanding of the experiences of others particularly as they navigate a world which is much more diverse and global minded than ever before.

Active Learning: Overcoming Barriers And Changing Culture, Laura Barrett, Katie Harding

Dartmouth Library Staff Publications

Active learning is a student-centered and effective pedagogical approach, but there are practical barriers that can make it difficult to employ. As instructors and facilitators in Dartmouth’s Librarians Active Learning Institute, we’ve experienced and heard about the challenges librarians face when trying to incorporate active learning in their teaching, including faculty expectations, time constraints, class sizes, space constraints, and virtual learning environments.

In this session, we will share strategies for helping librarians to overcome these challenges and incorporate active learning pedagogy into their teaching practice. We will present approaches for communicating with faculty about our roles as teachers and partnering …

Service-Learning And Case-Based Learning’S Impact On Student’S Clinical Reasoning : A Repeated Measures Design Study, Gordon B. Tsubira

Occupational Therapy Capstone Presentations

Clinical reasoning is crucial for the occupational therapy profession to thrive in an ever-changing healthcare environment but is seldom isolated for explicit instruction and outcome measurement in course curricula. A single-factor repeated measures design study was conducted to compare the impact of didactic case-based learning and experiential service-learning on the development of the clinical reasoning of students at a midwestern public university’s entry-level master of occupational therapy program. The participants were sixteen graduate occupational therapy students who had completed their foundation-level courses.

Participants explored modes of clinical reasoning in occupational therapy for eight weeks (the first half of the semester), …

S3: Post-Covid-19 Recovery Care Plan For Older Adults With Continuing Symptoms Of Breathlessness And Fatigue, Nancy M. Bryan, Marie Wright-Rolf Edd, Msn, Rn, Siboney Zelaya Ph.D., Mph, Msn Ed, Rn, Justin Carbonel

Annual Research Symposium

Background:

The CDC research actively continues gathering information related to short and long-term symptoms that remain following the acute phase of Covid-19 diagnosis (CDC, 2020).

Fatigue and shortness of breath are listed among the most commonly reported long-term symptoms of Covid-19:

1. Fatigue
2. Shortness of Breath
3. Cough
4. Joint Pain
5. Chest Pain (CDC, 2020).

Evidence suggests that older adults over the age of 60 who have multiple comorbidities are more susceptible and are at a higher risk of contracting the Covid-19 virus thus potentially prolonging recovery time post diagnosis (Greenhalgh, Knight, A’Court, Buxton, & Husain, 2020).

The Agency for Healthcare Research and …

Myth, Power, And Justice: The Danger Of A Single Story, Christen H. Clougherty

National Youth Advocacy and Resilience Conference

If we hear only a single story about a group, we risk a critical misunderstanding. In this session, learn to critically analyze assumptions of single stories and dominant narratives about community partners. Engage in hands-on activities to explore this issue as it relates to race, poverty, and social justice. Leave with classroom activities to take back to your classroom.

Objective Method For Diagnosis Of Chronic Pain (Presentation), Rachel Jiang

Generator at Sheridan

Pain assessment is essential to providing proper patient care and assessing its efficacy under clinical settings. To assess pain, physicians typically rely on patients' statements, which are subjective, or imaging technologies, which are unreliable as detected abnormalities do not always indicate pain and are not always present in cases of chronic pain. This research project aims at creating an automated chronic pain diagnostic system that will output a computer diagnosed pain score with the ability to accurately distinguish real from fake pain. The proposed system will enhance patient care and improve clinical practice efficiencies by applying the advanced 3D technologies …

Strategic Management Course- Evaluation Of Newly Implemented Intervention And Strategies (Presentation), Tony Read

Generator at Sheridan

SESSION TWO

There were two presentations offered within each Session. Presentations ran 30 minutes each (20-minute presentation with 10-minute Q&A).

Pandemic Stories: The Experiences Of Older Adults In Halton Through Covid-19 (Teach Geeks), Leigh Hayden, Kathryn Warren-Norton, Ferzana Chaze

Generator at Sheridan

We will share the preliminary findings from our research exploring the experiences of older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic. We conducted multiple in-depth interviews with 25 older adults (aged 51-84) who live in Halton and the surrounding areas to explore how they have fared during the global spread of a virus that may be particularly dangerous to older persons. We followed their experiences, from initial rumors of an infectious disease spreading in China, to the lockdown in March, the gradual re-opening over the summer of 2020, and the second wave in the fall of 2020. We also learned how it …

A Presentation On Impact Evaluation Of Dedicated Peer-To-Peer Feedback On Student Performance (Teach Geeks), Bamadev Paudel

Generator at Sheridan

SESSION SIX: Leveraging Student Learning

Teach Geek sessions were comprised of two 10-minute presentations. Each of the sessions ran twice. Once attendees finished watching the two sessions, they had the option to move to another two sessions. There was no official Q&A associated with Teach Geeks, each participant was encouraged connect with the presenters in the Networking 1:1 Booth or follow-up directly via email.

Bringing Industry Relevant Teaching And Learning To The Classroom (Presentation), Mary Libby

Generator at Sheridan

SESSION ONE

There were two presentations offered within each Session. Presentations ran 30 minutes each (20-minute presentation with 10-minute Q&A).

The Impact Of Personal Connection In The Classroom (Teach Geeks), Anna Strachan

Generator at Sheridan

SESSION THREE: Perspectives on Learning

Teach Geek sessions were comprised of two 10-minute presentations. Each of the sessions ran twice. Once attendees finished watching the two sessions, they had the option to move to another two sessions. There was no official Q&A associated with Teach Geeks, each participant was encouraged connect with the presenters in the Networking 1:1 Booth or follow-up directly via email.

Building Resilience Through Social Activities In The Esl Program (Teach Geeks), Suzanne Soares, Alireza Sobhanmanesh

Generator at Sheridan

The session will describe our efforts during Fall 2020 to keep our ESL Club social activities relevant for our changing student demographic (fewer international students, more domestic students with work and family responsibilities) and attract more students to attend virtual social events during a challenging time with so much fluctuation. The result was the creation of social activities that combined socialization with the means of enhancing learners’ metacognition, emotional regulation, resilience and motivation. Two of these events were a Newcomer Success Stories coffee chat and a forum presented by EAP students capturing their journey through the ESL Program. These events …

Building Class Community And Connection, And Supporting The Development Of Time Management Skills With Learners (Teach Geeks), Jennifer Peterson

Generator at Sheridan

SESSION TWO: Connecting to Community

Teach Geek sessions were comprised of two 10-minute presentations. Each of the sessions ran twice. Once attendees finished watching the two sessions, they had the option to move to another two sessions. There was no official Q&A associated with Teach Geeks, each participant was encouraged connect with the presenters in the Networking 1:1 Booth or follow-up directly via email.

Seniors’ Anti-Bullying Project: Authentic Student Engagement (Presentation), Kirsten Madsen, Liza Franses, Emily Ayenew

Generator at Sheridan

People of all ages can be bullied, yet data on bullying between older adults is lacking. To better understand and support the development and implementation of best practices for targeting bullying between older adults, the Seniors’ Anti- Bullying project was established. It began more than four years ago with a large-scale survey of older adults in Ontario, resulting in an anti-bullying toolkit that will now be implemented and evaluated in eight Seniors’ Residences. When working on such a long-term project, with many partners, implementation sites, as well as a different cohorts of student researchers, it is essential to ensure that …

Curriculum-Based Srca In The Time Of Covid-19 (Panel Session), Jaime Ginter, Karen P. Lints M.I., Sirena Liladrie, Shady (Chadi) Hana, Myles Bartlett, Kirsten Madsen, Anita Usas Neving

Generator at Sheridan

In late 2019, a joint working group between the Teaching and Learning and Scholarship, Research and Creative Activities (SRCA) Standing Committees of Senate was struck to explore curriculum-based SRCA across the College with the aim of establishing best practices, identifying needs, and capturing the breadth and depth of SRCA work linked to curriculum. The advent of the COVID-19 pandemic shifted much of our teaching and learning online and created challenges for conducting and supporting SRCA linked to curriculum.

We propose to gather faculty who are actively involved in remote curriculum-based SRCA to take part in a panel discussion about best …

A Problem-Based Approach To Clinical Kinesiology (Teach Geeks), Tanya Holloway

Generator at Sheridan

SESSION SIX: Cultivating Critical Thinking in Learning Environments

Teach Geek sessions were comprised of two 10-minute presentations. Each of the sessions ran twice. Once attendees finished watching the two sessions, they had the option to move to another two sessions. There was no official Q&A associated with Teach Geeks, each participant was encouraged connect with the presenters in the Networking 1:1 Booth or follow-up directly via email.

Can The Role Of Reflection Transform The Way We Use Powerpoints (Presentation), Deandra Christopher, Carly Myers

Generator at Sheridan

This presentation will briefly highlight key research findings from a Research Project on the Integration of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) in PowerPoint Artifacts in an Ontario College Trades Course that was submitted to Ontario Tech graduate program in Fall 2020. The benefit of reflection was identified as important finding in the research; the presenters will present through a faculty case study, the benefits of reflection and how people can start immediately incorporating into their practice. Additionally, opportunities to learn about concrete UDL strategies that can be integrated in PowerPoint instructional material will be reviewed.

Developing 21st Century Skills Through Transformative Learning (Presentation), Marcie Theoret, Karen Booth

Generator at Sheridan

The Pilon School of Business Bachelor of Business Administration program was designed to ensure graduates acquire the ability to apply a range of business frameworks, critical employability, and 21st-century skills to better prepare them to meaningfully contribute and add value to the organizations and communities they serve. With this in mind, the Introduction to Creative Learning Portfolio and the Advanced Creative Learning Portfolio courses were introduced as a requirement to graduate. They provide students with the opportunity to assess, reflect on, and build learning skills and competencies such as critical thinking, collaboration, and agility and adaptability. This helps students make …

Ain’T Nothing To It But To Do It: Project-Based Learning In The College Engineering Classroom (Teach Geeks), Dominic Aebi

Generator at Sheridan

SESSION ONE: Supporting Student Learning

Teach Geek sessions were comprised of two 10-minute presentations. Each of the sessions ran twice. Once attendees finished watching the two sessions, they had the option to move to another two sessions. There was no official Q&A associated with Teach Geeks, each participant was encouraged connect with the presenters in the Networking 1:1 Booth or follow-up directly via email.

Barriers Of Universal Design Of In-Class Assessments For Students With Disabilities (Teach Geeks), Syed Tanbeer

Generator at Sheridan

SESSION TWO: Assessment Design

Teach Geek sessions were comprised of two 10-minute presentations. Each of the sessions ran twice. Once attendees finished watching the two sessions, they had the option to move to another two sessions. There was no official Q&A associated with Teach Geeks, each participant was encouraged connect with the presenters in the Networking 1:1 Booth or follow-up directly via email.

Inclusive Design For Online Learning (Presentation), Allison Fitzgibbon

Generator at Sheridan

In this session, participants will be introduced to practical strategies for designing engaging courses in SLATE. Participants will learn why we design for inclusion with a focus not only on applicable legislation but also on how unintended barriers impede the learning experience for students. Faculty will learn how to enhance the navigation of their courses from the student perspective, and how to ensure their course materials are more accessible to all learners. Participants will have access to the course template to import into their own workbenches following this session.

Reimagining Research Dissemination In The Age Of Covid (Presentation), Bethany Osborne, Ferzana Chaze, Seraphina Seuratan

Generator at Sheridan

SESSION ONE

There were two presentations offered within each Session. Presentations ran 30 minutes each (20-minute presentation with 10-minute Q&A).

D2l Insights Project (Presentation), Holly Whitaker, Kyle Mackie

Generator at Sheridan

SESSION TWO

There were two presentations offered within each Session. Presentations ran 30 minutes each (20-minute presentation with 10-minute Q&A).

Developing Analytical And Critical Thinking In Designing Algorithms (Teach Geeks), Haya El Ghalayini

Generator at Sheridan

SESSION SIX: Cultivating Critical Thinking in Learning Environments

Teach Geek sessions were comprised of two 10-minute presentations. Each of the sessions ran twice. Once attendees finished watching the two sessions, they had the option to move to another two sessions. There was no official Q&A associated with Teach Geeks, each participant was encouraged connect with the presenters in the Networking 1:1 Booth or follow-up directly via email.

Enhancing The Student Experience: Building A Culture Of Feedback In Computer Programming Courses (Teach Geeks), Amandeep Kaur, Jigisha Patel

Generator at Sheridan

SESSION FOUR: Creating Dynamic Learning Environments

Teach Geek sessions were comprised of two 10-minute presentations. Each of the sessions ran twice. Once attendees finished watching the two sessions, they had the option to move to another two sessions. There was no official Q&A associated with Teach Geeks, each participant was encouraged connect with the presenters in the Networking 1:1 Booth or follow-up directly via email.

Equity, Diversity And Inclusion In Research (Expo Booth), Mary Louise Noce, Zubash Akmal

Generator at Sheridan

Participants showcased their work in a live virtual setting which included exhibits, demonstrations and meet and greets.

Gamification: A Pedagogy For Digital Natives (Expo Booth), Zain Dinath

Generator at Sheridan

Participants showcased their work in a virtual live setting which included exhibits, demonstrations and meet and greets.

Sketching Narratives Of Movement Towards Comprehensive And Competent Early Childhood Educational Systems Across Canada (Expo Booth), Monica Lysack

Generator at Sheridan

Participants showcased their work in a virtual live setting which included exhibits, demonstrations and meet and greets.

Entrepreneurial Mindset: Preparing Students For A Complex World (Expo Booth), Besma Soltan

Generator at Sheridan

Participants showcased their work in a live virtual setting which included exhibits, demonstrations and meet and greets.