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USG Teaching & Learning Conference 2016

USG Teaching and Learning Conference: Best Practices for Promoting Engaged Student Learning

9:00am EDT

Awaken the Force in Your Students: Advising with a Purpose Room Y/ZPaula Bryant • Teresa Teasley

Creating a Living Learning Community to Promote Engaged Student Learning Room F/GRoberta Berry • William Berry • Joseph Levy • Hailey Loehde-Woolard • Benjamin Rapsas • Laura Winalski Crossing the Digital Bridge: Digital Librarianship and Graduate Programming, A History Room LLaura Palmer • Morgan Rhetts • Aaron Wimer Moving Out of the Classroom with Field-Based Student Consulting Projects Room RJohn Finley • Kirk Heriot National Initiatives Working with OER – ALG Invited Speakers Panel Room KAffordable Learning Georgia - OER Conference Track Sponsor • Will Cross • Mark Jenkins • Carli Spina • Erin Walker Showcasing Online Student Presentations Room QNicole Lynch Ways to Engage Students in Total Online Courses Room V/WVanessa "Paige" Crump • Lauri Walters What the Tech? Using Digital Tools in the 21st Century Classroom Room T/URuth Caillouet • Tiffany Coleman • Rebecca Cooper • Amy Farah • Katharine Page • Dawn Souter

10:00am EDT

Building Relationship Webs in the Classroom (may Boost Student GPAs) Room Y/ZJosh Pfiester Level Up! Using Badges and Gamification Strategies to Increase Student Engagement in Online and Blended Courses Room LNeil Rigole Making It Real: Putting Life into the Lived Spaces of the Past Room F/GGlenda Swan Making Perfect 10's in Online Discussions: Defining Processes and Assessing Outcomes Room RDanilo Baylen Quality, Creation, and Use: OER Experiences in Undergraduate Education Courses Room KDeanna Cozart • Brian Dotts Reframing Student Engagement: Creating a Supportive Learning Environment and Increasing Active Learning in Face-to-Face, Blended, and Online Courses Room T/UCher Hendricks • Beth René Roepnack Underpinning Technology with Theory in the Online Classroom Room V/WDorea Hardy • Renita Luck Using Dichotomous Meaning Dimensions to Cultivate Students' Critical Thinking Skills Room QJoseph Mayo

11:00am EDT

5 Weird Disruptions Already Changing Your Future Room RMyk Garn ALG Grantees Panel: What We Did, What We Learned, and What We Would Do Differently: Affordability with OER’s in Action Room KJeff Gallant • Deanna Cozart • Sheri Hardee • Deborah Liss-Green • Kelly McFaden • Caryl Nemajovsky • Zoe Salloom • Emerson Stewart • Susan Willey Curriculum Design Academy: Fostering Student Success through Guided Curricular Innovation Room Y/ZRobert Bledsoe • Gina Hammock • Deborah Richardson • Adam TM Wyatt • Eric Zuckerman Medium Matters: Faculty and Student Reflections on How the Delivery Channel Impacts Student Engagement and Academic Success Room LMeredith Ginn • Karen Huggin • Sarah Johnson Online Science Courses Without Sacrificing the 'Hands-On' Component Room V/WStephanie Songer Opening the Classroom Door: A Hands-On Approach to Study Abroad Programs Room QElissa Auerbach • Stephen Auerbach • Craig Pascoe Promoting Student Engagement Through the Use of Animated PowerPoint Presentations Room T/USheryne Southard Solving Two Common eLearning Problems: Student Retention & Proctoring Process Management Room F/GTara McLaughlin

3:00pm EDT

Adaptive Learning: The Possibilities of Doing More with Open Room LTammy Byron • Matt Haldeman • Sarah Mergel CANCELLED - Finding New Perspectives: The Transformative Power of Service-Learning in Higher Education Room V/WMaya Clark Community Health Issues: A Model for Collaborative Performative Engagement Room F/GKaren Berman • Kristi Papailler Contribute a Verse: Adopting OER for First-Year Composition Room KTanya Bennett • Diana Edelman • Donna Gessell Experiencing Undergraduate Student Research: Active Collaboration and Engagement Room RDanilo Baylen • Kendal Lucas • Runeshia Parker Innovative Advising Practices: How to Transform Your Institution Through Pro-Active Advising Room Y/ZStephanie Lahnala • Dustin Worsley Use of Open Source Software for Teaching Digital Media Content Creation Skills at Georgia Gwinnett College Room QKairui Chen • Shuhua Lai YouTube University: Fostering Intellectual Curiosity and Critical Thinking with Online Media Room T/UNatalie James

4:00pm EDT

College on the Move: Hands on Learning Room RNiels Eichhorn Critical Thinking and Social Coding: Killing Two Birds with One Stone Room LLaura Hanna Engaged Student Learning through Course-Based Experiences: Identifying Impact Room F/GKyle Frantz • Cheri Kersey Student Well-Being Matters: Towards a Balanced Interactive Model of Teaching and Learning Process Room QBarbara Karwacinski The Mission: Help Military and Veteran Students Succeed in College Room Y/ZMark Eister Using Kahoot! for Student Learning and Engagement in the Classroom Room T/UCassie Daniel • Abby Noble • Hope Wheeler Worst Online Discussion Practices (and their remedies) Room V/WBeth René Roepnack

8:00am EDT

A Practical Guide to Creating an OER Text Room KTerri Bell • Allison Galloup • Deborah Prosser An Online Database as a Textbook Alternative in Freshman-level Geology and Astronomy Room LMary Ann Cullen • Dion Stewart • Bayard Stringer College Success is Everybody's Business: First-Year Workshops in a Blended Learning Environment Room V/WRobert Bleil • Lisa McNeal Highly Engaged Learning - How Can We Make It Happen? Room QElizabeth Dierking • Dr. Julie Hentges • Lesi Smart Using Multiple Note Taking Strategies to Enhance Assessment Performance in Biology Courses: Blue, Green or Yellow Notebook? Room Y/ZDanilo Baylen • Erin Duckett Using Risk and Intervention to Increase Student Success Room RCarrie Carmack What Students Want: Collision or Collaboration in the Multimodal Classroom? Room T/UGina Foster • Jo Anne Harris • Elizabeth Vance

9:00am EDT

'You mean, I don't have to come there?' Advisement and Orientation at a Distance Room T/UJessie Daniels Adaptive Courseware and Its Power to Improve Student Success and Retention Room F/GHank Bowman • Nic Rebne Coping with Challenges of Online Learning by Promoting Self-Regulated Learners Room V/WJackie Kim Everything you wanted to know about OERs but were afraid to ask: From Ground Zero to Implementation and Beyond Room KMolly Kimsey • Loleta Sartin Increasing Engineering Student Success and Engagement Through an Integrated, Collaborative First-Year Seminar Room Y/ZRuth Goldfine • Lori Lowder • Laura Ruhala • Hillary Steiner • Nirmal Trivedi Isn't it Just a Story? Promoting Critical Thinking in Psychology through Community Engaged Learning with StoryCorps Room QChristina Grange • Dianna King • Ryan Smith • Jasmine Threatt Modeling Critical Thinking in Asynchronous Discussion Forums Room LJustin Garcia This will NOT be on a test: Meditation and Maintaining Student (and Faculty) Self-care Room RMarquita Jackson-Minot • Gissia De Moya • Cristina Pinheiro

10:00am EDT

Assessing Writing Self-Efficacy of Students in Graduate Nursing School Room V/WMary Bishop • Lisa Robinson Dual enrollment in the High School: Faculty Perspectives Room Y/ZKatherine Kipp • Laura Ng • David Slutzky • Steve Smith Engaging Students in the Digital Age Room T/UPerry Samson Graduate Students' Critical Thinking Skills: Effects of a Service-Learning Experience Room QJan Bradshaw • April Garrity Investigating the Benefits of Visual Python Computational Activities in Introductory Calculus Based Physics Course Room LTrinanjan Datta • Deborah Richardson Students' Perceptions and Uses of Textbooks: Open-source, Electronic and Traditional Room KBrad Bailey • Thomas Cooper Thinking Critically About Learning: Engaging Students in Metacognitive Regulation Through Active Study Strategies Room RAaron Beedle • Joan Monahan Watson Writing Fellows: Using Embedded Tutors to Enhance Student Writing Room F/GLeigh Dillard • Kim Griffin • Laura Rosche • Jim Shimkus

11:00am EDT

ALG Grantees Panel: STEM and OER: Strategies, Online Homework and Lab Solutions, and Effectiveness Room KJeff Gallant • Shaun Ault • Judy Orton Grissett • Estelle Nuckels Assessing the Development of Critical Thinking: An Undergraduate Political Science Course Room QClemente Quinones Driving Active Learning from the Superhighway to the Dead-End Road Room Y/ZLisa Howell • Sara Selby • Molly Smith Engaging Students in Online Courses: Alignment Matters Room V/WKathy Dolan Pinterest as a Tool to Learn Spanish Culture Room T/UAlicia Arribas • Reilly Lerner • Katherine Rowland Tension: an essential agent of effective teaching Room RAran MacKinnon • Larbi Oukada • Costas Spirou