Webinar Series Archive
Bird by Bird: Creating a Culture of Teaching Excellence
Bird by Bird: Creating a Culture of Teaching Excellence "Student success" is a common mantra in higher education; however, in order to realize student success, institutions must first have "teacher success." This webinar discusses strategies [...]
Flipping Fundamentals – Part 3
Flipping Fundamentals – Part 3 In the final installment of the Flipping Fundamentals webinar series, participants explore ways to take flipped learning experiences to the next level. Participants learn how to use the flipped classroom [...]
Flipping Fundamentals – Part 2
Flipping Fundamentals – Part 2 In part two of this three-part webinar series, participants learn how to effectively assess out-of-class learning and how to create an active learning environment that engages students and allows [...]
GLUE: Enhance Collaboration Among Full-Time and Adjunct Faculty
GLUE: Enhance Collaboration Among Full-Time and Adjunct Faculty This interactive webinar showcases a simple model for including the adjunct voice. The protocol, GLUE, structures a professional learning community for adjuncts and outlines an efficient [...]
Let Your Voice Be Heard: Using Social Media to Encourage Social Action
Let Your Voice Be Heard: Using Social Media to Encourage Social Action In an effort to help composition students understand that their reading, writing, and course materials have impacts beyond the classroom, the webinar [...]
Flipping Fundamentals – Part 1
Flipping Fundamentals – Part 1 Have you ever thought about flipping your class, but didn’t know where to start? Are you worried that your flip will flop? Do you want your learning environment to [...]
Collaboration: Connect With Me
Collaboration: Connect With Me In our global world, what methods do we use to communicate and are those methods effective? There is a saying that mobile devices allow us to connect with people half [...]
Action Learning in the Classroom
Action Learning in the Classroom Action learning, an interactive dialectic-based approach, is an educational method that engages students in the process of defining, redefining, and solving real-life problems. This webinar identifies strategies to [...]
Paradigm Shift: (Re)Envisioning the Role of Department Chairs
Paradigm Shift: (Re)Envisioning the Role of Department Chairs Are you a new or current department chair? Led by two leaders in higher education, this webinar explores the role department chairs play in institutions [...]
Collaboration Island… Building Connections Between Students
Collaboration Island… Building Connections Between Students This interactive and fast-paced webinar focuses on practical strategies, tools, and techniques to encourage student collaboration in and out of the classroom. Whether your students love working [...]
Online Courses: Increasing Learning Effectiveness
Online Courses: Increasing Learning Effectiveness This webinar provides insight into issues involving online courses, what students and teachers say about online learning, and how to use this information to deliver online courses effectively. [...]
Teach Students How to Learn: Metacognition is the Key!
Teach Students How to Learn: Metacognition is the Key! Today’s students come to college with widely varying academic skills, interests, and motivation levels. Faculty often lament that students are focused on achieving high [...]
Included, Involved, Inspired: Strategies for Collaboration and Engagement
Included, Involved, Inspired: Strategies for Collaboration and Engagement Are you buzzing with new ideas to increase student retention, but struggle with implementation? Are you an administrator searching for ways to engage adjunct faculty [...]
Is Fair Grading Futile? Exploring a New Type of Assessment
Is Fair Grading Futile? Exploring a New Type of Assessment How confident are we in believing our assessments are graded fairly? For many educators, assessment is one of the more time-consuming, difficult, and [...]
Building the Family Circle
Building the Family Circle We all like being part of a family—something larger than ourselves of which we can be part, a group we can count on to have our backs, or someone we [...]
Empowering Faculty With Course-Level Data to Drive Institutional Change
Empowering Faculty With Course-Level Data to Drive Institutional Change Giving faculty access to all course-level data has been nothing short of revolutionary for the culture of Pierce College. We knew that sending student [...]
Reasons Students Hate Group Work and Why I Assign It Anyway
Reasons Students Hate Group Work and Why I Assign It Anyway Join Sherry Engstrom from the College of Lake County for an interactive webinar about using group work to encourage student cooperation, communication, [...]
Helping Students Value Challenge and Hard Work
Helping Students Value Challenge and Hard Work In postsecondary classrooms, it’s important to help students move beyond the “empty vessel” model of learning to a model that encompasses self-directed, strategic learning. Sometimes it's [...]
How Your Online Presence Boosts Student Learning
How Your Online Presence Boosts Student Learning Distance learning offers students increased access, adaptability, and agency. However, without an active and engaged faculty presence, online classrooms can be lonely and alienating places. As a result, [...]
The Hero Complex: Advising Minority Males
The Hero Complex: Advising Minority Males Resilience and true grit can be developed in minority male students by considering several factors during advising sessions. The facilitator advises students using a theory he calls "The Hero [...]
Pedagogical Strategies for Engaging Students and Promoting Success
Pedagogical Strategies for Engaging Students and Promoting Success Learning community (i.e., the affective domain necessary for learning) and employing pedagogical strategies that promote student engagement and academic success (i.e., the cognitive domain). The active-learning pedagogical [...]
Becoming a Connected Educator: Building Your Own Personal Learning Network
Becoming a Connected Educator: Building Your Own Personal Learning Network The webinar facilitator provides an overview of various strategies and online resources that help faculty members stay current in their respective teaching disciplines. Social media [...]
The QUEST: The Completion Project for Males of Color in Community Colleges
The QUEST: The Completion Project for Males of Color in Community Colleges This webinar highlights the design, development, and delivery of a quality educational program for males of color using a zero-dollar budget. The facilitator [...]
An Entrepreneurial Mindset for Student Success
An Entrepreneurial Mindset for Student Success An entrepreneurial mindset can empower ordinary people to accomplish extraordinary things; it is a mindset that exposes opportunity, ignites ambition, and fosters the intra- and interpersonal attitudes, [...]
Lecture Light Shine: High-Wattage (and Low-Stress) Ideas to Engage Any Student
Lecture Light Shine: High-Wattage (and Low-Stress) Ideas to Engage Any Student Striving for Excellence A professional development series designed specifically for adjunct faculty and administrators. A NISOD and Cengage Learning Collaboration You have [...]