24th Annual TCC | Online Conference | April 16-18, 2019

Sustainable Learning, Accessible Technologies, & Diverse Contexts

Assessment

The Efficient Online Instructor

Session Description
When teaching in an online classroom, thoughtful written communication and feedback is often the primary mode of instruction and can be quite time-consuming. “The Efficient Online Instructor” presentation will give tips and tools to help instructors give effective, personalized feedback to students in a streamlined manner. Specifically, the presentation will cover how to create efficient rubrics, set up resource and discussion post banks, and utilize QuickParts in Microsoft Word.
Presenter(s)
Frances Pistoresi
Frances Pistoresi, University of Phoenix, Online, USA
Frances Pistoresi currently teaches online developmental English classes full-time for University of Phoenix as well as part-time for Lake Tahoe Community College. Prior to her nine years of teaching in-person and online English at the college-level, she taught middle school for eight years, including a two-year stint with Teach for America in Los Angeles, CA and was a founding member of the Colorado Literacy Corps, and Americorps Program. Frances obtained her BA and MA in English from Georgetown University in Washington DC, focusing her study on Depression Era American Literature.
Session Type
20-Minute Session
Audience
All Audiences

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The rise of informal Learning Spaces: Design, Challenge and Assessment

Session Description
If the innovative physical Learning Spaces became a hot topic in every countries’ Higher Education Systems, among them the informal ones – and the Learning Commons and the Learning Centres in particular – significantly rose in the institutions’ focus during the last years. Often presented as the future of the universities libraries, where most of them are located, they hold huge ambitions in the improvement of the students experience, as well as the institutions visibility.

A first phase of this session will present the major trends of the informal Learning Spaces. Their design principles (location on the campus, layout, furnishing, technology) will be addressed, aligned with the students’ requests regarding their features. Considering the challenges they have to overcome, their typical position in the campus context and in the institution’s strategy, as well as the different kinds of internal and external competitions those spaces have to face in their settlement will be illustrated as well.

As a second phase, and following the exchanges led during the first one, we will foster on the fundamental question of the assessment of the informal Learning Spaces, especially through the angle of the qualification of the practices (teaching and learning ones, and beyond), and discuss the border between the formal and the informal ones.

In that sense, the session will explore the ways to create a common framework and language for the evaluation of the informal spaces.

Presenter(s)
John Augeri
John Augeri, Paris Ile-de-France Digital University, Paris, France
John Augeri is Deputy Director of the Paris Ile-de-France Digital University consortium, and currently at Sophia University in Tokyo as invited researcher.

Since 2016, he’s managing an international comparative study of Learning Spaces, that will feed this session.

He’s a core member of EDUCAUSE Learning Spaces Constituent group, EDUCAUSE Learning Space Rating System group, of the FLEXspace online repository group.

During the last 36 months, John has been invited more than 55 times as guest, main or keynote speaker in Learning Spaces related conferences on 4 continents, to discuss the international situation and perspectives of the formal and informal innovative physical spaces. He’s regularly acting as advisor for large scale Learning Spaces projects around the world.

He’s been invited five times as visiting researcher in Japan.

Session Type
45-Minute Interactive Session
Audience
All Audiences

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