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| Session Title | Presenter(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|
| DAY 1 Plenary Sessions | ||
| KEYNOTE SPEAKER Become an ANTeater: Boosting Your Immunity to Achieve Well-Being | Seena L. Haines | Our subconscious mind is like a computer’s hard drive. And just like we can erase and put new software into a hard drive, we very well can reprogram data into the subconscious mind. Mindfulness is foundational to wellbeing because it enables us to develop awareness, connection, insight, and a sense of purpose. |
| Technologies of Accommodation: Universal Design for Learning and the Post-Emergency Remote Instruction Situation | Brian Bergen-Aurand & Charles Grattan Baldwin | This special session focuses on using Universal Design for Learning (UDL) in Post-Emergency Remote Instruction (ERI). Specifically, it aims to address how the most common four types of accommodation can be met across modalities through strategic use of the LMS and integrated tools. |
| SHTEAM-Powered: A Makerspace for Interdisciplinary Course Design | Kathryn Barrett-Gaines Tiara Cornelius Amy Hagenrater-Gooding Gabriela Vlahovici-Jones William Weaver | Engaging in our SHTEAM makerspace, you will dive into the interdisciplinary approach of applying humanities to STEM learning, and vice versa. You will understand why this innovative practice is important. You will see concrete evidence of this approach working last spring semester in courses at UMES. |
| DAY 2 Concurrent Sessions | ||
| Impact of Faculty Roles on Perceived Stress | Omar F. Attarabeen | This session aims to describe how role distribution (i.e., teaching, research, service … etc.) impacts pharmacy faculty perceived stress in the US. Over 700 pharmacy faculty in the US participated in a Qualtrics-based, quantitative survey. The outcome variable was assessed using the 10-item Perceived Stress Scale. |
| The effect of online quizzes on the achievements of graduate students | Khaled M. Hasan | This study aimed to measure students’ performance in the physician assistant program within the cardiovascular pharmacology module by using pre-and post-lecture online quizzes. First-year physician assistant graduate students participated in this study. |
| Now More Than Ever, Student Voices Matter | June Locco | Our classrooms are an amazing blend of diverse students who can learn just as much from one another as they can from their instructors. This discussion will share ideas on how to develop a comfortable, and even fun, place for students to discuss class topics, find their writing voices, and get to know their peers, as we all begin to work our way out of the fog of the 2020s. |
| Reimagining international student exchange through Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) project | Yang Yu | This session will share our experience designing and teaching a collaborative online international learning (COIL) class between Suranaree University of Technology, Thailand and Howard Community College, MD. |
| Potentials of Storytelling for Teaching and Learning | Jacques L. Koko | This presentation performs a content analysis on 100 teaching evaluations to examine the potentials of storytelling to engage and motivate students for rewarding learning outcomes. The 100 evaluations were randomly selected. The time period for the evaluations spans from 2007 to 2017, from two institutions of higher education in the United States of America. |
| Considering Social Emotional Learning and Trauma to Improve the Students’ Learning Experience | Morris Thomas Cindy Philpot | According to the Cambridge University Press, there’s no aspect of learning that does not involve emotions. Moreover, studies show that students who have faced trauma in their lives struggle to self-regulate, communicate their emotional state, maintain concentration, stay organized, and can become distrustful of others. This session will discuss ways to address Social Emotional Learning and Trauma to improve the learning experience for students. |
| Global Problems, Local Solutions: Developing International, Interdisciplinary Service Learning Opportunities for Students | Yen Dang Michael Lane Phillip Broussard | According to the Center for Minority Service Institutions (CMSI), only 10.9% of students from MSIs study abroad, a statistic that has declined since the COVID-19 pandemic. African-Americans make up the lowest group for study abroad at only 6.4% of students. This session describes the importance of curriculum internationalization on the personal and professional development of students and faculty. |
| Developing a HBCU CTL Consortium | John Bannister Amber Ward | As Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) had many challenges and successes navigating teaching and learning during the pandemic, they can offer many strategies for improving course offerings, faculty/staff development and maintaining campus communities. Dr. Ward and Dr. Bannister will discuss the work they are doing to create a Consortium of HBCU Centers of Teaching and Learning in hopes to share the knowledge gained more broadly. |
| Be the Change – A Distributed Leadership Approach to Strengthening Campus Equity and Inclusivity Efforts | C. Josh Simpson | This session illustrates the impact Wilmington University’s BRITE IDEAS program has had in contributing to on-campus equity and inclusivity efforts. With a focus on identifying personal biases, strengthening cultural competency, and leveraging privilege the program empowers faculty to facilitate courageous conversations. Participants will discuss how they too can model this approach at their institutions. |
| Pharmacy Faculty Perceived Stress and Burnout | Omar F. Attarabeen | Perceived stress and burnout may impact wellbeing and productivity. This session aims to describe these two constructs among pharmacy faculty in the US and identify the demographic characteristics that impact individuals’ inclination to exhibit either of them. Stress was measured with the Perceived Stress Scale, whereas burnout was measured with the Oldenburg Burnout Inventory. Correlations were assessed using bivariate analyses. Data was collected from November 2021 to January 2022. |
| Entering the ‘Lady’s Dressing Room’: Using Digital Choose-Your-Own-Adventures to Enhance Student Learning Outcomes | Melanie Holm | his session will cover how to develop online counter-factual, also known as if-narratives or choose-your-own-adventures, to help students overcome learning challenges. Drawing from an example developed for teaching a difficult eighteenth-century poem by Johnathan Swift, I will go through the steps for creating environments of digital play that slow students down, enhancing their sensitivity to details, information, and systems. |
| Globalization and Internationalization of Higher Education- Leadership Perspective | Hazel L. Bradshaw-Beaumont | |
| Interdisciplinary Pedagogy & Policy: Why is it so hard to be interdisciplinary? | Catherine Jackson | This presentation will explore the effects of federal, state, and institutional policies on the shape of interdisciplinary programs. We will examine why these policies have not resulted in the type of institutional adaptability needed for interdisciplinary programs to thrive and how we might overcome the policy barriers to interdisciplinarity. |
| Using Scavenger Hunts for Library Learning | Joseph Bree | The Frederick Douglass Library created a scavenger hunt to help students become familiar with the library collections and resources. This session will demonstrate how the scavenger hunt was created and how the clues help students learn about the library. |
| TED Talks: Tools for Student-Centered Critical Thinking & Writing | Billy Brocato | Too often students are criticized for their social media engagement (often perhaps for good reasons). However, this presentation promotes in-class or homework assignments that foster students’ critical thinking skills, improved writing styles (including grammar), opportunities for self development, foundations of citizenship responsibilities, and social justice issues. |
| The Writing Center across the Disciplines | Terry Kundell | We know that Writing Centers assist students in composition courses, and that has been the primary role of the UMES Undergraduate Writing Center in recent years. However, Writing Centers should be the epicenters of Writing across the Curriculum and Writing in the Disciplines programs, and they are inherently interdisciplinary. |
