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Humanizing in the AI Era

With more students opting for online classes, faculty teaching in multiple modalities and course durations, and AI capsizing traditional assessment approaches, emotions are piqued. How do we best support teaching […]

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Equitable Grading Strategies for Online Teaching

What do grades really measure? Is there a more accurate indicator of our students’ skills and abilities? The traditional grading system used in higher education in the U.S. is often more a measure of privilege or personality than of learning. It also creates a competitive, chilly course climate that can undermine efforts to build community with students and positions instructors as gatekeepers, as opposed to partners.

In this session, we will introduce alternative strategies for indicating student learning that are more equitable, more accurate, and more effectively promote student agency and motivation. We will also discuss some simple changes instructors can make to their syllabus policies and course design that can increase grading equity and student engagement with the learning process. Please bring your syllabus to use in an interactive activity.

By the end of this session you will be able to:

  1. Investigate traditional grading as a source of power that privileges some students and leaves others out.
  2. Reflect on your current grading practices and grading strategies that can make your course more equitable.
  3. Identify resources to help you further your knowledge of this topic.

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If you have any questions or concerns, do not hesitate to reach out to support@cvc.edu.

Student-created videos are an essential element of the online learning experience that invites students to tell their stories, build community, and deepen connections with each other. Digital storytelling is an equity-minded, asset-based, humanizing practice centers student voices. The presenters, Maritez and Denise, will introduce you to asynchronous technology tools and share their example assignments and student videos.

Session outcomes:
By the end of this session you will:

  1. Analyze the significance of digital storytelling as an equity-minded, humanizing practice.
  2. Identify technology tools to create your own digital storytelling assignments.

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If you have any questions or concerns, do not hesitate to reach out to support@cvc.edu.

Video is a powerful way to humanize your online course and provide content in multiple formats which creates a more equitable experience for students. Screencast-o-matic is a simple-to-use video recording/editing tool. Studio is a Canvas integration that turns passive viewing into active engagement. Pair the two together and you’ve got the power to create dynamic learning experiences that capture—and hold—your students’ attention (with assessment built right in!). In this webinar, you’ll get a taste of what these two tools can offer and how to get started using this match made in heaven to power-up your course content.

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What cues does your online course send to your students? Join Michelle Pacansky-Brock for a fireside chat with Maritez Apigo and Jennifer Ortiz about why cultivating trust in an online course is foundational to supporting our racially and culturally diverse students, especially in times of trauma. Do these cues cultivate psychological safety and trust for your racially minoritized and socially marginalized students? We will discuss strategies for building trust at a distance, as well as highlight deal-breakers that should be avoided.

This session is part of the 3-day Humanizing Challenge. For more info, please go to: https://onlinenetworkofeducators.org/humanizing-sp21/

Register in advance to receive log-in information: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJApfumqqD8sGdBVXUqDF5-ruLePZZVwYG3U

Presenter: Fabiola Torres, Glendale College

Do you think humanizing an online course takes a lot of work? Well, it does. But it takes radical love to break down instructor-student hierarchies. Fabiola will share examples of brief, imperfect, captioned videos that help students sense there is a caring person on the other side of the screen and encourage them to lean in. We will also consider the important topic of managing your public digital identity when using instructional videos. You’ll see videos recorded with a smartphone using Clips (for Apple iOS devices only) and photomontages using Adobe Spark. Introverts and extroverts welcomed. This session will prepare you to create your own welcome video by the day’s end! Allow the love to shine through.

This session is part of the 3-day Humanizing Challenge. To learn more, go to:

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The weeks and days leading up to the start of a new term are filled with anxiety and nerves for many students. This term, your students will have even more questions about what to expect and how to get started. An equity-minded strategy to improve these barriers is to transform your syllabus into a Liquid Syllabus! A Liquid Syllabus is a mobile-friendly, public website with a friendly welcome video that is written with welcoming, validating language. While you may create a Liquid Syllabus using any website tool of your choice, this session will prepare you to create your own with Google Sites.

This session is part of the 3-day Humanizing Challenge. To learn more, go to:

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To navigate through these unknown and traumatic times, educators must be knowledgeable about how learning happens (and why it often does not). Recognizing the affective and cognitive dimensions of learning illuminates the need to understand our students as humans with rich, complicated stories and foster positive instructor-student relationships at a distance to ensure all students can achieve their full potential. This session will illuminate how humanized online teaching provides a foundation of trust you can build upon to foster positive instructor-student relationships and inspire engagement and rigor.

This session is part of the 3-day Humanizing Challenge. To learn more, go to:

Apr 5 - May 2, 2021
3.0 credits

Description

Are you looking for the secret sauce for building community and fostering meaningful student-student interactions? Well, you've found it. Research shows that online students are more invested in a class when they have an instructor who cares about their learning success and this relationship is even more important for underserved students. But conveying your human presence, empathy, and awareness in an online class requires intention and a toolkit of effective practices. In this class, you will be immersed in a supportive online learning community as you develop humanized practices for your online course that will lay an inclusive foundation for community building and collaboration.

To successfully complete this course, you will need a webcam or smartphone and a YouTube account.

Outcomes

To successfully complete this course, participants will:

  1. Discuss research findings that link a caring instructor to online student success.
  2. Discuss research that links social presence with increased student interactions.
  3. Record a video of themselves with effective lighting and audio.
  4. Create a video for your online class that conveys your instructor and social presence.
  5. Develop a visually-oriented webpage with an embedded, captioned video for your online class.

Fulfills

This course is part of the Advanced Certificate in Online Teaching Principles. It can be taken as a stand alone course, or as part of the certificate.

Duration: 4 weeks

Time Commitment: approximately 10 hours per week, for a total of 40 hours

Level of Difficulty: Intermediate. This course requires creating video content, but the course is designed for those who may be new to video and social presence.

Optional Continuing Education Credit

Participants in this course can seek optional professional development/continuing education credits by dual-enrolling.  A separate fee to the university for graduate-level credit will apply.  To learn more, visit Course & CEU Information

Mar 29 - Apr 25, 2021
3.0 credits

Description

Are you looking for the secret sauce for building community and fostering meaningful student-student interactions? Well, you've found it. Research shows that online students are more invested in a class when they have an instructor who cares about their learning success and this relationship is even more important for underserved students. But conveying your human presence, empathy, and awareness in an online class requires intention and a toolkit of effective practices. In this class, you will be immersed in a supportive online learning community as you develop humanized practices for your online course that will lay an inclusive foundation for community building and collaboration.

To successfully complete this course, you will need a webcam or smartphone and a YouTube account.

Outcomes

To successfully complete this course, participants will:

  1. Discuss research findings that link a caring instructor to online student success.
  2. Discuss research that links social presence with increased student interactions.
  3. Record a video of themselves with effective lighting and audio.
  4. Create a video for your online class that conveys your instructor and social presence.
  5. Develop a visually-oriented webpage with an embedded, captioned video for your online class.

Fulfills

This course is part of the Advanced Certificate in Online Teaching Principles. It can be taken as a stand alone course, or as part of the certificate.

Duration: 4 weeks

Time Commitment: approximately 10 hours per week, for a total of 40 hours

Level of Difficulty: Intermediate. This course requires creating video content, but the course is designed for those who may be new to video and social presence.

Optional Continuing Education Credit

Participants in this course can seek optional professional development/continuing education credits by dual-enrolling.  A separate fee to the university for graduate-level credit will apply.  To learn more, visit Course & CEU Information

Feb 1 - Feb 28, 2021
3.0 credits

Description

Are you looking for the secret sauce for building community and fostering meaningful student-student interactions? Well, you've found it. Research shows that online students are more invested in a class when they have an instructor who cares about their learning success and this relationship is even more important for underserved students. But conveying your human presence, empathy, and awareness in an online class requires intention and a toolkit of effective practices. In this class, you will be immersed in a supportive online learning community as you develop humanized practices for your online course that will lay an inclusive foundation for community building and collaboration.

To successfully complete this course, you will need a webcam or smartphone and a YouTube account.

Outcomes

To successfully complete this course, participants will:

  1. Discuss research findings that link a caring instructor to online student success.
  2. Discuss research that links social presence with increased student interactions.
  3. Record a video of themselves with effective lighting and audio.
  4. Create a video for your online class that conveys your instructor and social presence.
  5. Develop a visually-oriented webpage with an embedded, captioned video for your online class.

Fulfills

This course is part of the Advanced Certificate in Online Teaching Principles. It can be taken as a stand alone course, or as part of the certificate.

Duration: 4 weeks

Time Commitment: approximately 10 hours per week, for a total of 40 hours

Level of Difficulty: Intermediate. This course requires creating video content, but the course is designed for those who may be new to video and social presence.

Optional Continuing Education Credit

Participants in this course can seek optional professional development/continuing education credits by dual-enrolling.  A separate fee to the university for graduate-level credit will apply.  To learn more, visit Course & CEU Information

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