CMA Faculty Meeting

Agenda

• Welcome & Introductions
• Instructional Best Practices
• Powerful Discussions
• Exciting Things @ University College

Instructional Best Practices

Making the Course Your Own

• Changes you can make to course
• Teaching Concepts and Providing Your Expertise
• Transitioning between weeks

Community of Inquiry Model

• The Community of Inquiry theoretical framework represents a process of creating a deep and meaningful (collaborative-constructivist) learning experience through the development of three interdependent elements – social, cognitive and teaching presence.

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Social Presence
Ability to project the self socially and emotionally, thereby being perceived as “a real person” in mediated communication.

Examples

• Welcome videos
• Personalized, timely assignment feedback
• Active engagement online
• Acknowledging student contributions
• Engaging in supportive interactions

Teaching Presence
The design, facilitation, and direction of cognitive and social processes for the purpose of realizing personally meaningful and educationally worthwhile learning outcomes.

Examples

• Comprehensive syllabus
• Organized Modules/structure
• Grading Rubrics
• Weekly Intros and Wrap-Ups
• Active discussion involvement

Cognitive Presence
The extent to which learners are able to construct and confirm meaning through sustained reflection and discourse.

Examples

• Effective triggering events to create a sense of puzzlement
• Information exchange
• Providing knowledge from diverse sources
• Opportunities to connect ideas to prior learning
• Meaningful application of new knowledge

Activity

• Reflect on the COI Model and create goals for enhancing social, teaching, and cognitive presence in your course

Powerful Discussions

• Creating Powerful Prompts
• Evaluating discussion prompts to further learning
• Facilitating group discussions
• Providing expectations for student engagement

Ideas to Incorporate

• Create spaces for opinions and argument
• Provide opportunities for application to real-world problems
• Open optional RDQ boards or reflections on one-minute papers

Activity

• Get into small groups and discuss challenges in facilitating course discussions
• Then, identify strategies that can be used to overcome those challenges

UCOL Updates

• Expanded Tech Resources on Portal
• Initative to help faculty be more innovative with technology
• Faculty Teaching Spotlight
• New Master Teacher Revision
• Student Analytics Success

Questions or Comments?

Thank you for attending!