Thursday, January 10^th- 10:00-5:30

10:00- 10:45  Beyond the Traditional Classroom:  Utilizing Creative Modern Tools to Optimize Student Learning

• Chris Kobus
• In this presentation an example is laid out of how to utilize modern tools in flipping the classroom by optimizing on-line delivery (taking a usually boring lecture and making it more exciting), and then using classroom time for a variety of actives exercises.  The use of screen-recording software, utilizing motion picture clips to base homework, projects and active learning exercises and frequent assessment will be discussed.  Also, a pedagogical discussion on why flipped classroom model may be the optimal learning environment will be done along with active exercises with the participants.

11:00- 11:45 Classroom Community by Design

• Beth Talbert
• This session will explore student success from the perspective of educational environments. Research suggests that four conditions are necessary for creating a learning-supportive environment: inclusion, safety, involvement and community. This session will focus on the process, challenges and potential outcomes of creating classroom environments that foster a sense of community as a means to improve learning outcomes.

12:00- 12:45 Developing Empathy through Imaginative Literature in the UG Classroom

• Kathleen Spencer
• Can empathy be taught?  Many researchers say yes!  This session will explore the use of poetry, fiction, monologue, memoir and patient narrative in teaching learning activities for undergraduate students.  Studies regarding the use of imaginative literature will be discussed with an extensive reference list.  This session will focus on classroom activities that teach empathy.  What has worked; what hasn’t.  We will have time for a lively discussion and exchange of ideas.

1:00-1:45  Towards an Openly Democratic Critical Pedagogy

• Richard Pipan
• The presenter contends that instructional practice—typified by prescribed “learning objectives” or “outcomes” serves to undermine and truncate human development, learning and competence. While rhetorically advocating for democracy and competitiveness within global markets, the prevailing discourse, curricula and instructional practices within higher (and virtually every other stratum of) education, call for technical competence and political docility. This session proposes to engage participants in a collaborative and open conversation on what might constitute adequate steps for intellectual, curricular and educational leadership in higher education.

2:00-2:45 MOODLE Tips and Tools for Teaching

• Francis Paris
• As the MOODLE acronym indicates, the instructor creates a dynamic learning environment. Using a MOODLE course for demonstration in this session, the participant will learn techniques of course design that engages, enriches, and entertains your students.  Ten creative ways to engage and enrich the student experience, 10 tools for enhancing the MOODLE course and 10 tips for MOODLE course design will be shared. 

3:00-3:45  The Sponsorship Continuum:  Leveraging Teaching, Mentorship and   Collaboration to Facilitate Evident-Based Practices with UndergraduateResearchers 

• Sherry Wynn Perdue
• Although some writing scholars address undergraduate research, too often the undergraduates are seen as participants and the research consists of little more than a secondary source review.  Herein, I identify the need for enhanced sponsorship of and methodological training of undergraduates (UG) for evidence based practice and offer my experience as a UG mentor and collaborator- which is often started in the classroom but gre beyond that of teacher/student- as a model for enhanced UG research.

4:00-4:45  Ethics and Source Use in Student Writing:  How Better Reading Can Help

• Alice Horning
• A national study of how students use sources in writing shows weaknesses in their ability to read, understand and use sources appropriately; teaching strategies to develop students' critical literacy can help address this problem.

5:00-5:30 (1/2 hour) Web-base polling, or how to enhance student interaction in online classes

• Dominique Daniel
• Clickers are useful in the classroom to engage students and get feedback. In the online environment, web-based polling tools like Poll Everywhere and Wallwisher can have similar benefits. They can complement online discussion forums and help with one of the most important challenges of distance education: facilitating student interaction. In this session we will look at examples of synchronous and asynchronous online class activities using these tools and will explore strategies to integrate them into online instruction."

The Development of the Nutritionally Aware Physician:  A Service-Learning Project Aimed at Promoting Nutritional Health - Poster - 11:45am - 1:00pm. The author will be with her poster between 11:45am - 12:00pm and 12:45pm - 1:00pm.

• Victoria C. Lucia, Jill E. Stefaniak, Tracy Wunderlick, Jean Szura
• A service-learning assignment involving a local backpack program for children was incorporated into the nutrition unit of the prevention course at OU- William Beaumont School of Medicine.  Students created nutrition tips and recipes to be included in participant backpacks and completed a guided reflection regarding food insecurities. The assignment afforded flexibility for busy schedules while encouraging critical and practical thinking about food insecurities in the neighborhoods in which students live.