Lightning Round

LUNCH SESSION

Presenters: Center for Advancing Faculty Excellence - Missouri S&T

Time and Location: 11:30 - 12:15 p.m.; Room 124

The Center for Advancing Faculty Excellence will demonstrate a few new apps or technologies that we have discovered recently. This will be a very high-level, informal discussion of the apps with a brief Q&A period after each demonstration. The best part of this presentation? All of these programs are absolutely FREE!

The Granular Grading Rubric: Feedback that supports the student and the instructor

LEARNING STACK SESSION (15-20 minutes)

Presenter: Dr. Jossalyn Larson - Assistant Teaching Professor of English & Technical Communication; Missouri S&T

Audience: Higher Education, K-12 Education

Time and Location: 12:15 - 1:00 p.m., Room 124

This session will advocate for a shift away from traditional rubric constructs for writing-intensive courses, and toward a "granular grading rubric," which assigns a small amount of points to specific components of a summative project rather than providing a large point pool for a few generalized criteria. The granular grading rubric eliminates grade ambiguity, speeds feedback delivery time, and reduces subjective grading practices. I will demonstrate how to convert a traditional rubric into a granular rubric, and we will discuss best practices for written feedback in formative and summative assignments.

Using Drawing Tablets with Zoom: Giving in-the-moment Visual Feedback Online

LEARNING STACK SESSION (15-20 minutes)

Presenter: Dr. Sarah Hercula - Assistant Professor of English & Technical Communication; Missouri S&T

Audience: Higher Education, K-12 Education

Time and Location: 12:15 - 1:00 p.m.; Room 124

In this session, the presenter will discuss students’ use of drawing tablets as a tool enabling instructors to provide instantaneous feedback on students’ visual drawings during online synchronous instruction through Zoom. The presenter will describe her design of an online synchronous English grammar course with a focus on form-function tree diagraming: an analytical tool for grammatical analysis that involves students’ creation of hand-drawn visual diagrams. Sharing strategies for effective instruction in this setting and showing examples from her course, the presenter will explain how the technology works and suggest ways that this course setup might be adapted for use in other disciplines.

Technologically Guided Discussions to Increase Participation

LEARNING STACK SESSION (15-20 minutes)

Presenters: 
     Dr. Devin Burns - Assistant Professor of Psychological Science; Missouri S&T
     Dr. Nicolas A. Libre - Assistant Teaching Professor of Civil, Architectural, & Environmental Engineering

Audience: Higher Education

Time and Location: 1:15 - 2:00 p.m., Room 124

A common problem with class discussions is that only a small number of students feel comfortable speaking up, yielding limited participation, especially in larger classes. We present the framework for a technologically enabled “guided discussion”, where students offer anonymous explanations and vote on their favorites, increasing participation and practicing critical evaluation skills. A civil engineering and a psychology professor will discuss their unique experiences implementing this tool in their separate domains, how it affected student learning outcomes, and what the students thought about it.

Initial Development of an Online Ecology Class

LEARNING STACK SESSION (15-20 minutes)

Presenter: Dr. Dev Niyogi - Associate Professor of Biological Sciences; Missouri S&T

Audience: Higher Education

Time and Location: 1:15 - 2:00 p.m., Room 124

This presentation will review the process of designing, preparing, and teaching an online ecology class as a summer semester offering at Missouri S&T.  Dr. Niyogi received an eFellows grant from CAFE to support this development.  He taught the online class for the first time in summer of 2019, and had 18 students enrolled.  He will provide his opinions about the entire process, from designing and preparing materials to the actual teaching and assessment of the class.  Dr. Niyogi will also highlight some data from assessments and an evaluation of student performance.

Exploring the Effectiveness of Training in Increasing Cross-Culture Competency for a Global/Virtual World

LEARNING STACK SESSION (15-20 minutes)

Presenter: Dr. Joan Schuman - Associate Teaching Professor of Engineering Management & Systems Engineering; Missouri S&T

Audience: Higher Education, K-12 Education

Time and Location: 2:15 - 3:00 p.m., Room 124

In our global/virtual world, engineering students have a greater need to develop cultural competency, but at least one study showed that students who travel to another culture for a short time saw no increase in cultural competency.  This work explores whether training students in cultural differences would in fact improve their competencies and possible reasons for the outcomes.  The results indicate that students who studied cultural differences throughout a graduate course showed on average no significant change in their cultural competency.

This research was funded in part by the CCDI mini-grant.

Engaging Students in an Online Web Course

LEARNING STACK SESSION (15-20 minutes)

Presenter: Dr. Christi Patton Luks - Teaching Professor of Chemical & Biochemical Engineering; Missouri S&T

Audience: Higher Education

Time and Location: 2:15 - 3:00 p.m., Room 124

In 2019, a laboratory course was adapted as an online-only course. In order to develop a relationship with the students, the first assignment was a one-on-one teleconference. The hands-on activities of the course were modified as videos with the instructor as their lab partner. This presentation will discuss the efficacy of these techniques for engaging her students.

Diversity and Inclusion at Curtis Laws Wilson Library

LEARNING STACK SESSION (15-20 minutes)

Presenters: 
     Sherry Mahnken - Research Librarian at Curtis Laws Wilson Library; Missouri S&T
     Roger Weaver - Director of Library Operations and Scholarly Communications at Curtis Laws Wilson Library; Missouri S&T
     Ellen Cline - Research Librarian at Curtis Laws Wilson Library; Missouri S&T

Audience: Higher Education

Time and Location: 3:15 - 4:15 p.m., Room 124

As we move forward with online teaching and learning, we connect with people and places near and far from home, encountering a diverse range of opinions and worldviews. In cooperation with the CCDI mini-grant that the Library received in 2018, the Curtis Laws Wilson Library solicited opinions on diversity and inclusion from various stakeholders in the campus community and used that feedback to build and curate the library’s collection of diverse materials. We will share strategies for communicating with underserved campus populations, share insights on the project itself, and show how these new resources can be used to support students in both traditional and online learning.

Blended Course Design for CIV_ENG 5513 Traffic Engineering

LEARNING STACK SESSION (15-20 minutes)

Presenter: Dr. XianBiao "XB" Hu - Assistant Professor of Civil, Architectural, & Environmental Engineering; Missouri S&T

Audience: Higher Education

Time and Location: 3:15 - 4:15 p.m., Room 124

This project aims to redesign course CIV_ENG 5513 traffic engineering and blend web-based online learning and traditional face-to-face instruction. As opposed to the existing course setup that requires faculty and students to meet for two and half hours once per week in a traditional classroom setting, students watch pre-recorded videos and course materials prior to the class, and spend 90 minutes in the classroom for discussions and other forms of interactions between themselves and with the instructor.