All sessions take place in Butler-Carlton Hall on the Missouri S&T campus

NOTE:  Presentations will be posted here (if available) as soon as possible after the conference. Attendees will be notified via email when the majority of presentations are available.

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KEYNOTE SPEAKER:  Flower Darby - Educator. Author. Speaker.

Wired for Connection: Promoting Student and Faculty Well-being and Success

Time and Location: 10:00 - 11:30 a.m., Room 125

As social beings, we have a deep and fundamental need to be part of the group. When we feel like we belong, we are willing and able to  cognitively engage, take intellectual risks, and learn more deeply and effectively. We’ll explore how promoting connections and belonging with and among our students fosters increased academic achievement, engagement, and persistence, all of which lead to better and more equitable learning outcomes in all class modalities. As we identify evidence-based practical strategies to promote student well-being and success, we’ll discover how these techniques support our own well-being and success, too.

Lightning Round

LUNCH SESSION

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

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

CAFE staff will demonstrate some apps or technologies that can be used in the classroom or to help with productivity. 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!

ACUE Lunch and Learn - Faculty as Mentors to Students

LUNCH SESSION (Continues until 1 p.m.)

Moderator:

     Dr. Irina Ivliyeva - Chair of the Center for Advancing Faculty Excellence and Professor of Arts, Languages (Russian), & Philosophy; Missouri S&T

Panelists:

     Dr. Carmen Macharaschwili - Academic Strategist; Association of College and University Educators (ACUE)
     Angelica Halbert - Marketing Communications Manager; Association of College and University Educators (ACUE)
     Michael Gosnell - Assistant Teaching Professor of Computer Science; Missouri S&T
     Dr. Merilee Krueger - Teaching Professor of Psychological Science; Missouri S&T
     Dr. Audra Merfeld-Langston - Associate Professor of French and Chair of Arts, Languages (French), and Philosophy; Missouri S&T

Time and Location: 11:30 - 1:00 p.m.; Room 120

ACUE fellows at S&T will explore faculty roles in fostering  connections with students, providing personalized feedback,  and promoting  self-directed learning to support  their life-long success. Sessions is open for all to attend. NOTE: This session continues through the first breakout session slot of the afternoon (12:15 - 1 p.m.).

We have a place for ACUE fellows to post their reflections here and then we  will check back during our Lunch and Learn meeting “The secret power of effective course design” on April 27 at 12 pm.

1-101 // Avoid Burnout, Gain Rejuvenation

STANDARD SESSION (45 minutes)

Presenter: Drew Crismon - Ladue School District and University of Missouri 

Audience: 

Time and Location: 12:15 - 1:00 p.m.; Room 101

This year has been more exhausting than any other year for educators. We've been asked to do much more than ever before and it's burning people out. Even our best teachers are considering different options. I certainly was. But it doesn't have to be this way and I'll teach you how to take tangible steps for sustainable improvement in overall health, relationships, and productivity.

1-115 // Innovation in Teaching and Learning in the context of the vision of Fred and June Kummer to make S&T the leader of S.T.E.M. Education

STANDARD SESSION (45 minutes)

Presenter: Dr. B.J. Shrestha - Associate Teaching Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering; Missouri S&T

Audience: Higher Education; K-12 Education

Time and Location: 12:15 - 1:00 p.m.; Room 115

As is now common knowledge across Missouri and the nation, in the largest single gift in the history of Missouri higher education, our own alumnus Fred Kummer and his wife June have donated $300 million to a foundation now known as “The Kummer Institute Foundation” at Missouri S&T that will enable this university to become one of the nation’s leading universities for innovation. This foundation will support several initiatives such as establishing research entities focused on infrastructure, advanced manufacturing, artificial intelligence, and autonomous systems and environmental and resource sustainability, Kummer College of Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Development, etc. Their extraordinary generous gift has the potential to transform Rolla and the state of Missouri itself.

The Kummer’s had a vision of making Missouri S&T a leader of S.T.E.M. Education among others. They knew that as a society and a nation, our future needs require more scientists, technicians, engineers, and mathematicians than ever which in turn require a population highly educated in S.T.E.M. fields. Despite the recently focused attention on the need of our youth in the S.T.E.M. field, we are still struggling in this endeavor. The future of our nation and the world at large depends on the expertise of our next generation in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics to meet the challenges coming our way.

The present talk will address some thoughts about bringing innovation in the teaching and learning process to help realize Kummer’s ideal vision of fostering S.T.E.M. education at our great university. 

1-120 // ACUE Lunch and Learn - Faculty as Mentors to Students (cont'd)

STANDARD SESSION (45 minutes) (Continued from Lunch)

Moderator:

     Dr. Irina Ivliyeva - Chair of the Center for Advancing Faculty Excellence and Professor of Arts, Languages (Russian), & Philosophy; Missouri S&T

Panelists:

     Dr. Carmen Macharaschwili - Academic Strategist; Association of College and University Educators (ACUE)
     Angelica Halbert - Marketing Communications Manager; Association of College and University Educators (ACUE)
     Michael Gosnell - Assistant Teaching Professor of Computer Science; Missouri S&T
     Dr. Merilee Krueger - Teaching Professor of Psychological Science; Missouri S&T
     Dr. Audra Merfeld-Langston - Associate Professor of French and Chair of Arts, Languages (French), and Philosophy; Missouri S&T

Time and Location: 11:30 - 1:00 p.m.; Room 120

ACUE fellows at S&T will explore faculty roles in fostering  connections with students, providing personalized feedback,  and promoting  self-directed learning to support  their life-long success. Sessions is open for all to attend. NOTE: This session continues through the first breakout session slot of the afternoon (12:15 - 1 p.m.).

We have a place for ACUE fellows to post their reflections here and then we  will check back during our Lunch and Learn meeting “The secret power of effective course design” on April 27 at 12 pm.

1-121 // Harnessing the Power of Film: A Film-Based Methodology for the Advanced Foreign Language Conversation Class

STANDARD SESSION (45 minutes)

Presenter: Dr. M. Emilia Barbosa - Assistant Professor of Arts, Languages (Spanish) & Philosophy; Missouri S&T

Audience: Higher Education

Time and Location: 12:15 - 1:00 p.m.; Room 121

Film as content for the foreign language classroom has become so widely available that when the MLA’s [Modern Language Association] 2007 Report came out, it not only had to address the issue of using film in language classes but notably inquire about how really accessible and instrumental it is to convey the specific outcome of increasing students’ trans-lingual and transcultural competence (see Kathleen A. Bueno’s remarks on this particular aspect). Experts emphasize that some films support these goals better than others. Thus, the MLA’s 2007 Report focuses on and recommends a pedagogy anchored on authentic materials in the language classroom, including film (Shrum and Glisan, 2003; Kramsch, 1993; and Villegas and Medley, 1998, all had already previously emphasized the importance of teaching with authentic materials). Of equal importance is the emphasis on visual learning, digital literacy, and the cyber-habits of the newer generations. Since film both reflects and creates culture (Sherman, 2003; my emphasis), I have been developing a film-based methodology that harnesses its power and potential as a catalyst for students’ engagement and exposure to authentic linguistic and cultural materials. In this presentation, I address how students’ ability to speak and write about film is activated as a film-based pedagogy involves learning the basics of film semantics not as a list of techniques, but rather as a continuum of aesthetic possibilities. In this manner, students increasingly can recognize filmmakers’ creative choices and analyze how films communicate ideas about their linguistic and cultural contexts. I will demonstrate how this is a valid approach to teaching a language, particularly at the conversational level, not simply because the conversation requires the language, but because the conversation builds understanding of language by deepening awareness of cultural context and art. In this environment, a system of cultural and aesthetic inquiry will take hold and permeate the learning environment.

WORKS CITED

Bueno, Kathleen A. “Got Film? Is it a Readily Accessible Window to the Target Language and Culture for Your Students?” Foreign Language Annals 42.2 (Summer 2009): 318-339.

Kramsch, C. Context, and Culture in Language Teaching. Oxford, England: Oxford UP, 1993.

MLA Ad Hoc Committee on Foreign Languages. “Foreign Languages and Higher Education: New Structures for a Changed World.” Profession 2007: 234-245.

Sherman, J. Using Authentic Video in the Language Classroom. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge UP, 2003.

Shrum, J. and E. Glisan. Teacher’s Handbook: Contextualized Language Instruction. Boston, MA: Heinle, Cengage Learning, 2010.

Villegas Rogers, C. and F. W. Medley Jr. “Language with a Purpose: Using Authentic Materials in the Foreign Language Classroom.” Foreign Language Annals 21.5 (1988): 467-478.

1-124-2 // Engaging Students with Pear Deck

LEARNING STACK SESSION (15-20 minutes)

Presenter: Dr. Michelle Schwartze - Assistant Teaching Professor of Teacher Education & Certification; Missouri S&T

Audience: Higher Education; K-12 Education

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

Pear Deck is an add-on for Google Slides. I will show you how to add Pear Deck onto your slides and easily incorporate formative assessment throughout your presentation while engaging students using technology.

1-213-1 // Using Canvas LMS in Online Teaching

VIRTUAL SESSION (15-20 minutes)

Presenter: Dr. Dushanthi Herath - Assistant Professor of Mathematics; Maryville University

Audience: Higher Education; K-12 Education

Time and Location: 12:15 - 1:00 p.m.; Room 213

A key to successful teaching and learning is student engagement. This session will introduce and demonstrate a few Canvas features that can be utilized in an online mathematics course to have students actively engage and participate in the course.

1-213-2 // Using Drawing Tablets with Zoom: Giving In-the-Moment Visual Feedback Online

VIRTUAL SESSION (15-20 minutes)

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

Audience: Higher Education

Time and Location: 12:15 - 1:00 p.m.; Room 213

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 diagramming: 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.

2-101 // LibGuides Aren't Just for Librarians

STANDARD SESSION (45 minutes)

Presenter: Christina Thompson - Library Media Specialist; Ritenour High School

Audience: Higher Education; K-12 Education

Time and Location: 1:15 - 2:00 p.m., Room 101

LibGuides have a rightful place in every content area and instructional setting. Help students and instructors battle information overload with an organized, annotated selection of curated resources specific to your content area. This session will present the what, why, and how of creating and managing Libguides, along with some great resources to get you started.

2-115 // Debunking Neuromyths and Embracing Research-Based Teaching Strategies

STANDARD SESSION (45 minutes)

Presenter: Dr. Lauren Hays - Assistant Professor of Instructional Technology; University of Central Missouri

Audience: Higher Education; K-12 Education

Time and Location: 1:15 - 2:00 p.m., Room 115

In this presentation, the presenter will share common neuromyths such as learning styles that instructors often use when designing instruction. Once those are shared, the presenter will spend the majority of the session discussing research-based teaching strategies such as interleaving, the spacing effect, and retrieval practice that educators can use instead.

2-120 // Equipment for Creating Educational Media

STANDARD SESSION (45 minutes)

Presenter: Dr. Jeff Thomas - Teaching Professor of Civil, Architectural, & Environmental Engineering; Missouri S&T

Audience: Higher Education; K-12 Education

Time and Location: 1:15 - 2:00 p.m.; Room 120

Having published class websites for 20 years and a textbook for 10 years, I would like to share my approach to creating media. I will show my classroom and office setups for recording lectures, my studios for imaging small (e.g. sand), medium (e.g. hand tools), and large (e.g. wheelbarrow) props, and portable camera and audio equipment. I will also show my extensive collection of toys, structural-modeling kits, and real-life items for teaching engineering mechanics and structural engineering.

2-121 // eFellows and ACUE and Covid…Oh My!

STANDARD SESSION (45 minutes)

Presenter: Dr. Michelle Schwartze - Assistant Teaching Professor of Teacher Education & Certification; Missouri S&T

Audience: Higher Education

Time and Location: 1:15 - 2:00 p.m., Room 121

In this presentation, I will share my experience of completing a course design through eFellows while also completing ACUE online certification courses. Doing these two things together taught me a lot about student engagement and course design, all amid a pandemic. I will share with you some of the things I learned during this journey.

2-124-1 // Yes, There’s Math There, too! Engaging Undergraduates in College Algebra Using Their Majors

LEARNING STACK SESSION (15-20 minutes)

Presenter: Paige Crain - Assistant Instructor of Mathematics; University of Central Missouri

Audience: Higher Education

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

Why is this class relevant to me? To answer this common question and to improve undergraduate student engagement and achievement in a College Algebra course, students were asked to complete a project-based assessment by discovering linear models specific to their major. The result was students who were challenged, engaged, and successful. Participation rates, the assignment and rubric, samples of students’ work, and their thoughts about the assignment will be shared.

2-124-2 // Coordinated Community Partnerships and Interdisciplinary Curriculum: Impacts and Lessons Learned

LEARNING STACK SESSION (15-20 minutes)

Presenters:
     Dr. Clair Kueny - Assistant Professor of Psychological Science; Missouri S&T
     Dr. Venkat Allada - Professor of Engineering Management & Systems Engineering; Missouri S&T

Audience: Higher Education

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

We will outline our partnership working with Phelps Health to develop a three-semester practicum project incorporating learning experiences for Engineering Management senior design students and Industrial-Organizational psychology MS students. Students across all three semesters extended work from previous semesters to help Phelps Health develop internal and external programs to educate the community on the opioid crisis. We will present data collected about students’ and organizations’ perceptions of skills gained and value of this partnership as well as our own lessons learned about the complexities and benefits of this service and experiential learning partnership. This work was funded by CAFE’s 2020 Education Research Mini-Grant program.

2-213-1 // Scaffolding A Capstone Project Online

VIRTUAL SESSION (15-20 minutes)

Presenter: Dr. Cassandra Gail Loggins - Assistant Professor of Nursing; Southeast Missouri State University

Audience: Higher Education

Time and Location: 1:15 - 2:00 p.m.; Room 213

Can you motivate students to work on a capstone assignment week by week thereby preventing the last-minute submission of a weak assignment? Absolutely, you can motivate by innovating your online course design so that every reading assignment, quiz, activity, field experience, and discussion forum builds up the final assignment using a scaffolding design. This is a win-win strategy for faculty and students.

2-213-2 // Making More Inclusive Instruction with UDL

VIRTUAL SESSION (15-20 minutes)

Presenter: Breanne Kirsch - University Librarian; Briar Cliff University

Audience: Higher Education

Time and Location: 1:15 - 2:00 p.m.; Room 213

This session will introduce the universal design for learning (UDL) framework and how it can be implemented in both traditional, face-to-face courses and online courses. UDL techniques will be described with examples that demonstrate how to make instruction more inclusive.

3-101 // Teaching Politics of a Decade: Open Educational Resources and the 1990s

STANDARD SESSION (45 minutes)

Presenter: James A. Newman - Associate Professor of Political Science; Southeast State Missouri University

Audience: Higher Education

Time and Location: 2:15 - 3:00 p.m., Room 101

The course, Politics of the 1990s, was designed with no template and required no textbook. One hundred percent of the course was taught with open educational resources. The course was taught as a capstone course to seniors with a political science major. The purpose of the paper is to discuss my approach to the course along with challenges, successes, failures, and recommendations as it related to the use of open educational resources in this setting.

3-115 // Ways to Create Video with Active Learning in Mind

STANDARD SESSION (45 minutes)

Presenter: Victoria Hagni - Instructional Developer; Missouri S&T

Audience: Higher Education; K-12 Education

Time and Location: 2:15 - 3:00 p.m., Room 115

Calling all faculty who believe in developing their students to think outside the box, this presentation will focus on online design for video-based teaching.

Having created hundreds of videos for faculty during her career at S&T, Miss Hagni invites K-12 teachers, and any others who may be interested, to come and garner ideas on how to create a video with active learning as the priority.

During the presentation, Miss Hagni will invite participants to beta test the first module of her online course and then each participant will get to try out their own storytelling techniques.

3-120 // Video Games in the Pedagogy of History: Peril and Promise

STANDARD SESSION (45 minutes)

Presenter: Dr. Andrew Behrendt - Assistant Teaching Professor of History & Political Science; Missouri S&T

Audience: Higher Education; K-12 Education

Time and Location: 2:15 - 3:00 p.m., Room 120

Historical video games, such as Assassin's Creed and Civilization, are popular, engaging gateways to studying the past. But what, exactly, can they teach students? This presentation, which draws on the author's experiences teaching the course Historical Representation in Video Games at Missouri S&T, will offer both conceptual critique and practical advice for using digital games in the classroom.

3-121 // More Than a Score: Tips for Providing Consistent Grading and Quality Feedback

STANDARD SESSION (45 minutes)

Presenter: Mark Fabian - Executive Director of Strategic Partnerships and Digital Learning; Fabian University

Audience: Higher Education

Time and Location: 2:15 - 3:00 p.m., Room 121

Today’s learners expect fair evaluation, thorough feedback, and of course, an almost immediate turnaround. Balancing these competing expectations is no simple task! This session will demonstrate how to maximize the efficiency and impact of your grading by providing practical advice for improving your grading workflow, tips for using various digital tools to provide rich feedback, and strategies to ensure students are learning from your feedback.

3-124-1 // Practicing Digital Accessibility in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

LEARNING STACK SESSION (15-20 minutes)

Presenter: Dr. Harriette L. Spiegel - Lecturer of Educational Studies; University of Tennessee-Martin

Audience: Higher Education; K-12 Education

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

This “Learning Stack” presentation will provide an “in-a-nutshell” description of Digital Accessibility, why it is important, and what can be done about it. Digital Accessibility means creating accessible computer output so that all users benefit from computer use, especially instructors building online courses, or students taking virtual courses.

3-124-2 // 3-Minute Economic Shorts: Peer Teaching of Introductory Economic Concepts through Student Created Videos

LEARNING STACK SESSION (15-20 minutes)

Presenters:
     Dr. Radu Puslenghea - Assistant Teaching Professor of Economics; Missouri S&T
     Dr. Ana Ichim - 

Audience: Higher Education; K-12 Education

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

Over three semesters, we have engaged our students in the Principles of Economics classes by asking them to create 3-minute short educational videos, building on the idea that you have not actually mastered a concept until you are able to teach it to somebody else. Our project intended to promote a deeper understanding of basic economic concepts, as well as, to improve student learning outcomes in our introductory classes. We are now taking a retrospective look at the overall project and summarizing our experience and key results. 

3-213-1 // Levelling the terminology field: Having students co-create meaning using Hypothes.is

VIRTUAL SESSION (15-20 minutes)

Presenter: Dr. Fatemeh Mardi - Instructional Designer; University of Missouri

Audience: Higher Education; K-12 Education

Time and Location: 2:15 - 3:00 p.m.; Room 213

Often students get stuck understanding basic discipline-specific terminology that instructors assume they should know. Students can be provided a platform to unpack the meaning of phrases and sentences throughout their learning process. Hypothes.Is is a social annotation tool currently integrated into Canvas at UM campuses.

3-213-2 // Humanizing online grading: the surprising power of A/V feedback

VIRTUAL SESSION (15-20 minutes)

Presenter: Gretchen Haskell - Instructional Designer; University of Missouri

Audience: Higher Education

Time and Location: 2:15 - 3:00 p.m.; Room 213

As passionate as we all may be about what we teach, our passion surrounding grading can leave something to be desired. It should be noted, there’s a difference between "grading" and "giving feedback". “Grading” is an impersonal process of assigning numbers to learners' work. "Giving feedback" is a symbiotic interaction between learner and instructor. Research has credited A/V feedback with decreased feelings of isolation, increased motivation, student retention, content retention, and perception of instructor caring. Consideration of student accessibility needs will be addressed, as well as a walk-through of this process in Canvas.

3-215 // Applying Copyright to Online Course Design

STANDARD SESSION (45 minutes)

Presenter: Roger Weaver - Director of Library Operations & Scholarly Communication; Missouri S&T

Audience: Higher Education, K-12 Education

Time and Location: 2:15 - 3:00 p.m., Room 215

Educational resources exist in various formats and many are protected by copyright. The use of these materials is essential when designing and teaching in an online environment. to the learning process. This session discuss how to properly apply copyright law in your online educational design and teaching. Included will be tips and references to good resources to aid you in creating online materials.

CLOSING PLENARY SESSION:  Effective Teaching: Tips from Award-Winning Instructors

Moderator:

     Dr. Irina Ivliyeva - Chair of the Center for Advancing Faculty Excellence and Professor of Arts, Languages (Russian), & Philosophy; Missouri S&T

Panelists:

     Jeimmie Nevalga - Associate Professor of Practice; School of Journalism; News Director at KMOU8 News; University of Missouri-Columbia
     Dr. Michelle Schwartze - Assistant Teaching Professor of Teacher Education & Certification; Missouri S&T
     Dr. R. Joe Stanley - Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering; Missouri S&T
     Dr. Ann Torrusio - Associate Teaching Professor; Dean of Honors College; University of Missouri-St. Louis
     Dr. Kyle Wernke - Assistant Teaching Professor of Music and Director of Orchestra; Missouri S&T
     Dr. David Westenberg - Professor in Biological Sciences; Missouri S&T
     Dr. Gerald J. Wyckoff - Professor and Chair of the Division of Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences; University of Missouri-Kansas City

Time and Location: 3:00 - 4:30 p.m., Room 125

Using the framework of the National Survey of Student Engagement, teaching award winners from across UM System offer insights on dealing with academic challenges, provide examples of effective teaching strategies across disciplines and classroom formats,  and share ways to implement high impact teaching practices that help students to focus on learning.