ABSTRACTS - Room 124

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

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!

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.

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.

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.