Digital Education Day

Recordings of most sessions listed below are available on the public Digital Education Day MiVideo Channel.

Opening Keynote: "Bearing Witness as an Act of Love, Resistance, and Healing" presented by UM-Dearborn alumna Mays Imad, professor of Pathophysiology and Biomedical Ethics at and founding coordinator of the Teaching and Learning Center at Pima Community College.

Breakout Sessions:

• Panel: Academic Integrity in Online Spaces, led by Carla Vecchiola, LEO Lecturer IV of History and Director of the Hub for Teaching & Learning Resources at UM-Dearborn.
• Teaching with Video, led by Brandon Blinkenberg, Instructional Designer at UM-Flint
• Adventures in HyFlex, presented by Carson Waites, Instructional Designer at UM-Flint
• Student-Centered Strategies Showcase, led by Carla Vecchiola, LEO Lecturer IV of History and Director of the Hub for Teaching & Learning Resources
  at UM-Dearborn.
  • Accessibility by Brandon Blinkenberg, Instructional Designer at UM-Flint
  • Open Education by UM-Dearborn’s Open Education Committee
  • Open Educational Resources by Tony Perry, Professor or Political Science at Henry Ford College 
  • Ungrading by Emily Luxon, Associate Professor of Political Science at UM-Dearborn

Closing Keynote: Digital classroom tools & data risks: What educators need to know, presented by Bonnie Stewart, Assistant Professor of Online Pedagogy and Workplace Learning at the University of Windsor, Ontario.

Recordings of most sessions listed below are available on the public Digital Education Day MiVideo Channel.

Keynote: "Synchronicity: Care, COVID, and Connected Learning" presented by Robin DeRosa, Director, Open Learning & Teaching Collaborative Plymouth State University.

Colleges around the United States have turned to Distance Learning during the COVID-19 pandemic; in many ways, the affordances of the internet have allowed students to stay focused on their educational paths, but in other ways, inequity, trauma, and an EdTech industry motivated more by profit than possibility have left many of us wondering what habits we are developing around technology and teaching during this crisis. In this presentation, Robin will explore the “remote learning pivot,” and offer a hopeful and learner-centered vision for the future based on the new perspectives that coping with COVID can offer to those of us who value the human connection at the heart of learning.

The keynote was offered in the engaging format of a Flipped Keynote.   Recordings of both the keynote presentation and the keynote conversation are available.

Breakout Sessions

• Designing Online Instruction that Engages Students in Authentic Problem-Solving
• How We Teach Online: A Faculty Panel
• Mythbusting Open Educational Resources
• Connecting Minds: Communication Tools and Techniques for the Online Classroom
• Questioning the myth of the digital native
• Virtual Village
  • "Cut Me Some Slack!: Messaging Platforms and Online Discussion" by Maya Barak (UM-Dearborn)
  • "The pen is mightier than the keyboard:  Students Never Miss a Word with Livescribe, Doceri, and Rocketbook"  by Sheila Smith (UM-Dearborn)
  • "Using digital storytelling with low beginner ESL students" by Mindy DeWitt (HFC) and Sarah Castillo (HFC)
  • "Socrative for Anatomy and Physiology students" by Cristina Bailey (HFC)
  • "Student collaboration and resource sharing with Padlet" by Pamela Stewart (HFC)
  • "Social Video: Reaching Students on YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok" by Kevin Trovini (HFC)
  • "Engaging ELLs in digital writing to promote student agency, community building, and audience awareness" by Hanan Elali Fadlallah (HFC)
  • "OneNote Classroom Notebook: Helping Students with their Soft Skills" by Shanna Simpson-Singleton  (HFC)

Keynote:  "Design for the Mind: Strategies from the Psychology of Learning" by Dr Michelle Miller, author of Minds Online: Teaching Effectively with Technology (Harvard University Press, 2014), director of the First Year Learning Initiative and Professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences at Northern Arizona University. (video recording, restricted to U-M users)

Breakout Sessions:

• Hands on how-to for Digital Education
• Sharing is Caring – Taking Your Cool Digital Education Creations Beyond Canvas (video recording, restricted to U-M users)
• Faculty roundtables on digital teaching tools and techniques
• Student Panel – Hear What Students Have to say about Online Classes and Interactivity (video recording, restricted to U-M users)
• Keynote Discussion – Focus, Remember, Think: Resources for Putting Cognitive Principles into Practice (video recording, restricted to U-M users)

Keynote:  "All Online Education Is Not the Same: Faculty-Centered Digital Pedagogy" by Jonathan Rees, Professor of History, Colorado State University - Pueblo. (video recording, restricted to U-M users)

Breakout Sessions:

• Enhance student success by using the Canvas gradebook and the new Canvas gradebook
• Open Education Resources
• Faculty Roundtables: Engaging students in online/hybrid courses
• Streamlining your Canvas material for students and student panel on digital education
• Building Digital Storybooks with Scalar
• Hands on with gameful learning (video recording, restricted to U-M users)

Keynote: "Digital Education and Academic Innovation"  Presented by Dr. James Hilton, Vice Provost for Academic Innovation at the University of Michigan. (PowerPoint slides, restricted to UM-Dearborn faculty and staff) (video recording, restricted to UM-Dearborn faculty and staff)

Breakout Sessions:

• (Reading Your Students’ Minds) Formative Evaluation Using Student Analytics in Canvas
• Gamifying Your Class with Canvas
• Outcomes with Rubrics in Canvas
• Student Panel
• Active Learning with Technology
• Tools and Design for Academic Integrity