The following videos were recorded from webinars and training sessions with PLNU faculty and instructional designers. They contain a variety of topics. For further details about the Host or Presenters, for a larger view, for the time-stamped outline, or closed captioning, please view in YouTube.
Discussion Boards
July 16, 2020
July 30, 2020
Brittany Johnson, Jamie Gates, Kellye Carroll, Kevin Doyle, and Bettina Pedersen
Streamline Grading
Linda Nilson, Clemson University
Presentation to PLNU Faculty on July 8, 2020
Small Teaching Online with Flower Darby
Flower Darby – Educator, Author, Speaker
July 22, 2020
Online courses present unique challenges for both students and faculty. Small teaching can help. Flower Darby presents practical, evidence-based changes you can make in your online teaching practice, small but impactful adjustments that result in significant gains in student engagement and learning.
Whether you’re new or experienced online faculty, you’ll gain brief learning activities, minor course design modifications, and simple changes to your communication with online students, based on the approach outlined in Flower Darby’s book, Small Teaching Online: Applying Learning Science in Online Classes (2019).
September 23, 2020
Online courses are often characterized by a feeling of disconnectedness for both students and faculty. Yet we know that feeling connected can help us engage, persist and learn in any learning context. We’ll explore the value of making connections with our students, and helping them to connect new concepts and ideas for themselves, to deepen and improve their learning.
Flower Darby is the author of Small Teaching Online, a timely book written from her perspective as an experienced online instructor. Flower writes, presents and consults on teaching and learning theory and practice both nationally and internationally, and is a regular contributor to The Chronicle of Higher Ed, ACUE and Magna. She’s the Assistant Dean of Online and Innovative Pedagogies at Northern Arizona University, where she’s taught for over 24 years.
Student-to-Content Tools and Ideas
June 16, 2020
Denise walks attendees through her completely asynchronous course which uses self-paced learning experiences utilizing a broad array of non-lecture-based activities. Her use of Universal Design for Learning to communicate content and assignments to students is exemplary.
June 18, 2020
June 19, 2020
Making Zoom Interactive w/ Megwen Loveless
Making Zoom Interactive: Converting Collaborative Content Online
July 1, 2020
Corresponding PowerPoint (download here)
Making Zoom Interactive: Converting Collaborative Content Online
August 12, 2020
Corresponding PowerPoint (download here)
Student-to-Student Collaboration Tools and Ideas
June 23, 2020
August 4, 2020
Jo Clemmons, April Cordero, Gayle Sollfrank, Robbie Maakestad, Breeann Kirby, and Ted Vickey
Team-Based Learning with Bill Roberson
June 10, 2020
Transitioning to Online Teaching
June 11, 2020
Matthieu shares about putting his Chemistry 1002 Course into a 5-week, online format.
June 25, 2020
Corresponding PowerPoint (download here)