Bring Your Best Idea: Using Group Work Online Part 2 √ §
Part of the FDC Active Learning Online Series!
Location
Online
Date & Time
October 29, 2020, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Description
How can we use group work to help students process concepts, think deeply about ideas, and remain engaged in learning online? How can we create student-to-student connections that result in meaningful learning experiences? Research shows that using student groups can promote engagement and learning, helping students stay motivated, feel connected, and generate meaning.
For Bring Your Best Idea sessions, we (locally) crowdsource answers to questions such as these. Please bring your best ideas for using group work online to this lively, collaborative, and fast-paced sharing session. At the beginning of the session, participants will have the opportunity to reflect on the theme and write a brief description of a problem or a strategy related to the theme. Anyone who has an idea to share with the whole group will have two minutes to describe it. No slides please, though you may submit a one-page handout in advance to fdc@umbc.edu and we will share it with the group, if you wish. After 20-30 minutes of sharing ideas, we’ll shift to Q&A and discussion. Whether or not you bring an idea to share, you’ll leave this session with new food for thought and several new ideas you might try in your own course.
The emphasis in this session will be on the pedagogy of using groups for active learning online--how these approaches can help you achieve your goals for student learning during remote instruction. While we will discuss the affordances that technology can provide for achieving your goals, this session will not provide step-by step instructions for using online tools. Please see the training programs offered by instructional technology for specific help in using tools.
√ Counts toward ALIT Certificate
§ Counts towards INNOVATE Certificate
For Bring Your Best Idea sessions, we (locally) crowdsource answers to questions such as these. Please bring your best ideas for using group work online to this lively, collaborative, and fast-paced sharing session. At the beginning of the session, participants will have the opportunity to reflect on the theme and write a brief description of a problem or a strategy related to the theme. Anyone who has an idea to share with the whole group will have two minutes to describe it. No slides please, though you may submit a one-page handout in advance to fdc@umbc.edu and we will share it with the group, if you wish. After 20-30 minutes of sharing ideas, we’ll shift to Q&A and discussion. Whether or not you bring an idea to share, you’ll leave this session with new food for thought and several new ideas you might try in your own course.
The emphasis in this session will be on the pedagogy of using groups for active learning online--how these approaches can help you achieve your goals for student learning during remote instruction. While we will discuss the affordances that technology can provide for achieving your goals, this session will not provide step-by step instructions for using online tools. Please see the training programs offered by instructional technology for specific help in using tools.
Please click “Going” below to reserve your seat for this session, and we will send you a Google calendar invitation with a WebEx link one hour before the session. If you register less than an hour before the session, you will receive the WebEx link when you register. Please email fdc@umbc.edu if you have any questions. If you have registered and find that you can no longer attend, please kindly release your spot so that others may attend.
§ Counts towards INNOVATE Certificate
