Zoom In, Not Out: Techniques & Tips to Enliven, Engage, & Empower Experiential Classroom Learning Online or F2F (Webinar)
March 31st, 2022 | 2:00 p.m. ET - 3:15 p.m. ET | $395
Learn how to develop rich online learning opportunities that improve critical thinking while empowering students to develop college coping skills.
“I hope you know that your teaching pedagogy matters! I am always cognizant of the concept of experiential learning and how I could apply it. It is eternally instilled in my brain.”
Why This Topic Matters
Students need and crave connection, as well as the satisfaction of concrete results while learning, so how do we create connected, engaging learning spaces that offer both rigor and care? How do we do this in a landscape where even before the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic American public universities were under intense pressure to recruit, retain, and graduate students with dwindling public money, while still tasked with nurturing talent and innovation (Bowen, Chingos, & McPherson, 2011; DesJardins, Kim, & Rzonca, 2003)? Applying quality experiential learning in a caring online teaching environment empowers students to succeed while also encouraging student affinity defintion and core talents.
Who Should Attend?
Ideal for deans and faculty overseeing or designing online college courses, especially first-year experience courses, honors courses, and academic success courses.
Faculty of online courses
Faculty with online course components
First Year Experience faculty
Directors of and Faculty in Honors Programs
Directors of and Faculty in Academic Success Programs
Academic Deans, Provosts and Vice Presidents who oversee programs or departments with online courses
Overview
In this webinar, consider how to better engage students in the classroom (online or F2F). Explore concrete connection and engagement focused tips, tricks, and takeaways gleaned from teaching hundreds of Undergraduate students from diverse backgrounds in two rigorous Honors Canvas Instructure online courses using an Experiential Learning Theory (Kolb, 1994; 2008) teaching curriculum and pedagogy.
In this empowerment teaching model, students acquire transferable professional and academic skills through an effective teaching model sustainable for already overworked faculty. Learn to turn praxis into theory and back again in an iterative and sustainable life-cycle that can be applied to diverse academic pathways, such as making a Team Podcast, producing a Literature Review as a first year, and creating a Lesson Plan. Discover how the webinar facilitator empowers online students through an Experiential Learning approach
Participants will be provided with practical teaching examples from a successful online experiential learning course taught for the last six years. Learn how students are introduced to educational psychology college survival skills such as growth mindset (Dweck, 2014), “not yet but soon,” and scholarly performance based on an inside-out (Sinek, 2009) approach, which students self-reported led to better academic skill acquisition, and college coping skills.
In this highly interactive webinar, you will:
Consider relevant theories, including Experiential Learning, Empowerment Teaching and Students Teaching Students
Learn about the sustainable cycle of teaching experiential learning online
Discuss how to create a caring student learning environment online
Address course development and assessment considerations
Receive tools to create successful Experiential Learning online learning experiences
Explore a case study of an Honors online experiential learning course and program
Pricing and Webinar Connection Information
Live Webinar Site Connection and On-Demand Recording $395
Includes:
5 connections for staff members from your institution with each registration (only during the health crisis)
Connection information sent one week prior to the event and again the day before the event. Any questions can be emailed to the program contact at the bottom of this web page.
An electronic link containing a recording of the webinar and resources emailed to you within 7 business days following the live webinar date (active for 30 days). The link can be shared with your entire staff to view the recording.
Follow-up resources and assignments to help you implement your learning.
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Instructors
Siobhán Ní Dhonacha, Ph.D., Honors Faculty Specialist
With the UHM Honors Program since 2014, Siobhán Ní Dhonacha is an Assistant Faculty Specialist / Academic Advisor for the Honors Program and Regents and Presidential Scholars, and a Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation (TRHT) Fellow and member of the UHM TRHT Design Team. TRHT is a higher education W.K. Kellogg Foundation funded initiative housed in the office of the UHM Provost, Native Hawaiian Place of Learning Advancement Office. Indigenous Irish, Dr. Ní Dhonacha was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland.
Dr. Ní Dhonacha studied in New York and London, and then went on to earn a BA in Political Science and Politics of Theatre from Western Washington University, an MFA in Theatre/Playwriting at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (UHM), a PhD in Education from the College of Education at UHM with a focus on the Ethics of Care, Higher Education Policy/Philosophy, and Student Success Strategies, and a Graduate Certificate in Online Learning and Teaching (COLT) from the UHM College of Education. In August 2020, Dr. Ní Dhonacha earned a certificate from the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education in Effective Strategies in Learning and Teaching Online.
Teaching since 1995, Dr. Ní Dhonacha has worked with students in Washington State, New York, and Hawaiʻi, and at UH since 2009. Her teaching and research are focused on Empowerment Advising©, experiential learning, resilience, critical thinking in the 21st Century, writing praxis, the philosophy and ethics of care in academic policy and praxis, high achieving students, mentoring as a tool for student success, under-represented student recruitment and retention, emotional intelligence, cognitive development, student persistence, diversity and equity, and actively supporting UH to be a Native Hawaiian place of learning through curriculum design and advising practice.
Questions about the program?
Please email Lisa at lisa@eduology.org.
Webinar previously titled “Integrating Experiential Learning into Online College Teaching to Empower Student Success.”