Theme: Online Education

The programming listed below seeks to address the topic of Online Education.

What Makes a Good Teaching Video? PANEL DISCUSSION
Tuesday 1:30pm-2:45pm Gordon: Symphony Meeting Room

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Summary Video is increasingly being used as an educational tool in college science courses. Even if we are not assigning videos, students are independently looking to places like YouTube to supplement their ...
Online Teaching PANEL DISCUSSION
Thursday 2:45pm-4:00pm Red Gym: Masley Media Room

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Summary Online resources make up a steadily increasing share of the materials used to support student learning in geoscience courses. No longer do online resources represent copies of class notes and links to a ...
Professional Development for Undergrads, Grads and Faculty & Online Education ORAL SESSION
Friday 1:30pm-4:00pm Weeks Geo: 140

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Learning So Fast You'll Freak: The Effect of Immersion on Online Learning Success
Friday 2:30pm Weeks Geo: 140

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We investigate the impact of a compressed, immersive teaching format on student learning in online courses based on a validated measure of learning outcomes. This study focuses on larger enrollment (50+) ...
Enhancing Student Understanding of Course Concepts: Integration of Service Learning in Online Geoscience Courses
Friday 2:45pm Weeks Geo: 140

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Engaging college students in service learning (SL) improves students' ability to apply course concepts to "real-world" examples, and it is well documented that participation in service learning has ...
Developing synchronous team-based learning via Google Earth in a fully-online "natural disasters" introductory general education Earth Science course
Friday 3:00pm Weeks Geo: 140

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In the current environment of classroom transformations, difficulties remain for pedagogical advancement in online courses. In particular, moving away from the textbook/exam style into any alternatives ...
Eye-Tracking Assessment of the Usability of a Web-based Climate Decision-making Tool Used by Forestry Stakeholders in the Southeastern US
Friday 3:15pm Weeks Geo: 140

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This work uses eye tracking to assess the usability of the web-based climate decision-making tool developed by the Pine Integrated Network: Education, Mitigation, and Adaptation project (PINEMAP), PINEMAP Decision ...
Using Experiential Learning and Cultural Context in an Introductory Geology Online Course through an International Collaboration
Friday 3:30pm Weeks Geo: 140

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In higher education we strive to advance learning by building well-rounded, global citizens. To face the new needs of a multicultural society, if we want to develop mindful global citizens, educators need to ...