The University of North Georgia (ÎçÒ¹¿ì²¥) was well-represented with forty-five ÎçÒ¹¿ì²¥ faculty, staff, and students chosen to present their work at the conference. Their presentations highlight ÎçÒ¹¿ì²¥'s commitment to academic excellence and contribute to the teaching and learning communities of ÎçÒ¹¿ì²¥ and USG.
The following faculty and staff presented their work at the 2017 USG Teaching and Learning Conference:
- "A Tale of Two Labs: Adapting Field Biology Labs into Online Formats"
Eleanor Schut - "Addressing STEM Undergraduate Deficiencies Reading and Writing Scientific Literature Using a Learning Community"
Evan Lampert and Steve Pearson - "An Integrated First-Year Cohort Experience"
Tom Cooper, Alison Hite, Phillip Mitchell, Nathan Price, and Robert H. Scott - "Biology Boot Camp: A Peer-Assisted, Active Learning Program Designed to Increase Student Engagement and Promote Critical Thinking in Biology"
Cathy Whiting - "Building Meaningful Bridges: Innovative Approaches to Learning Communities"
Rosaria Meek, Lance Bardsley, Dan Cabaniss, and Michael Kemling - "Cheating on Online Exams: How to Recognize, Foil, and Prevent It"
Margaret Williamson, Katherine Kipp, and John Williams - "Conditional Feedback: Using Google Drive to Encourage Revision Effort"
Matthew Horton - "Empowering Faculty, Staff, and Students: Applying Growth Mindset to Writing Instruction"
Diana Edelman and Jim Shimkus - "Engage Me! Free or Low-cost Web-based Technology to Interact and Engage Students in Your Classroom and online Courses"
Jim Wilkison and Ching-Yu Huang - "Excel Spreadsheets as a Tool for Teaching and Learning Quantitative Courses Online"
Christine Jonick - "False Assumptions: the Challenges and Politics of Teaching in China"
Laura Getty - "Heightened Critical Thinking: Requiring a Prospectus and Annotated Bibliography in the Research Paper Process"
Donna Gessell - "Ideological Exploration: Responses to Zakaria's In Defense of a Liberal Education"
Tanya Bennett - "Implementation of a Biology Resource Center" (Cancelled)
Jeanelle Morgan - "Innovative Publishing: Developing Low- and No-Cost Textbooks with ÎçÒ¹¿ì²¥ Press"
Bonnie Robinson and Corey Parson - "Learning to Talk/Talking to Learn: Using Critical Dialogue to Promote Critical Thinking Learning Communities"
Patrice Prince with students, Chelsea Belezaire, Alexis Schubiger, and Sarali Williams - "Problem-Solving in the Literature Classroom: Creative Responses to Literary Texts"
Leigh Dillard and Macklin Cowart with student, Callie Bryant - "Research Tools for SoTL"
Rebecca Rose - "Spark and Sway"
John Williams - "SoTL Communities of Practice for Research on Teaching and Learning"
Mary Carney and Laura Ng - "The Process of Building OER Materials that Promote Student Engagement" (Listed in email from Marie Lasseter)
Patty Wagner - "The Research Consultation: Teaching Students Critical Thinking Skills Outside of the Classroom"
Virginia Feher, Sean Boyle, Randall Parish, and Karen Redding - "Using a Collaborative Laboratory Exercise to Connect Different Sub-disciplines of Biology"
Swapna Bhat and Evan Lampert - "Yelling Whitman: Teaching Prosody by Performance"
Samuel Prestridge, Esther Morgan-Ellis, and Laura Ng