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