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Learning Analytics in Higher Education: What’s Working?

Katie Clum November 5, 2021 November 5, 202101 - Visionary leadership, 02 - Teaching, Learning, & Assessments, 03 - Digital age learning environments, 04 - Professional Development & Program Evaluation, 05 - Digital Citizenship, 06 - Content Knowledge & Professional Growth, data analytics, Data-Driven Decision-Maker, Higher Education, learning analytics, Learning Designer, student success

Data analytics play their part in all aspects of work and industry these days, and there’s no question that data analytics are also here to stay in the world of higher education. Through tracking, aggregating, and analyzing student activity captured in learning management systems, universities are hoping to “open the black box of education” using learning analytics technologies (Jones, 2019). Of course, in order to …

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21st Century Skills in the Higher Education Classroom

Katie Clum October 10, 2021 October 10, 202101 - Visionary leadership, 02 - Teaching, Learning, & Assessments, 03 - Digital age learning environments, 04 - Professional Development & Program Evaluation, 05 - Digital Citizenship, 06 - Content Knowledge & Professional Growth, 21st Century Skills, Higher Education, Learning Designer, Professional Learning Facilitator, standards

The term “21st Century Skills” has been referenced frequently in education circles for over a decade. Though the educational philosophies and political/economic motivations undergirding these skills originated well before the dawn of the 21st century, the list that coalesced into the 21st Century Skills we recognize in American education today gained prominence with educational initiatives like the Partnership for 21st Century Skills (P21) Framework for education (2002) and the Common Core State Standards (2010). 21st Century Skills have been discussed ubiquitously over the …

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Online Teaching & Learning in Higher Education During COVID-19 & Beyond: Pitfalls & Opportunities for Access & Equity

Katie Clum September 24, 2021 September 24, 202101 - Visionary leadership, 02 - Teaching, Learning, & Assessments, 03 - Digital age learning environments, 04 - Professional Development & Program Evaluation, 05 - Digital Citizenship, 06 - Content Knowledge & Professional Growth, Access, Change Agent, COVID-19, Digital Citizen Advocate, Digital Divide, equity, Higher Education, Learning Designer, online learning, online teaching, Professional Learning Facilitator

Like so many other countries across the globe, higher education institutions in South Africa were forced to reckon with a rapid pivot to online teaching/learning in order to maintain operations during the COVID-19 pandemic. Of the 26 public universities in South Africa, 25 are residential institutions that did not allow distance education prior to 2014 (Czerniewicz et al., 2020). This scramble to change modalities in 2020 came …

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EDTC 6104 Community Engagement Project – Professional Development Workshop for Resilient Pedagogy

Katie Clum August 4, 2021 August 4, 202101 - Visionary leadership, 02 - Teaching, Learning, & Assessments, 03 - Digital age learning environments, 04 - Professional Development & Program Evaluation, 05 - Digital Citizenship, 06 - Content Knowledge & Professional Growth, faculty professional development, Higher Education, Learning Designer, online learning, online teaching, Professional Learning Facilitator, resilient pedagogy

For this quarter’s Community Engagement Project I have been tasked with creating a professional learning presentation or workshop on a topic of my choice which would be used to engage and provide professional growth for a selected audience. This project is meant to demonstrate my understanding of the performance indicators for ISTE Coaching Standard 3. …

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“Put me in, Coach:” A Brief Look at Best Practices for Instructional Coaching in Higher Education

Katie Clum August 4, 2021 August 4, 202101 - Visionary leadership, 02 - Teaching, Learning, & Assessments, 03 - Digital age learning environments, 04 - Professional Development & Program Evaluation, 05 - Digital Citizenship, 06 - Content Knowledge & Professional Growth, Collaborator, faculty professional development, Higher Education, instructional coaching, Instructional Design, Learning Designer, Professional Learning Facilitator

In 2020, Apple TV’s comedy series Ted Lasso starring Jason Sudeikis became an unlikely hit after its debut season, earning rave reviews, excellent ratings, and a platform as a quirky source of inspiration for coaches–and really just ordinary people–everywhere. The premise of the show has fictional American football coach, the mustachioed Ted Lasso, recruited to …

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Culturally Responsive Teaching in Digital Learning Environments

Katie Clum July 28, 2021 July 28, 202101 - Visionary leadership, 02 - Teaching, Learning, & Assessments, 03 - Digital age learning environments, 04 - Professional Development & Program Evaluation, 05 - Digital Citizenship, 06 - Content Knowledge & Professional Growth, Connected Learner, culturally responsive teaching, Higher Education, Learning Designer, online learning, online teaching

In 1994, author and educator Gloria Ladson-Billings introduced the term “culturally relevant pedagogy” into the vernacular of the education world. This term was used to describe an approach to teaching that engages learners whose experiences and cultures have traditionally been excluded from mainstream settings. Building on the work of Ladson-Billings, in 2010, Geneva Gay sought …

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Professional Development & Technology in Higher Education: What’s Working?

Katie Clum July 15, 2021 July 15, 202101 - Visionary leadership, 02 - Teaching, Learning, & Assessments, 03 - Digital age learning environments, 04 - Professional Development & Program Evaluation, 05 - Digital Citizenship, 06 - Content Knowledge & Professional Growth, Collaborator, Higher Education, Learning Designer, online learning, online teaching, Professional Development, Professional Learning Facilitator

As a former classroom teacher, I am deeply aware of the potential professional development (PD) activities have to positively improve teaching practice; it’s the same potential that PD has to overwhelm instructors and use up valuable time, energy, and resources that might have been used elsewhere in jam-packed school schedules. When it comes to effective …

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Resilient pedagogy: The professional development opportunity educators need now more than ever

Katie Clum April 29, 2021 April 29, 202101 - Visionary leadership, 02 - Teaching, Learning, & Assessments, 03 - Digital age learning environments, 04 - Professional Development & Program Evaluation, 05 - Digital Citizenship, 06 - Content Knowledge & Professional Growth, Collaborator, COVID-19, faculty professional development, Higher Education, Learning Designer, online learning, online teaching, Professional Learning Facilitator, resilient pedagogy

Resilient pedagogy is an emerging instructional philosophy with extremely timely implications for this current moment in education and the ongoing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Though facets of resilient pedagogy have long been practiced by educators in the form of classroom differentiation, and though other frameworks like Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and Transparency in …

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Diigo as a tool for collaborative learning and research in higher education

Katie Clum April 15, 2021 April 15, 202101 - Visionary leadership, 02 - Teaching, Learning, & Assessments, 03 - Digital age learning environments, 04 - Professional Development & Program Evaluation, 05 - Digital Citizenship, 06 - Content Knowledge & Professional Growth, annotation, Collaboration, Collaborator, Connected Learner, digital tool, Higher Education, Learning Designer, research, social bookmarking

There is significant opportunity within higher education environments–indeed, all education environments–to lean into a constructivist educational philosophy and approach knowledge as something co-created by both instructors and students. Furthermore, as higher education courses and programs are increasingly offered in hybrid and fully online modalities, finding authentic ways for students to increase their social presence and …

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Leveraging Digital Tools for Instruction Outside the Classroom: Community Engagement Project, EDTC 6102

Katie Clum March 11, 2021 March 11, 202101 - Visionary leadership, 02 - Teaching, Learning, & Assessments, 03 - Digital age learning environments, 04 - Professional Development & Program Evaluation, 05 - Digital Citizenship, 06 - Content Knowledge & Professional Growth, Adult Learning, Digital Citizen Advocate, digital instruction, Digital Learning, Digital Tools, Higher Education, Learning Designer, Professional Learning Facilitator, teacher certification

It’s been a wonderful opportunity to invest time and energy into a project which ultimately helps me do my job better. Though I am not currently a classroom teacher and do not have typical instructional responsibilities in my day to day work, I do constantly convey important information about the WA State teacher certification process …

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