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Meaningful Feedback in Online Professional Development

Katie Clum February 17, 2022 February 17, 202201 - 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, Collaboration, Collaborator, Connected Learner, faculty professional development, feedback, Learning Designer, online learning, online learning communities, Professional Development, Professional Learning Facilitator

Just as online teaching and learning became a necessity for K-12 and postsecondary students during the COVID-19 pandemic, so too did online professional learning activities for educators at all levels. Not only have professional development (PD) activities primarily been held in virtual spaces over the last two years (both synchronously and asynchronously), but often the …

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Collaborating In Uncertain Times

Books and Mrs Bush September 26, 2021 September 26, 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, COVID, Inclusion, ISTE 1: Change Agent, ISTE 4: Learning Designer, online learning, planning, Remote Learning

When school began this year, I looked at my small classroom in despair. I had 30 students on each period’s class list and an exhortation to fit all of them in my room ASDAP (as socially distanced as possible), which meant two feet apart. It’s been two weeks since that day, and I have yet […]

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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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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Diverse Perspectives in Digital Learning Communities

Teaching Sixes March 7, 2021 March 7, 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, diversity, Inclusion, ISTE 2: Connected Learner, ISTE 7: Digital Citizen Advocate, online learning, social media, teacher groups, teacher training

Social media and online platforms present opportunities for educators to gather for camaraderie and professional development even when they are widely dispersed by geography. The existence of online communities creates more opportunities for educators with widely diverse perspectives to come together than ever before. Yet, some educator groups seem to

“Assessment in higher education during COVID-19 and beyond: Will it ever be the same?”

Katie Clum January 24, 2021 January 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, assessment, Change Agent, COVID-19, Higher Education, Learning Designer, online learning, online teaching, Professional Learning Facilitator, Remote Teaching, Student Voice

Perhaps the word “unprecedented” has been overused in recent months, but it consistently seems to be the most fitting word to express the seismic shifts in all areas of life that have occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic. As K-12 and higher education institutions worldwide have grappled with rapid pivots to online teaching and learning (and …

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Student Flourishing in the Virtual Classroom

Katie Clum November 5, 2020 November 5, 202001 - Visionary leadership, 02 - Teaching, Learning, & Assessments, 03 - Digital age learning environments, 04 - Professional Development & Program Evaluation, 05 - Digital Citizenship, 06 - Content Knowledge & Professional Growth, blended learning, connectedness, Digital Citizen Advocate, digital pedagogy, Higher Education, hybrid learning, learning community, Learning Designer, online learning, online teaching, Professional Learning Facilitator, Student Agency, student engagement, Student Voice, student wellbeing, virtual classroom

There is no doubt that the COVID-19 pandemic has greatly accelerated the rate at which schools and universities of all shapes and sizes have had to move to online teaching and learning modalities, even if only as a short-term conduit for allowing formal education to continue in these unprecedented times. There is also no doubt …

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