Teaching with Technology
March 1, 2013
Craig Scott: Team-based learning prepares medical students for interdisciplinary team-based practice
Dr. Scott, a professor in Medical Education and Biomedical Informatics, and Director of the Northwest Consortium for Clinical Assessment in the School of Medicine,U W Seattle, has been working to create classroom environments in which faculty members can better share their expertise and insights than by lecturing. Moodle, a learning management system, is used to…
Hedwige Meyer: Hybrid language classes let students pause, rewind at home, and practice more in class
Ms. Meyer is a senior lecturer in French and the 100-level French Language Coordinator at UW Seattle. She expanded access to her French classes through a hybrid format — shifting from five days a week in the classroom to a 3x (classroom) + 2x (online) model using Moodle, a learning management system. In structuring the…
Gerry Philipsen: Focusing on the text, not the commute
Dr. Philipsen, professor of Communication at UW Seattle, has taught at the University of Washington for more than 30 years and now teaches two online courses — “Introduction to Communication II” (COM 202) and “Cultural Codes in Communication” (COM 484). He sees pros and cons to both the online and face-to-face class formats, but has…
Lekelia (Kiki) Jenkins: Canvas and clickers…with a flip
Dr. Jenkins, an assistant professor in the School of Marine and Environmental Affairs at UW Seattle, uses a variety of technology tools, including the Canvas learning management system and portable response systems using ‘clickers’ to enhance her introductory course “Society and the Oceans” (SMEA/SIS/ENVIR 103). Value of Canvas: Dr. Jenkins says she likes the Gradebook…
Tracey Haynie: Keeping students on track with “electronic nudges” through their mobile devices
Ms. Haynie, a statistics lecturer in the Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences department at UW Tacoma, is teaching the first online math classes at the Tacoma campus, with one section of pre-calculus, and another of section of introductory statistics. She notes, “As most people would agree, math is a tricky subject, and we knew it would…
Nita McKinley: Increasing student participation by going online
Dr. McKinley, an associate professor of Psychology in the Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences department at UW Tacoma, was a 2012 Tech Fellow and taught “Lifespan Development” (TPSYCH 220) as a hybrid course in 2012. She says: “For me, this was an intermediate step toward learning to do it online” and as of winter quarter 2013,…
Arnold (Arnie) Berger: Saving students rush-hour headaches
Dr. Berger, an associate professor in the Science and Technology program at UW Bothell, is the degree coordinator of Bothell’s new Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering. The program’s capstone courses (BEE 495 and 496) are partially conducted online and are designed to simulate real-world consulting projects. Dr. Berger uses the meeting software WebEx “to…
Matthew Kelley: Teaching online frees peak hours for research
Dr. Kelley, an assistant professor in the Urban Studies program at UW Tacoma, has been teaching online for several years and recently started to use the Canvas learning management system. Value of Canvas: “Canvas has been great. Its analytics are a significant improvement” over other learning management systems. Online flexibility: “I am not tethered to…
Martha Groom: Writing for Wikipedia raises the stakes and the quality of student writing
Dr. Groom is a professor of Ecology and Environmental Studies in the Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences department at UW Bothell with an adjunct appointment in the UW Seattle Biology department. Six years ago, she began asking her students to create and edit Wikipedia entries and has continued to do so ever since. Why? Students benefited,…
Mabel Ezeonwu: Staying in touch with students in the field
Dr. Ezeonwu, an assistant professor in Nursing and Health Studies at UW Bothell, taught “Community Health Nursing” (BNURS 409B) as a hybrid course in Summer 2012. It’s a work in progress, she says, “I’m still tweaking it a lot.” Why hybrid? “I just wanted to do something different. Something exciting, something that’s not the status…
Previous page Next page