eLearning Newsletter: Volume 5

Volume 5 | May-June 2018

Saddle Up for Semesters Procrastiantor's Special on July 18 through 20

Featured Faculty

Priscilla Zhao and Shokufeh and Juanita Jellyman and Greg Placentia

DOLCE 3.1, a sweet success!

Nine faculty from a variety of disciplines completed the faculty learning community, DOLCE 3.1: Using the Quality Matters (QM) Framework for Student Success. This group met during the 2017-2018 academic year with the goal to improve courses by exploring and implementing strategies for re-tooling their courses for a smooth semester transition and future QM certification. “DOLCE,” by the way, stands for Designing Outstanding Learning Centered Environments. Congratulations DOLCE 3.1 faculty!

Celebrating Learning

Polyteach & CSU Symposium Highlights

On April 13 and 14, Cal Poly Pomona hosted a joint conference, combining our annual Polyteach event with the 20th annual CSU Symposium on University Teaching. The theme of the joint conference was Productive Disruption and featured presentations by faculty from all over the state. Thanks to everyone involved in making this event a success!

More than 60 faculty presented their scholarship of teaching.

Uri Treisman, from the University of Texas, was our keynote presenter.

Poster presenter speaking with attendees

Over 40 poster presentations were shared among CSU colleagues.

Presenters covered topics in many disciplines.

Attendees shared ideas and were inspired by the variety of talks and presentations.

The poster sessions were well attended and had something for everyone.

Guy with mic asking questions to a guy in a tie

From poster presentations to breakout sessions, every presenter had a chance to be heard.

Attendees actively participated in the sessions.

Provost Alva speaks with a group during a session

Workshops provided opportunities for collegial conversations.

Robert Talbert presents in front of crowd

Robert Talbert presented a session on Flipping the Classroom.

Three female attendees discuss over a large paper with post-it notes on it

Active learning and participation were a big part of the conference.

Workshops and Learning Opportunities

Semester Conversion Camp: Procrastinator’s Special

Last chance! eLearning is holding its final 3-day workshop to prep for semester conversion from July 18 – 20th. We anticipate having a waiting list, so please register only if you can make a firm commitment to participate.

Multimedia Learning Objects

eLearning collaborates with faculty to develop sharable, interactive multimedia learning objects that can be used to enhance courses and bring abstractions to life. Below are some featured projects. Visit the Multimedia Learning Objects Repository to see and use them all.

Atomic Electron Configuration

Dr. Jodye Selco, Science Education

This simulation helps students to discover the ground state electron configurations of atoms, and how they can be predicted from the periodic table.

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Thin Layer Chromatography

Dr. Laurie Starkey, Organic Chemistry

This simulation allows you to explore how thin layer chromatography (TLC) works, and to see how varying the solvent polarity affects the TLC results.

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Tips from the Pros

1. Alternate Descriptions. When writing descriptions for your accessible content, do not use use the phrases "image of ..." or "graphic of ..." to describe an image. Screenreaders will automatically add the phrase "image of..." making it redundant if you add it to the description

2. Stress-Free Semesters. Work with eLearning early on to achieve a stress-free semester conversion for your course.

3. Clean Blackboard Course Using the Blackboard QM Course Template to prepare your Fall ‘18 course(s)? Do this before copying to prevent menu clutter:

Open your Fall Blackboard course(s) and delete each left-side menu item individually
Open the QM Course Template or previous course you’ve been working on
Navigate to the Control Panel > Packages and Utilities > Course Copy
Indicate the Fall course you wish to copy into in the Destination Course ID
Click the Select All button under Select Course Materials
Click Submit

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