Welcome

Carlos Jensen, Associate Vice Chancellor, Educational Innovation

Introduction of Keynote

Elizabeth H. Simmons, Executive Vice Chancellor, Academic Affairs

Keynote Presentation - UC San Diego: A Catalyst for Economic, Intellectual and Cultural Growth

Mary Walshok, Associate Vice Chancellor, Public Programs/ Dean, UC San Diego Extension

Q&A

Moderator:
Carlos Jensen, Associate Vice Chancellor, Educational Innovation

9:45am - 10:00am

Supporting Students During Unprecedented Times

We will discuss the stressors that students are experiencing within our current social context. Suggestions will be made for how to support students during these challenging times.

Speakers:

Tiffany O'Meara, CAPS Director of Outreach Services

Christina Lambert, Graduate & Professional School Students Program Manager

Digitally Transforming a Class

In this session, we will introduce how the Japanese Studies Program transformed from a traditional "book and lecture" class to a "flipped classroom." We will look at both the changes from teachers' perspectives as well as the students' perspectives.

Speakers:

Junko Tokuda Simpson, Lecturer, Japanese Studies Program, Institute of Arts and Humanities

Yuko Tipton, Lecturer, Japanese Studies Program, Institute of Arts and Humanities

Izumi Takeda, Lecturer, Japanese Studies Program, Institute of Arts and Humanities

Workshopping with Peers on Google Docs

Lecturers in the Analytical Writing Program will share a framework for student-centered workshopping on Google docs. Students are engaged with their peers in a meaningful exchange of feedback on an assignment which they have each completed. The framework can be used in different disciplines and learning environments.

Speakers:

Lisa Naylor, Lecturer, Analytical Writing Program

Megan Haugh, Lecturer, Analytical Writing Program

Teaching Remotely with Role-Immersion Games

Role-immersion games see students take on the role of a character, such as a historical personality or the author of a class reading, whose point of view they adopt in giving speeches and completing writing assignments. Because the games are highly interactive, students often get to know each other well, which can be a way of overcoming the sense of isolation that remote learning often gives rise to. I describe role-immersion games, cite some common findings regarding their use, and describe how they can be incorporated in remote classes using platforms such as Slack and Discord.

Speaker:

Andy Lamey, Associate Teaching Professor, Philosophy

Web Applications for the Science of Sound and Music

My program connects music with physics. For this, we have created interactive web applications that allow users to analyze and play with sound. The applications are being widely used in the K-12 education system, and they are also suitable for students to learn the basics of waves, sound, and music theory at the University level. See: www.listeningtowaves.com/sound-exploration

Speaker:

Victor Minces, Research Scientist, Cognitive Science

Why Accessibility Matters and How to Improve Accessibility in Your Course

This tutorial will cover the importance of designing a course for accessibility, who it impacts, and quick tips for improving accessibility.

Speakers:

Joanna Boval, Director, Office for Students with Disabilities

Robin Martin, Manager, Multimedia Services, Educational Technology Services

April Cha, Sr. Instructional Designer, Digital Learning Hub, Teaching+Learning Commons

Improving the Conceptual Mastery of Students in High Enrollment Engineering Courses through Oral Exams

Oral exams could be a powerful supplemental assessment tool to improve conceptual understanding, maintain academic integrity and improve technical communication abilities. There are many challenges to implementing oral exams, such as scalability, students' anxiety, validity, reliability (bias) and fairness. In this presentation, we will share the lessons and experiences we have learned, based on the most recent results of six professors from MAE and ECE adopting oral exams in 6 different courses.

Speakers:

Hui Hui Qi, Assistant Teaching Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Curt Schurgers, Associate Teaching Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Strategies to Increase Student Participation/Interaction: Lessons from Spanish Language Courses

We will present some of the strategies and tools we used in our Spanish language courses to increase interaction and cognitive presence in the online environment.

Speakers:

Alicia Muñoz Sánchez, Lecturer, Linguistics

Lorenzo Sianez, Teaching Assistant, Linguistics

Naturally Nontraditional Teaching and Learning

The outbreak and response to COVID-19 has accelerated extraordinary changes in teaching and learning methods that were already underway. This session aims to step beyond the usual lecture methods and discuss effective tricks and ideas to consider adopting for improving learning while embracing these changes. The context is mainly technical courses with mathematics that require deep and lengthy student focus, a rare commodity today.

Problem Solving and Skill Building for the Workplace

The Jacobs School of Engineering and Extension at UC San Diego have been developing an immersive course on problem-solving for high school students and first-year undergraduates that will offer the foundations for student success whether they pursue an undergraduate degree or not. I will describe how this effort will simultaneously create professional development for secondary teachers to support a pipeline of skilled problem-solvers that are ready-to-work, ready-to-learn high school graduates.

Speaker:

Jesse Dewald, Director, EnVision, Jacobs School of Engineering

Outdoor Classrooms Best Practices and Q&A

As part of the Return to Learn initiative, UCSD now offers several fully equipped outdoor classrooms for safe and socially distant in-person learning. This session will provide a brief overview of the outdoor classrooms, the technology used, and the safety protocols in place. We will also discuss best practices and host an open Q&A.

Funding for Curricular Innovation, Novel Pedagogy, and New Learning Experiences

Research Development and Foundation Relations will share funding opportunities that provide support for faculty developing new educational experiences. Learn about federal-agency and philanthropic programs that support undergraduate and graduate education, including special opportunities for research training, international collaboration, and STEM pathways.

Speakers:

Lynsey Fitzpatrick, Strategic Research Opportunities Analyst, Research Affairs

Sharon Franks, Senior Director, Research Development, Research Affairs

Wendy Groves, Director, Research Development, Research Affairs

Carol Hobson, Director, Foundation Relations, Advancement

Six Ways to Collaborate with Extension

Case studies will be presented of activities carried out by Extension in collaboration with different campus units. The examples will cover from programs aimed to serve precollege students to postgraduate, and how Extension's broad range of activities can expand the reach of academic and community plan

Speakers:

Hugo Villar, Associate Dean, Professional and Continuing Education, Extension

Ed Abeyta, Associate Dean, Community Engagement & Director, Pre-Collegiate and Career Preparations Programs

Student Voice - Undergraduate and Graduate

Listen to current students discuss the challenges and triumphs of remote learning over the past year. Hear what worked, where we can improve, and their hopes for the future

Transforming a Heavily Lab-Oriented Robotics Class into a Flipped Classroom

We will describe the successful experience in transforming a heavily lab-oriented robotics class into an experiential student engagement and remote active learning flipped classroom.

Speakers:

Jack Silberman, Lecturer, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and Electrical and Computer Engineering

Mauricio de Oliveira, Adjunct Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Jump Start Your Course Building with Canvas Templates

This quick tutorial will introduce the Teaching + Learning Commons’ template to help you get started with building your courses in Canvas. Learn more about the template and how to implement it in your courses.

Speakers:

Cindy Perez, Instructional Designer & Learning Systems Specialist, Digital Learning Hub

Edual Ruiz, Educational Technology Specialist, Educational Technology Services

Teaching Writing in a Remote Environment

As part of the largest UC San Diego college writing programs, I have had to reimagine methods for the delivery of writing instruction since the transition to remote learning. In this session, I will share tools and activities that I have developed for teaching writing in a remote environment as well as my plans to incorporate some of these techniques into the Humanities Program curriculum after the return to campus learning.

Speaker:

Kristina Markman, Assistant Director, Humanities Program, Revelle College

UCTV Innovation

Find out how UCTV/UCSD-TV, a university-based television station with many media platforms, partners with faculty and researchers to create fact-based content for the public. UCTV embraces the core mission of the university – teaching, research and public service – through quality in-depth programming that brings the tremendous range of knowledge, culture and dialogue generated on campus to the public.

Speaker:

Lynn Burnstan, Managing Director, UCTV and UCSD-TV, UC San Diego Extension

Innovation in Information Literacy Instruction: The Library’s Approach to Interactive Online Learning at Scale

The pandemic has created unique challenges for course instructors, and one way that the Library has adapted to fit to emerging needs is by delivering online instruction to accommodate faculty and student needs in a synchronous and asynchronous environment concurrently. We will provide examples from our general library instruction workshops of how we have incorporated active learning in our synchronous Zoom workshops, keeping the asynchronous students’ participation in mind. We will also include recommendations for best practices to engage learners when teaching in Zoom, based on our experiences.

New Classroom Technologies for Flipped Classrooms (in beta)

We will present two classroom technologies we have been developing. These are currently used in our own courses and available to a limited number of interested instructors to try out. One technology is a web-based, iClicker-compatible, student response system that can show results for subgroups of students; the other is an autograded homework site, similar to WileyPlus, that assigns unique problem values from a set of options.

Speaker:

Curt Schurgers, Associate Teaching Professor, Electrical Computer Engineering

Using Google Docs in Canvas for Collaborative Writing Feedback with International Students

In this workshop, participants will practice using Google Docs for collaborative writing feedback in remote instruction with Zoom and Canvas.

Speakers:

Christina Andrade, Instructor and TEFL Trainer, UC San Diego Extension English Language Insititute

Amber Roshay, Instructor and TEFL Trainer, UC San Diego Extension English Language Insititute

Copyright FAQ's for the Online Environment

This session will cover a number of copyright-related matters that frequently arise at UC’s campuses, including UCSD. I will provide insights and share effective practices on a wide range of copyright topics, including copyright law basics, UC’s copyright policies, (including the new Copyright Ownership Policy issued 02/01/21), copyright misconceptions, strategies for protecting copyrighted works, and open-source software and Creative Commons licenses.

Speaker:

Angus MacDonald, Principal Counsel, Intellectual Property, UC's Office of General Counsel (UCOP), lead copyright lawyer for the UC System

Interacting with Primary Resources in Online Learning

Special Collections and Archives (SC&A) faces unique challenges in meeting teaching and research needs during the pandemic closure. Physical archive and primary resource materials are a key component of traditional onsite research activities. SC&A staff are responding by applying a range of services that include remote instruction, digitization on demand, and when appropriate use of our Virtual Reading Room (VRR) to enable limited access via unique credentials to digitized content.

Speakers:

Roger Smith, Associate University Librarian, UC San Diego Library

Lynda Claassen, Director Special Collections and Archives, UC San Diego Library

Novel Student-Designed Assessments: A Pilot Study in Engineering Education

In this presentation, a new assessment method that involves student-designed exams will be introduced. The implementation of the method in an engineering class, students' perceptions, lessons learned, and future directions will be discussed.

Speaker:

Saharnaz Baghdadchi, Assistant Teaching Professor, Electrical Computer Engineering

Circadian Rhythms and Academic Performance

In this session, I will share published work showing how learning systems can be used to identify early and late-type students, implications for their ability to succeed, and opportunities coming from the COVID-induced surge in remote learning.

Speaker:

Benjamin Smarr, Assistant Professor, Bioengineering & Halicioglu Data Science Institute

Teaching Performance Arts Online: Adding Gestures and Nonverbal Communication to the Virtual Classroom

While virtual classrooms replicate many features of in-person learning, the barrier of real-time performance has been difficult to cross, particularly for students of performing arts who rely on non-verbal communication, such as eye contact and directed gestures. In response, we developed a system which tracks a user's gaze and projects this information to the class, restoring the ability for a conductor to lead a group performance. I will describe how we have piloted our solution in undergraduate music courses and look forward to exploring other contexts that may benefit from such a system.

Speaker:

Ross Greer, Graduate Student, Electrical Computer Engineering

Shlomo Dubnov, Professor, Music