Description

“Equity is the road to social justice” - Dr. Tammeil Gilkerson
The Chancellor for the Peralta Community College District draws a throughline that touches so many key points that have emerged during the 2024 Online Equity Conference, placing belonging at the center of diversity, equity, inclusion, and access.

Outcomes

• Reflect on goals for grading and feedback. 

• Examine strategies and alternative grading approaches to assess students equitably. 

• Engage in self-review of course assignments and grading.  

• Identify areas to apply equitable grading strategies. 

Description

In this interactive workshop, we will provide participants the opportunity to reflect on and share their current grading and feedback practices. We will share strategies for designing equitable grading practices, including providing feedback without grades, allowing for multiple attempts, personal learning goals, token systems, and more. We will examine alternative grading approaches, like ungrading, labor-based, specification, and criteria-based grading. Participants will examine their current grading and feedback practices and identify equitable practices to implement to improve student learning.

Outcomes

• Review how to access the ADAPT homework system including with associated learning analytics and the H5P LibreStudio ancillary technology.

• Get started building courses using ADAPT including accessing over 220,000 existing OER questions (and growing).

• Access formative questions used to demonstrate the utility of ADAPT in the classroom via the web browser or mobile device.

Description

One of the principal limiting factors in large scale adoption of OER is the absence of comparable free or low-cost homework platforms to complement existing and developing OER textbooks. This presentation addresses the LibreTexts efforts to remove this barrier by building and expanding the open-source ADAPT homework system - a central component of the "LibreVerse" ecosystem of courseware technologies - to supplant existing for-profit commercial systems. ADAPT is designed as a centralized OER question bank (>220 k questions) that combines adaptive learning incorporating learning trees with culturally responsive pedagogy for advanced use. We will demonstrate how instructors can use ADAPT to augment existing and newly constructed OER textbooks with summative exercises and embed them in LMSs, LibreTexts textbooks, in a standalone web application, and in-class clickers. Discussions will demonstrate how the ADAPT empowers faculty to build and use existing questions in multiple modalities.

Outcomes

• Assess the balance between Teacher Talking Time (TTT) and Student Talking Time (STT) within their respective online environments. 

• Gain the skills to operationalize a few learner and learning-centered tasks. 

• Deepen understanding of equity pedagogy on a philosophical level.

Description

As defined by Banks and Banks (1994), "Equity Pedagogy challenges the idea of instruction as a transmission of facts and the image of the teacher as a citadel of knowledge … [It] alters the traditional power relationship between teachers and students… [and] creates an environment in which students can acquire, interrogate, and produce knowledge."

Presenter will use an experiential approach by starting with two seven-minute sample teaching videos. The audience will be guided to analyze the video through a critical lens (of power and voice). One video shows a sample of a teacher-centered lesson whereas the other shows a video of a live zoom, student-centered lesson. After this experience, there will be a short self reflection on how much TTT (Teacher Talking Time) and STT (Student Talking Time) are we really allowing in our online classes with the understanding that self-critical reflection can promote transformational change. Participants will then be exposed to a few ways to de-center the teacher and center an online class (live or asynchronous) on the learner and learning. 

Outcomes

• Identify barriers to learning in traditional online course designs and recognize the benefits of applying UDL principles. 

• Interrogate the limitations of backward design for reaching all learners.

• Apply principles of UDL and accessibility to backward design to promote a more accessible and inclusive course.

Description

Backward Design is a widely used framework for designing and developing courses across all levels of education. In recent years, the framework has been critiqued for creating rigid pathways for learning and not accounting for varying levels of diversity in the classroom. This can even be more pronounced in online learning contexts where learners come from very diverse backgrounds in terms of race, age, geography, digital literacy, and more. This session will empower educators to think about ways apply the principles of accessibility and Universal Design to create a more inclusive course, while still grounding it in the fundamentals of backward design.

Outcomes 

• Design: Outline key elements for building a faculty development course that fosters collaboration in creating and sharing AI-powered teaching artifacts. 

• Implement: Identify practical strategies for integrating AI tools effectively, considering personalization, feedback, and assessment while maintaining student agency.

Description 

How do we leverage AI to engage all students in meaningful, equitable learning experiences that expand their digital literacy as they navigate their academic pathways? This workshop delves into the core pedagogical practices in our approach to AI for teaching and learning. It is designed for a broad audience, including K-12 educators, college faculty, educational technologists, and educational developers who design professional learning experiences. Attendees will leave inspired, equipped with clear, actionable steps for enhancing their educational strategies through AI.

SHARING OUR DESIGN: In our workshop, we'll delve into the design, implementation, and core curricular and teaching practices folded into "LEAD 185 AI for Teaching and Learning," a highly-successful faculty development course that we co-created for faculty across all disciplines at Pima Community College.  We will walk through how this open pedagogy course engages educators in developing new resources each week to share with peers as well as our larger community of AI educators. We will also share our strategies for scaffolding effective peer collaboration - and for fostering the kind of supportive professional learning environment needed to enable educators to build and share teaching artifacts. 

Our LEAD 185 course emphasizes a hands-on exploration of AI tools within the context of addressing specific student and educator needs.  Our workshop will showcase practical strategies for how we used AI to help us create every aspect of this course - as well as considerations around how AI can be used for course personalization, communication, student feedback practices and addressing other faculty needs, all while maintaining student agency around the use of AI. We will also share how we engage educators in emerging questions and news connected with the equitable, ethical, responsible, and transparent use of AI.

TESTIMONIALS: Participants of the LEAD 185 course have shared:

• "This course gave me new confidence with using AI in an educational setting."

• "Beneficial, well-structured, and full of important information. I recommend it to every faculty."

• "Participating in an interdisciplinary cohort offered such rich variety to assignments and pedagogical concerns. The respect paid to ethical practices also helped me to acknowledge my concerns and interests."

Discover more about their experiences.

A NOTE ON TRANSPARENT AI PRACTICES AND AUTHORSHIP: 

To model transparency in our use of AI, here are the transcript links connected with our draft. In short, we began with ChatGPT 4.0, pivoted toward free Gemini to break the blank page, then manually revised that draft and asked ChatGPT 4.0 for revision feedback.  

Outcomes  

• TBD

Description 

Leap into joy by getting ideas on how to leverage creativity and community to inform existing curriculum. This interactive workshop will offer attendees an opportunity to learn how to tap into their hobbies and interests to create innovative assignments that increase student engagement in the online environment.

Description 

Join us for a brief session to end the conference and outline how you can stay connected to this global equity community!