Focus Area: Collaboration
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Collaborative Learning Across the Disciplines: A Faculty Roundtable
This past semester, the TLTC convened a faculty roundtable to share strategies related to collaborative learning. After experiencing online and asynchronous learning environments over the past several years, students may need additional support learning to work together and to build community in the classroom. To promote cooperative and interactive learning, we can take purposeful approaches,…
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Engaging students: Collaboration in the classroom
After years of remote and hybrid instruction, students are both excited to work with others and nervous about how to. Faculty can help students find supported paths to making connections in the classroom. Collaborative learning encourages students get to know each other, gives them a chance to grapple with unfamiliar insights or viewpoints, and can…
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Revitalizing your teaching philosophy with new practices
Statements of teaching philosophy have long been standard documents for academic employment and promotion dossiers. These statements explain in a page or two how and why we teach. (Guides on how to write a good one proliferate—the University of Michigan’s Center for Research on Learning and Teaching links many of them here). In addition to…
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Introducing Teaching Foundations: A Series on Pedagogy
Collaboration, Inclusive & Global Learning, Project Based Learning, Student Engagement, Universal DesignWelcome to Teaching Foundations, a new content series devoted to sharing pedagogy resources responsive to our moment with teaching faculty at SUNY Oneonta. I’m Racheal Fest, and I’m excited to join our campus community this semester, supporting faculty pedagogy in the Teaching, Learning, and Technology Center. I bring a background in critical pedagogy, student success…
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Breakout Groups in Microsoft Teams
Andrew BottomleyDepartment of Communications and Media, Media StudiesSUNY Oneonta In the video, Andrew Bottomley discusses how he sets up Microsoft Teams to make breakout groups for students during their online class. This allows students to meet in their groups virtually during their class time. As an early adopter to Teams, Andrew shows how uses Team…
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Creating Equitable Group Work
One of the big fears with assigning group work is that student contributions won’t be equal. In the video, Sarah Portway shows and explains what she does for her classes to make sure all students become accountable for contributing their share of work into the group project. She shows a couple forms she uses for…
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Creating community through the use of Teams
Mike Puckett,Sociology (Criminal Justice),SUNY Oneonta Like many of you, I found myself thrust into the world of online teaching last semester. I knew that my weekly 2 and half hour lectures could not be replicated online with the same pedagogical effect. However, I was unfamiliar with teaching using Blackboard or Teams. I had, of course,…
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Breakout Groups for Dialogic Exercises
Dr. William Walker, History Department, SUNY Oneonta, Professor Will Walker explains the effective use of breakout groups for dialogue-based activities. Will explains how this is done quite simply by using the breakout group function in Blackboard collaborate. This is part of a series of posts collected by the TLTC and Faculty Center to share ideas and tools that have been helpful in the shift is teaching during the…
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