Upcoming Presentations

League for Innovation in the Community College

Beyond Engagement: Evidence-Based Strategies for Improving Learning Online

Date & Time TBD

Students and faculty both encounter challenges in the online environment. These challenges frequently manifest and are understood in terms of low student engagement. In this session, researchers and community college faculty will present a specific and actionable framework to bolster students’ abilities to remain motivated and manage their learning processes in online courses. The presenters refer to these mutually reinforcing mindsets and behaviors as self-directed learning (SDL) skills and they include motivational processes (e.g., self-efficacy), metacognitive processes (e.g., planning), and applied learning processes (e.g., help seeking). Presenters will describe a set of evidence-based instructional strategies to support SDL developed in collaboration with instructors at broad-access institutions. Speakers will share research findings on how the strategies have been implemented in postsecondary online STEM courses and their effect on student outcomes. A community college faculty member will share their experience implementing the strategies in an online biology course.

Presenters

Ellen Wasserman, Research Associate, CCRC

Allystair Jones, Department Chair, Science & Professor of Biology, Odessa College

Keena Walters, Education Research Associate, SRI Education

Using Lesson Study to Improve Teaching and Learning

March 01, 2020
Seattle, WA

This presentation described Lesson Study—a structured, collaborative professional development approach to supporting instructors' improvement of learning in classrooms. Presenters shared experiences and findings from a research project on the implementation of Lesson Study among developmental mathematics faculty at three community colleges. They also discussed the feasibility of Lesson Study as a strategy for professional development in higher education.

Participants

Carrie Kyser
Math Instructor
Clackamas Community College
Jacqueline Raphael
Practice Expert, System Improvement
Education Northwest
Senior Research Associate
Community College Research Center

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