As the overwhelming urgency of last spring’s pivot to remote and online teaching fades, dipping into the science teaching literature can provide ideas for developing and revising our courses. This term in the journal club we explored various active learning strategies and activities and discussed how to apply them to remote and online courses. We concentrated for several weeks on assessment, as developing fair, probing assessments that maintain academic integrity continued to be a sticking point for many science faculty.
Week One (10/1):
Keller, A. S., Davidesco, I., & Tanner, K. D. (2020). Attention Matters: How Orchestrating Attention May Relate to Classroom Learning. CBE—Life Sciences Education, 19(3), fe5. https://www.lifescied.org/doi/10.1187/cbe.20-05-0106
Week Two (10/8):
Mini-concentration on assessment: Strategies during COVID
Nguyen, J. G., Keuseman, K. J., & Humston, J. J. (2020). Minimize Online Cheating for Online Assessments During COVID-19 Pandemic. Journal of Chemical Education, 97(9), 3429-3435. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.jchemed.0c00790
Week Three (10/15):
Mini-concentration on assessment: Online exam proctoring
Rankin, J. E. (2020). Exam Day: What to Expect. Retrieved October 12, 2020, from https://support.proctoru.com/hc/en-us/articles/360043565051#h_8a507c06-d5ca-4453-b288-242770607b6f
Rankin, J. E. (2020). What am I allowed and not allowed to do during my exam? Retrieved October 12, 2020, from https://support.proctoru.com/hc/en-us/articles/360043127892
Patil, A., & Bromwich, J. E. (2020, September 29). How It Feels When Software Watches You Take Tests. The New York Times. Retrieved October 12, 2020, from https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/29/style/testing-schools-proctorio.html
Eyler, J. (2020, October 2). The Science of Learning vs. Proctoring Software. The Science of Learning. Retrieved October 12, 2020, from https://josheyler.wordpress.com/2020/10/02/the-science-of-learning-vs-proctoring-software/
Week Four (10/22):
Mini-concentration on assessment: structured oral exams
Wang, L., Khalaf, A. T., Lei, D., Gale, M., Li, J., Jiang, P., … & Wei, Y. (2020). Structured oral examination as an effective assessment tool in lab-based physiology learning sessions. Advances in Physiology Education, 44(3), 453-458. https://journals.physiology.org/doi/pdf/10.1152/advan.00059.2020
Week Five (10/29):
Mini-concentration on assessment: Promoting academic integrity
Wagner, E., Enders, J., Pirie, M., & Thomas, D. (2016). Supporting academic integrity in a fully-online degree completion program through the use of synchronous video conferences. Journal of Information Systems Education, 27(3), 159. http://jise.org/Volume27/n3/JISEv27n3p159.pdf
Week Six (11/5):
Fisher, L., Brinthaupt, T. M., Gardner, J., & Raffo, D. (2015). The effects of conditional release of course materials. Journal of Student Success and Retention Vol, 2(1). http://www.jossr.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/CR-Research-FisherFinal-Sept23-15.pdf
Week Seven (11/12):
Ruggieri, C. (2020). Students’ use and perception of textbooks and online resources in introductory physics. Physical Review Physics Education Research, 16(2), 020123. https://journals.aps.org/prper/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.16.020123
Week Eight (11/19):
Geerling, W., Thomas, N., & Wooten, J. (2020). Facilitating Student Connections and Study Partners During Periods of Remote and Online Learning. Available at SSRN 3692086. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3692086 Also available here.
Week Nine (11/26): Thanksgiving – No journal club
Week Ten (12/3): Teaching Showcase
Nicola Barber and Cristin Hulslander, instructors of BI 211 General Biology I: Cells, give us a look into their fully online course, discussing their overall approach, course structure, and assessment strategies, with emphasis on how they use their Canvas site to support their goals.
Watch a recording of the Teaching Showcase Journal club meeting (UO community only).
To see how some other faculty are approaching their online courses, watch a recording of one or more of the excellent course tours given by our UO colleagues during the summer:
Erin Beck, Associate Professor, Political Science
View the course tour (49 minutes)
Erik Ford, Instructor, Lundquist College of Business
View the course tour (28 minutes)
Leah Schneider, Senior Instructor, Lundquist College of Business
View the course tour (29 minutes)