Teaching & Learning Conference March 11

Teaching & Learning Conference March 11, 2021 e-Posters

Documenting a Pandemic: Facilitating Student Reflection Time: 9:00-9:15am Presenters: Ella Howard Institution: Wentworth Institute of Technology Session Description: Students in my Fall 2020 Boston History courses documented their experiences of the pandemic for contribution to a database and website I created. They also contributed their thoughts to a national digital archive. Students offered a range of perspectives, sometimes critical, sometimes poignant. Creating a space for students to reflect on the world around them as well as their own experience of the situation can encourage them to engage in critical reflection as a form of self care. It also helps them to understand the role of historians, archivists, and the intersection of Computer Science and the Humanities.

Assessment of an application-based language translator in improving therapy management among linguistically diverse populations. Time: 9:15-9:30am Presenters: Will Wilson Institution: MCPHS University Session Description: Throughout Massachusetts there are 138 unique languages spoken. Approximately 547,000 MA residents have reported to have Limited English proficiency (LEP). Institutions are, therefore, challenged to conduct effective communication by breaking the language barriers to help improve patient medication therapy. On average, a face-to-face healthcare interpreter is reported to cost $98 per hour ($45 - $150) with a minimum time requirement of 2 hours. Using our study/poster-presentation we are investigating the use of application based translators to mitigate the omission of care given to non-English speaking population that's prevalent within our healthcare system. We identify the value of using language translation interventions to improve patient therapy management and simultaneously optimize their holistic well-being.

What we can learn as faculty and administrators from a research project on how working students juggle work and full-time studies Time: 9:30-9:45am Presenters: Katrin Kriz & Janese Free Institution: Emmanuel College Session Description: This presentation offers concrete takeaways for faculty and administrators based on a preliminary analysis of a research project on how full-time college students who work more than 20 hours per week during the academic year juggle work and studies. It builds on in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 55 working college students at two- and four-year public and private colleges and universities in a large metropolitan area in the northeastern United States, which we conducted with a team of undergraduate researchers between March 2020 and July 2020. This analysis is part of a book project entitled The College Reset: How We Can Make Colleges Work for Working Students. It shows the ways in which this population of students juggles work and full-time studies and how this affects their academics and wellbeing. We will

1 present our findings and suggest simple steps in which college faculty and administrators can support working students at no or low cost.

Preconstruction and Construction with Autodesk BIM 360 Time: 12:00-12:15PM Presenters: Fopefoluwa Bademosi Institution: Wentworth Institute of Technology Session Description: The power of cloud technologies connected with BIM is radically transforming virtual design and construction workflows and helping construction professionals collaborate more effectively within a multidisciplinary team environment. Autodesk® BIM 360™ is a comprehensive, intuitive platform for collaboration, communication, construction documentation, and project management. The purpose of this research is to develop detailed lesson plans to support construction faculty and instructors using BIM 360™ to introduce students to Document Management, Model Management, and Estimating workflows in the classroom. The lesson plans can be incorporated into undergraduate and graduate courses classes to expose students to project management activities within BIM 360 and prepare them to succeed in their construction management careers. Roundtable Discussions

Incorporating diversity, equity, and inclusion in science courses. Time: 9:00-9:20am Presenters: Janel Cabrera Institution: Emmanuel College Session Description: It is important for educators to include discussions on diversity, equity, and inclusion in STEM courses. However, finding the opportunity to incorporate these elements can be challenging. For this roundtable discussion, faculty will get the opportunity to share and brainstorm ideas on how we can incorporate this important topic in our courses.

Clinical Rotations in the virtual setting - opportunities and limitations of remote rotations Time: 9:00-9:20am Presenters: Michael Bear Institution: MCPHS University Session Description: The restrictions and changes over the past year have forced many clinical rotations into the virtual setting. Students who would typically be on a medical campus for extended periods of time were often times no longer allowed on site due to space restrictions or other concerns. Preceptors often needed to adapt rotations to accommodate both the students and the practice sites needs. For this roundtable discussion, participants will exchange ideas / experiences with providing clinical rotation experiences despite working in a remote setting. Was a practice site disrupted, suspended, or altered? Were students able to maintain clinical experiences or collaboration with other providers in a remote setting and how did technology allow for meaningful experiences to continue?

Engaging students with interdisciplinary courses and team-based learning. Time: 9:00-9:20am Presenters: Michelle Young, Nalini V. Broadbel, Kristen Petersen, Nevila Jana, Katrina Van Dellen, Martha Gardner Institution: MCPHS University Session Description: Student success in the workforce relies on the formation of interdisciplinary teams and collaborative practice. To achieve this we proposed the creation, training and support for interdisciplinary courses facilitated with team-based learning. We will share how the IPE course was created and taught (face to face vs remote), the effective team performance of the faculty and students and the influence on students learning. 2

The panel of collaborators will discuss: (A) Course/s (IPE and non-IPE) with team-based learning they have integrated into their curriculum, (B) Why this pedagogical method is engaging and important to students now and in the future, (C) Explore the recommendation and promotion of IPE course and collaborative work groups at the University.

Supporting Students after the Pandemic Time: 9:25-9:45am Presenters: AJ Andreucci, Assistant Dean of Community Standards, Office of Student Affairs, Julia Golden, Associate Dean of Students, Office of Student Affairs, Keri Griffin, Associate Professor of Public Health, School of Arts and Sciences, Carl Oliveri, Senior Associate Dean of Students, Office of Student Affairs, Tiffanie Pierce, Associate Dean for Student Achievement and Success, Center for Academic Success and Enrichment Institution: MCPHS University Session Description: MCPHS Faculty and Staff from Student Affairs and Academic Support are asking attendees to join a roundtable discussion about the lessons they learned about how the pandemic showed. Attendees will be asked to talk how they adapted their services and/or teaching style to support the need for increased advising, tutoring, financial assistance, and mentoring services to support students. Attendees will be broken up into breakout rooms for a 10 minute (loosely guided) discussion and then brought back to the main group to report back. They will be asked to post their findings in a shared document that will be edited and shared with attendees.

Challenges and opportunities in the remote teaching of technical classes Time: 9:25-9:45am Presenters: Cristina Cosma Institution: Wentworth Institute of Technology Session Description: The discussion will focus on the technical, pedagogical, and social challenges of remote teaching the undergraduate technical courses. The intention is to identify general challenges but also the ones specific to each academic standing. Feedback received from students will be analyzed and best practices will be shared. Finally the benefits and opportunities of remote teaching will be examined particularly the anytime- anywhere and self-directed learning approaches.

Enhancing student learning experience and retention through specification-based grading Time: 9:25-9:45am Presenters: Mel Henriksen & Mami Wentworth Institution: Wentworth Institute of Technology Session Description: Specifications-based grading is a grading scheme in which students are assessed for each of the specifications in more frequent assessments. The multiple retake opportunities reduce testing anxiety and supports growth mindset by allowing students to learn from mistakes.

During this roundtable discussion, we will present our implementation of specifications-based grading in an upper-level math course at Wentworth and student feedback.

We will also discuss the potential impact of specifications-based grading on student learning experience, as a means to increase the retention rate. 30 Minute Teaching Demos

Activating Change from the Classroom Time: 10:35-11:05am Presenters: Robert Cowherd Institution: Wentworth Institute of Technology

Session Description: Judging by outcomes, students should be skeptical of their schooling. Given the cascading crises of the 21st century, it is arguably unrealistic to expect teachers to be the primary source of understanding for students graduating into a world previously unimagined. Instead, what becomes possible when teachers acknowledge this situation from the outset and use the classroom instead as a springboard for student development beyond anything the faculty themselves have been capable of achieving?

A course on the history of cities is used to demonstrate a range of teaching methods necessitated by this reversal in the usual classroom order: from teaching history in reverse, to group formulation of action plans. Far from leaving students feeling on their own, or doomed to repeat the errors of prior generations, students emerge from this boot camp for mobilizing change better prepared to participate and lead meaningful change in the face of whatever comes next.

Implementing VR and AR into Construction Education Time: 10:35-11:05am Presenters: Hariharan Naganathan Institution: Wentworth Institute of Technology Session Description: The presentation explains how VR and AR (MR) can be used in construction education to elevate the visualizing skills of the students in specific to reading plans, estimating and quantity take-offs. Students will also get a chance to perform block activities to understand different views on a construction drawing.

Online Community of Practice as a Professional Development Platform Time: 10:35-11:05am Presenters: Irina Smilyanski Institution: MCPHS University Session Description: Effective professional development is associated with job satisfaction and retention of faculty, hence, with improvement of students’ learning outcomes. The features of effective professional development include learners-centeredness, accessibility of the content, and a sense of learning community. Online Community of Practice can be suggested as an option for the professional development of faculty that is capable of replicating the advantages of the in-house continuous professional development while being mindful of the drawbacks of the face-to-face environment needs for this practice. The presentation will highlight the concept of online community of practice, introduce them to the process of building online community of practice at Forsyth School of Dental Hygiene in times of pandemic, and discuss lessons learned during this unique community building adventure.

Boosting Student Engagement in the Classroom or Online with Breakout Fun! Time: 10:35-11:05am Presenters: Daniel Holbrook, Jonathan Igoe Institution: Emmanuel College, Breakout Fun! Session Description: Teaching during the pandemic has been incredibly challenging, and Educators are looking for new ways to increase student engagement and collaboration for both in-person and virtual classroom environments.

Breakout Fun! uses teacher created (or test bank generated questions) to build a fully customizable game. This exciting break in the normal routine allows students to interact with one another, collaborate while learning, prepare for assessments, and have fun! Once a Breakout Fun! game is created, students work together in groups to problem solve and compete against other groups in the class. The host is able to jump in and out of the groups to observe and interact with the class as well.

Breakout Fun! has a very fast setup time and is super easy to use. It works great during in person classes, but is always a wonderful way to engage virtual audiences as well. Students love playing Breakout Fun! You provide the questions, and Breakout Fun! does the rest. 4

Dual-mode teaching using Surface Pro tablet and Drawboard PDF. Time: 12:00-12:30pm Presenters: David E. Perkins Institution: Wentworth Institute of Technology Session Description: In response to increased demand for in-person teaching, concurrent with de-densified classroom protocols, Wentworth has developed a new RLC/RLB course structure where up to half of the students may attend a given class or lab period in-person while the remaining half attend online. To meet the dual-mode delivery challenge of this new course structure, a new teaching strategy was required. This Teaching Demo will highlight the use of Microsoft Surface Pro tablet technology in conjunction with Adobe Acrobat Pro DC and Drawboard PDF document editing and note generating apps. Presentation will include initial technology setup along with step-by-step procedures for effectively preparing and delivering high- quality content to your students prior to, during, and after your class.

Sparking Discovery in the Virtual Classroom: Constructivist Strategies for Active Learning and Creative Student Engagement over Zoom Time: 12:00-12:30pm Presenters: Josh Luckens Institution: Wentworth Institute of Technology Session Description: In this workshop, we will delve into a short poem using a variety of active learning strategies designed for an online synchronous class. In the lesson demo itself, we will use a variety of features of both Zoom and Google Jamboard to investigate the text. We will then debrief the lesson using the learning design framework of experience planning. We will draw connections to best practices in constructivist pedagogy. We will conclude by collaboratively exploring ways to implement the strategies for student engagement shared in the lesson across a variety of academic disciplines.

Math Class: Learning Area or Testing Ground? Time: 12:30-1:00pm Presenters: Brendan W. Sullivan Institution: Emmanuel College Session Description: Over the last few years, I have experimented with variations on standards-based grading in my mathematics courses. In the abrupt transition to remote learning in Spring 2020, I realized the need to even further rethink the assignments I give students and how those assignments are factored into a final grade. Specifically, I wanted to move away from test/quizzes that are timed, synchronous, and high-stakes.

In this presentation, I will discuss two experiences from the past year: (1) using problem sets and a revise-and- resubmit process to assess students in introductory calculus courses, and (2) using an "ungrading" scheme in a survey course for non-majors. (The presentation title uses a phrase coined by a student in that survey course.) I will share thoughts about what worked well and make suggestions for anyone looking to try similar things in their own courses.

Opioid Healthcare Crisis in America- Recognize and Respond to an Opioid Overdose Time: 12:30-1:00pm Presenters: Francis Melaragni Institution: MCPHS University Session Description: The presentation will provide background about the opioid healthcare crisis in America, and then discuss how to recognize and respond to an opioid overdose through the use of rescue breathing and naloxone.

Using Blackboard and Microsoft Teams for a collaborative teaching experience Time: 12:30-1:00pm Presenters: Jana Murry, Nancy Stern Institution: MCPHS University Session Description: We have designed and built a way to teach and deliver a Pharmacy Practice simulation lab in a virtual format. We would like to showcase and discuss the tools that we have incorporated to run a successful virtual lab course. Predominantly, utilizing Blackboard and Microsoft Teams, we have created a way to assess, provide direction, and give each student a unique hands on and challenging experience. We will discuss how we organized, planned, coordinated, and delivered this virtual environment.

Increasing Awareness and Eradicating the Spread of COVID-19: A Game-Based Learning Approach Time: 12:30-1:00pm Presenters: Yetunde Folajimi, Hadi Kazemiroodsari, Calvin Vuong, Frankie, Guarino, Walid Harkous, Johnnie Z. Ho, Jacob Blatt Institution: Wentworth Institute of Technology Session Description: In this workshop, we present two prototypes of educational games that have been developed by a team of researchers and students at Wentworth Institute of Technology, for creating awareness about the reality of COVID 19 and the need to eradicate it as soon as possible. Preservation, is targeted at adult players and the player represents a city leader that has to pass policies while maintaining public support and strong economy of the city, and minimizing the spread of COVID-19 in an infected city. The player must survive long enough or suppress the infection enough in order to win the game. will win. Our second game, WatchOut! Is targeted at children aged 9-15 and is designed to help them understand how to take precautionary measures, such as wearing a mask, applying hand sanitizer, and frequently washing their hands in order to minimize their chance of getting infected with COVID-19, or to take appropriate actions such as quarantine or contacts tracing.

45 Minute Workshops

How to create effective and engaging review sessions? Techniques and apps for any classroom modality. Time: 9:45-10:30am Presenters: Florencia Gabriele Institution: Emmanuel College Session Description: In Spring of 2020 we had to transition to online classes in one week. As we had to conduct our classes online, we had to find new ways to conduct review sessions as well. My goal is to share tools, and techniques that can immediately be applied by instructors to create comprehensive review sessions. We will show how to: - Foster an effective review of concept understanding - Provide engagement techniques - Promote/rewards studying before the review session - Encourage students to come to the review session better prepared and with questions - Ease procrastination in studying - Decrease anxiety - Promote the correct use of economic jargon to define terms The technology we will share is free, and easy to use, and examples for small and large classes will be provided.

Racial Justice Pedagogy in the Classroom Time: 9:45-10:30am Presenters: Meenakshi Verma-Agrawal Institution: Simmons University

Session Description: How can faculty support students in bringing a conversation about structural racism into the classroom? In this interactive session, Professor Verma-Agrawal will share tools used in the MPH program as well as resources faculty can use to bring an equity lens into the classroom. We will discuss shared definitions and engage in practice activities on how we can reframe data we share to name racism and other forms of oppression that are evident in our pedagogy.

Using Brightspace and Panopto to enhance learning for students Time: 9:45-10:30am Presenters: Sharon Brown Institution: Wentworth Institute of Technology Session Description: This workshop will show how I have created 3-5 min micro lesson using Panopto Video’s to enhance learning for students. I have used these mini lessons for software and for technical concepts.

Revit: I have broken Revit down into micro steps. Such as how to create walls, doors, windows, etc. If a student is having difficulty creating one component they can review a 3-5 min video to review what they learned in class.

Sage: Sage is a estimating software used for construction managers. I have created 3-5 min video's on how to use the estimating software. If the students are able to access mini lessons to review how to enter information or create reports in Sage. This software is used by construction management student in advanced estimating

Technical Concepts: I have also started to create mini-lessons for students for more technical concepts. Most recently I created step by step Panopto mini lessons on how to size water piping. I broke down the process into (4) 5 min video's

Restorative Justice Circle Practice Time: 9:45-10:30am Presenters: Lisa Schneier Institution: Emmanuel College Session Description: This session will describe, with the help of 2 students, the practice of using Restorative Justice Circles in my online classes. We will begin with the history of restorative circle practice as originally a native American practice. Restorative practice is based on community building and valuing every community member. It highlights the relationship between all community members and is, therefore, an inclusive practice. I became interested in having my own students, many of whom are pre-service teachers, experience Restorative Circle practice. I found that this practice added to our own sense of class community as well as providing my students with an approach that they could bring to their own classrooms. This past fall, we adapted Restorative Circle practice to an online environment. Since this practice, when done in person, depends on a physical circle, I developed a way of replacing that physical circle to replicate its significant features online, repeated this practice weekly.

Remote and in the community: Taking service-learning online Time: 11:10-11:55am Presenters: Meghan Doran, Katherine Nolan, Eugenia Knight Institution: Simmons University Session Description: This workshop will explore the lessons learned across a year of doing service and community-based learning in a completely virtual environment. We will give examples of how we had to rethink community engagement, discuss what that meant for our partnerships, and consider how our students responded. We will give practice examples that illustrate innovative approaches to obtaining course learning objectives and will discuss how the information gained will impact our work moving forward, even as we begin to work on the ground again.

Promoting Belonging to Motivate Learning and Student Engagement Time: 11:10-11:55am Presenters: Shreya Bhattacharyya, Ruthann Thomas, Eugenia Knight Institution: Simmons University Session Description: The interactive workshop will apply psychological research on students’ sense of belonging to develop classroom strategies and activities that help students feel that they are valued members of the academic community. Students who feel that they belong in their academic community engage more fully in their learning experiences and report higher motivation to achieve. This is reflected in higher exam scores, better overall well being and lower attrition rates for universities. This presentation will introduce and define belonging and belonging uncertainty, with quotes from Michelle Obama, Sonia Sotomayer and Marie Curie. This will be followed by a belonging intervention and discipline specific strategies and wrapped up with a discussion on helping students “fit in” their academic environment.

#Influencer: College Student Development & Intentional Instagram Communities Time: 11:10-11:55am Presenters: Liam Rice Institution: Emmanuel College Session Description: This session will examine the social networking site Instagram and “Networked Publics,” or online communities where individuals and groups socialize and craft meaning (boyd, 2014) through a higher education lens. Framed in boyd’s research on online teen community-building and additional emergent digital community research (Ahlquist, 2020; Potts, 2020), participants will analyze Instagram, specifically student usage and social interactions, and explore how students learn and develop self-on-self through digital interactions with peers, administrators, and the institution. Connecting metamodern techno-social theory to student development theory and the collegiate experience, this session will engage participants on where, why, and how students create and shape their college experience on Instagram and what higher education professionals can do to challenge and support student development beyond advertising campus events.

Video Game for Educational Purposes - Fluid Mechanics Time: 11:10-11:55am Presenters: Hadi Kazemiroodsari, Yetunde Folajimi, Riley Morley, Brenden Chapman, Jace Fordi Institution: Wentworth Institute of Technology Session Description: Fluid Mechanics is a fundamental course of the Civil Engineering curriculum. Designing a more interactive method of teaching would help students to learn the complex engineering concepts better. Professors Kazemiroodsari and Folajimi are working on a project to design a video game for teaching Fluid Mechanics. 3 students ( 2 Civil Engineering and 1 Computer Science) are helping the mentioned faculty to design an interactive game. During the game the student faces multiple Fluid Mechanics related challenges and using the knowledge they gained during class they can solve the problems. The problems varies from calculating the power of a pump, to buoyancy and stability problems.

COVID: Lessons Learned Across the Nursing Curriculum Time: 12:00-12:45pm Presenters: Carla Smith Institution: MCPHS University Session Description: 1. Physical ability vs mental agility: New Labs format developed in online learning show how to better utilize future lab time. 2.Origami and other new tools: New Labs were developed to demonstrate new structural engineering ideas. 3.Lab in a box – Sent the students materials that they used while instruction was given via zoom. 4.Teaching "old dogs" new tricks – Fully embracing the idea that the use of videos is an effective learning tool for repetition, rather than reading and re-reading.

Building Community & Engagement in the Virtual Context Time: 12:00-12:45pm Presenters: Rebecca Moryl, Abdullah Al-Bahrani, Associate Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Economics Education Institution: Simmons University, Northern Kentucky University Session Description: Their paper Using Social Media to Retain and Connect with Students in the Shift to Online Education was featured on facultyfocus.com. Topics will include building community within and outside a course, using Zoom to foster engagement, and integrating synchronous and asynchronous activities to foster engagement.

Crisis teaching in 2020 has improved our next decade in the classroom. Time: 12:00-12:45pm Presenters: Anuja Kamat, James Lambrechts Institution: Wentworth Institute of Technology Session Description: 1. Physical ability vs mental agility: New Labs format developed in online learning show how to better utilize future lab time. 2.Origami and other new tools: New Labs were developed to demonstrate new structural engineering ideas. 3.Lab in a box – Sent the students materials that they used while instruction was given via zoom. 4.Teaching "old dogs" new tricks – Fully embracing the idea that the use of videos is an effective learning tool for repetition, rather than reading and re-reading.

Using an innovative assignment which incorporates technology and digital media to teach policy, research, and presentation, skills to help MSW students Time: 12:00-12:45pm Presenters: Dr. Monique Holsey- Hyman, Christopher Solomon, Shanika Wilson Institution: Simmons University, North Carolina Central University Session Description: Social work graduates need to demonstrate core competencies essential for professional social work practice (Council on Social Work Education, 2008). Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) have a rich history in utilizing innovative ideas and techniques to educate students from diverse cultural backgrounds. This interactive workshop aims to draw more attention to the best pedagogical approaches using a creative assignment to teach policy, research, and presentation skills to MSW students.