Hello

Dr. Deborah Johnson-Blake, Atlanta, Georgia, Liberty University and Concordia University-Texas

No.

Only the person sharing the slides can share the sound

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIoOiHOel34

no

There you go!

Sounds great!

hi everyone :)

Hi!

It is from adele

Hello everyone, Queen from Tennessee Tech

what is this song Amy? I love it

Hello from Bay Mills Community College, on Lake Superior

Hello all. Suzanne Dunn, Instructional Designer and adjunct for Northcentral University joining from Portland, OR.

Hi all Wendy from Baltimore

Hi! I'm the College of Engineering Distance Learning Program Manager at Texas Tech in Lubbock, TX.

Hello!

Hi, Maha!

Nice music

Greetings! I’m Nguyen. PK-12 School Counselor from Massachusetts.

Hello everyone! I teach Communication online and am joining from Central Florida.

Renee from Indiana … and I feel your violin pain; I have a kid who started at age 3. He's 4.5 now and … not that much better.

I teach art history online…

Great subject. I ALMOST minored in Art History.

Hi everyone, I teach Data Analysis at CSU Bakersfield.

Hello, from the Hypothesis team here in (almost sunny) Portland, Oregon!

I’m Susan from Albuquerque, NM and I teach Art and Architectural history part-time at Central New Mexico Community College.

hi Ja;a

Jala

Aloha, I'm Kathleen- I teach Nursing at UH Maui College.

hey y'all. Summer, I use she/her pronouns, work at Tulane in New Orleans

Hello from Chicago, this is Valeria Benson-Lira, teach Earth Science at Oakton Community College

Hi everyone, Carl from Cape Town, South Africa. Loved the conversation about glue

Maui. So jealous!

The conversation has been great and enjoyable.

Kate Jordahl, Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, CA - OLC Board Meeting

The Verve!

Rob. ID. Northern Illinois University.

Hello from Indiana University Bloomington

Alice Duszkiewicz RN nursing instructor D"Youville Buffalo, NY

Bittersweet Symphony

HI. I'm Stephanie, and Instructional Designer at Jacksonville State University, AL.

Hello from the Blue Ridge Mountains! I am Lisa Pertillar Brevard, Assoc. Dir. General Education, Walden University.

Dir. of Online Technology at Rochester University in MI

Deanna, producer/director from UH Maui College

love the song. Nike commercial song back in the day.

Hi, Elissa from Lake of the Ozarks, MO. CMU

When not being a music parent, I am an instructional design manager focused on my university's MOOC portfolio.

Hiya--Sam Day, ID from University of Illinois at Chicago.

Faculty Development and anthro instructor at Alamo Colleges in San Antonio, Tx

We need a link to the OLC playlist!

YAY for providing captioning!!!

Here's the group we had playing: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZPXSSHQZrFlH0c3AMmw2nQ

(Thanks to Maha for sharing!)

Angela your hospitality is so beautiful <3

Thank you!

Hi Nate

Sounds great

www.virtuallyconnecting.org :)

http://virtuallyconnecting.org/

Feeling gratitude for all of you here

Inspired, thankful, and excited

Hi all! I am in plague-ridden Texas because people refuse to wear masks!

@Matt - we have the same here in Arizona

People give us mean looks for wearing masks

Grateful

excited about this!

Hello from Beirut, Lebanon Enjoying the presentations!

Me too

Feeling empowered

The breakfasts

Hi all! Hi Maha <hugs>

we all miss that!!

@Matt I live in Dallas. I wish everyone will take a break from socializing.

Missing hugs for sure

offering virtual hugs!

The chats in the halls between sessions

at the FG station

Virtual hug to you!

HUG (VIRTUAL) HUG

Hello I am from Henry Ford College in Michigan

Moses

Hanging in there. Glad to have this conference to learn. I'm new to being an ID, and I started my position 2.5 weeks before getting sent home for the pandemic. So, it's been interesting learning my new position from home. :)

Prayers, Maha. We in Detroit were there w the hospitals in early April.

Maha, You bring up a good point, connectedness. How can we do this in online environment?

@Stephanie - what a perfect place to find your mentors!

We’re still waiting for the pandemic to peak in South Africa

Hello everyone, American University of Nigeria

@Heather- yes. I've met a couple already. I'm appreciative.

could someone find and share the link to Maha’s “un invent” tweet?

https://twitter.com/Bali_Maha/status/1269012146211430403

Like I said (and I will be keep saying it), it blew my mind

Feel free to share questions here in the chat or raise your hand to grab the mic :)

Thanks for the session, gotta go

blogpost: https://blog.mahabali.me/educational-technology-2/changing-the-conversation-around-cheating-olcinnovate/

How do we inspire creativity in faculty who are "set in their ways?"

Since Monday I have been thinking how can we find a common language between social justice and compliance. Online learning is highly regulated and as a result some of the practices we adopt take us away from working towards that goal

If only I had hear that before planning all the PF activities for faculty post shutdown!

*PD

Loving BOTH hammer-nail analogies, hee hee

Super helpful! Thank you! :D

Faculty that take on administrative/senior administrative roles are often seen as if they had “sold your soul”

hi George

Hi Maha! Good to see you “live” today

Agree. Focusing on tools first is ultimately reductionist and leads to overwhelming focus on content instead of pedagogy, activity, creativity, and connection.

Awesome question, Rolando! I often describe it as the LMS being functionally controlled by the faculty -- something people often don't consider.

If anyone hasn’t visited the annotated conversation on Maha’s article that related to/helped shape her keynote, you can visit it and if you wait a beat, all the annotations will open that you can then contribute to: https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.al-fanarmedia.org%2F2020%2F05%2Fliteracies-teachers-need-during-covid-19%2F&group=__world__

Hello Dr. Maha :))what about those of faculty who have been giving the same material for several years now (say +30 for example).The course becomes super systematic and there might be even no proper common ground (communication between both the students and the professor)

I've had the technology conversation with professors who tell me that Zoom works for them but ask if they should switch to Blackboard Collaborate. I tell them no … stick with whatever tool works to deliver their content.

https://blog.mahabali.me/educational-technology-2/changing-the-conversation-around-cheating-olcinnovate/

The thing is many faculty members aren’t willing to shift to other ways of evaluating work

@Rolando: so true

Me too

It’s so cold

and mechanic

The positive (unintended) consequences of good teaching

We had a cognitive psychology professor derail a meeting the other day because they only wanted to focus on memorization. Its hard to get faculty to realize there are other goals in other courses.

+1 Kate

that is sad

Here too

I wonder if you could say more about how you prioritize student well-being/care over content in your courses. You mentioned this in your keynote.

Good luck in PR! Best safe

Be safe….

Thank you

I"ll come bac kto your question Jill inshallah

+1 to Jill's question

I think the pandemic made visible the struggles are students have already been going through.

Agree. Not a time to try and be neutral.

@Liana, so true. That happened to us after Hurricane Maria. Some of our students’ stories were heartbreaking

I told my school they would be killing students if they have on campus courses this fall. They were not happy with me.

https://hybridpedagogy.org/

Matt is your school planning to open this fall?

@Matt I can’t understand why some institutions are still insisting on going f2f this fall.

I think part of wanting to go f2f is financial.

How are you defining neutral?

Optimism as a form of self-delusion during the pandemic

we are going 80% online 20% f2f

I beleive a lot of social pressure to go f2f is another factor

We have 7 levels of courses (Online 1, 2, F2F, Hybrid 1 2, 3, 4) for Fall that faculty can choose for themselves.

@Wendy the professional schools want to go back f2f, and is mostly because of accreditation issues

gotta be optimistic

believe

Ugh!

The pandemic has really exposed the the digital divide. The obsession with webinars has really disadvantaged students who don’t have devices, data etc..

only those course that need to meet f2f (like labs or simulations) will meet f2f everything else online

Definitely Carl!

our curriculum demands on campus opportunity for students. We are facing many obstacles for learning with the current guidelines. (Dentistry)

I agree that those who need f2f should come to campus. There's just some courses that can't be done online.

We're going to be mostly online, respecting the many types of work and concerns and health issues students represent, with some social distancing for hands-on programs (community technical college)

@Carl: it definitely has

How do you get educators and students to realise that you simply don’t mimic a face-to-face class in a webinar?

Great question Carl. One I've had for a long time.

@Carl it definitely requires some unlearning

Hmm, thinking back to my student days in econ, I found a strong relationship between calculus and well-being - BUT it was an inverse relationship. LOL.

yes i remember

Stephanie, Consider how a course CAN be done online. There is clearly some labwork that can not be done easily online. I don't want to see a phlebotomist who did not learn their skill with hands on, but we also have students dissecting from home using video. You can do a lot!

Yes. Taking time for collective grief

Yes. Using any separate means of simple social interaction such as WhatsApp or GroupMe is very helpful. Sharing with students seems very helpful.

I have found that we need to shift the paradigm of having “students reach out to us” to “us reaching out to students”. We probably need to shift the paradigm from office hours to outreach hours. Proactively conferencing with students rather than waiting for students to visit us during office hours. This can allow us to better encourage the whole students and can even result in higher achievement with the learning objectives (and beyond).

Outreach hours, I like that

me too outreach hours!

I call my "office hours" "student hours"

@David - I love that

Making it all about the students

Outreach hours is a really great way to present to faculty who are resistant to a new paradigm.

@Derek: good point. Having regular student check ins, not just about classes, but how they r doing in general, goes a long way

Some students think office hours are when we should not be bothered.

@David - just changed my syllabus to "student hours"!

@Kim - fantastic!

@Deanna but how can you get them to understand that caring about students is part of our job as faculty?!

Living in Minneapolis, I would say that between a pandemic and police shootings, it was IMPERATIVE that we made time in class to check in.

Many of our students told us they would have wanted a check in from their professors. They stated they felt isolated

How would you apply these concepts to larger courses? Like 300 students/section.

they wanted the check ins not be just a check in about when their assignments were due.

@Rolando: I think that's a disconnect. It's like trying to instaill specific work ethics in emplyess

I love that. Outreach hours.

employees

Groups or cohorts?

I cannot tell you how many times a student walked into my office and said "I'm sorry to bother you..."

Agreed! Breaking them into small groups to do check ins have worked well.

One of the positive aspects of the pandemic is a shift into a greater level of comfort (for both faculty and students) of conferencing with students via Zoom.

I love the student outreach idea. I always encourage educators to personally message students throughout the course and just ask how they are doing.

Professional development for faculty should include reaching out to students and seeing how they are doing, in general, not just in class. Show students that they matter.

Perhaps this is because we sometimes take for granted the power / impact / transcendence we have / can make as educators? Is it because we are more focused on outcomes, grades, etc., than on the process?

I would ask how a teacher can be there for students if they're going through their own trauma/worry/etc. How do you handle that?

My language shift has been “How can I help you be successful?” Or when I ask them to have a personal meeting I’ll preference it with the statement “this conversation is about how I can help you be successful.” This seems to have resonated very well with my students, esp as the college emphasizes “student success” language.

Isn’t uninventing actually reverse inventing? XD

Hello Dr. Maha :))what about those of faculty who have been giving the same material for several years now (say +30 for example)?The course becomes super systematic and there might be even no proper common ground (communication between both the students and the professor).

Our LMS actually makes it almost too easy to reach out to students who slip with their work. For people who know how to use the tools, they have fabulous interaction. Technology can help!

I would hope that campuses have resources for all who are going through their own issues. But I have found that helping and caring for others does take you out of your own 'stuff.'

I have to step out a bit early for a work meeting. I am so sorry to miss the rest. Thank you, Maha, for being so generous with your time.

It happens more often than we would like to

What about required updates/revisions?

1000%

Insert “praise” hands here

Yes Laura Harste, that's a prob IMO. The LMS & school where I work is all geared to reach out to studs not keeping up or not completing work - but that may not be the best or only indicator of who is struggling and needs care. Often I've found, esp in the pandemic, that it was studs who were "keeping up" that really needed a human to reach out to them and care.

Campus mental well-being resources are also for faculty but most think they are only for students.

@Suzanne I like your shift to student success language.

@David: yep

Thank you Haha, I read your blog and your article about Cheating. It’s super helpful. I agree with you for allocating time during the beginning of the zoom class to chat with students.

We often talk about professional development related to pedagogy, but we can forget about professional development in better understanding our student population. How well do faculty know their students? Knowing your students seems paramount to pedagogical improvement.

Jim Luke, I agree, but it can start. I find many use whatever email I last sent when they have a concern. One student keeps using the message where I wrote her up for cheating to discuss happier concerns. She is now one of my As!

In my conversations with students they express concern that there is no mechanism to ensure faculty who do a poor job of teaching to at least try to make improvements. They can only be encouraged to try but as long as they are productive at research they get away with it.

I'm more concerned about the faculty who just don't care about teaching.

Laura Harste, yes. I agree it's a start.

David there are problems embedded in higher ed culture

*these

For @Derek Snyder, there’s a lot of research under “culturally responsive teaching” and “culturally relevant pedagogy”— and our centers for teaching excellence (on my campus Center for Teaching, Learning, & Assessment) can help with PD on these concepts

Not to halt the conversation, but wanted to share the session evaluation link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdYF5GwczFWqemgZM_s0R0k3EurmMysomIzxsALTuv1mJG-EA/viewform?entry.1952643545&entry.1303143111&entry.1961758182=9381&entry.598587566&entry.965164067&entry.1431947991=8032

David Westenberg, we have many students complain about profs, but then write good evaluations because they are afraid it will effect their grade. We need to build more trust in those

teaching squares - helps to open our minds up to others doing great things in the classroom

BTW - if anyone is interested, next week we will present our research on implementing pathways and options for learners in History courses - a good way to see teachers doing something different with teaching.

Because we are using evaluation processes as compliance processes!

Not as improvement processes

compliance again :((

I know.

agreed!

A lot of students tell me they don't do evaluations because they think most faculty don't even read them - some faculty even tell them that.

And sometimes compliance is dressed up as “quality assurance"

OpenAIR

Decolonize LA (Paul Prinsloo)

https://onlinelearningconsortium.org/olc-innovate-2020-session-page/?session=8310&kwds=

@George: Thank you. I would be interested in resources. I teach on the island of Maui, and our cultural context is highly different than many institutions we turn to as exemplars.

We are working on changing end of course evaluations and incorporating peer evaluation.

@Derek: we should talk later to see how this can be implemented here at UHMC. Especially in this current enviro, so important

https://opendistanceteachingandlearning.wordpress.com/2016/11/14/decolonising-the-collection-analyses-and-use-of-student-data-a-tentative-explorationproposal/

@Deanna: Yes.

https://openair.africa/

Once I get out my current position where I have to be nice about LA, I need to write a tell-all about the problems in LA... :)

@Derek, I hear you, as a visitor to Maui a couple of times a year. Our campus (CSU Monterey Bay) has had progress with the work of Zaretta Hammond, her book & guidelines, though it is heavy into K12: https://crtandthebrain.com

@George: Thank you

Kindred spirits become mentors, colleagues, friends, partners!

Maybe Christine Sleeter’s work for culturally relevant pedagogy. She’s retired but still active & publishing

On Slack!

💯 Heather!

There’s also this little org called http://virtuallyconnecting.org/ that works to foster human connections alongside/within “official” events.

Thank you!

audio was breaking up

Thank you! This is great!!

Thank you. Great conversation!

Thank you!

thank you everyone

If you don’t know VC, connect with us…we’ve struggled to do a lot of extra things during the pandemic, but please tune in to VC and get involved.

Thank YOU!!!

I would have so loved to talk to you all individually... sorry I kinda lectured at you :(

Thank you, Maha! Love listening to this deep and inspiring conversation.

will go back to the chat and read it!

Thanks, great conversation!

Thank you Maha, Nate, and OLC! :)

Thank you Maha and Nate.

thank you all!

Thank you! This was amazing

Virtual fist bumps!

Thank you!

thank you all!

Thank you all and if I didn’t get a chance to voice your question, I’m so sorry. Can we continue the conversation on Twitter? Maha: @bali_maha and me: @xolotl

Thank you!

YES Twitter :)

Thanks!

or Slack

thank you!

Great session! Thank you!

Great session!

Thanka