Learning without boundaries: Strategies for creative and engaging online learning activities.

Date: Monday, November 7, 2016

Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm

Location 103 Wende Hall, South Campus

Guest Presenter: Deborah Raines, Associate Professor, School of Nursing

In Oh the Places You’ll Go, Dr. Seuss wrote: “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own, and you know what you know. And YOU are the one who’ll decide where to go…”  Web-based technologies have removed the barriers of time, cost and location from the learning activities and experiential learning opportunities available to students. Using the tools available on the web and a dose of creativity faculty can design innovative and engaging learning opportunities for their students.

Grounded in a constructivist pedagogy this discussion will share the process of moving beyond discussion board, papers and quizzes to make an online course become and active and engaging learning activity.  Examples of virtual field trips, scavenger hunts, conversations with… and other learning activities that facilitates student learning from real world places, people and artifacts will be shared.  Having students explore beyond the walls of the classroom brings a real-world perspective to concepts discussed in course textbooks as well as provide a national and global perspective to the material being studied. In addition, learners often find tools and resources that are useful in their academic studies as well as in their current or future professional practice.

This is an informal discussion that provides faculty members from across UB with an opportunity to share ideas and to learn from one another. All faculty members, regardless of experience in online teaching, are welcome to attend. Refreshments will be provided.

This event is co-sponsored through UB Online Learning Collaborative (UB OLC) and the School of Nursing.

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