We’re sharing this brief update about some of the exciting things we’re collaborating on this semester.
Faculty Online Learning Cohort 2018 Begins!
The Digital Learning Team is gearing up to begin working with a new group of faculty for our fourth annual Spring faculty development program for online learning. Throughout the spring semester, the following faculty are developing online and blended courses, primarily in the humanities and arts:
- Sharon Albert — Islamic Traditions
- Greta Brubaker — Introduction to Digital Photography
- Kelly Cannon — Copyright
- Amy Corbin — Melodrama
- Roberta Meek — Music and the Civil Rights Movement
- Mark Stein — Frontiers in History
Tim Clarke (Instructional Technologist) is leading the Spring program, with Bill Feeney (Lecturer) and Jenna Azar (Instructional Designer). Also supporting the work is a group of Faculty Digital Fellows with past experience teaching online including Keri Colabroy, Susan Kahlenberg, Lanethea Mathews-Schultz, and Danielle Sanchez. We look forward to building on our strong foundation in online pedagogies for liberal arts learning and cultivating Muhlenberg’s intentional approach to human-centered, interactive, and experiential online learning.
Muhlenberg Faculty Develop Hybrid Course Initiatives with Teagle Foundation Grant
In 2015 Lafayette College, working in collaboration with LVAIC, was awarded a three-year grant from the Teagle Foundation. The primary goal of the grant was to build a network “of ‘Digital Faculty Fellows’ who will mentor each other and generate interest among colleagues to pursue hybrid course development opportunities that enrich the academic experience, while sharing costs and using classroom and laboratory facilities more efficiently.” Over the course of the grant, there where 12 collaboration projects completed, consisting of 42 faculty members total from all six LVAIC institutions. Muhlenberg faculty from chemistry, education, and media and communication participated in collaborations funded through the Teagle grant and include:
- Marsha Barr
- Keri Colabroy
- Kate Ranieri
- Sally Richwine
- Kim Rohrbach
- John Sullivan
- Lora Taub-Pervizpour
- Sheri Young
To celebrate the conclusion of the grant, and to share the amazing work that was done by each group, we would like to invite you all to attend the final Teagle Sharing Symposium on March 22nd at Moravian College from 4-6:30pm. Light refreshments will be provided. Please register for the symposium by March 15th here: https://www.lvaic.org/event/lvaic-teagle-sharing-symposium/ One of the highlights of the initiative was opportunity to collaborate both within and across institutions and a recent report on lessons learned features faculty voices on the value of collaboration. Read the full report on lessons learned from the project here: http://www.sr.ithaka.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/SR-Report_Teagle_Faculty_Collaboration_Technology_Liberal_Arts_01292018.pdf
Center for Ethics and Digital Learning Team Up to Host Talk on Digital Redlining
On March 1, Muhlenberg welcomes Chris Gilliard, professor of English at Macomb Community College, for a presentation titled “Against Complicity: Surveillance, Education and Digital Redlining.” Chris will speakon issues of privacy, digital redlining, and the re-inventions of discriminatory practices through data mining and algorithmic decision-making, especially as these topics apply to college students. The talk is in Miller Forum at 7 p.m. and open to the public. This talk is co-sponsored by the media & communication department.
Bryn Mawr Blended Learning Conference Call for Proposals
Faculty, staff, and students engaged in blended learning (broadly defined to encompass any mix of face-to-face and online teaching and learning activity) may be interested in submitting proposals to share their work at the seventh annual Blended Learning in the Liberal Arts Conference at Bryn Mawr. The conference is May 23 – Thursday, May 24, 2018 at Bryn Mawr College. Please see the full call for proposals here: http://blendedlearning.blogs.brynmawr.edu/blended-learning-conference/ .