Webinar series

Students are increasingly enrolling in online composition courses—and faculty need powerful strategies to prioritize engagement, provide individualized learning paths, and offer timely feedback. Join Dr. Ninetta Papadomichelaki and Dr. Keith Vance to get time-saving strategies that’ll help you improve student learning outcomes. They’ll cover course design that engages close reading skills and prepares students to succeed in fully online, hybrid, or face-to-face composition courses.

Faculty and students bring their intersectional identities to the classroom. But how well is this diversity represented in course material? Join Dr. Kristina Ruiz-Mesa and Dr. Melissa Broeckelman-Post for a discussion on pragmatic communication tools that form the foundation of an engaging and inclusive classroom environment. Our panelists will equip you with strategies for navigating difficult dialogues, leaving you with methods that encourage honest exchanges, teach active listening, and facilitate empathy and understanding.

A more engaging, relevant, and inclusive classroom responds to the pressing concerns of today’s Communication students. Dr. Jonathan Hess and Dr. Elizabeth Baiocchi-Wagner have created a student-centered, question-driven pedagogy that bridges the gap between theory and practice, while fostering a sense of belonging around important and timely Interpersonal Communication topics. Join our panelists for a conversation on how this inclusive approach will help students get the most value out of your course.

Looking to generate excitement and engagement in your cognition course? In this webinar, Dr. Elan Barenholtz will explore how recent technological breakthroughs in artificial intelligence can be used as a way to make learning meaningful for psychology and neuroscience students. With an emphasis on neural networks, you’ll learn how to help students see the deep connections between their area of study and the latest advancements in your field.

Open science refers to a set of values and procedures used to improve scientific methods and accessibility of scientific results. It is a natural fit for psychological research methods courses, but educators continue to wonder how best to incorporate the approach in an already crowded syllabus. Dr. Laura Freberg and Dr. Clarissa Thompson will offer practical ways to integrate open science into psychological research methods courses, helping you make lectures, activities, and assessments more valuable.

When it comes to covering gender in your course, Dr. Nicole McNichols and Dr. Matt Numer advocate for the importance of inclusivity. Join our panelists for a conversation on how to develop learning materials from a non-binary perspective. You’ll leave with a deep understanding of how to celebrate gender diversity in your own Human Sexuality curriculum by drawing upon topics including sexual arousal, function and attraction, gender identity and expression, intersex conditions, fetishes and sex work.

We often think of memory as an accurate recording of our lives. But researchers know the experience of memory is actually far more variable and less accurate than most would assume. In this webinar, Dr. Meaghan Altman will explore the illusion of mnemonic accuracy and showcase demonstrations that she uses to keep her introduction to psychology students engaged in her course material—by questioning the accuracy of their own memories.

The student body has never been more diverse. Learn how Dr. Irene Foster and Dr. Stephen Buckles make economics inclusive by acknowledging the unique backgrounds of their students—and how using dynamic courseware has helped them in the process. Drawing upon best practices from the American Economic Association, this webinar will offer tangible tips to help you prioritize diversity, inclusion and belonging in your lectures and learning materials.

Lab manuals are often an afterthought in the publishing space. Unfortunately, traditional materials can fail to engage students who expect more than a narrative-heavy text to support their learning. Dr. Derek Weber has changed the game for students and faculty alike with his interactive, media-rich lab manual: Focusing on Health: Laboratory Exercises in Microbiology. Explore the role learning science plays in enhancing learning outcomes and hear how a digital lab manual allows for an unparalleled level of career preparedness.

Transparency, frequent communication and accessible active learning exercises are the foundation of an equity-driven classroom. As you’ll hear from Dr. Greg Domski and Dr. Rebecca Black, there are several small steps you can take to decrease equity gaps in chemistry—ranging from transparent assignment design to periodic check-ins. You’ll leave this webinar with tools to increase student buy-in, accessibility and engagement, regardless of background.

Many educators want to give their students more control over their own learning. But how do you get started? In this session, Dr. John Redden and Dr. Joe Crivello will highlight their approach to democratic course management, a fresh new framework that gives students ownership over how they’re assessed, the assignments they choose to take on and how their grades are weighted. You’ll explore how this pedagogy has helped improve outcomes in large classes, including a deeper sense of connection and reduced DFW rates.

In a world that’s rapidly changing, a growing percentage of students are embracing an entrepreneurial career. Whether starting their own company or taking on a traditional role, a business-first mindset is now essential to student success. Join Dean Pacey and Mark Arnason for a look at how entrepreneurial skills are the stepping stone to landing any career today. This interactive webinar will also offer a chance to participate in a group discussion on how to most effectively cover this terrain in your own course.