michelle-miller-workshops

Given current social distancing requirements, classroom capacity has been reduced substantially, meaning that on given day, fewer than half your students may be in the classroom at a time. What do teaching and learning look like under these circumstances? How do you ensure active engagement among and interaction and community between remote students and students in the classroom? 

Hybrid teaching seeks to meet student needs by combining multiple modalities for participation throughout the course, including real-time remote engagement, face-to-face classes, and online work that students complete on their own time. 

This interactive 90-minute workshop focuses on the challenges associated with hybrid teaching and on devising solutions that are appropriate across disciplines, learning objectives, and the needs of our students. It also presents practices grounded in learning sciences that can serve as guiding principles regardless of the modality of instruction. Participants will gain an understanding of the major considerations that go into organizing a hybrid course, and an understanding of the importance of including a robust online component as part of hybrid teaching. They will articulate the major goals and objectives associated with their own upcoming courses and use those to refine plans for hybrid teaching in the coming academic year.

 The workshop is facilitated by Dr. Michelle Miller, author of Minds Online: Teaching Effectively with Technology (Harvard University Press, 2014); Making Smart Choices About Tech for Your Course (Chronicle of Higher Education, 2019), and Going Online in a Hurry: What to Do and Where to Start (Chronicle of Higher Education, 2020).  Dr. Miller is a Professor of Psychological Sciences and President’s Distinguished Teaching Fellow at Northern Arizona University.  Dr. Miller completed her Ph.D. in cognitive psychology and behavioral neuroscience at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research interests include memory, attention, and the impacts of technology on learning and on the mind.