INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COLLEGE TEACHING AND LEARNING

Educational Session Presentations



WEDNESDAY, April 4


1:00pm – 2:30pm OPENING PLENARY SESSION & KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Jeffery Selingo


2:45pm – 3:45pm Concurrent Sessions I

Retro Spark: Increasing Completion Rates through Active Student Engagement (Aguilar and Aguilar)

No Cookie Cutter Approach: Supervision in Community College Student Affairs (Loch and Forrest)

Consistency in Composition: Focus on Student Success (Fine and Klass)

Collaborative Learning: The Challenges and Rewards of Making the Transition (Ray)


4:00pm – 5:00pm Concurrent Sessions II

Understanding the Needs of the Nontraditional First Year College Student so as to Better Serve Them  (Collman)

From the Classroom to the Field: Leveraging Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Education (Kalakay)

The Challenges of Sudoku (Sweet)

IA: It's Not What You Think! (Milano)



THURSDAY, April 5


8:00am – 9:00am Concurrent Sessions I

Re-thinking the College Composition Classroom: An Evidence-Based Approach (Karlins, Chancey, Arms, and Hopkins)

Developmental Education and Gateway Success:  Data and Strategies (Barrett and Samara)

Master Online Teaching and Technology and Run a Rockin' Course! (Ciucci)


9:15am – 10:15am Concurrent Sessions II

Math Redesign Using the Emporium Model (Souders and Sustarsic)

In It to Win It:  Service Learning and Argumentation (Thompson)
HANDOUT - Service Project Guidelines
and
Service Learning: Small College's Challenges and Opportunities (Thompson)

It's All About Reading, Thinking Questioning (and Humor) (Tierney)
and
Making Students Better Readers, Writers, and Citizens (Ramos)


10:30am – 11:30am Concurrent Sessions III

The Value of Latin American Studies in the New Economy (Holbrook)
and
High Impact Engagement from the Classroom to the Job Market (Harrison)

Integrating Technology into Innovative Learning Spaces in STEM Courses (O'Malley and Allen)

Faculty as Gamers: Using Gamification to Teach Writing and Critical Thinking (Chupeck)
and
What Can Quality Matters Do For You? (Skoczelas)

Increasing Campus Morale and Decreasing the Mental Health Stigma-Improving the College Experience (Parti)


11:45am – 1:30pm LUNCHEON & PANEL: A Conversation with Female State College Presidents [Click HERE for video]


1:45pm – 2:45pm Concurrent Sessions IV

Impacting Institutional Success: Highlights from Bellwether Winning Institutions (Wilson)

Computer programming is More Than Programming Computers (Carneiro de Paula)

From Backpack to Graduation Cap: The Impact of Guided Pathways (Tracey)
and
Tea: Learner-Centered Teaching (Wakefield)


3:00pm – 4:00pm Concurrent Sessions V

Engaging I-Gen Students in the Language Classroom (Fonder-Solano and Burnett)

Integrating the Fight Against Human Trafficking into Service Learning Initiatives (Haney)

Strategic Redesign of Gateway Mathematics (Blanco, Blanchette, and Espana)

4:15pm – 5:15pm Concurrent Sessions VI

Teaching Lower Level Mathematics Courses Using ONLY Open Educational Resources (Gibbons)

Happiness and the Academy; Improve Student Outcomes through Non-cognitive Domains (Sullivan)



FRIDAY, April 6

8:30am – 9:30am Concurrent Sessions I

Deeper Learning & Student Success NEEDS Community (Elmatti)
and
Giving Back to the Community through Environment Based Service Learning Project (Gharti-Chhetri)

How to do Task-Based Language Teaching in an HBCU context: An institutional collaboration project (Baralt and Ortiz)

Closing the Perception Gap between Students and their Professors (Suzanne Duff)
and
Pedagogy: Theory vs. Practice (Moore) PREZI
Pedagogy: Theory vs. Practice (Moore) (Poll)

Deeper STEM Learning through Metacognitive Conversation (Hogan)


9:45am – 10:45am Concurrent Sessions II

Study Abroad:  Science, Safety, and Synergism (Moran, Whitcomb and Maier)

The Value of a Life Story:  Bringing Home Discourses to the Composition Classroom (Carr)

Equity Pedagogy in the College Classroom (Waldon)

Ernest L. Boyer Award Nominees: Becker, Lee, Levin, McGriff


11:00am – 12:00pm Concurrent Sessions III

A Research-Practice Partnership to Improve Educational Attainment in Florida (Ortagus, Proctor, Holcombe, and Tanner)