Hi ♥ I am a Lecturer at UNC Charlotte passionate about student-centered learning and human-centered AI.
My desk at home. The only place I saw this semester. Fall 2020 was my first fully online semester due to the pandemic (last semester was also online, but we had to transition from in-person to online partially through, which was also a challenging experience in itself). Here, I will reflect on the semester in [...]
Photo by Josh Calabrese on Unsplash I attended the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) workshop titled Cognitive Empathy in the Classroom on October 14th, 2020. The description for this workshop is below: "Adversity outside the classroom has always seeped into the classroom via multiple pathways. However, in today's environment, it is impossible to ignore [...]
Photo by Mark Rabe on Unsplash I attended the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) workshop titled Active Learning Webinar: How Virtual Whiteboards Level the Playing Field for All Learners on September 23rd, 2020. The description for this workshop is below: "This webinar is facilitated by Dr. Bobby Hobgood, Director of the Language Resource Center [...]
Photo by James Bold on Unsplash Continuing off of my previous post introducing contextual recommender systems for technology enhanced learning (TEL), I am interested in learning about various types of user contexts. Verbert et al. categorize these into the following: Basic personal information, which usually includes information such as a student's name, contact information, affiliations, [...]
In the previous post, we went over academic integrity violations, what they are, and why they may happen. Here, we will discuss methods to prevent or reduce cheating from occurring in the first place. Photo by John Schnobrich on Unsplash What can we do to prevent cheating? When discussing cheating in higher education (or in [...]
Photo by Oussama Zaidi on Unsplash "Unfortunately [cheating] is a part of human nature in many ways. I mean people have cheated forever in all forms of all walks of life."- Phil Newton on the Teaching in Higher Ed Podcast #157 So what can we do about it? Here, we will discuss cheating and strategies [...]
Photo by Nong Vang on Unsplash Hello! It seems I need a way to keep track of my thoughts, questions, and ideas in a way that isn't quite as messy and easy to lose as my hastily scribbled notes. So I'm going to start this, and hopefully, it will help!And then whoever reads this gets [...]
Photo by Green Chameleon on Unsplash As GAANN Fellows, we had the following goals for the Spring 2020 semester: Get more experience with the course management system;Conduct problem sessions;Complete another teaching seminar course (ITSC 8665);Continue developing our personal websites and teaching portfolios; andAttend at least one CTL workshop and write a report reflecting on what [...]
Photo by Elijah O'Donnell from Pexels Here, I will report on what I've learned about giving students alternative assignments during the plague apocalypse. This has definitely been a challenging time for everyone, as we all try to adjust to the changes and worries that the COVID-19 pandemic has brought. UNC Charlotte quickly adapted, with courses [...]
Every semester, we develop a teaching experiment plan to guide our learning process as we gain more experience and expand our ideas of teaching. Here is my report on my experiences throughout the Fall 2019 semester. It's been a pretty good semester! 🙂 The teaching seminar discussions and workshops I've attended have definitely gotten me [...]
Aileen Benedict 