November 2020 DOLCE Invitation: Active Learning, Gamification and Content Mastery, and Multimedia Textbooks
Dear Faculty Colleagues,
On behalf of Academic Technology Services, I hereby invite you to attend the November DOLCE (Discussing Online Learning and Collaborative Education) taking place this Friday, November 6th at noon PST via Zoom. This event will be recorded, but we still hope you can join us synchronously!
We have three speakers planned for Friday: Dr. Dina Zhabinskaya, Lecturer in the Department of Physics; Dr. James Carey, Distinguished Professor of Entomology from the Department of Entomology and Nematology; and Dr. Arnold J. Bloom, Distinguished Professor and John B. Orr Endowed Professor in the Department of Plant Sciences. Please register now so that you can learn from the discoveries and wisdom of our faculty colleagues.
Dr. Dina Zhabinskaya from the Physics Department will introduce DOLCE attendees to the Physics 7, a one-year introductory and laboratory physics course intended for students majoring in the biological sciences. With the course structure’s emphasis on active learning, Dr. Zhabinskaya will explain how the instructors and TA have maintained the focus on engagement and discovery. Dr. James Carey from the Department of Entomology and Nematology will present on “A bonus point gamification concept to incentivize subject mastery,” an approach that Professor Carey developed last summer to incentivize students to master several different technical skill sets or substantive areas covered in his courses. Finally, Dr. Arnold J. Bloom from the Department of Plant Sciences will reflect on the connections between his hybrid and online teaching and years-long experiences finding a publisher for a multimedia textbook, emphasizing the importance of technology in the design of course materials in this day and age.
A full plate! We will see if we can cover it all in an hour. Your questions and comments will be welcome. Speaking of queries, if you have questions about Instructional Design at UC Davis, please contact our ATS senior instructional designers at instructionaldesign@ucdavis.edu. Meanwhile, please register for this free event, and plan to join us every first and third Friday of each month during the school year for faculty events on remote and mediated teaching at UC Davis.
I look forward to hosting a spirited DOLCE this Friday, and I hope you can join us!
Best regards,
Dr. Andy Jones Academic Associate Director, Academic Technology Services Editor in Chief of The Wheel: The Instructional Technology Blog of UC Davis University of California, Davis
The November DOLCE: Zhabinskaya, Carey, and Bloom Friday, November 6th at noon PST Register now to join us via Zoom
P.S. Plan also to mark your calendars and register for our Faculty Forum on Friday, November 20th at noon!