February 2021 DOLCE Invitation: Fostering Engagement in Remote Learning
Dear Faculty Colleagues,
On behalf of Academic Technology Services (ATS), I am writing to invite you to our February DOLCE (Discussing Online Learning and Collaborative Education) meeting that will take place this Friday, February 5th at noon PST via Zoom.
This month we will feature two faculty speakers, Sunaina Maira, Professor of Asian American Studies, Hooman Rashtian, Assistant Professor of Teaching in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Teaching, and Dr. Margaret Merrill, Senior Instructional Design Consultant. After the presentations, we will have time for questions and answers, and a discussion of the topics raised by our presenters. This event will be recorded, but we still hope you can join us synchronously. Please register now and mark your calendar for noon on February 5th, 2021.
Sunaina Maira is Professor of Asian American Studies, and is affiliated with the Middle East/South Asia Studies program and with the Cultural Studies Graduate Group. Her research and teaching focus on Asian American youth culture and the politics of cultural production as well as political mobilization and transnational movements challenging militarization, imperialism, and settler colonialism. Professor Maira will present on “Fostering Engagement in Remote Classes: Dealing with Social Anxiety on Zoom,” sharing with us ways we can build micro-communities and discuss how we are dealing with Zoom fatigue in our remotely-taught classes.
Hooman Rashtian earned a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of British Columbia in 2013 and joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UC Davis as an Assistant Professor of Teaching in 2016. He is the recipient of the 2020 UC Davis College of Engineering Outstanding Teaching Award, the 2019 Academic Excellence in Education Award by the ASUCD, and Professor of the Year Award by the student branch of IEEE at UC Davis in 2017, 2018 and 2019. Professor Rashtian will discuss the advantages and challenges of adopting a project-based learning approach in his remotely-taught classes.
Margaret Merrill, PhD, is a Senior Instructional Design Consultant with Academic Technology Services. She works with faculty on the strategic and pedagogically effective ways of using technology in their teaching. As her dissertation research focused on communities of foreign language teachers, Dr. Merrill enjoys helping all teachers recognize the resource that teachers are for each other. She will speak on the ATS Roadshow, an opportunity for faculty in individual programs and departments to benefit from targeted instructional design presentations and consultations.
Please register for this free event, share it with faculty, and plan to join us first and third Fridays of each month during the school year for presentations and discussions on remote and mediated teaching at UC Davis. I look forward to seeing you at DOLCE this coming Friday, February 5th, 2021 at noon!
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
Friday, December 11th at noon PST
Register now to join us via Zoom
PS. At our next event, a Faculty Forum to be held on February 19, 2021, we will discuss how faculty incorporate their research into remote teaching practices. If you interested in sharing your insights about this topic, please connect with me at aojones@ucdavis.edu so that we can plan to have additional “ringers” in the audience for this informal discussion. Thanks!
On behalf of Academic Technology Services (ATS), I am writing to invite you to our February DOLCE (Discussing Online Learning and Collaborative Education) meeting that will take place this Friday, February 5th at noon PST via Zoom.
This month we will feature two faculty speakers, Sunaina Maira, Professor of Asian American Studies, Hooman Rashtian, Assistant Professor of Teaching in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Teaching, and Dr. Margaret Merrill, Senior Instructional Design Consultant. After the presentations, we will have time for questions and answers, and a discussion of the topics raised by our presenters. This event will be recorded, but we still hope you can join us synchronously. Please register now and mark your calendar for noon on February 5th, 2021.
Sunaina Maira is Professor of Asian American Studies, and is affiliated with the Middle East/South Asia Studies program and with the Cultural Studies Graduate Group. Her research and teaching focus on Asian American youth culture and the politics of cultural production as well as political mobilization and transnational movements challenging militarization, imperialism, and settler colonialism. Professor Maira will present on “Fostering Engagement in Remote Classes: Dealing with Social Anxiety on Zoom,” sharing with us ways we can build micro-communities and discuss how we are dealing with Zoom fatigue in our remotely-taught classes.
Hooman Rashtian earned a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of British Columbia in 2013 and joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UC Davis as an Assistant Professor of Teaching in 2016. He is the recipient of the 2020 UC Davis College of Engineering Outstanding Teaching Award, the 2019 Academic Excellence in Education Award by the ASUCD, and Professor of the Year Award by the student branch of IEEE at UC Davis in 2017, 2018 and 2019. Professor Rashtian will discuss the advantages and challenges of adopting a project-based learning approach in his remotely-taught classes.
Margaret Merrill, PhD, is a Senior Instructional Design Consultant with Academic Technology Services. She works with faculty on the strategic and pedagogically effective ways of using technology in their teaching. As her dissertation research focused on communities of foreign language teachers, Dr. Merrill enjoys helping all teachers recognize the resource that teachers are for each other. She will speak on the ATS Roadshow, an opportunity for faculty in individual programs and departments to benefit from targeted instructional design presentations and consultations.
Please register for this free event, share it with faculty, and plan to join us first and third Fridays of each month during the school year for presentations and discussions on remote and mediated teaching at UC Davis. I look forward to seeing you at DOLCE this coming Friday, February 5th, 2021 at noon!
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
Friday, December 11th at noon PST
Register now to join us via Zoom
PS. At our next event, a Faculty Forum to be held on February 19, 2021, we will discuss how faculty incorporate their research into remote teaching practices. If you interested in sharing your insights about this topic, please connect with me at aojones@ucdavis.edu so that we can plan to have additional “ringers” in the audience for this informal discussion. Thanks!