Blended Learning Peer Mentorship Program
As part of the Blended Learning Initiative, faculty have been benefiting greatly from informal conversations with other faculty members and/or LTS staff about blended learning. These have been opportunities to share expertise and experiences, discuss ways of making a blended project successful in a particular discipline, and brainstorm new ideas for individual or joint projects.
In order to facilitate such peer-to-peer exchanges this year, we have created the Blended Learning Peer Mentorship Program. Faculty members interested in discussing blended learning informally with a colleague who has recently implemented a blended learning approach in her/his classroom are welcome to participate. The Blended Learning Initiative will reimburse up to $40 for lunch expenses for two individuals. All disciplines are eligible to apply. Funds may be pooled for small group conversations. Please submit your receipts to Jessica Gaudreau, and write on the receipt: BLI Peer Mentorship Program, the names of the individuals who participated, and the general topic discussed.
The following faculty and LTS staff have kindly agreed to be listed here as someone who will gladly sit down for a conversation about blended learning, digital scholarship, or digital humanities as a teaching approach. Thank you to those listed below very much for your time and expertise.
- Alla Epsteyn: EdX platform in foreign language courses. Online grammar exercises for intermediate Russian.
- Casey Pattanayak: Online resources for applied statistics.
- Daniela Bartalesi-Graf: EdX platform. Video lessons. Video skits. Podcasts. Use of online course in face-to-face and blended courses.
- Eni Mustafaraj: Introducing computational literacy skills. Creating personalized web presence for student work (e.g. online portfolios).
- Erin Battat: Online multimedia exhibits.
- Hélène Bilis: Computational analyses of texts as class projects. Creating clickable editions of digitized texts.
- Justin Armstrong: Digital storytelling. Videoconferencing. Web-based peer-editing. Multimedia social science.
- Maurizio Viano: Video essays, a new form of doing academic work on film.
- Octavio González. Rhetorical considerations of the formal constraints and opportunities posed by different genres. Practical applications of digital skills; how to leverage learning Adobe Suite, for example, to gain transferable skills in graphic design.
This is only a sample list of some recent and outstanding "blenders." The program is available to any faculty member or LTS staff interested in discussing blended learning, digital scholarship, digital humanities, and interdisciplinary blended learning projects.