Best Practices for Teaching and Engaging Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic

1. Strengthening Learning, Conversations, Connections and Community Through Flipgrid

Student engagement is crucial for a successful active learning experience. Flipgrid, a video discussion board (easily integrated with Canvas) has been an effective and engaging tool for student connection and conversation. In the transition...

2. The CoViBE: An Innovating Self-Paced Elearning to Teach Virtually Bench-Top Practice

In response to massive disruption to practice work access due to COVID19, an innovative self-paced e-learning approach was set up to teach bench-top practice using comics: the “CoViBE’’ (Comic Virtual Bench-top Elearning). To design...

3. Redesigning a Fellowship Program into a Virtual Innovation Bootcamp

One of our transatlantic programs brings a group of students from Germany to the U.S. for a two-month study and internship program. Previously, the program consisted of a two-week summer school and a six-week internship with additional...

4. Applying Risk Management in Teaching and Learning

Disrupting known teaching practices has been a real challenge this past semester for both students and teachers. Due to COVID 19, teachers have been challenged to implement and experience new teaching methods, evaluate and assess the...

5. Infographics, Videos and Designs- How Incorporating Assignments in Padlet during COVID-19 not only Engage Students through Active Learning but can also Promote Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Active learning promotes student engagement. COVID-19 afforded not only challenges but opportunities to utilize technology to create a virtual learning environment where students could interact with classmates. Padlet facilitated...

6. Student attitudes about fast switch to online learning due to Covid-19, and the continuation of its use after the pandemic – A case study

In June 2020, a 53-question survey was offered to the second-year undergraduate students of electrical engineering and computing at the University of Zagreb. Out of 197 students, 185 full responses were received. 21 questions pertained...

7. Online medical education: platform for massive clinical cases

Difficulties accessing clinical practice, generated by the pandemic, led to an evaluation of different tools for teaching. At the Medical faculty of the Javeriana University, we chose the KuraCloud Lt platform as one of the most flexible...

8. The Power of Routines: Applying Strategies for At-Risk Students to Online Teaching

The popular 21st Century acronym, VUCA—Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity, has touched every person on this planet—even those who had hitherto not experienced it, via the effects of the pandemic. For university students,...

9. Going online with my Business Statistics course: A market research project goes virtual

At the time Moroccan universities switched to online education last spring, my business statistics course for first-year students was about to begin a six-week market research project. In this lightning talk, I’ll discuss how we successfully...

10. Collaborative International Education – Tackling Global Issues through Social Entrepreneurship

Presenters will discuss how UC and UQAM have taken their successful joint social entrepreneurship program and enhanced and strengthened the learning outcomes and expanded its scalability by going virtual. This was done through an increased...