Workshop Archive 2020-2022

from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Use elaboration activities to stimulate engagement in the extended ministerial field of study code (face-to-face and online)

Speaker Susanna Sancassani, Head of METID at Politecnico di Milano, expert in e-learning and e-collaboration

Stimulating the elaboration of the proposed concepts in the classroom is a key strategy to facilitate memorization, but also a better understanding of complex contents. In the extended ministerial field of study code, it can become an opportunity to activate ministerial field of study code and facilitate exchanges between lecturer, classroom students and online students. How can this type of activity be integrated into teaching? What role can technological "mediators" play?

from 3.30 p.m. to 5.00 p.m.

Present Effectively

Alan Crivellari, author of Effective Scientific Presentations: The Winning Formula.
The seminar describes the key elements of an effective presentation by providing information, practical exercises, and plenty of opportunities for discussion. Participants will learn how to hone their skills as presenters, how to plan and structure an effective presentation, increasing the effectiveness of their lessons.

You can sign up at this link.

from 4.00 p.m. to 5.30 p.m.

How Flexible is HyFlex? Hybrid and Flexible Active Learning and Teaching in Today's University Classrooms

Speaker Joellen Coryell

Joellen E. Coryell, Ph.D., is Professor of Adult, Professional, and Community Education and Assistant Dean for Educational Partnerships and Enrollment at Texas State University

from 14:30 to 16:00

Filling the grade with meaning: formative assessment

Speaker Susanna Sancassani, Head of METID at Politecnico di Milano, expert in e-learning and e-collaboration

Grading is a very important step in the course unit/learning experience. The first thought goes to the structured assessment moments and the final exams. In fact, in the design of our course unit, we can provide various processes for assessing students' knowledge/skills/competencies that also allow us to monitor the effectiveness of teaching activities, providing feedback to guide the next steps.

10:00-12:30
Workshop "Teaching Days" 

An effective feedback cycle
Speaker: Cam Brooks

Zoom meeting for Change Agents and teachers who have attended at least one T4L course

Cam Brooks is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Queensland. 
He is currently a lead researcher on an Australian Research Council Linkage Project, investigating the effects of a feedback coaching intervention on teaching practice, student perceptions of feedback and student achievement. 

Cam's current research focus is on how students can be made active in the feedback process and how teachers can best use formative assessment to map the next steps for student improvement.   

Feedback is regarded as one of the most powerful influences upon learning yet it's effects are highly variable. These two workshops (12.02.2021, 12.03.2021)  draw upon research to explore ways that feedback can be made effective for students and sustainable for teachers.
Workshop one (12.02.2021) begins by shifting thinking about feedback from a teacher directed to a student-centred model of learning. 
Workshop two (12.03.2021)  introduces a feedback cycle with the aim of fostering student self-regulation. 
Practical examples of the application of effective feedback processes will be discussed. 

10:00-12:30
Workshop "Teaching Days" 

An effective feedback cycle 
Speaker: Cam Brooks

Zoom meeting aimed at Change Agents and teachers who have attended at least one T4L course
To participate, reservations must be made by March 10, 2021

Cam Brooks is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Queensland. 
He is currently a lead researcher on an Australian Research Council Linkage Project, investigating the effects of a feedback coaching intervention on teaching practice, student perceptions of feedback and student achievement.  

Cam's current research focus is on how students can be made active in the feedback process and how teachers can best use formative assessment to map the next steps for student improvement.   

Feedback is regarded as one of the most powerful influences upon learning yet it's effects are highly variable. These two workshops (12.02.2021, 12.03.2021)  draw upon research to explore ways that feedback can be made effective for students and sustainable for teachers.
Workshop one (12.02.2021) begins by shifting thinking about feedback from a teacher directed to a student-centred model of learning. 
Workshop two (12.03.2021)  introduces a feedback cycle with the aim of fostering student self-regulation. 
Practical examples of the application of effective feedback processes will be discussed. 

Workshop "Teaching Days"   

10:00-12:30

Effective and sustainable feedback for learning
Speaker: Cam Brooks

Zoom meeting for all University professors
To participate, reservations must be made by March 29, 2021

The same Workshop is also available on 20 May 2021

Cam Brooks is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Queensland.  
He is currently a lead researcher on an Australian Research Council Linkage Project, investigating the effects of a feedback coaching intervention on teaching practice, student perceptions of feedback and student achievement. 

Cam's current research focus is on how students can be made active in the feedback process and how teachers can best use formative assessment to map the next steps for student improvement.   

Feedback is regarded as one of the most powerful influences upon learning yet it's effects are highly variable. This workshop draws upon research to explore ways that feedback can be made effective for students and sustainable for teachers.  The workshop begins by examining prerequisites of effective feedback conditions before introducing a feedback cycle to foster student self-regulation.  Practical examples of the application of effective feedback processes will be discussed. 

Workshop "Teaching Days"   

10:00-12:30

Effective and sustainable feedback for learning
Speaker: Cam Brooks

Zoom meeting for all University professors
To participate, reservations must be made by May 16, 2021

The same Workshop is also available on 31 March 2021

Cam Brooks is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Queensland.  
He is currently a lead researcher on an Australian Research Council Linkage Project, investigating the effects of a feedback coaching intervention on teaching practice, student perceptions of feedback and student achievement. 

Cam's current research focus is on how students can be made active in the feedback process and how teachers can best use formative assessment to map the next steps for student improvement.   

Feedback is regarded as one of the most powerful influences upon learning yet it's effects are highly variable. This workshop draws upon research to explore ways that feedback can be made effective for students and sustainable for teachers.  The workshop begins by examining prerequisites of effective feedback conditions before introducing a feedback cycle to foster student self-regulation.  Practical examples of the application of effective feedback processes will be discussed. 

Developing Innovative Assessment in Challenging Times, Speaker Karen Clegg    

This workshop, open to all faculty will provide practical tips and ideas about how to promote and assess active learning. We will use interactive tools to generate and share ideas about current teaching and assessment techniques, objective setting and consider how to provide meaningful feedback (particularly in an online environment).  Faculty are invited to consider in advance their challenges in facilitating active learning and be ready to share those with colleagues.

Karen Clegg is Head of the Research Excellence Training Team, University of York (UK) and is responsible for the strategic development of the University's support and provision for postgraduate research students, research staff and PhD supervisors.

Assessing Student Learning Online, Speaker Linda Nilson          

After this workshop, you will be able to do the following in your online, remote, and duale courses: 1) assess your students' achievement of your learning outcomes, both informally and formally, with an emphasis on outcomes that require thinking; and 2) help your students prepare for and learn from tests using online tools. You will learn how to apply general assessment guidelines, develop informal (ungraded) assessments, and compose good test questions, both objective and constructed response, that assess students' thinking skills as well as their knowledge.  

Linda B. Nilson, Ph.D., has authored Online Teaching at Its Best: Merging Instructional Design with Teaching and Learning Research with Ludwika Goodson (second edition forthcoming in 2021) and Teaching at Its Best: A Research-Based Resource for College Instructors (now in its fourth edition).

Workshop "Teaching Days"   

Communication & Presence 2.0
Cycle of meetings, 16:00-18:00

Speaker: Carlo Presotto

After a series of meetings held in the autumn, we propose a second step, aimed both at those who have already followed the first session and at those who are interested in the topic but have had no previous experience.

The current crisis due to the pandemic has made it necessary to strongly accelerate the use of digital tools in communication between people, and in teaching.
After having burned many stages, it is now a matter of reflecting, organizing and building the foundations to move from an emergency teaching to a teaching capable of consciously integrating different communication levels.

The paradigm that drives this reflection is that of communication and learning as a shared construction of meanings between lecturer and student, the idea of a community and a complex learning environment, in which the lecturer has a decisive but not exclusive role. 

Similarly, this crisis has also involved other sectors, such as that of the performing arts, stimulating a reflection that reorganizes various experiments that in recent years have moved on the border between real and virtual, between presence and absence, and which we can bring together in the definition of performing media. 

The workshop proposes a comparison between the point of view of contemporary theatre and that of the university, focusing in particular on the sharing of methods and tools of public speaking through a medium. 

The proposal is divided into three online seminars, with the possibility of carrying out a series of practical activities.

1. The use of voice. From Conscious Breath to Speech
2. Non-verbal languages. From posture to gaze
3. Pace of communication and feedback management

Workshop "Teaching Days"

4.00 p.m. - 6.00 p.m.

Communication and Presence 2.0 - April-May Edition
After the successes of the autumn 2020 and February 2021 editions, this edition is dedicated to those who have never attended the "Communication and presence" Workshops

Carlo Presotto

Director is the artistic director of the Centro di Produzione teatrale La Piccionaia, lecturer at IUSVE and Ca Foscari, trainer. A theatre director and actor, since the mid-1980s he has developed a particular way of interacting between narrative theatre and technology that represents an original feature in the Italian theatre scene. His studio work is always connected to an intense artistic activity.

The workshop proposes a comparison between the point of view of contemporary theatre and that of the university, focusing in particular on the sharing of methods and tools of public speaking. The proposal is divided into three online seminars:
1) The use of voice. from conscious breathing to speech;
2) Non-verbal languages. from posture to gaze;
3) Rhythm of communication and feedback management.

Meeting with Zoom platform for all University professors

To participate, reservations must be made by  April 28, 2021

Workshop "Teaching Days"

15:30-18.30 - Meeting room of the Beato Pellegrino Library, Via Beato Pellegrino 28

Communication and Improvisation

CambiScena Theatrical Improvisation

(Claudia Gafà, Marianna Cerbone, Antonio Contartese)

Meeting for all the professors of the University
To participate Reservations must be made by 16.11.2021

Communication and presence, Cycle of meetings, supervisor Carlo Presotto

- Polyphemus' gaze: Public speaking and webcam
- Circe's Prison: Chained in a grid, between zoom and gmeet
- The Song of the Sirens: managing the audience's                                 attention and concentration

The current crisis due to the pandemic has made it necessary to strongly accelerate the use of digital tools in communication between people, and in teaching. The Workshop proposes a comparison between the point of view of contemporary theatre and that of the University, focusing on the sharing of methods and tools of public speaking. An articulated approach that involves the use of tools that feed interaction, from Instagram "stories" to virtual bulletin boards such as Padlet and Mural, to the comparison and reflection on the practices implemented by the participants in the emergency phase and in the different disciplines.

Carlo Presotto is the Artistic Director of "La Piccionaia Centro di Produzione Teatrale"

Workshop "Teaching Days"

14:30 - 17:00

Teaching Is So Much More than Telling: Building Teaching Practices for Active Learning with Today's University Students
Joellen Coryell

Joellen E. Coryell, Ph.D., is Professor of Adult, Professional, and Community Education and Assistant Dean for Educational Partnerships and Enrollment at Texas State University

In this interactive, online workshop, Professor Joellen Coryell will engage participants in understanding learning theory, characteristics and needs of today's university learners, and how to design teaching for active student engagement and deeper learning. Participants will take part in meaningful discussions with other faculty about teaching and learning and leave with a multitude of research-based teaching activities, hints, and tips to help them improve their teaching approaches and outcomes.

Meeting with Zoom platform for all University professors

To participate, reservations must be made by  April 20, 2021

Workshop "Teaching Days"

14:00 - 18:00

Problem-Based Learning (PBL) at University: theoretical background and practical experience

Speaker: Antonella Lotti

Zoom meeting for all University professors
To participate, reservations must be made by May 26, 2021

Antonella Lotti: Associate Professor of Experimental Pedagogy at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, where she teaches Innovative Teaching Methodologies and Training Design in Health Contexts. Vice-Director of the Italian Society of Medical Pedagogy (SIPeM). She is the author of numerous books and scientific articles dedicated to Problem Based Learning.

Annamaria De Santis: Instructional Designer at the Edunova Interuniversity Center of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, her work and research interests include the design of online learning environments and paths, e-Learning and educational technologies, quantitative research in education. 

Paola Alessia Lampugnani: Pedagogue, Ph.D. in Social Sciences, research fellow in Didactics and Special Pedagogy at the Department of Education Sciences of the University of Genoa. Member of the Didactic Innovation Team of the same University. Her research interests are Faculty Development, Medical Pedagogy, and Inclusion Pedagogy.

Work and Organizational Psychologist, PhD in Psychology, Expert Trainer of Participatory Didactic Metrologies, Instructional Designer at the University of Genoa. Director and founder of the spin-off of the University of Genoa V.I.E. Expert in the development and validation of questionnaires for psycho-social research.

Workshop "Teaching Days"

15:00-18:00 - Room T3, CLA building, Via Venezia 16

Teaching in small groups in large classrooms with Team Based Learning (TBL)

Speaker: Antonella Lotti

Meeting for all the professors of the University
To participate it is necessary to book by 12.10.2021

Workshop "Teaching Days"

14:00-17:00 – Zoom meeting

Teaching Is So Much More than Telling: Building Teaching Practices for Active Learning with Today's University Students

Rapporteur Joellen Coryell

Meeting for all the professors of the University
To participate Reservations must be made by 02.11.2021

Workshop "Teaching Days"

14:00-17:00 - Room T3, CLA building, Via Venezia 16

Smart Learning Design 25 - Teaching Is Important, But It's More Important To Learn

Speaker: Susanna Sancassani

Meeting for all the professors of the University
To participate it is necessary to book by 10.11.2021

Designing a Course Taught in Any Mode, speaker Linda Nilson

In this workshop, you will learn how to structure a logical, coherent course around measurable student learning outcomes. Designing such a course—whether online, remote, duale (hyflex), or face-to-face—starts with formulating clear, assessable student learning outcomes because these outcomes should inform your choice of teaching methods and prescribe your assessments. This correspondence constitutes the basis of a well-aligned course, which is especially important in online courses. In addition, students need to be able to see this structure, so this workshop will enable you to organize your outcomes chronologically into ultimate, mediating, and foundational and create an outcomes map that will visually display your students' learning process and serve as the skeleton for your course. You will also learn how to create a graphic syllabus, which illustrates the organization of and interrelationships among your course topics. Please have your course syllabi handy for reference as well as blank paper. 

Linda B. Nilson, Ph.D., has authored Online Teaching at Its Best: Merging Instructional Design with Teaching and Learning Research with Ludwika Goodson (second edition forthcoming in 2021) and Teaching at Its Best: A Research-Based Resource for College Instructors (now in its fourth edition).

Man and Machine and Man, supervisor Giovanni De Luigi

Meeting on the themes of the new relationship between man and technology, with critical stimuli on the use of cameras, computers and machines in teaching.

The machine marks a turning point in the last three centuries, a problematic but not dramatic turning point. A comparison between artificial intelligence and the human body, with all  its expressive capacities, is proposed. Perhaps today it is not artificial intelligence that worries us , but natural intelligence. The idea of the camera body belongs to the classical thinkers  Plato, Aristotle, Descartes. The human machine is the pride of our  species until more and more efficient artificial organisms appeared.  The comparison was presented with the pandemic and our interpretative skills of  communication through the computer and the difficulties arose.  During the meetings, the possibility of overcoming these difficulties will be addressed."

Giovanni De Luigi is an actor and director close to the Commedia dell'Arte, he has collaborated with Carlson, Fassbinder, Fo,  Scaparro, Strehler, and worked in universities and hospitals. 

Workshop Designing didactic innovation: the method of the Learning Network, possible applications in blended learning teaching contexts, monitoring of experimental educational initiatives.

Speaker Susanna Sancassani, Head of METID at Politecnico di Milano, expert in e-learning and e-collaboration

The Nuts and Bolts of Active Learning, 28 May 2019, at 3 pm

Ancient Archives at Palazzo del Bo

Workshop by Prof. Maryellen Weimer, Ph.D, Penn State University

The workshop is free and open to all University lecturers.

Active Learning Online: More Effective Than Lecturing, Speaker Linda Nilson

An overwhelming amount of research documents that students learn more deeply and retain the knowledge longer when they learn through activities than by only listening to a lecture. Learning through activities is called active learning, and this workshop will able you to implement it in your online, remote, and duale courses. Specifically, you will be able to 1) wisely select when to lecture and when not to, according to your goals; 2) motivate students to prepare for online active learning meetings; 3) wisely select active learning strategies that will help students achieve your learning outcomes; 4) ease into active learning by incorporating short student activities into your lectures; and 5) lead longer student activities, such as discussions, peer feedback, and virtual laboratories, during and outside of online meetings. Please have your course syllabus handy for reference.

Linda B. Nilson, Ph.D., has authored Online Teaching at Its Best: Merging Instructional Design with Teaching and Learning Research with Ludwika Goodson (second edition forthcoming in 2021) and Teaching at Its Best: A Research-Based Resource for College Instructors (now in its fourth edition).

Principles from Pedagogical Science for Teaching Online speaker Linda Nilson  

It is much more efficient and rewarding to teach in consonance with the way the mind operates than against it. After this workshop, you will be able to integrate teaching methods, learning activities, and assignments into your online courses that, according to pedagogical (cognitive) science research, will make your courses more effective and engaging for students. Specifically, your students will learn your material more deeply, retain it longer, and retrieve it more easily. We will examine 10 principles from pedagogical (cognitive) science on how people learn best and, after each principle, strategies to apply it in your online teaching.

Linda B. Nilson, Ph.D., has authored Online Teaching at Its Best: Merging Instructional Design with Teaching and Learning Research with Ludwika Goodson (second edition forthcoming in 2021) and Teaching at Its Best: A Research-Based Resource for College Instructors (now in its fourth edition).

Phase 4.0 - quality online MOOCs after the Covid revolution, supervisor Mauro Calise

Mauro Calise is the founder and director of Federica.eu, Europe's leading Massive Open Online Courses platform, with which the university has entered into an agreement from which, in response to the Covid emergency, Federica.Go was born with the aim of increasing the potential of quality multimedia teaching in a short time and on a large scale.  Mauro Calise is the author of some of the most influential texts in the Italian political debate in recent years. The most recent, Il Principe Digitale (with Fortunato Musella), published by Laterza.
The meeting will take place through an online  platform upon enrolment
Video of the Workshop
Upcoming webinars  Federica Web Learning - Fondazione CRUI
https://www.federica.eu/elearning-webinar-crui-federica/

Perusall: innovating teaching with social annotation

Perusall (https://perusall.com/): An environment for sharing study materials online and allowing students to discuss controversial points through annotations on the text, helping each other and with the supervision of the lecturer.

Leading Change as Change Agent, speaker Laura Bierema, University of Georgia,

Leading as a change agent is challenging and the work is often undervalued, unrecognized and may even be met with resistance. Even the most enthusiastic change agents may lack the capacity to sell the work they are doing to colleagues and administrators. This active workshop will engage faculty with strategies and community building around how to both survive and thrive as a change agent. Opportunities for networking and providing support to faculty who are challenging their colleagues, administrators, and students to teach and learn actively will be featured in this workshop.

Professional Development Perspectives for Change Agents: The UBC University of British Columbia in Vancouver Model

supervisor Harry Hubbal

Syllabus

A Process for Implementing Change Successfully, May 27, 2019, 10 a.m.

Canova Hall at Palazzo Storione 

Workshop by Prof. Maryellen Weimer, Ph.D, Penn State University 
aimed exclusively at the University's Change Agents

By Maryellen Weimer, Ph.D.

"One day at the driving range, I was demonstrating my swing while remarking, 'Practice makes perfect.' [My golf instructor's] disarming response was, 'Only if you begin with a good swing. My advice to you is to either stop practicing or change your swing.' In teaching, as in golf, repeating poor teaching mechanics can actually move us away from, not closer to, our performance objective of effective student learning."

Whetten, D. A. "Principles of Effective Course Design: What I Wish I Had Known About Learner-Centered Teaching 30 Years Ago." Journal of Management Education, 2007, 31(3), 339-357.

Orienting to Change
Improvement is not a dirty word
Fixing problems and building strengths
Think about more and better learning for students
Teaching excellence is a journey not a quest

Making Good Change Choices
More head and less gut choices when deciding what to change
Consider fit
Taking some risks
 
How to Change: Adapting and Implementing
Making it work when I do it, with my content, my students and in my classroom
The systematic approach vs. the Nike "just do it" approach
 
Deciding: Did it Work?
The worst time to decide
What teachers should decide
Soliciting and responding to student feedback

Deciding: Should I do it More?
The iterative process of change
When to abandon an innovation
When to diffuse the innovation more broadly

Deciding when I've done it too long

Content from Maryellen Weimer's, Inspired College Teaching:  A Career-Long Resource for Professional Growth , published by Jossey-Bass, 2010.