Workshop archive Workshop Teaching4Learning 2019-2022

from 11 am to 1 pm 

Using processing activities to stimulate engagement in the extended classroom (in person and online)

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

Stimulating the processing of the proposed concepts in the classroom is a key strategy for facilitating memorisation, but also a better understanding of complex content. In the extended classroom, it can become an opportunity to activate the class and to facilitate exchanges between the lecturer, students in the classroom and online students. How can activities of this kind be integrated into teaching? What role can technological “mediators” play?

from 15.30 to 17.00

Presenting effectively

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

It is possible to register at this link.

from 16.00 to 17.30

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

Making grades meaningful: formative assessment

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

Awarding a grade is a very important step in the teaching/learning experience. The first thought goes to structured assessment moments and final examinations. In fact, when designing our teaching, we can envisage various processes for assessing students' knowledge/skills/competences that also make it possible 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 Agent and lecturers 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 its 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 for Change Agent and lecturers who have attended at least one T4L course
To take part, it is necessary to book by 10 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 its 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 model 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 “The Teaching Days”   

10:00-12:30

Effective and sustainable feedback for learning
Speaker Cam Brooks

Zoom meeting for all lecturers of the University
To participate, it is necessary to book by 29 March 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 its 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 teaching staff of the University
To take part, it is necessary to register by 16 May 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 its 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 on how to promote and assess active learning. We will use interactive tools to generate and share ideas about current teaching and assessment techniques, setting objectives, and consider how to provide meaningful feedback (particularly in an online environment). Faculty are invited to reflect in advance on the challenges they face in facilitating active learning and be ready to share them 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, relatrice 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 and presence 2.0
Series of meetings, 16:00-18:00

Speaker Carlo Presotto

Following a series of meetings held in the autumn, we are offering a second round, aimed both at those who already attended the first session and at those who are interested in the topic but have not had previous experience.

The current crisis caused by the pandemic has made it necessary to strongly accelerate the use of digital tools in communication between people, and in teaching.
Having gone through many stages very quickly, it is now time to reflect, organise and build the foundations for moving from emergency teaching to teaching capable of consciously integrating different levels of communication.

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

Similarly, this crisis has also affected other sectors, such as the performing arts, prompting reflection that reorganises various experiments which in recent years have moved along the boundary between real and virtual, between presence and absence, and which we can bring together under the definition of performing media. 

The workshop offers 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 includes a structure of three online seminars, with the possibility of carrying out a series of practical activities.

1. The use of the voice: from conscious breathing to speech
2. Non-verbal languages: from posture to gaze
3. Rhythm of communication and feedback management

Workshop "Teaching Days"

16.00 - 18-00 

Communication and Presence 2.0 - April-May edition
Following the success 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

President and artistic director of the theatre production centre La Piccionaia, lecturer at IUSVE and Ca Foscari, trainer. A theatre director and actor, since the mid-1980s he has developed a distinctive form of interaction between narrative theatre and technologies that represents an original hallmark in the Italian theatre scene. His research work always remains connected to an intense artistic activity.

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

Meeting on the Zoom platform addressed to all lecturers of the University 

To take part, it is necessary to book by  28 April 2021

Workshop “Le giornate della didattica”

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

Communication and Improvisation

CambiScena Improvvisazione Teatrale

(Claudia Gafà, Marianna Cerbone, Antonio Contartese)

Meeting for all University teaching staff
To take part, booking is required by 16.11.2021

Communication and presence, series of meetings, speaker Carlo Presotto

- The gaze of Polyphemus: 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 caused by the pandemic has made it necessary to greatly accelerate the use of digital tools in communication between people and in teaching. The workshop offers a comparison between the perspective of contemporary theatre and that of the University, focusing on the sharing of public speaking methods and tools. A structured approach involving the use of tools that foster interaction, from Instagram “stories” to virtual noticeboards such as Padlet and Mural, as well as discussion and reflection on the practices adopted by participants during the emergency phase and across the different disciplines.

Carlo Presotto is 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 on the Zoom platform open to all teaching staff of the University

To take part, it is necessary to book by 20 April 2021

Workshop “Le giornate della didattica”

14:00 - 18:00

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

Speaker Antonella Lotti

Zoom meeting for all teaching staff of the University
To take part, it is necessary to book by 26 May 2021

Antonella Lotti: Associate Professor of Experimental Pedagogy at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, where she teaches Innovative Teaching Methodologies and Educational Planning in healthcare contexts. Vice-President of the Società Italiana di Pedagogia Medica (SIPeM). Author of numerous books and scientific articles dedicated to Problem-Based Learning.

Annamaria De Santis: Instructional Designer at the Centro Interateneo Edunova of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia; her professional and research interests include the design of online learning environments and pathways, e-learning and educational technologies, and quantitative research in education. 

Paola Alessia Lampugnani: Educationalist, PhD in Social Sciences, research fellow in Didactics and Special Pedagogy at the Department of Education Sciences of the University of Genoa. Member of the Teaching Innovation Team of the same University. Her research interests are Faculty Development, Medical Pedagogy, and the pedagogy of inclusion.

Work and organisational psychologist, PhD in Psychology, trainer with expertise in participatory teaching methodologies, instructional designer at the University of Genoa. President and founder of the University of Genoa spin-off V.I.E. Expert in the development and validation of questionnaires for psychosocial 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 teaching staff of the University
To take part, booking is required 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

Speaker: Joellen Coryell

Meeting for all teaching staff across the University
To take part, booking is required by 02.11.2021

Workshop “Teaching Days”

14:00-17:00 - Aula T3, edificio CLA, Via Venezia 16

Smart Learning Design 25 - Teaching is important, but learning is more important

Speaker: Susanna Sancassani

Meeting for all University teaching staff
To take part, booking is required 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 organise 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 organisation 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, speaker Giovanni De Luigi

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

The machine has marked a turning point over these last three centuries, a problematic but not dramatic turning point. A comparison is proposed between artificial intelligence and the human body, with all its expressive capacities. Perhaps today it is not artificial intelligence that worries us, but natural intelligence. The idea of the body as a machine belongs to classical thinkers such as Plato, Aristotle and Descartes. The human machine is the pride of our species, until the appearance of increasingly efficient artificial organisms. This comparison emerged with the pandemic and with our interpretative abilities in communication through the computer, and the difficulties became apparent. During the meetings, the possibility of overcoming these difficulties will be addressed.

Giovanni De Luigi is an actor and director close to Commedia dell'Arte; he has collaborated with Carlson, Fassbinder, Fo, Scaparro and Strehler, and has worked in university and hospital settings.

Workshop Designing teaching innovation: the Learning Network method, possible applications in blended learning teaching contexts, monitoring of experimental teaching 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 15:00

Archivio Antico at Palazzo del Bo

Workshop held by Prof. Maryellen Weimer, PhD, of Penn State University

The workshop is free of charge and is aimed at all lecturer staff of the University.

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

An overwhelming amount of research shows that students learn more deeply and retain knowledge for longer when they learn through activities rather than only by listening to a lecture. Learning through activities is called active learning, and this workshop will enable you to implement it in your online, remote, and dual courses. Specifically, you will be able to 1) wisely decide 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 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 relatrice 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, speaker Mauro Calise

Mauro Calise is 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 created with the aim of rapidly and extensively increasing the potential for high-quality multimedia teaching.  Mauro Calise is the author of some of the most influential texts in the Italian political debate of recent years. The most recent, Il Principe Digitale (with Fortunato Musella), published by Laterza.
The meeting will take place via an online platform, subject to registration.
Workshop video
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 enabling students, through annotations on the text, to discuss controversial points, helping one another and with the supervision of the lecturer.

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

Leading as a change agent is challenging and the work is often undervalued, unrecognised 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 prospects for change agents: the model of UBC University of British Columbia in Vancouver 

speaker Harry Hubbal

Programme

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

Sala Canova at Palazzo Storione 

Workshop held by Professor Maryellen Weimer, Ph.D, of Penn State University 
addressed exclusively to the University 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.