The Asia-Pacific Rim Universities Programme at the University of Southern California in collaboration with the Global STEM Education Program at the University of Oregon will be organising a three-part series on “Teaching in Virtual Environments”.
First Session: Creative Ideas for Online and Remote Assessment
Date & Time:
August 27 at 6 pm (Pacific time)
August 28 at 9 am (Hong Kong/Malaysia time)
Register here.
With remote and online teaching we cannot have the same safe guards for our course exams. In this session we will hear from APRU teaching experts (Elly Vandegrift, University of Oregon and Victor Hoe, University of Malaya) with some ideas for creating meaningful assessments of student learning that work well in online environments.
Second Session: Authentic Experiential Education
Date & Time:
September 3 at 6 pm (Pacific time)
September 4 at 9 am (Hong Kong/Malaysia time)
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Many of our educational program are enriched or dependent on students having experiential education. How do we create those types of learning experiences in remote or virtual settings? In this session, APRU teaching experts (Elly Vandegrift, University of Oregon and Vivian WY Lee, Chinese University of Hong Kong) will share some of the innovative ways their institutions have developed experiential education for online environments.
Final Session: Building Community in Remote Classrooms
Date & Time:
September 10 at 6 pm (Pacific time)
September 11 at 9 am (Hong Kong/Malaysia time)
Register here.
Creating a sense of community in our remote classrooms where students and faculty have the same sense of purpose and connection can feel very different in remote teaching in in our physical classrooms. In this session we will explore some suggestions for building connection with students in online and remote environments with two APRU member teaching experts (Elly Vandegrift, University of Oregon and César Alberto Lucio Ramírez, Tecnológico de Monterrey). Using the breakout rooms, we will then have time for discussion in small groups and return to the large room for the full group discussion.
Additional information
Any instructors or faculty welcome to participate.
Certificate of completion available for those who complete the full 4.5 hours.
For more information on the Speakers, please browse the APRU Global Health website
For questions, please email Dr Mellissa Withers, Global Health Program Director at mwithers@usc.edu.
