Awardee Showcase

Presenter(s)	Department	Presentation Title	Description	Watch the Presentation
Paul Busch	Marketing	Enhancing Student Self-Awareness	Using Clifton Strengths & 360 Assessment to increase students' self-awareness.
David Sparks	Geology and Geophysics	Lessons from Remote Teaching	A discussion of techniques I tried on an experimental asynchronous course during the pandemic.

Narrated Infographic

Presenter(s)	Department	Presentation Title	Description	Watch
Naqaa Abbas,  Khadija Mahsud	Liberal Arts	Community Building in a Virtual Classroom	This infographic describes a new faculty member's perspective on teaching online and describes the strategies adopted to do so successfully. A script of the voice-over is available at the end of the video.
Ashrant Aryal	Construction Science	PTTG project: Teaching Data Science to students without any programming background	This video discusses the plans for an introductory data science course for construction science students that is being developed as part of a PTTG grant.
Heather Burte	Psychological & Brain Sciences	Using narrative, engagement, and transformation to support learning in Cognitive Psychology	In this project, I will create three interactive modules to help students in Cognitive Psychology: a cognitive organizer discussion, an interactive psychology experiment, and an experiment result and application discussion.
Leslie Cizmas	Environmental and Occupational Health	Engaging Large Undergraduate Classes in Whole-Class Discussions	This provides 5 Tips for Engaging Large Undergraduate Classes in Whole-Class Discussions, based on the presenter's experience with an undergraduate public health class of 100-150 students per semester.
Allison Dunn	Agricultural Leadership, Education and Communications	The Crucible of Context: Fortifying and reinforcing learning in a leadership studies minor	Our individual contexts influence how students apply what they learn in their courses. This presentation discusses an infographic detailing the creation of a web-based leadership learning repository for students within the Leadership Studies minor.
Irina Gaynanova	Statistics	Structured Research Experiences in Statistics	We propose to develop structured research experiences that will help students transition from classroom to research-based activities through entry research project, journaling and mentoring.
Delaney Ivy, Juan Bustamante	Pharmacy Practice	Redesigning a team taught course to increase alignment between instructors	One of the common student feedback themes with these types of courses is that there is incongruency within the teaching model between the instructors. This topic will describe how in one course, instructors worked together to help decrease the incongruency within the course. Course coordinators who have multiple instructors in one course will be able to use the narrative infographic to see the process and integrate it for themselves if desired.
Larry May	McAllen Higher Education Center	Impactful Physics Labs for Non-Majors	A Presidential Transformational Teaching Grant proposal infographic titled "Impactful Physics Labs for Non-Majors". New Phys 201 labs will be created in order to activate higher-order learning.
Sarah McCorkle	Educational Psychology	Using Microsoft Teams for group work in a studio-based design course	Students in an advanced instructional design course worked together in Microsoft Teams. This course has a studio-based component and students work on a real design project for a client. Each studio group consisted of 3-4 students who met synchronously and asynchronously on their Microsoft Teams “channel.” The suite of tools available in Microsoft Teams are: file sharing in the Office 365 cloud, video calling with screen sharing, and a posts feed that serves as an instant messaging system.
Alex Mitchell	University Libraries	Information Literacy in the First Year	This grant will target Hullabaloo U courses and will give instructors the option to add modules to their Canvas site to expand learning about the library, incentivization for instructors for scheduling a library session for their Hullabaloo U class, and gamification of information literacy through a virtual escape room and piloted Library Amazing Race sessions. Through these ideas, I hope to expand the reach of library instruction sessions and library information to first year students.
Charles Peak	Biomedical Engineering	From Theory to Practice: Redesign of Biomaterials Laboratory to be Industry Relevant (PTTG)	Industry preparedness is crucial for A&M student success. . Traditionally, BMEN 345: Biomaterials laboratory has had 5 laboratories and took a research approach. This redesign will introduce the following: 1.) 8 structured, critical thinking laboratories, 2.) end of semester design project, and 3.) industry relevant material testing.
Thomas Peterson, Ian Murray, Heather Hoffmann, Michael Paolini	Medical Physiology and Medical Education	Use of an Interactive Teaching Notes Format for Medical Student Self-Learning in a Flipped Classroom Curriculum	This presentation is on interactive notes used in a medical school course where the student is guided through a learning exercise consisting of other resources and practice assessment questions in addition to the actual notes content.
John Whitcomb	Aerospace Engineering	Enhanced Learning via Empowerment	This talk describes a plan for empowerment by making an extensive collection of resources available to students. Any large collection of resources can be easily overwhelming for a student... and even for the faculty member, if the plan is to continue to improve the resources. Accordingly, the major challenge to be discussed is how to organize a large collection of resources such that students can easily identify and access the resources that interest them.
Laura White	Liberal Studies	New Life for Old Things: Service Learning in Heritage Material Culture	This presentation describes the use of the President's Transformational Teaching grant to turn MAST 365: Material Culture, into a problem based learning course with collaborations with local heritage institutions.
Aakash Tyagi	Computer Science and Engineering	Addressing Diversity in Learning Styles - A Case Study from CSCE-312	This presentation showcases the adaptation of CSCE-312 to diverse learning styles of student community to improve the course appeal.
Neha Dabral	Veterinary Pathobiology	Case-Based Teaching for Enhancing Reasoning Skills in Undergraduate Biomedical Science Courses	Case-based teaching is an inquiry-driven pedagogical method that prepares the students for tackling real world clinical-case scenarios. By facilitating connections between academic topics to real-world scenarios and applications, case-based learning promotes an enduring understanding at a higher order of cognition and enables the students to establish a more personal association with the content.

Talk

Presenter(s)	Department	Presentation Title	Description	Watch the Presentation
Brittany Bounds	Liberal Arts	Reimagining Assessments: Exchanging Exams for Group Work	Weekly debates can engage students both in the classroom and asynchronously to build community while learning while meeting course objectives of strengthening social skills.
Ciana Bowhay	Animal Science	Development of a Living Digital Reference in Food Microbiology	Developing a student-created, living digital textbook to increase engagement and science identity in food bacteriology.
Leslie Day	Neuroscience and Experimental Therapeutics	Utilizing Zoom and Other Technology to Create an Interactive Online Environment	A talk discussing how a flipped classroom of gross anatomy within the medical curriculum went from in person active learning sessions to a Zoom format utilizing Zoom features, while maintain high levels of student interaction.
Lana El Ladki, Bilal Mansoor	Center for Teaching and Learning	Student Engineering Enrichment Initiative in the State of Qatar	This talk will present the Student Engineering Enrichment Initiative in the State of Qatar. It will highlight the program component, focused areas, and its overall impact.
Debra Ellis	Construction Science	Difficult Dialogue in a Cultural Discourse Class	Tips and lessons learned by faculty leading cultural discourse small group sessions.
Tamy Frank-Cannon	Veterinary Integrative Biosciences	Student-centered problem-solving to teach difficult concepts, 3 diverse approaches	Diverse active learning approaches to teach difficult lecture concepts: hand-on models, beginning with the punchline, teamwork driven group problem solving.
Andy Herring	Animal Science	Enhanced dialogue and education among new and diverse agricultural partners through structured discussion boards	A new PTTG grant to modify an existing senior-level beef cattle production and management class improved diversity, equity, and inclusion components is presented. Previous experiences with a structured discussion board is discussed.
Sharon Matthews, Susan Fields, Ambyr Rios, Radhika Viruru	Teaching, Learning, and Culture	"Breaking Out" of Zoom Gloom: Scaffolds to Empower Student Engagement During Breakout Room Peer Review	This presentation outlines scaffolds to support substantive student engagement in writing peer review sessions.
Stacey Mitchell,  Sarah McCorkle	Nursing	Increasing Engagement and Critical Thinking: Integrating edpuzzle Into Online Learning	The purpose of this presentation is to highlight how learning tools may be integrated into videos to increase learner engagement. Barriers to online learning will be listed and how the use of an interactive tool may address challenges with engagement in online education.
Ian Murray, Nick Sears, David Zawieja, Burton Dickey, Daniel Novak	Medical Physiology	Breathing life into respiratory physiology: Use of student-built devices for immersive Team-Based Learning (TBL).	The reimagining of the Team-Based Learning (TBL) as an immersive, activity brings respiratory physiology to life via the demonstration of devices. This redesign aims to increase student learning, engagement, and innovation.
Tony Okoromadu	Finance	"You Can Change the World!"	In this presentation, I attempt to share some of the methods I have adopted and implemented in my teaching style, that have proven effective in enhancing student engagement and participation. I also share some of the positive results and feedback from students, and why these should make us proud of the work we do.
LeeAnn Rudd,  Joelle Fadlallah	Center for Teaching and Learning	"In medias res": Piloting an SI Program Internationally During COVID-19	The sudden move to online learning in response to Covid-19 occurred at the beginning of piloting SI program during Spring 2020. Besides adapting SI to the local culture and TAMUQ institutional context, We had to further train the SI leaders to implement creative interactive techniques. We will share the development and the lessons learned as we met the challenge of SI to become an exclusively online program supporting remote learning in a midst forced social isolation through the past year.
Brian Shaw	Plant Pathology and Microbiology	Development of online learning objects for a science core curriculum course.	A discussion of student engagement to create online learning objects for a science core curriculum course.
Jordan Szura	Health & Kinesiology	Why Community is Key to Student Engagement	Great teachers seek to build relationships with their students, but an area that often gets neglected is students' relationships with each other. Creating a strong community in your classroom is key to student engagement.
Qi Zheng	Epidemiology & Biostatistics	Weaving computational thinking into biostatistics education of public health students	This presentation describes how computational thinking can be employed to facilitate conceptual knowledge elaboration in teaching biostatistics to public health students.
Wendi Zimmer, Sharon Matthews	Health & Kinesiology	Developing your Course Writing Narrative	Participants will experience the “Story of Teaching Writing,” a scaffolding based framework for teaching the process of writing with application for all disciplines. This presentation consists of scaffolded methods for developing writers, including a 15-week calendar of writing instruction and support, along with a QR code linked to additional writing support and resources.
Wendi Zimmer	Health & Kinesiology	Pandemic Pages: Shifting Writing Instruction to a Virtual Environment	Participants will be presented with transformational teaching of writing methods applicable in hybrid course delivery. These methods include implementing effective digital tools to supplement instruction.
Wendi Zimmer,  Paul Keiper	Health & Kinesiology	Increasing Engagement through Class Discussion in Multimodal Courses	Presenters will share examples and explanations of transformational teaching methods used to increase student engagement and learning through classroom discussion in larger multimodal courses.
Yuki Waugh	International Studies	Engaging Students' Learning Culture and Language through a Virtual Music Workshop by a Guest Speaker as a Part of Content-Based Instruction	The session presenter invited a guest musician to the Japanese language classes as a part of content-based instruction (CBI). Students learn the content and the language simultaneously through CBI (Spenader, Wesely, and Glynn, 2020, p.477). Students interacted with a native speaker and connected to the community of their interest through the virtual workshop. This could enhance students’ motivation to learn more about the language and culture.
Hector Ramos	Educational Psychology	Using the platform StormZ with Zoom to enhance creative engagement online	Using StormZ and Zoom to enhance student engagement using creative thinking, reflection and documenting insights for future use.
Suzanna Ramos	Educational Psychology	Encouraging Metacognition Through Visualization	This is a sharing session of how a particular visualization technique, ‘Mindsketching’, is infused into any classroom pedagogy to help students understand abstract concepts and be able to explain those concepts in their own words. Three strategies on ‘Mindsketching’ will be shared.
Albertus Retnanto,  Ali Sheharyar,  Mohamed Fadlelmula,  Nayef Alyafei	Petroleum Engineering	Virtual Reality Technology to Strengthen Professional Skills for Engineering Education - Active Student Engagement in Learning	This project set out to bring real-world petroleum facilities to the classroom with the help of VR technology. The goal was to increase the students’ interest and enhance their learning experience by using innovative teaching methods.
Laura West,  Rania Cannaday,  Cortney Graves	Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology & Medical Education	Two Weeks & One Year: Lessons learned in rapidly, sustainably converting an in-person active learning activity to a remote virtual format	In March 2020, the authors of this presentation converted a complex active learning activity involving nearly one hundred students and fourteen faculty members into a virtual format in less than two weeks. Here, they share how this was achieved, lessons learned through this experience, and how this activity and its virtual format have been refined over the past year.
Julie Loisel	Geography	A Data-Driven Approach to Eco-Friendly Decision Making	A newly funded educational project that uses a data-driven approach to help with decision-making in the context of eco-friendly lifestyles.
Jessica Ray Herzogenrath	History	Everyone a Historian: Auditioning a Flipped Hybrid Model of the U.S. History Surveys	I will describe the low and high stakes assignments created with the aim of empowering and engaging students and implemented through Canvas for our flipped hybrid sections of the U.S. History surveys.
David Choust	University Libraries	Emotions and Emojis, Kurrents and ‘Texting’: Bringing German War Letters from the Library into University Teaching and Learning	Texas A&M’s Cushing special collections library wants to bring all its holdings into teaching and learning, across disciplines. But how to do this for its 15,000 German letters from the World Wars? Few students study German. I introduce stories, examples and questions that many different kinds of audiences in my library classroom complete, answer and connect to what they already know and care about—our emotions, how we cope with problems, change, and ambiguities, and how we communicate.

Presenter(s)	Department	Presentation Title	Description	Watch the Presentation
Mariana Gariazzo	Performance Studies	Difficult Conversations 101	This presentation addresses best practices on how to inspire a respectful and participatory community of thinkers in large enrollment courses. Using emerging technologies to spark thought-provoking questions, productive conversations, and civic dialogue.
Alex Mitchell	University Libraries	Citation Relay: Gamifying Citations in the Classroom	As part of the ENGL104 or 203 class, the librarians often talk about citations in their one shot instruction sessions. To gamify the citation experience and to give students hands on experience with citations, the librarians often choose to run a game called citation relay. While we primarily use this with APA or MLA, it can be used to introduce any citation style that you want students to use.
Chad Nelson	Recreation, Park and Tourism Sciences	The Importance of Learning Names- Name Games in a COVID-19 Classroom	“Gears” is a game to meet people. It can be used at the beginning of a meeting sequence. This game provides people of the group to get to know one another on a more personal level. If you have a new group of people that knows nothing about each other than this is a great way, which is not too intrusive, for them to get to know one another.
Charles Patrick, Jr.	Biomedical Engineering	Implementing a Collaborative Problem-Solving Studio in a Remote or Hybrid Modality	Implementing a Collaborative Problem-Solving Studio in a Remote or Hybrid Modality
Charles Patrick, Jr.	Biomedical Engineering	The 21st Century Socrates: Implementing an Inquiry-Based Socratic Seminar in a Remote or Hybrid Modality	The 21st Century Socrates: Implementing an Inquiry-Based Socratic Seminar in a Remote or Hybrid Modality
Jane Futrell Winslow	Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning	Getting to know one another: The Zine	The Zine is a fun exercise for students to get to know one another and for the instructor to get to know the students. A low tech booklet is prepared by the students and uploaded to the course google drive to share with the class.

Presenter(s)	Department	Presentation Title	Description	Watch the Presentation
Laura D'Aveta	University Libraries	Pictographs and Imposters: Game-Based Approaches to Library Instruction	This narrative infographic describes two game-based approaches used in 300-level English courses in order to increase engagement in library instruction activities.
Kelly Lee	Educational Psychology	Enhancing Integrated Assessment Through Tiered Clinical Assessment Supervision	This presentation focuses on a proposed and funded PTTG project restructuring the Counseling Psychology graduate course Integrated Assessment by incorporating advanced students to serve as student supervisors to students in the class.
Leslie Seipp	Student Transformation Center	The Art of Questioning: Using Bloom's Taxonomy to Frame Class Discussions and Develop Critical Thinking	This presentation addresses questions for class discussion. I use Bloom's Taxonomy to show how questions can be posed for developing a deeper understanding of the class material as well as critical thinking skills for students.
Irina Gaynanova	Statistics	Structured Research Experiences in Statistics	We propose to develop structured research experiences that will help students transition from classroom to research-based activities through entry research project, journaling and mentoring.
Sarah McCorkle	Educational Psychology	Using Microsoft Teams for group work in a studio-based design course	Students in an advanced instructional design course worked together in Microsoft Teams. This course has a studio-based component and students work on a real design project for a client. Each studio group consisted of 3-4 students who met synchronously and asynchronously on their Microsoft Teams “channel.” The suite of tools available in Microsoft Teams are: file sharing in the Office 365 cloud, video calling with screen sharing, and a posts feed that serves as an instant messaging system.
Alex Mitchell	University Libraries	Information Literacy in the First Year	This grant will target Hullabaloo U courses and will give instructors the option to add modules to their Canvas site to expand learning about the library, incentivization for instructors for scheduling a library session for their Hullabaloo U class, and gamification of information literacy through a virtual escape room and piloted Library Amazing Race sessions. Through these ideas, I hope to expand the reach of library instruction sessions and library information to first year students.
Aakash Tyagi	Computer Science and Engineering	Addressing Diversity in Learning Styles - A Case Study from CSCE-312	This presentation showcases the adaptation of CSCE-312 to diverse learning styles of student community to improve the course appeal.

Talk

Presenter(s)	Department	Presentation Title	Description	Watch the Presentation
Stephen Bales	Research and Public Services	Exploring Aleatoric Tools to Revitalize Instruction	An overview of the use of aleatoric tools, particularly Eno and Schmidt's Oblique Strategies for using chance and serendipity to revitalize teaching that has gone in a rut
Michael Dewsnap, Amy Waer, Robert Carpenter	Academic Affairs	Promoting Excellence through Appreciative Inquiry at Texas A&M University College of Medicine	Framed by Appreciative Inquiry, the College of Medicine fosters community to encourage learning through such aspects as: 1) a exemplary reporting system; 2) multifaceted communications from leadership; and 3) wellness offerings.
Jeremy Gibson,  Gail Pritchard	Academic Affairs	Empowering Student Agency Through an Evidence- Based Parenting Elective	Self-directed and lifelong learning are essential capabilities of a physician. This presentation explores the use of an evidence-based parenting elective developed during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Judith Linneman	Sociology	Meta-Teaching: Reimagining Teaching and Learning through Instructional Training and Mentoring	R1 = T2? To improve teaching at large universities, it should be perceived and managed more like research. Explore one TAMU Department’s discipline-specific instructional training and formal mentoring for graduate instructors.
Alyssa Locklear	Health & Kinesiology	Optimizing Assessment for Critical Thinking, Creativity, and Clarity	Using alternative assessment methods to promote student learning and enjoy grading
Ann McNamara	Visualization	Using 3D Modeling and Animation to Teach Coding	I am teaching introductory python coding using a 3D modeling and animation platform called Autodesk Maya. In this talk, I describe the approach and present a hands-on example, then share some insights into the effectiveness of this approach.
Zackary Medlin	University Libraries	Oh! Aggie Fam, This is my Jam: using Google Jamboards to increase engagement	Join the conversation on how using Google Jamboards can increase engagement in classes and presentations. I'll share some of the ways I've found success and invite you to share some of your ideas as well!
Niki Ritchey	Engineering Academic and Student Affairs	An alternative assessment to foster creativity and encourage self-learning for first year engineering students	A brief talk over a student-defined project used as an alternative assessment in a first year programming course.
Tamy Frank-Cannon	Veterinary Integrative Biosciences	Student-centered problem-solving to teach difficult concepts, 3 diverse approaches	Diverse active learning approaches to teach difficult lecture concepts: hand-on models, beginning with the punchline, teamwork driven group problem solving.
Jordan Szura	Health & Kinesiology	Why Community is Key to Student Engagement	Great teachers seek to build relationships with their students, but an area that often gets neglected is students' relationships with each other. Creating a strong community in your classroom is key to student engagement.
Hector Ramos	Educational Psychology	Using the platform StormZ with Zoom to enhance creative engagement online	Using StormZ and Zoom to enhance student engagement using creative thinking, reflection and documenting insights for future use.
John Park	Agricultural Economics	Reimagining Team-Based Learning Using Cooperative Principles	A discussion of how cooperative business principles can be used to transform the use of teams and group assignments in courses.
David Lowe,  Jeannette Ho,  Dong Joon Lee,  Bruce Herbert	University Libraries	The Libraries’ Easy Button for Publishing Your Teaching Materials Online (and Getting Credit)	This session introduces the new Faculty Teaching Materials collection in OAKTrust, the Libraries' institutional repository. Featuring self-deposit just like the Faculty Research collection, the Teaching Materials serve as a handy spot for APT faculty especially to deposit their items and garner statistics for P&T portfolios.
Michael Paolini, II,  Heather Hoffmann,  Larry Johnson,  Ian Murray	Molecular and Cellular Medicine	In the Eye of the Beholder: Using using eye-tracking to teach histology to medical students	Eye-tracking can help teach histology by converting an implicit skill into a quantifiable and observable task that can be demonstrated to students. This study's objective was to compare eye-tracking of histology images between novices and experts and use the data for student training.
Jessica Ray Herzogenrath	History	Everyone a Historian: Auditioning a Flipped Hybrid Model of the U.S. History Surveys	I will describe the low and high stakes assignments created with the aim of empowering and engaging students and implemented through Canvas for our flipped hybrid sections of the U.S. History surveys.
David Choust	University Libraries	Emotions and Emojis, Kurrents and ‘Texting’: Bringing German War Letters from the Library into University Teaching and Learning	Texas A&M’s Cushing special collections library wants to bring all its holdings into teaching and learning, across disciplines. But how to do this for its 15,000 German letters from the World Wars? Few students study German. I introduce stories, examples and questions that many different kinds of audiences in my library classroom complete, answer and connect to what they already know and care about—our emotions, how we cope with problems, change, and ambiguities, and how we communicate.

Virtual Quick Fire

Presenter(s)	Department	Presentation Title	Description	Watch the Presentation
Diane Bedford	Health & Kinesiology	Building Community in a Cultural Discourse Class	A quick-fire presentation explaining a tool I use to collaboratively build the guidelines, expectations, behaviors, and agreements among myself and students for discussions in a Cultural Discourse Class. This tool helps to build a shared sense of trust and community for open dialogues.
Bradley Burroughs	Student Activities	Embedding Effectiveness: Using Hyperlinks and QR Codes in a Syllabus	Syllabus are vital components to the structure of university courses. In reimagining engagement in the classroom, these tips contribute to the enhancement of student learning and will be highlighted by embedding hyperlinks and QR codes to your course syllabus.
Ra’sheedah Richardson, Shannon Walton, Theresa Pesl Murphrey, Audra Richburg	Center for Teaching Excellence	Scholarly Learning Communities: A Powerful Technique To Engage Students and Extend Beyond the Classroom	The objective of this presentation is to share our experience of using Scholarly Learning Communities (SLCs) to support students and provide evidence to help others determine if implementing an SLC might serve their needs.
Chad Nelson	Recreation, Park and Tourism Sciences	The Importance of Learning Names- Name Games in a COVID-19 Classroom	“Gears” is a game to meet people. It can be used at the beginning of a meeting sequence. This game provides people of the group to get to know one another on a more personal level. If you have a new group of people that knows nothing about each other than this is a great way, which is not too intrusive, for them to get to know one another.

Awardee Showcase

Presenter(s)	Department	Presentation Title	Description	Watch the Presentation
Stephen Daniel	Philosophy	"Helping 'Average' Students to Excel"	Techniques for helping teachers encourage students both in and out of class to feel that they can master the material and develop skills.
Claire Katz	Philosophy	Reimagining Teaching and Learning in the Humanities	In this presentation I share three ways that I reimagine teaching and learning in the humanities: the text, pedagogy, and assessment. I provide some examples from three classes in which I have made these changes.

Narrated Infographic

Presenter(s)	Department	Presentation Title	Description	Watch the Presentation
Bradley Burroughs	Student Activities	Reflection, Networking, and Occupying New Spaces: Enhancing Student Engagement and Learning Through Retreats	In this narrative inforgraph, the presenter will highlight three practices that were implemented into retreats for student leaders, resulting in higher engagement and learning. The three practices are reflection opportunities, networking with external entities, and occupying new spaces/environments.
Dawn Jourdan, Andrea Roberts, James Michael Tate	Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning	The Aggie Panther Plan-Design-Build Teaching Collaborative	This project provides an immersive student-centered learning approach that allows students from two colleges of architecture (Prairie View A&M and Texas A&M College Station) to come together as a team to co-design and build a structure that celebrates the their knowledge of the past as they identify the collective future they seek to inspire into action.
Robert Lightfoot,  Mackenzie Gray	Computer Science and Engineering	Building Your Path To Course Mastery, A Class Where Students Choose A Path To Their Success	Building Your Path To Course Mastery, A Class Where Students Choose A Path To Their Success As part of the Presidential Transformational Teaching Grant, we are developing a class where students have more choices in the assignments they do to show course mastery. The benefits will be a higher level of learning, more inclusitivity and less academic dishonesty.
Noah Peterson	English	Transformative Learning in a Discussion Based English Classroom	I discuss using "Weekly Discussion Questions" in an English literature course to engage in transformative teaching.
Shawna Thomas,  Charles Peak	Computer Science and Engineering	Reimagining Diversity and Inclusion Activities	We describe an easy and adaptable class activity to discuss diversity and inclusion in your discipline. We share our experience conducting the activity in two different disciplines.
Naqaa Abbas,  Khadija Mahsud	Liberal Arts	Community Building in a Virtual Classroom	This infographic describes a new faculty member's perspective on teaching online and describes the strategies adopted to do so successfully. A script of the voice-over is available at the end of the video.
Heather Burte	Psychological & Brain Sciences	Using narrative, engagement, and transformation to support learning in Cognitive Psychology	In this project, I will create three interactive modules to help students in Cognitive Psychology: a cognitive organizer discussion, an interactive psychology experiment, and an experiment result and application discussion.
Leslie Cizmas	Environmental and Occupational Health	Engaging Large Undergraduate Classes in Whole-Class Discussions	This provides 5 Tips for Engaging Large Undergraduate Classes in Whole-Class Discussions, based on the presenter's experience with an undergraduate public health class of 100-150 students per semester.
Kayla Cline	Accounting	Developing International Awareness via Group Learning	I present a group discussion-based learning exercise used in my upper-division/graduate level course to facilitate rich discussion of business, accounting, and finance in countries or regions other than the United States.
Laura White	Liberal Studies	New Life for Old Things: Service Learning in Heritage Material Culture	This presentation describes the use of the President's Transformational Teaching grant to turn MAST 365: Material Culture, into a problem based learning course with collaborations with local heritage institutions.

Talk

Presenter(s)	Department	Presentation Title	Description	Watch the Presentation
Paige Linne	Animal Science	Duct Taping My Phone to a Wall: A Story of Pivoting Hands On Labs During Covid 19	The story of how a highly hands on ANSC class covering a wide range of topics pivoted to online learning in Spring 2020, as well as reflective lessons learned from that experience which have permanently changed the way this class is taught. Presentation highlights the power of creating an online learning community through very basic technology use, willingness to adapt, and tactful communication.
Laurissa Noack	Center for Academic Learning Support	Setting Online Student Engagement Expectations with Shared Learning Agreements	This presentation demonstrates how to create a Shared Learning Agreement in collaboration with students in order to set classroom expectations, build classroom community, increase student engagement throughout the semester, and clarify discussion parameters for inclusivity, civility, and cultural discourse.
Brittany Bounds	Liberal Arts	Reimagining Assessments: Exchanging Exams for Group Work	Weekly debates can engage students both in the classroom and asynchronously to build community while learning while meeting course objectives of strengthening social skills.
Michael Dewsnap, Amy Waer, Robert Carpenter	Academic Affairs	Promoting Excellence through Appreciative Inquiry at Texas A&M University College of Medicine	Framed by Appreciative Inquiry, the College of Medicine fosters community to encourage learning through such aspects as: 1) a exemplary reporting system; 2) multifaceted communications from leadership; and 3) wellness offerings.
Debra Ellis	Construction Science	Difficult Dialogue in a Cultural Discourse Class	Tips and lessons learned by faculty leading cultural discourse small group sessions.
Stephanie McCartney	Chemistry	Utilizing Social Media to Create a Virtual Classroom Community	How utilizing social media platforms such as GroupMe can allow students taking a virtual class of any size to create a supportive community.
Tony Okoromadu	Finance	"You Can Change the World!"	In this presentation, I attempt to share some of the methods I have adopted and implemented in my teaching style, that have proven effective in enhancing student engagement and participation. I also share some of the positive results and feedback from students, and why these should make us proud of the work we do.
LeeAnn Rudd,  Joelle Fadlallah	Center for Teaching and Learning	"In medias res": Piloting an SI Program Internationally During COVID-19	The sudden move to online learning in response to Covid-19 occurred at the beginning of piloting SI program during Spring 2020. Besides adapting SI to the local culture and TAMUQ institutional context, We had to further train the SI leaders to implement creative interactive techniques. We will share the development and the lessons learned as we met the challenge of SI to become an exclusively online program supporting remote learning in a midst forced social isolation through the past year.
Jordan Szura	Health & Kinesiology	Why Community is Key to Student Engagement	Great teachers seek to build relationships with their students, but an area that often gets neglected is students' relationships with each other. Creating a strong community in your classroom is key to student engagement.
Randy Brooks	Engineering Academic & Student Affairs	The Academy Model for Connecting Two-Year and Four-Year College Programs	Overview of the Academy design to provide expanded opportunites for all students interested in Texas A&M.
Yuki Waugh	International Studies	Engaging Students' Learning Culture and Language through a Virtual Music Workshop by a Guest Speaker as a Part of Content-Based Instruction	The session presenter invited a guest musician to the Japanese language classes as a part of content-based instruction (CBI). Students learn the content and the language simultaneously through CBI (Spenader, Wesely, and Glynn, 2020, p.477). Students interacted with a native speaker and connected to the community of their interest through the virtual workshop. This could enhance students’ motivation to learn more about the language and culture.
David Lowe,  Jeannette Ho,  Dong Joon Lee,  Bruce Herbert	University Libraries	The Libraries’ Easy Button for Publishing Your Teaching Materials Online (and Getting Credit)	This session introduces the new Faculty Teaching Materials collection in OAKTrust, the Libraries' institutional repository. Featuring self-deposit just like the Faculty Research collection, the Teaching Materials serve as a handy spot for APT faculty especially to deposit their items and garner statistics for P&T portfolios.
David Choust	University Libraries	Emotions and Emojis, Kurrents and ‘Texting’: Bringing German War Letters from the Library into University Teaching and Learning	Texas A&M’s Cushing special collections library wants to bring all its holdings into teaching and learning, across disciplines. But how to do this for its 15,000 German letters from the World Wars? Few students study German. I introduce stories, examples and questions that many different kinds of audiences in my library classroom complete, answer and connect to what they already know and care about—our emotions, how we cope with problems, change, and ambiguities, and how we communicate.

Virtual Quick Fire

Presenter(s)	Department	Presentation Title	Description	Watch the Presentation
Rebecca Hapes,  Theresa Murphrey, Audra Richburg	Entomology	Ice Breakers – Online or In Person: Enabling a Feeling of Belonging for First-Year Students	The objective of this presentation is to share our experience of using “Ice Breakers” to engage students as we teach a course that is both remote and in person.
Alyssa Locklear	Health & Kinesiology	Hear Me, Hear Ye	Creating community through verbal engagement - icebreakers, role call and think-pair-share
Charles Patrick, Jr.	Biomedical Engineering	Enhancing Collaborative Student Engagement and Professional Workforce Preparation with Electronic Laboratory Notebooks	Enhancing Collaborative Student Engagement and Professional Workforce Preparation with Electronic Laboratory Notebooks
Diane Bedford	Health & Kinesiology	Building Community in a Cultural Discourse Class	A quick-fire presentation explaining a tool I use to collaboratively build the guidelines, expectations, behaviors, and agreements among myself and students for discussions in a Cultural Discourse Class. This tool helps to build a shared sense of trust and community for open dialogues.
Mariana Gariazzo	Performance Studies	Difficult Conversations 101	This presentation addresses best practices on how to inspire a respectful and participatory community of thinkers in large enrollment courses. Using emerging technologies to spark thought-provoking questions, productive conversations, and civic dialogue.
Ra’sheedah Richardson,  Shannon Walton,  Theresa Pesl Murphrey,  Audra Richburg	Center for Teaching Excellence	Scholarly Learning Communities: A Powerful Technique To Engage Students and Extend Beyond the Classroom	The objective of this presentation is to share our experience of using Scholarly Learning Communities (SLCs) to support students and provide evidence to help others determine if implementing an SLC might serve their needs.
Chad Nelson	Recreation, Park and Tourism Sciences	The Importance of Learning Names- Name Games in a COVID-19 Classroom	“Gears” is a game to meet people. It can be used at the beginning of a meeting sequence. This game provides people of the group to get to know one another on a more personal level. If you have a new group of people that knows nothing about each other than this is a great way, which is not too intrusive, for them to get to know one another.
Jane Futrell Winslow	Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning	Getting to know one another: The Zine	The Zine is a fun exercise for students to get to know one another and for the instructor to get to know the students. A low tech booklet is prepared by the students and uploaded to the course google drive to share with the class.

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Presenter(s)	Department	Presentation Title	Description	Watch the Presentation
Daniel Conway	Philosophy	Situating Race in a Global Setting: A Two-Campus Solution	A summary overview.
Sushil Paudyal	Animal Science	Using industry webinars in a Dairy Production Management course	A Case study is presented for three runs of the same course. Shorter videos are utilized where they showed a substantial increase in student viewing. This comes with a price...!
Jayne Reuben	Biomedical Sciences	Using Self-Learning Modules and Content Scaffolding to Improve Student Performance and Confidence in integrated Biomedical Courses	The purpose of this grant is to support the development and validation of cognitive exercises that will enhance student performance and confidence.
Robert Lightfoot,  Mackenzie Gray	Computer Science and Engineering	Building Your Path To Course Mastery, A Class Where Students Choose A Path To Their Success	Building Your Path To Course Mastery, A Class Where Students Choose A Path To Their Success
Jayne Reuben,  Krysten Barnes,  Alexandra Talley,  Alexandra Evans,  Akeira Warner	Biomedical Sciences	Engaging dental students in educational research to enhance their pharmacology knowledge	The purpose of this presentation is to describe a project that provides an opportunity for dental students to engage in educational research by modifying a commonly-used pharmacology tool and assessing its ability to enhance student performance and self-efficacy.
Heather Burte	Psychological & Brain Sciences	Using narrative, engagement, and transformation to support learning in Cognitive Psychology	In this project, I will create three interactive modules to help students in Cognitive Psychology: a cognitive organizer discussion, an interactive psychology experiment, and an experiment result and application discussion.
Irina Gaynanova	Statistics	Structured Research Experiences in Statistics	We propose to develop structured research experiences that will help students transition from classroom to research-based activities through entry research project, journaling and mentoring.
Michelle Pine,  Felice House	Veterinary Integrative Biosciences	Art & Anatomy Integration for Interdisciplinary Collaborative Education	This art and science collaboration investigates how drawing-based practices can support learning for both artistic and scientific anatomy education.

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Presenter(s)	Department	Presentation Title	Description	Watch the Presentation
Tatiana Erukhimova,  Matthew Dew,  Jonathan Perry,  Lewis Ford,  William Bassichis	Physics & Astronomy	Gendered performance differences in introductory physics	Our study analyzed the exam scores and final grades of more than 10,000 students enrolled in four introductory physics courses across more than a decade. We found no evidence that male students consistently outperformed female students in these courses. Whenever any kind of difference was observed, the effect size was weak.
Jean Parrella,  Theresa Murphrey,  Holli Leggette,  Christi Esquivel	Agricultural Leadership, Education and Communications	Evidence-Based Teaching Strategies to Enhance Students' Employability Skills	Meta-Teaching: Reimagining Teaching and Learning through Insructional Training and Mentoring R1 = T2? To improve teaching at large universities, it should be perceived and managed more like research. Explore one TAMU Department’s discipline-specific instructional training and formal mentoring for graduate instructors.
Stephen Bales	Research and Public Services	Exploring Aleatoric Tools to Revitalize Instruction	An overview of the use of aleatoric tools, particularly Eno and Schmidt's Oblique Strategies for using chance and serendipity to revitalize teaching that has gone in a rut
Ciana Bowhay	Animal Science	Development of a Living Digital Reference in Food Microbiology	Developing a student-created, living digital textbook to increase engagement and science identity in food bacteriology.
Judith Linneman	Sociology	Meta-Teaching: Reimagining Teaching and Learning through Instructional Training and Mentoring	This presentation introduces two conceptual frameworks that can be used to inform teaching and research; discusses research results from a fall 2020 study; and recommends teaching practices that instructors can use to improve students’ social skill development.
Qi Zheng	Epidemiology & Biostatistics	Weaving computational thinking into biostatistics education of public health students	This presentation describes how computational thinking can be employed to facilitate conceptual knowledge elaboration in teaching biostatistics to public health students.
Ashley Saunders,  Kristin Chaney	Veterinary Small Animal Clinical Sciences	Maintaining a successful Peer-Review of Teaching Program in a hybrid teaching environment – the CVMBS experience.	Peer review of teaching (PRT) is a process of evaluating teaching to provide formative and summative feedback to support the educational efforts of teachers in the classroom. Both remote only and hybrid teaching environments pose challenges to classic peer review observations. We will provide our lessons learned in the College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences and tips for continuing to pursue the PRT process in a hybrid teaching environment.

Presenter(s)	Department	Presentation Title	Description	Watch the Presentation
Kayla Clinen	Accounting	Developing International Awareness via Group Learning	I present a group discussion-based learning exercise used in my upper-division/graduate level course to facilitate rich discussion of business, accounting, and finance in countries or regions other than the United States.
Daniel Conway	Philosophy	Situating Race in a Global Setting: A Two-Campus Solution	A summary overview.
Dawn Jourdan,  Andrea Roberts,  James Michael Tate	Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning	The Aggie Panther Plan-Design-Build Teaching Collaborative	This project provides an immersive student-centered learning approach that allows students from two colleges of architecture (Prairie View A&M and Texas A&M College Station) to come together as a team to co-design and build a structure that celebrates the their knowledge of the past as they identify the collective future they seek to inspire into action.
Shawna Thomas,  Charles Peak	Computer Science and Engineering	Reimagining Diversity and Inclusion Activities	We describe an easy and adaptable class activity to discuss diversity and inclusion in your discipline. We share our experience conducting the activity in two different disciplines.

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Michael Dewsnap,  Amy Waer,  Robert Carpenter	Academic Affairs	Promoting Excellence through Appreciative Inquiry at Texas A&M University College of Medicine	Framed by Appreciative Inquiry, the College of Medicine fosters community to encourage learning through such aspects as: 1) a exemplary reporting system; 2) multifaceted communications from leadership; and 3) wellness offerings.
Debra Ellis	Construction Science	Difficult Dialogue in a Cultural Discourse Class	Tips and lessons learned by faculty leading cultural discourse small group sessions.
Jennifer Evans,  Sara Fehr	Health & Kinesiology	Social Justice in the Classroom: The Importance of Perspective Taking in Addressing Difficult Topics	This presentation will provide learners with teaching techniques that can be utilized to facilitate difficult conversations about current social justice issues. Participants will gain insight on how to set up these dialogues by incorporating collective contracts, presenting multiple perspectives on the issue, and providing reflective activities for both students and instructors after the lesson.
Mariana Gariazzo,  Shweta Kailani	Performance Studies	Intentional Design for Transformational Teaching and Learning	This presentation provides inspiration and helpful instructional design ideas to instructors from all disciplines invested in engaging learners through technologies with innovative and interactive instructional design. Showcases implementation of High Impact Innovation Practices in a large enrollment online course.
Jeremy Gibson,  Gail Pritchard	Academic Affairs	Empowering Student Agency Through an Evidence Based Parenting Elective	Self-directed and lifelong learning are essential capabilities of a physician. This presentation explores the use of an evidence-based parenting elective developed during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Laurissa Noack	Center for Academic Learning Support	Setting Online Student Engagement Expectations with Shared Learning Agreements	This presentation demonstrates how to create a Shared Learning Agreement in collaboration with students in order to set classroom expectations, build classroom community, increase student engagement throughout the semester, and clarify discussion parameters for inclusivity, civility, and cultural discourse.

Virtual Quick Fire

Presenter(s)	Department	Presentation Title	Description	Watch the Presentation
Diane Bedford	Health & Kinesiology	Building Community in a Cultural Discourse Class	A quick-fire presentation explaining a tool I use to collaboratively build the guidelines, expectations, behaviors, and agreements among myself and students for discussions in a Cultural Discourse Class. This tool helps to build a shared sense of trust and community for open dialogues.
Mariana Gariazzo	Performance Studies	Difficult Conversations 101	This presentation addresses best practices on how to inspire a respectful and participatory community of thinkers in large enrollment courses. Using emerging technologies to spark thought-provoking questions, productive conversations, and civic dialogue.
Manuel Piña,  Theresa Pesl Murphrey,  Danette Philpot	Agricultural Leadership, Education and Communications	Gendered Lensed Curricula for Development (GLCD): Modules and How You Can Use Them	The objective of this presentation is to bring about awareness of ready-to-use modules, created under the direction of Texas A&M faculty, that focus on gender sensitive issues in development.
Ra’sheedah Richardson,  Shannon Walton,  Theresa Pesl Murphrey,  Audra Richburg	Center for Teaching Excellence	Scholarly Learning Communities: A Powerful Technique To Engage Students and Extend Beyond the Classroom	The objective of this presentation is to share our experience of using Scholarly Learning Communities (SLCs) to support students and provide evidence to help others determine if implementing an SLC might serve their needs.

Awardee Showcase

Presenter(s)	Department	Presentation Title	Description	Watch the Presentation
Claire  Katz	Philosophy	Reimagining Teaching and Learning in the Humanities	In this presentation I share three ways that I reimagine teaching and learning in the humanities: the text, pedagogy, and assessment. I provide some examples from three classes in which I have made these changes.

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Amy  Caton,  Sarah Murray.  Lisa Stewart	Center for Academic Learning Support	Choose Your Own Adventure: Enhancing student agency, outreach, and success	The Center for Academic Learning Support at Texas A&M University at Galveston partnered with student community leaders to conduct focus groups, design, create, train, and deliver a "choose your own adventure" style story outlining the first semester of college life at Texas A&M University at Galveston.
Allison Dunn	Agricultural Leadership, Education and Communications	The Crucible of Context: Fortifying and reinforcing learning in a leadership studies minor	Our individual contexts influence how students apply what they learn in their courses. This presentation discusses an infographic detailing the creation of a web-based leadership learning repository for students within the Leadership Studies minor.
Dawn Jourdan,  Andrea Roberts,  James Michael Tate	Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning	The Aggie Panther Plan-Design-Build Teaching Collaborative	This project provides an immersive student-centered learning approach that allows students from two colleges of architecture (Prairie View A&M and Texas A&M College Station) to come together as a team to co-design and build a structure that celebrates the their knowledge of the past as they identify the collective future they seek to inspire into action.
Kelly Lee	Educational Psychology	Enhancing Integrated Assessment Through Tiered Clinical Assessment Supervision	This presentation focuses on a proposed and funded PTTG project restructuring the Counseling Psychology graduate course Integrated Assessment by incorporating advanced students to serve as student supervisors to students in the class.
Larry May	McAllen Higher Education Center	Impactful Physics Labs for Non-Majors	A Presidential Transformational Teaching Grant proposal infographic titled "Impactful Physics Labs for Non-Majors". New Phys 201 labs will be created in order to activate higher-order learning.
Syed Rahman,  Jenna Lamphere,  Irfan Khan	Marine Engineering Technology	Greening TAMUG: Integrating Sustainability Curriculum with Project-Based Learning	Through education, research, and operational efficiency, universities are uniquely positioned to help address complex sustainability challenges. Allocating the resources necessary to advance sustainability, however, can be challenging, especially for small campuses like TAMUG with limited financial and human capital. We developed an innovative, interdisciplinary project that combines sustainability curriculum with project-based learning across concurrent courses in sociology and engineering.
Leslie Seipp	Student Transformation Center	The Art of Questioning: Using Bloom's Taxonomy to Frame Class Discussions and Develop Critical Thinking	This presentation addresses questions for class discussion. I use Bloom's Taxonomy to show how questions can be posed for developing a deeper understanding of the class material as well as critical thinking skills for students.

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Presenter(s)	Department	Presentation Title	Description	Watch the Presentation
Tara Blasor	Accounting	Managing small students teams in service-oriented projects	I discuss four tips to improve student engagement and get better quality deliverables from the students in a group project oriented course.
Patrick Bolger	Psychological & Brain Sciences	Formative math-focused assessment: Harnessing the power of the Exams package for R	This presentation gives a tutorial on how to generate math-based exams (using R, R Markdown, LaTeX, and the "exams" package for R) that are virtually unique for each test-taker, and can be exported to most LMSs as zipped QTI files.
Brittany Bounds	Liberal Arts	Reimagining Assessments: Exchanging Exams for Group Workv	Weekly debates can engage students both in the classroom and asynchronously to build community while learning while meeting course objectives of strengthening social skills.
Ciana Bowhay	Animal Science	Development of a Living Digital Reference in Food Microbiology	Developing a student-created, living digital textbook to increase engagement and science identity in food bacteriology.
Sandy Diec,  Merlyn Joseph	Pharmacy	Specifications Grading in a Skills Lab Course	Specifications grading is a grading system that still uses an A-F approach when reporting final course grades, but the letter grades are earned differently. Essentially, the course creates “bundles” of work for each letter grade. Learners must complete all elements of the “bundle” to earn the associated letter grade. As letter grade increases, so do the responsibilities and time required to achieving that bundle.
Tara Blasor	Accounting	Managing small students teams in service-oriented projects	I discuss four tips to improve student engagement and get better quality deliverables from the students in a group project oriented course.
Jeremy Gibson,  Gail Pritchard	Academic Affairs	Empowering Student Agency Through an Evidence Based Parenting Elective	Self-directed and lifelong learning are essential capabilities of a physician. This presentation explores the use of an evidence-based parenting elective developed during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Sharon Matthews,  Susan Fields,  Ambyr Rios,  Radhika Viruru	Teaching, Learning, and Culture	"Breaking Out" of Zoom Gloom: Scaffolds to Empower Student Engagement During Breakout Room Peer Review	This presentation outlines scaffolds to support substantive student engagement in writing peer review sessions.
Laurissa Noack	Center for Academic Learning Support	Setting Online Student Engagement Expectations with Shared Learning Agreements	This presentation demonstrates how to create a Shared Learning Agreement in collaboration with students in order to set classroom expectations, build classroom community, increase student engagement throughout the semester, and clarify discussion parameters for inclusivity, civility, and cultural discourse.
Tony Okoromadu	Finance	"You Can Change the World!"	In this presentation, I attempt to share some of the methods I have adopted and implemented in my teaching style, that have proven effective in enhancing student engagement and participation. I also share some of the positive results and feedback from students, and why these should make us proud of the work we do.
Niki Ritchey	Engineering Academic and Student Affairs	An alternative assessment to foster creativity and encourage self-learning for first year engineering students	A brief talk over a student-defined project used as an alternative assessment in a first year programming course.
Michael Scialdone	Information and Operations Management	Choose Your Own Extra Credit: Employment of a Currency-Like Badging System to Encourage Intrinsic Student Motivation	This video presents a Badge Reward Program as a way to enhance their students’ intrinsic motivation, an approach informed by Self-Determination Theory
Brian Shaw	Plant Pathology and Microbiology	Development of online learning objects for a science core curriculum course.	A discussion of student engagement to create online learning objects for a science core curriculum course.
David Sparks	Geology and Geophysics	PlanetQuest - Teaching Planetary Geophysics through an Online Role-Playing Game	A description of a new asynchronous online course that teaches the use and interpretation of models and data in the broad area of the formation of habitable solar systems and planets.
Donna Lee Sullins,  Alex Sullins	Recreation, Park and Tourism Sciences	Enhancing Student Motivation in Asynchronous Online Courses	Join us for a discussion on how to use self-determination theory as a framework for teaching asynchronous online courses in an engaging way.
John Park	Agricultural Economics	Reimagining Team-Based Learning Using Cooperative Principles	A discussion of how cooperative business principles can be used to transform the use of teams and group assignments in courses.

Awardee Showcase

Presenter(s)	Department	Presentation Title	Description	Watch the Presentation
Stephen Daniel	Philosophy	"Helping 'Average' Students to Excel"	Techniques for helping teachers encourage students both in and out of class to feel that they can master the material and develop skills.

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Presenter(s)	Department	Presentation Title	Description	Watch the Presentation
Naqaa Abbas,  Khadija Mahsud	Liberal Arts	Community Building in a Virtual Classroom	This infographic describes a new faculty member's perspective on teaching online and describes the strategies adopted to do so successfully. A script of the voice-over is available at the end of the video.
Bradley Burroughs	Student Activities	Reflection, Networking, and Occupying New Spaces: Enhancing Student Engagement and Learning Through Retreats	In this narrative inforgraph, the presenter will highlight three practices that were implemented into retreats for student leaders, resulting in higher engagement and learning. The three practices are reflection opportunities, networking with external entities, and occupying new spaces/environments.
Leslie Cizmas	Environmental and Occupational Health	Engaging Large Undergraduate Classes in Whole-Class Discussions	This provides 5 Tips for Engaging Large Undergraduate Classes in Whole-Class Discussions, based on the presenter's experience with an undergraduate public health class of 100-150 students per semester.
Jorge Lara	Multidisciplinary Engineering	Developing "Engineering for Sustainable Development Inspiring New Mentalities in Engineering Students	The world is becoming unsustainable because of technology; with a demand to graduate engineers with an integral training, an undergraduate course in Engineering for Sustainable Development (ESD) will inspire new mentalities in students of all majors
Kelly Lee	Educational Psychology	Enhancing Integrated Assessment Through Tiered Clinical Assessment Supervision	This presentation focuses on a proposed and funded PTTG project restructuring the Counseling Psychology graduate course Integrated Assessment by incorporating advanced students to serve as student supervisors to students in the class.
Robert Lightfoot,  Mackenzie Gray	Computer Science and Engineering	Building Your Path To Course Mastery, A Class Where Students Choose A Path To Their Success	Building Your Path To Course Mastery, A Class Where Students Choose A Path To Their Success As part of the Presidential Transformational Teaching Grant, we are developing a class where students have more choices in the assignments they do to show course mastery. The benefits will be a higher level of learning, more inclusitivity and less academic dishonesty.
Jiling Liu,  Sandra Acosta	Health & Kinesiology	Health Literacy Page by Page: Incorporating Graphic Novelettes into STEM Inquiry Lessons	In this presentation, Dr. Jiling Liu and Dr. Sandra Acosta describe the purpose, rationale, procedure, and deliverables of their PTTG collaborative project.
Larry May	McAllen Higher Education Center	Impactful Physics Labs for Non-Majors	A Presidential Transformational Teaching Grant proposal infographic titled "Impactful Physics Labs for Non-Majors". New Phys 201 labs will be created in order to activate higher-order learning.
Sarah McCorkle	Educational Psychology	Using Microsoft Teams for group work in a studio-based design course	Students in an advanced instructional design course worked together in Microsoft Teams. This course has a studio-based component and students work on a real design project for a client. Each studio group consisted of 3-4 students who met synchronously and asynchronously on their Microsoft Teams “channel.” The suite of tools available in Microsoft Teams are: file sharing in the Office 365 cloud, video calling with screen sharing, and a posts feed that serves as an instant messaging system.
Charles Peak	Biomedical Engineering	From Theory to Practice: Redesign of Biomaterials Laboratory to be Industry Relevant (PTTG)	Industry preparedness is crucial for A&M student success. . Traditionally, BMEN 345: Biomaterials laboratory has had 5 laboratories and took a research approach. This redesign will introduce the following: 1.) 8 structured, critical thinking laboratories, 2.) end of semester design project, and 3.) industry relevant material testing.
Noah Peterson	English	Transformative Learning in a Discussion Based English Classroom	I discuss using "Weekly Discussion Questions" in an English literature course to engage in transformative teaching.
Thomas Peterson,  Ian Murray,  Heather Hoffmann,  Michael Paolini	Medical Physiology and Medical Education	Use of an Interactive Teaching Notes Format for Medical Student Self-Learning in a Flipped Classroom Curriculum	This presentation is on interactive notes used in a medical school course where the student is guided through a learning exercise consisting of other resources and practice assessment questions in addition to the actual notes content.
Michelle Pine,  Felice House	Veterinary Integrative Biosciences	Art & Anatomy Integration for Interdisciplinary Collaborative Education	This art and science collaboration investigates how drawing-based practices can support learning for both artistic and scientific anatomy education.
Syed Rahman,  Jenna Lamphere,  Irfan Khan	Marine Engineering Technology	Greening TAMUG: Integrating Sustainability Curriculum with Project-Based Learning	Through education, research, and operational efficiency, universities are uniquely positioned to help address complex sustainability challenges. Allocating the resources necessary to advance sustainability, however, can be challenging, especially for small campuses like TAMUG with limited financial and human capital. We developed an innovative, interdisciplinary project that combines sustainability curriculum with project-based learning across concurrent courses in sociology and engineering.
Jayne Reuben	Biomedical Sciences	Using Self-Learning Modules and Content Scaffolding to Improve Student Performance and Confidence in integrated Biomedical Courses	The purpose of this grant is to support the development and validation of cognitive exercises that will enhance student performance and confidence.
Jayne Reuben,  Krysten Barnes,  Alexandra Talley,  Alexandra Evans,  Akeira Warner	Biomedical Sciences	Engaging dental students in educational research to enhance their pharmacology knowledge	The purpose of this presentation is to describe a project that provides an opportunity for dental students to engage in educational research by modifying a commonly-used pharmacology tool and assessing its ability to enhance student performance and self-efficacy.
Jeff Wiegert	Animal Science	Immersive video creation to aid development of an online Discipline Focus Animal Science course	The objective is the utilization of digital technologies to replicate applied laboratory content for use in an online section of a 4 credit hour discipline focused course, Animal Science 412: Swine Production and Management.
Jay Woodward,  Michelle Kwok	Educational Psychology	Creating and Validating a Virtual Study Abroad	This presentation highlights the pioneering work of Dr. Woodward and Dr. Kwok in developing a virtual study abroad experience for students in the College of Education and Human Development
Alexander Hernandez	Sociology	Augmenting The REU: Incorporating Augmented Reality Into The Research Experience For Undergrads	This is a brief description of the research plan and objectives for the research project that my collaborators and I will be conducting over the next two years thanks to the generosity of the PTTG regarding using Augmented Reality devices as research tools.

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Presenter(s)	Department	Presentation Title	Description	Watch the Presentation
Michael Aristidou	Foundational Sciences	Project Based Learning: Are There Any Academic Benefits for the Teacher or Students?	What academic benefits, if any, does the teacher or the student gain by adopting Project Based Learning pedagogy in college? I argue that PBL by its structure yields little academic benefit for the teacher or the students, and this could affect motivation as well. I present some examples from my personal teaching experience in mathematics. And thus, as I explain, a more “traditional” project-based approach could be better for both teacher and students.
Shadi Balawi	Mechanical Engineering	Novel Universal Testing Machine Kit	When the learning methods switched to a virtual platform, students no longer had the enriched learning option of performing in person labs. A kit is designed to overcome that limitation. The kit is ~$150 and has a capacity of 2000N.
Tara Blasor	Accounting	Managing small students teams in service-oriented projects	I discuss four tips to improve student engagement and get better quality deliverables from the students in a group project oriented course.
Randy Brooks	Engineering Academy	Asynchronous Studenet-Success-Focused Engineering College Preparatory Courses	Overview of new courses under development to support the high school to college transition.
Tamy Frank-Cannon	Veterinary Integrative Biosciences	Student-centered problem-solving to teach difficult concepts, 3 diverse approaches	Diverse active learning approaches to teach difficult lecture concepts: hand-on models, beginning with the punchline, teamwork driven group problem solving.
Mariana Gariazzo,  Shweta Kailani	Performance Studies	Intentional Design for Transformational Teaching and Learning	This presentation provides inspiration and helpful instructional design ideas to instructors from all disciplines invested in engaging learners through technologies with innovative and interactive instructional design. Showcases implementation of High Impact Innovation Practices in a large enrollment online course.
Paige Linne	Animal Science	Duct Taping My Phone to a Wall: A Story of Pivoting Hands On Labs During Covid 19	The story of how a highly hands on ANSC class covering a wide range of topics pivoted to online learning in Spring 2020, as well as reflective lessons learned from that experience which have permanently changed the way this class is taught. Presentation highlights the power of creating an online learning community through very basic technology use, willingness to adapt, and tactful communication.
Ian Murray,  Nick Sears,  David Zawieja,  Burton Dickey,  Daniel Novak	Medical Physiology	Breathing life into respiratory physiology: Use of student-built devices for immersive Team-Based Learning (TBL).	The reimagining of the Team-Based Learning (TBL) as an immersive, activity brings respiratory physiology to life via the demonstration of devices. This redesign aims to increase student learning, engagement, and innovation.
Sushil Paudyal,  Leslie Frenzel,  Kathrin Dunlap	Animal Science	Teaching a high enrollment asynchronous core curriculum science course, General Animal Science for declared non-animal science majors	In this presentation, we discuss different approaches we used when moving a high enrollment course to an asynchronous online delivery format.
Niki Ritchey	Engineering Academic and Student Affairs	An alternative assessment to foster creativity and encourage self-learning for first year engineering students	A brief talk over a student-defined project used as an alternative assessment in a first year programming course.
David Sparks	Geology and Geophysics	PlanetQuest - Teaching Planetary Geophysics through an Online Role-Playing Game	A description of a new asynchronous online course that teaches the use and interpretation of models and data in the broad area of the formation of habitable solar systems and planets.
Wendi Zimmer,  Sharon Matthews	Health & Kinesiology	Developing your Course Writing Narrative	Participants will experience the “Story of Teaching Writing,” a scaffolding based framework for teaching the process of writing with application for all disciplines. This presentation consists of scaffolded methods for developing writers, including a 15-week calendar of writing instruction and support, along with a QR code linked to additional writing support and resources.
Wendi Zimmer	Health & Kinesiology	Pandemic Pages: Shifting Writing Instruction to a Virtual Environment	Participants will be presented with transformational teaching of writing methods applicable in hybrid course delivery. These methods include implementing effective digital tools to supplement instruction.
Andre Thomas	Visualization	High engagement in online learning using gaming technology	A short talk about features of a tool I used to help engage students and make the transition from F2F classes to remote classes easier.
John Park	Agricultural Economics	Reimagining Team-Based Learning Using Cooperative Principles	A discussion of how cooperative business principles can be used to transform the use of teams and group assignments in courses.

Virtual Quick Fire

Presenter(s)	Department	Presentation Title	Watch the Presentation	Watch the Presentation
Bradley Burroughs	Student Activities	Embedding Effectiveness: Using Hyperlinks and QR Codes in a Syllabus	Syllabus are vital components to the structure of university courses. In reimagining engagement in the classroom, these tips contribute to the enhancement of student learning and will be highlighted by embedding hyperlinks and QR codes to your course syllabus.
Charles Patrick, Jr.	Biomedical Engineering	Enhancing Collaborative Student Engagement and Professional Workforce Preparation with Electronic Laboratory Notebooks	Enhancing Collaborative Student Engagement and Professional Workforce Preparation with Electronic Laboratory Notebooks
Charles Patrick, Jr.	Biomedical Engineering	Implementing a Collaborative Problem-Solving Studio in a Remote or Hybrid Modality	Implementing a Collaborative Problem-Solving Studio in a Remote or Hybrid Modality
Charles Patrick, Jr.	Biomedical Engineering	The 21st Century Socrates: Implementing an Inquiry-Based Socratic Seminar in a Remote or Hybrid Modality	The 21st Century Socrates: Implementing an Inquiry-Based Socratic Seminar in a Remote or Hybrid Modality

Awardee Showcase

Presenter(s)	Department	Presentation Title	Description	Watch the Presentation
Claire Katz	Philosophy	Reimagining Teaching and Learning in the Humanities	In this presentation I share three ways that I reimagine teaching and learning in the humanities: the text, pedagogy, and assessment. I provide some examples from three classes in which I have made these changes.

Narrated Infographic

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Shadi Balawi	Mechanical	Video Lectures: One Bite at a Time ...!	A Case study is presented for three runs of the same course. Shorter videos are utilized where they showed a substantial increase in student viewing. This comes with a price...!
Bradley Burroughs	Student Activities	Reflection, Networking, and Occupying New Spaces: Enhancing Student Engagement and Learning Through Retreats	In this narrative inforgraph, the presenter will highlight three practices that were implemented into retreats for student leaders, resulting in higher engagement and learning. The three practices are reflection opportunities, networking with external entities, and occupying new spaces/environments.
Laura D'Aveta	University Libraries	Pictographs and Imposters: Game-Based Approaches to Library Instruction	This narrative infographic describes two game-based approaches used in 300-level English courses in order to increase engagement in library instruction activities.
Jennifer Griffith	Health Policy and Management	A Visual Twist on Notetaking	Students have routinely asked for PowerPoint slides in place of taking effective notes. Using lecture slides as a guide, notetaking guides have been created that incorporated graphic organizers to compliment but not mimic session PowerPoint slides.
Jorge Lara	Multidisciplinary Engineering	Developing "Engineering for Sustainable Development Inspiring New Mentalities in Engineering Students	The world is becoming unsustainable because of technology; with a demand to graduate engineers with an integral training, an undergraduate course in Engineering for Sustainable Development (ESD) will inspire new mentalities in students of all majors
Ian Murray,  Yun Li	Medical Physiology	Crowdsourcing lecture optimization: evaluation of methods to identify difficult concepts.	Identification of difficult concepts in lectures was via "wisdom of the crowds" via muddiest point, multiple-choice questions, and lecture viewing analytics. A potential application is an intelligent tutoring system.
Sushil Paudyal	Animal Science	Using industry webinars in a Dairy Production Management course	In this presentation, we discuss using industry-hosted webinars as supplementary materials in a senior-level animal science course.
Thomas Peterson,  Ian Murray,  Heather Hoffmann,  Michael Paolini	Medical Physiology and Medical Education	Use of an Interactive Teaching Notes Format for Medical Student Self-Learning in a Flipped Classroom Curriculum	This presentation is on interactive notes used in a medical school course where the student is guided through a learning exercise consisting of other resources and practice assessment questions in addition to the actual notes content.
Michelle Pine,  Felice House	Veterinary Integrative Biosciences	Art & Anatomy Integration for Interdisciplinary Collaborative Education	This art and science collaboration investigates how drawing-based practices can support learning for both artistic and scientific anatomy education.
Leslie Seipp	Student Transformation Center	The Art of Questioning: Using Bloom's Taxonomy to Frame Class Discussions and Develop Critical Thinking	This presentation addresses questions for class discussion. I use Bloom's Taxonomy to show how questions can be posed for developing a deeper understanding of the class material as well as critical thinking skills for students.
Jeff Wiegert	Animal Science	Immersive video creation to aid development of an online Discipline Focus Animal Science course	The objective is the utilization of digital technologies to replicate applied laboratory content for use in an online section of a 4 credit hour discipline focused course, Animal Science 412: Swine Production and Management.
Jay Woodward,  Michelle Kwok	Educational Psychology	Creating and Validating a Virtual Study Abroad	This presentation highlights the pioneering work of Dr. Woodward and Dr. Kwok in developing a virtual study abroad experience for students in the College of Education and Human Development
Alexander Hernandez	Sociology	Augmenting The REU: Incorporating Augmented Reality Into The Research Experience For Undergrads	This is a brief description of the research plan and objectives for the research project that my collaborators and I will be conducting over the next two years thanks to the generosity of the PTTG regarding using Augmented Reality devices as research tools.

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Patrick Bolger	Psychological & Brain Sciences	Formative math-focused assessment: Harnessing the power of the Exams package for R	This presentation gives a tutorial on how to generate math-based exams (using R, R Markdown, LaTeX, and the "exams" package for R) that are virtually unique for each test-taker, and can be exported to most LMSs as zipped QTI files.
Randy Brooks	Engineering Academic and Student Affairs	Transposing Gagne to the Online Realm	Applying historic design guidance to online lessons.
Randy Brooks	Engineering Academic and Student Affairs	Asynchronous Studenet-Success-Focused Engineering College Preparatory Courses	Overview of new courses under development to support the high school to college transition.
Randy Brooks	Engineering Academic and Student Affairs	The Academy Model for Connecting Two-Year and Four-Year College Programs	Overview of the Academy design to provide expanded opportunites for all students interested in Texas A&M.
Sandy Diec,  Merlyn Joseph	Pharmacy	Specifications Grading in a Skills Lab Course	Specifications grading is a grading system that still uses an A-F approach when reporting final course grades, but the letter grades are earned differently. Essentially, the course creates “bundles” of work for each letter grade. Learners must complete all elements of the “bundle” to earn the associated letter grade. As letter grade increases, so do the responsibilities and time required to achieving that bundle.
Andy Herring	Animal Science	Enhanced dialogue and education among new and diverse agricultural partners through structured discussion boards	A new PTTG grant to modify an existing senior-level beef cattle production and management class improved diversity, equity, and inclusion components is presented. Previous experiences with a structured discussion board is discussed.
Beth Netherland,  Paria Tajallipour	Health & Kinesiology	Cross-Departmental Collaboration to Implement Information Literacy in Core Curriculum Courses for Student Success	Through an information literacy grant, the health and life sciences librarian worked closely with an instructional faculty member in the department of health and kinesiology to create a tutorial for two hybrid core curriculum classes. The tutorial addresses critical evaluation and effective searching. This presentation will demonstrate how cross-departmental collaboration can be beneficial for your students, and how you can apply direct, explicit instruction in an interactive tutorial.
Michael Scialdone	Information and Operations Management	Avoiding “Death by PowerPoint” in Online Videos through Digital Content Creation	This talk is intended to demonstrate how to minimize the chances of losing one's audience in pre-recorded instructional videos in asynchronous courses
Wendi Zimmer, Paul Keiper	Health & Kinesiology	Increasing Engagement through Class Discussion in Multimodal Courses	Presenters will share examples and explanations of transformational teaching methods used to increase student engagement and learning through classroom discussion in larger multimodal courses.
Suzanna Ramos	Educational Psychology	Encouraging Metacognition Through Visualization	This is a sharing session of how a particular visualization technique, ‘Mindsketching’, is infused into any classroom pedagogy to help students understand abstract concepts and be able to explain those concepts in their own words. Three strategies on ‘Mindsketching’ will be shared.
Stacey Lyle	Civil Engineering/Geography	Mastery Path Point Based Learning to meet ABET Student Outcomes	Dr. Lyle is a Program Evaluator and Commissioner for the Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology that accredits university programs globally. He will present how a point based system is used to meet ABET required Student Outcomes to ensure students master stated knowledge and skills.
Michael Paolini, II,  Heather Hoffmann,  Larry Johnson,  Ian Murray	Molecular and Cellular Medicine	In the Eye of the Beholder: Using using eye-tracking to teach histology to medical students	Eye-tracking can help teach histology by converting an implicit skill into a quantifiable and observable task that can be demonstrated to students. This study's objective was to compare eye-tracking of histology images between novices and experts and use the data for student training.

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Bradley Burroughs	Student Activities	Embedding Effectiveness: Using Hyperlinks and QR Codes in a Syllabus	Syllabus are vital components to the structure of university courses. In reimagining engagement in the classroom, these tips contribute to the enhancement of student learning and will be highlighted by embedding hyperlinks and QR codes to your course syllabus.
Rebecca Hapes ,  Theresa Murphrey, Audra Richburg	Entomology	Ice Breakers – Online or In Person: Enabling a Feeling of Belonging for First-Year Students	The objective of this presentation is to share our experience of using “Ice Breakers” to engage students as we teach a course that is both remote and in person.
Manuel Piña,  Theresa Pesl Murphrey,  Danette Philpot	Agricultural Leadership, Education and Communications	Gendered Lensed Curricula for Development (GLCD): Modules and How You Can Use Them	The objective of this presentation is to bring about awareness of ready-to-use modules, created under the direction of Texas A&M faculty, that focus on gender sensitive issues in development.
Shana Shaw	Engineering Academic and Student Affairs	Animating Course Lecture Material and Study Guides Using Free Software	The presentation will shows quick teaching tips that use free software in order to animate lecture notes and create a more active classroom experience with increased student engagement. Faculty can use the software to create summary videos of key lecture points. Students can use the software to create study guides for their classes, thus using different levels of Bloom's Taxonomy and reinforcing their learning.

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Ashrant Aryal	Construction Science	PTTG project: Teaching Data Science to students without any programming background	This video discusses the plans for an introductory data science course for construction science students that is being developed as part of a PTTG grant.
Heng Cai	Geography	Developing an Interdisciplinary Learning Module of Geospatial Intelligence	This narrated infographic gave a brief introduction to the project 'Developing an Interdisciplinary Learning Module of Geospatial Intelligence' funded by 2021 PTTG.
Daniel Conway	Philosophy	Situating Race in a Global Setting: A Two-Campus Solution	A summary overview.
Delaney Ivy, Juan Bustamante	Pharmacy Practice	Redesigning a team taught course to increase alignment between instructors	One of the common student feedback themes with these types of courses is that there is incongruency within the teaching model between the instructors. This topic will describe how in one course, instructors worked together to help decrease the incongruency within the course. Course coordinators who have multiple instructors in one course will be able to use the narrative infographic to see the process and integrate it for themselves if desired.
Holli Leggette,  Carolyn Jackson	Agricultural Leadership, Education and Communications	Through the lenses of information literacy: Enhancing students’ ability to find, recognize, and use scientific information	The presentation provides instructors teaching science-based courses with a rigorous approach for teaching and assessing information literacy within the context of science.
Jiling Liu,  Sandra Acosta	Health & Kinesiology	Health Literacy Page by Page: Incorporating Graphic Novelettes into STEM Inquiry Lessons	In this presentation, Dr. Jiling Liu and Dr. Sandra Acosta describe the purpose, rationale, procedure, and deliverables of their PTTG collaborative project.
Syed Rahman,  Jenna Lamphere,  Irfan Khan	Marine Engineering Technology	Greening TAMUG: Integrating Sustainability Curriculum with Project-Based Learning	Through education, research, and operational efficiency, universities are uniquely positioned to help address complex sustainability challenges. Allocating the resources necessary to advance sustainability, however, can be challenging, especially for small campuses like TAMUG with limited financial and human capital. We developed an innovative, interdisciplinary project that combines sustainability curriculum with project-based learning across concurrent courses in sociology and engineering.
Zhihong Xu,  Ashlynn Kogut,  Michael Clough	University Libraries	Incorporate Research Data Management Training Into Graduate Education
Laura White	Liberal Studies	New Life for Old Things: Service Learning in Heritage Material Culture	This presentation describes the use of the President's Transformational Teaching grant to turn MAST 365: Material Culture, into a problem based learning course with collaborations with local heritage institutions.

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Gloria Conover	Medical Education	Vertical Integration of Basic and Clinical Sciences to Guide Future Physician-Investigators on How Evidence-based Discovery Leads to Personalized Patient Treatments	MEID 820 is a selective course for third-year Medical students that integrates basic science concepts with clinical practice.
Lana El Ladki,  Bilal Mansoor	Center for Teaching and Learning	Student Engineering Enrichment Initiative in the State of Qatar	This talk will present the Student Engineering Enrichment Initiative in the State of Qatar. It will highlight the program component, focused areas, and its overall impact.
Beth Netherland,  Paria Tajallipour	Health & Kinesiology	Cross-Departmental Collaboration to Implement Information Literacy in Core Curriculum Courses for Student Success	Through an information literacy grant, the health and life sciences librarian worked closely with an instructional faculty member in the department of health and kinesiology to create a tutorial for two hybrid core curriculum classes. The tutorial addresses critical evaluation and effective searching. This presentation will demonstrate how cross-departmental collaboration can be beneficial for your students, and how you can apply direct, explicit instruction in an interactive tutorial.
Shawna Thomas,  Robert Lightfoot	Computer Science and Engineering	Partners in Crime - Collaborative Course Development	We present our collaboration process for course design and delivery. We used a course map to align content and manage creation. Collaboration brings consistency, mentoring, and higher-quality work.
Shawna Thomas,  Robert Lightfoot	Computer Science and Engineering	Using Course Maps to Reimagine Course Design and Student Engagement	We describe how to systematically engage students, providing a variety of opportunities consistently distributed. We show how to track engagement offerings with a course map and make adjustments.
Yuki Waugh	International Studies	Engaging Students' Learning Culture and Language through a Virtual Music Workshop by a Guest Speaker as a Part of Content-Based Instruction	The session presenter invited a guest musician to the Japanese language classes as a part of content-based instruction (CBI). Students learn the content and the language simultaneously through CBI (Spenader, Wesely, and Glynn, 2020, p.477). Students interacted with a native speaker and connected to the community of their interest through the virtual workshop. This could enhance students’ motivation to learn more about the language and culture.
Julie Loisel	Geography	A Data-Driven Approachto Eco-Friendly Decision Making	A newly funded educational project that uses a data-driven approach to help with decision-making in the context of eco-friendly lifestyles.

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Manuel Piña,  Theresa Pesl Murphrey,  Danette Philpot	Agricultural Leadership, Education and Communications	Gendered Lensed Curricula for Development (GLCD): Modules and How You Can Use Them	The objective of this presentation is to bring about awareness of ready-to-use modules, created under the direction of Texas A&M faculty, that focus on gender sensitive issues in development.

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Ian Murray,  Yun Li	Medical Physiology	Crowdsourcing lecture optimization: evaluation of methods to identify difficult concepts.	Identification of difficult concepts in lectures was via "wisdom of the crowds" via muddiest point, multiple-choice questions, and lecture viewing analytics. A potential application is an intelligent tutoring system.

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Presenter(s)	Department	Presentation Title	Description	Watch the Presentation
Patrick Bolger	Psychological & Brain Sciences	Formative math-focused assessment: Harnessing the power of the Exams package for R	This presentation gives a tutorial on how to generate math-based exams (using R, R Markdown, LaTeX, and the "exams" package for R) that are virtually unique for each test-taker, and can be exported to most LMSs as zipped QTI files.
Sandy Diec,  Merlyn Joseph	Pharmacy	Specifications Grading in a Skills Lab Course	Specifications grading is a grading system that still uses an A-F approach when reporting final course grades, but the letter grades are earned differently. Essentially, the course creates “bundles” of work for each letter grade. Learners must complete all elements of the “bundle” to earn the associated letter grade. As letter grade increases, so do the responsibilities and time required to achieving that bundle.
Alyssa Locklear	Health & Kinesiology	Optimizing Assessment for Critical Thinking, Creativity, and Clarity	Using alternative assessment methods to promote student learning and enjoy grading
Stacey Lyle	Civil Engineering/Geography	Mastery Path Point Based Learning to meet ABET Student Outcomes	Dr. Lyle is a Program Evaluator and Commissioner for the Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology that accredits university programs globally. He will present how a point based system is used to meet ABET required Student Outcomes to ensure students master stated knowledge and skills.

Narrated Infographic

Presenter(s)	Department	Presentation Title	Description	Watch the Presentation
Delaney Ivy,  Juan Bustamante	Pharmacy Practice	Redesigning a team taught course to increase alignment between instructors	One of the common student feedback themes with these types of courses is that there is incongruency within the teaching model between the instructors. This topic will describe how in one course, instructors worked together to help decrease the incongruency within the course. Course coordinators who have multiple instructors in one course will be able to use the narrative infographic to see the process and integrate it for themselves if desired.
Aziz Rahman,  H. Hassan,  I. Hassan,  M. Pal	Petroleum Engineering	Engaging Students in Learning through Visual Demonstration Models in Engineering Education	Engineering education can be significantly enhanced by providing students a chance to co-construct the knowledge obtained from classrooms and to relate a complex engineering problem to a real-world problem.
Shawna Thomas,  Charles Peak	Computer Science and Engineering	Reimagining Diversity and Inclusion Activities	We describe an easy and adaptable class activity to discuss diversity and inclusion in your discipline. We share our experience conducting the activity in two different disciplines.

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Shadi Balawi	Mechanical Engineering	Novel Universal Testing Machine Kit	When the learning methods switched to a virtual platform, students no longer had the enriched learning option of performing in person labs. A kit is designed to overcome that limitation. The kit is ~$150 and has a capacity of 2000N.
Randy Brooks	Engineering Academic and Student Affairs	Transposing Gagne to the Online Realm	Applying historic design guidance to online lessons.
Randy Brooks	Engineering Academic and Student Affairs	Asynchronous Studenet-Success-Focused Engineering College Preparatory Courses	Overview of new courses under development to support the high school to college transition.
Randy Brooks	Engineering Academic and Student Affairs	The Academy Model for Connecting Two-Year and Four-Year College Programs	Overview of the Academy design to provide expanded opportunites for all students interested in Texas A&M.
Ann McNamara	Visualization	Using 3D Modeling and Animation to Teach Coding	I am teaching introductory python coding using a 3D modeling and animation platform called Autodesk Maya. In this talk, I describe the approach and present a hands-on example, then share some insights into the effectiveness of this approach.
Stacey Mitchell,  Sarah McCorkle	Nursing	Increasing Engagement and Critical Thinking: Integrating edpuzzle Into Online Learning	The purpose of this presentation is to highlight how learning tools may be integrated into videos to increase learner engagement. Barriers to online learning will be listed and how the use of an interactive tool may address challenges with engagement in online education.
Beth Netherland,  Paria Tajallipour	Health & Kinesiology	Cross-Departmental Collaboration to Implement Information Literacy in Core Curriculum Courses for Student Success	Through an information literacy grant, the health and life sciences librarian worked closely with an instructional faculty member in the department of health and kinesiology to create a tutorial for two hybrid core curriculum classes. The tutorial addresses critical evaluation and effective searching. This presentation will demonstrate how cross-departmental collaboration can be beneficial for your students, and how you can apply direct, explicit instruction in an interactive tutorial.
Suzanna Ramos	Educational Psychology	Encouraging Metacognition Through Visualization	This is a sharing session of how a particular visualization technique, ‘Mindsketching’, is infused into any classroom pedagogy to help students understand abstract concepts and be able to explain those concepts in their own words. Three strategies on ‘Mindsketching’ will be shared.
Jessica Ray Herzogenrath	History	Everyone a Historian: Auditioning a Flipped Hybrid Model of the U.S. History Surveys	I will describe the low and high stakes assignments created with the aim of empowering and engaging students and implemented through Canvas for our flipped hybrid sections of the U.S. History surveys.

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Hans Schuessler,  Alexandre Kolomenski	Physics and Astronomy	Improving effectiveness of teaching large introductory physics-engineering classes with modern information technology	Remote large classroom teaching

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Heng Cai	Geography	Developing an Interdisciplinary Learning Module of Geospatial Intelligence	This narrated infographic gave a brief introduction to the project 'Developing an Interdisciplinary Learning Module of Geospatial Intelligence' funded by 2021 PTTG.
Amy Caton,  Sarah Murray,  Lisa Stewart	Center for Academic Learning Support	Choose Your Own Adventure: Enhancing student agency, outreach, and success	The Center for Academic Learning Support at Texas A&M University at Galveston partnered with student community leaders to conduct focus groups, design, create, train, and deliver a "choose your own adventure" style story outlining the first semester of college life at Texas A&M University at Galveston.
Kayla Cline	Accounting	Developing International Awareness via Group Learning	I present a group discussion-based learning exercise used in my upper-division/graduate level course to facilitate rich discussion of business, accounting, and finance in countries or regions other than the United States.
Jayne Reuben,  Krysten Barnes,  Alexandra Talley,  Alexandra Evans,  Akeira Warner	Biomedical Sciences	Engaging dental students in educational research to enhance their pharmacology knowledge	The purpose of this presentation is to describe a project that provides an opportunity for dental students to engage in educational research by modifying a commonly-used pharmacology tool and assessing its ability to enhance student performance and self-efficacy.
Aakash Tyagi	Computer Science and Engineering	Addressing Diversity in Learning Styles - A Case Study from CSCE-312	This presentation showcases the adaptation of CSCE-312 to diverse learning styles of student community to improve the course appeal.

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Stephanie McCartney	Chemistry	Utilizing Social Media to Create a Virtual Classroom Community	How utilizing social media platforms such as GroupMe can allow students taking a virtual class of any size to create a supportive community.
Donna Lee Sullins,  Alex Sullins	Recreation, Park and Tourism Sciences	Enhancing Student Motivation in Asynchronous Online Courses	Join us for a discussion on how to use self-determination theory as a framework for teaching asynchronous online courses in an engaging way.
Shawna Thomas,  Robert Lightfoot	Computer Science and Engineering	Using Course Maps to Reimagine Course Design and Student Engagement	We describe how to systematically engage students, providing a variety of opportunities consistently distributed. We show how to track engagement offerings with a course map and make adjustments.
Wendi Zimmer	Health & Kinesiology	Pandemic Pages: Shifting Writing Instruction to a Virtual Environment	Participants will be presented with transformational teaching of writing methods applicable in hybrid course delivery. These methods include implementing effective digital tools to supplement instruction.
Hector Ramos	Educational Psychology	Using the platform StormZ with Zoom to enhance creative engagement online	Using StormZ and Zoom to enhance student engagement using creative thinking, reflection and documenting insights for future use.
Andre Thomas	Visualization	High engagement in online learning using gaming technology	A short talk about features of a tool I used to help engage students and make the transition from F2F classes to remote classes easier.
David Lowe,  Jeannette Ho,  Dong Joon Lee,  Bruce Herbert	University Libraries	The Libraries’ Easy Button for Publishing Your Teaching Materials Online (and Getting Credit)	This session introduces the new Faculty Teaching Materials collection in OAKTrust, the Libraries' institutional repository. Featuring self-deposit just like the Faculty Research collection, the Teaching Materials serve as a handy spot for APT faculty especially to deposit their items and garner statistics for P&T portfolios.

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Yuhua Farnell	Poultry Science	The Impact of the Covid‐19 Pandemic on current teaching lab for avian Anatomy	The pandemic has forced us to use Hybrid face-to-face (FTF) & online teaching methods. Hand-on experience was offered to students in FTF class. Zoom with live webcam was connected to students online synchronously, and recorded video was uploaded to eCampus. Students were more successful in traditional FTF lab class than those online students. Traditional FTF laboratory teaching is found to be the most effective method for students to acquire anatomical knowledge.

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Shadi Balawi	Mechanical Engineering	Video Lectures: One Bite at a Time ...!	A Case study is presented for three runs of the same course. Shorter videos are utilized where they showed a substantial increase in student viewing. This comes with a price...!

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Stacey Lyle	Civil Engineering/Geography	Mastery Path Point Based Learning to meet ABET Student Outcomes	Dr. Lyle is a Program Evaluator and Commissioner for the Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology that accredits university programs globally. He will present how a point based system is used to meet ABET required Student Outcomes to ensure students master stated knowledge and skills.

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Stephen Daniel	Philosophy	"Helping 'Average' Students to Excel"	Techniques for helping teachers encourage students both in and out of class to feel that they can master the material and develop skills.
Hans Schuessler,  Alexandre Kolomenski	Physics and Astronomy	Improving effectiveness of teaching large introductory physics-engineering classes with modern information technology	Remote large classroom teaching
David Sparks	Geology and Geophysics	Lessons from Remote Teaching	A discussion of techniques I tried on an experimental asynchronous course during the pandemic.

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Ian Murray,  Yun Li	Medical Physiology	Crowdsourcing lecture optimization: evaluation of methods to identify difficult concepts.	Identification of difficult concepts in lectures was via "wisdom of the crowds" via muddiest point, multiple-choice questions, and lecture viewing analytics. A potential application is an intelligent tutoring system.
Zhihong Xu,  Ashlynn Kogut,  Michael Clough	University Libraries	Incorporate Research Data Management Training Into Graduate Education
Yu-Chen Yeh,  Hsiang-Yu Chien,  Oi-Man Kwok	Educational Psychology	Exploring the Role of Online Learning Readiness on College Students’ Online Learning Emotional States and Expected Academic Outcomes during COVID-19 Pandemic	Two types of online learner groups [Online Learning Ready (OLR) and Online Learning Not-Ready (OLNR) Learners] via the Online-learning Readiness Scale. The OLR Learners with higher online learning readiness reported lower anxiety and boredom and higher satisfaction. Moreover, only satisfaction predicted academic expectations and expected final grade.

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Presenter(s)	Department	Presentation Title	Description	Watch the Presentation
Ian Murray	Medical Physiology	Crowdsourcing lecture optimization: evaluation of methods to identify difficult concepts.	Identification of difficult concepts in lectures was via "wisdom of the crowds" via muddiest point, multiple-choice questions, and lecture viewing analytics. A potential application is an intelligent tutoring system.
Zhihong Xu	University Libraries	Incorporate Research Data Management Training Into Graduate Education
Yu-Chen Yeh	Educational Psychology	Exploring the Role of Online Learning Readiness on College Students’ Online Learning Emotional States and Expected Academic Outcomes during COVID-19 Pandemic	Two types of online learner groups [Online Learning Ready (OLR) and Online Learning Not-Ready (OLNR) Learners] via the Online-learning Readiness Scale. The OLR Learners with higher online learning readiness reported lower anxiety and boredom and higher satisfaction. Moreover, only satisfaction predicted academic expectations and expected final grade.
Shadi Balawi	Mechanical Engineering	Novel Universal Testing Machine Kit	When the learning methods switched to a virtual platform, students no longer had the enriched learning option of performing in person labs. A kit is designed to overcome that limitation. The kit is ~$150 and has a capacity of 2000N.
Randy Brooks	Engineering Academic and Student Affairs	Transposing Gagne to the Online Realm	Applying historic design guidance to online lessons.
Leslie Day	Neuroscience and Experimental Therapeutics	Utilizing Zoom and Other Technology to Create an Interactive Online Environment	A talk discussing how a flipped classroom of gross anatomy within the medical curriculum went from in person active learning sessions to a Zoom format utilizing Zoom features, while maintain high levels of student interaction.
Lana El Ladki,  Bilal Mansoor	Center for Teaching and Learning	Student Engineering Enrichment Initiative in the State of Qatar	This talk will present the Student Engineering Enrichment Initiative in the State of Qatar. It will highlight the program component, focused areas, and its overall impact.
Sara Fehr,  Jennifer Evans,  Meagan Shipley	Health & Kinesiology	Teaching During a Pandemic: Lessons Learned Related to Students’ Academic Success and Well-Being	This presentation will discuss important “lessons learned” over the past eleven months teaching in the pandemic era. Clinical faculty will present information on the importance of utilizing empathy and flexibility, streamlining lessons, and maintaining accountability and rigor in both the classroom and online settings.
Paige Linne	Animal Science	Duct Taping My Phone to a Wall: A Story of Pivoting Hands On Labs During Covid 19	The story of how a highly hands on ANSC class covering a wide range of topics pivoted to online learning in Spring 2020, as well as reflective lessons learned from that experience which have permanently changed the way this class is taught. Presentation highlights the power of creating an online learning community through very basic technology use, willingness to adapt, and tactful communication.
Alyssa Locklear	Health & Kinesiology	Optimizing Assessment for Critical Thinking, Creativity, and Clarity	Using alternative assessment methods to promote student learning and enjoy grading
Sharon Matthews,  Susan Fields,  Ambyr Rios,  Radhika Viruru	Teaching, Learning, and Culture	"Breaking Out" of Zoom Gloom: Scaffolds to Empower Student Engagement During Breakout Room Peer Review	This presentation outlines scaffolds to support substantive student engagement in writing peer review sessions.
Stephanie McCartney	Chemistry	Utilizing Social Media to Create a Virtual Classroom Community	How utilizing social media platforms such as GroupMe can allow students taking a virtual class of any size to create a supportive community.
Zackary Medlin	University Libraries	Oh! Aggie Fam, This is my Jam: using Google Jamboards to increase engagement	Join the conversation on how using Google Jamboards can increase engagement in classes and presentations. I'll share some of the ways I've found success and invite you to share some of your ideas as well!
Sushil Paudyal,  Leslie Frenzel,  Kathrin Dunlap	Animal Science	Teaching a high enrollment asynchronous core curriculum science course, General Animal Science for declared non-animal science majors	In this presentation, we discuss different approaches we used when moving a high enrollment course to an asynchronous online delivery format.
Michael Scialdone	Information and Operations Management	Avoiding “Death by PowerPoint” in Online Videos through Digital Content Creation	This talk is intended to demonstrate how to minimize the chances of losing one's audience in pre-recorded instructional videos in asynchronous courses
Patricia Simons	Office of Student Development	Summer Pre-Dental Enrichment and Post-Baccalaureate Programs (SPEP and PBP): Successful transition of in-person summer programs to an online format	Successes and challenges of moving to an online format for summer programs
Donna Lee Sullins,  Alex Sullins	Recreation, Park and Tourism Sciences	Enhancing Student Motivation in Asynchronous Online Courses	Join us for a discussion on how to use self-determination theory as a framework for teaching asynchronous online courses in an engaging way.
Wendi Zimmer,  Paul Keiper	Health & Kinesiology	Increasing Engagement through Class Discussion in Multimodal Courses	Presenters will share examples and explanations of transformational teaching methods used to increase student engagement and learning through classroom discussion in larger multimodal courses.
Soon Mi Lim	Chemistry	Streaming Demonstrations at Online Lectures and Lessons Learned	This presentation will focus on how chemistry demonstrations were streamed from a desktop studio. Technical ideas and learned lessons will be shared with the focus on improving student engagement.
Ashley Saunders,  Kristin Chaney	Veterinary Small Animal Clinical Sciences	Maintaining a successful Peer-Review of Teaching Program in a hybrid teaching environment – the CVMBS experience.	Peer review of teaching (PRT) is a process of evaluating teaching to provide formative and summative feedback to support the educational efforts of teachers in the classroom. Both remote only and hybrid teaching environments pose challenges to classic peer review observations. We will provide our lessons learned in the College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences and tips for continuing to pursue the PRT process in a hybrid teaching environment.
Laura West,  Rania Cannaday,  Cortney Graves	Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology & Medical Education	Two Weeks & One Year: Lessons learned in rapidly, sustainably converting an in-person active learning activity to a remote virtual format	In March 2020, the authors of this presentation converted a complex active learning activity involving nearly one hundred students and fourteen faculty members into a virtual format in less than two weeks. Here, they share how this was achieved, lessons learned through this experience, and how this activity and its virtual format have been refined over the past year.

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Tara Blasor	Accounting	How to create interactive video content with Mediasite	I demonstrate how a Mediasite video looks with inserting chapters and quizzes, as well as the back-end analytics of what faculty members can see in the system.
Yuhua Farnell	Poultry Science	The Impact of the Covid‐19 Pandemic on current teaching lab for avian Anatomy	The pandemic has forced us to use Hybrid face-to-face (FTF) & online teaching methods. Hand-on experience was offered to students in FTF class. Zoom with live webcam was connected to students online synchronously, and recorded video was uploaded to eCampus. Students were more successful in traditional FTF lab class than those online students. Traditional FTF laboratory teaching is found to be the most effective method for students to acquire anatomical knowledge.
Rebecca Hapes, Theresa Murphrey, Audra Richburg	Entomology	Ice Breakers – Online or In Person: Enabling a Feeling of Belonging for First-Year Students	The objective of this presentation is to share our experience of using “Ice Breakers” to engage students as we teach a course that is both remote and in person.
Alyssa Locklear	Health & Kinesiology	Hear Me, Hear Ye	Creating community through verbal engagement - icebreakers, role call and think-pair-share
Charles Patrick, Jr.	Biomedical Engineering	Implementing a Collaborative Problem-Solving Studio in a Remote or Hybrid Modality	Implementing a Collaborative Problem-Solving Studio in a Remote or Hybrid Modality
Charles Patrick, Jr.	Biomedical Engineering	The 21st Century Socrates: Implementing an Inquiry-Based Socratic Seminar in a Remote or Hybrid Modality	The 21st Century Socrates: Implementing an Inquiry-Based Socratic Seminar in a Remote or Hybrid Modality
Shana Shaw	Engineering Academic and Student Affairs	Animating Course Lecture Material and Study Guides Using Free Software	The presentation will shows quick teaching tips that use free software in order to animate lecture notes and create a more active classroom experience with increased student engagement. Faculty can use the software to create summary videos of key lecture points. Students can use the software to create study guides for their classes, thus using different levels of Bloom's Taxonomy and reinforcing their learning.
Donna Lee Sullins	Recreation, Park and Tourism Sciences	Using Zoom Breakout Rooms to Transform Your Teaching	Learn about why and how you might use Zoom breakout rooms in synchronous remote instruction.

Awardee Showcase

Presenter(s)	Department	Presentation Title	Description	Watch the Presentation
Hans Schuessler,  Alexandre Kolomenski	Physics and Astronomy	Improving effectiveness of teaching large introductory physics-engineering classes with modern information technology	remote large classroom teaching

Narrated Infographic

Presenter(s)	Department	Presentation Title	Description	Watch the Presentation
Shadi Balawi	Mechanical	Video Lectures: One Bite at a Time ...!	A Case study is presented for three runs of the same course. Shorter videos are utilized where they showed a substantial increase in student viewing. This comes with a price...!
Amy Caton,  Sarah Murray,  Lisa Stewart	Center for Academic Learning Support	Choose Your Own Adventure: Enhancing student agency, outreach, and success	The Center for Academic Learning Support at Texas A&M University at Galveston partnered with student community leaders to conduct focus groups, design, create, train, and deliver a "choose your own adventure" style story outlining the first semester of college life at Texas A&M University at Galveston.
Laura D'Aveta	University Libraries	Pictographs and Imposters: Game-Based Approaches to Library Instruction	This narrative infographic describes two game-based approaches used in 300-level English courses in order to increase engagement in library instruction activities.
Jiling Liu,  Sandra Acosta	Health & Kinesiology	Health Literacy Page by Page: Incorporating Graphic Novelettes into STEM Inquiry Lessons	In this presentation, Dr. Jiling Liu and Dr. Sandra Acosta describe the purpose, rationale, procedure, and deliverables of their PTTG collaborative project.
Noah Peterson	English	Transformative Learning in a Discussion Based English Classroom	I discuss using "Weekly Discussion Questions" in an English literature course to engage in transformative teaching.
Aziz Rahman,  H. Hassan,  I. Hassan,  M. Pal	Petroleum Engineering	Engaging Students in Learning through Visual Demonstration Models in Engineering Education	Engineering education can be significantly enhanced by providing students a chance to co-construct the knowledge obtained from classrooms and to relate a complex engineering problem to a real-world problem.
John Whitcomb	Aerospace Engineering	Enhanced Learning via Empowerment	This talk describes a plan for empowerment by making an extensive collection of resources available to students. Any large collection of resources can be easily overwhelming for a student... and even for the faculty member, if the plan is to continue to improve the resources. Accordingly, the major challenge to be discussed is how to organize a large collection of resources such that students can easily identify and access the resources that interest them.
Jeff Wiegert	Animal Science	Immersive video creation to aid development of an online Discipline Focus Animal Science course	The objective is the utilization of digital technologies to replicate applied laboratory content for use in an online section of a 4 credit hour discipline focused course, Animal Science 412: Swine Production and Management.
Zhihong Xu,  Ashlynn Kogut,  Michael Clough	University Libraries	Incorporate Research Data Management Training Into Graduate Education
Yu-Chen Yeh,  Hsiang-Yu Chien,  Oi-Man Kwok	Educational Psychology	Exploring the Role of Online Learning Readiness on College Students’ Online Learning Emotional States and Expected Academic Outcomes during COVID-19 Pandemic	Two types of online learner groups [Online Learning Ready (OLR) and Online Learning Not-Ready (OLNR) Learners] via the Online-learning Readiness Scale. The OLR Learners with higher online learning readiness reported lower anxiety and boredom and higher satisfaction. Moreover, only satisfaction predicted academic expectations and expected final grade.
Jay Woodward,  Michelle Kwok	Educational Psychology	Creating and Validating a Virtual Study Abroad	This presentation highlights the pioneering work of Dr. Woodward and Dr. Kwok in developing a virtual study abroad experience for students in the College of Education and Human Development
Alexander Hernandez	Sociology	Augmenting The REU: Incorporating Augmented Reality Into The Research Experience For Undergrads	This is a brief description of the research plan and objectives for the research project that my collaborators and I will be conducting over the next two years thanks to the generosity of the PTTG regarding using Augmented Reality devices as research tools.

Talk

Presenter(s)	Department	Presentation Title	Description	Watch the Presentation
Leslie Day	Neuroscience and Experimental Therapeutics	Utilizing Zoom and Other Technology to Create an Interactive Online Environment	A talk discussing how a flipped classroom of gross anatomy within the medical curriculum went from in person active learning sessions to a Zoom format utilizing Zoom features, while maintain high levels of student interaction.
Mariana Gariazzo,  Shweta Kailani	Performance Studies	Intentional Design for Transformational Teaching and Learning	This presentation provides inspiration and helpful instructional design ideas to instructors from all disciplines invested in engaging learners through technologies with innovative and interactive instructional design. Showcases implementation of High Impact Innovation Practices in a large enrollment online course.
Andy Herring	Animal Science	Enhanced dialogue and education among new and diverse agricultural partners through structured discussion boards	A new PTTG grant to modify an existing senior-level beef cattle production and management class improved diversity, equity, and inclusion components is presented. Previous experiences with a structured discussion board is discussed.
Ann McNamara	Visualization	Using 3D Modeling and Animation to Teach Coding	I am teaching introductory python coding using a 3D modeling and animation platform called Autodesk Maya. In this talk, I describe the approach and present a hands-on example, then share some insights into the effectiveness of this approach.
Zackary Medlin	University Libraries	Oh! Aggie Fam, This is my Jam: using Google Jamboards to increase engagement	Join the conversation on how using Google Jamboards can increase engagement in classes and presentations. I'll share some of the ways I've found success and invite you to share some of your ideas as well!
Stacey Mitchell,  Sarah McCorkle	Nursing	Increasing Engagement and Critical Thinking: Integrating edpuzzle Into Online Learning	The purpose of this presentation is to highlight how learning tools may be integrated into videos to increase learner engagement. Barriers to online learning will be listed and how the use of an interactive tool may address challenges with engagement in online education.
Ian Murray,  Nick Sears,  David Zawieja,  Burton Dickey,  Daniel Novak	Medical Physiology	Breathing life into respiratory physiology: Use of student-built devices for immersive Team-Based Learning (TBL).	The reimagining of the Team-Based Learning (TBL) as an immersive, activity brings respiratory physiology to life via the demonstration of devices. This redesign aims to increase student learning, engagement, and innovation.
Michael Scialdone	Information and Operations Management	Avoiding “Death by PowerPoint” in Online Videos through Digital Content Creation	This talk is intended to demonstrate how to minimize the chances of losing one's audience in pre-recorded instructional videos in asynchronous courses
Brian Shaw	Plant Pathology and Microbiology	Development of online learning objects for a science core curriculum course.	A discussion of student engagement to create online learning objects for a science core curriculum course.
Shawna Thomas,  Robert Lightfoot	Computer Science and Engineering	Partners in Crime - Collaborative Course Development	We present our collaboration process for course design and delivery. We used a course map to align content and manage creation. Collaboration brings consistency, mentoring, and higher-quality work.
Shawna Thomas,  Robert Lightfoot	Computer Science and Engineering	Using Course Maps to Reimagine Course Design and Student Engagement	We describe how to systematically engage students, providing a variety of opportunities consistently distributed. We show how to track engagement offerings with a course map and make adjustments.
Albertus Retnanto,  Ali Sheharyar,  Mohamed Fadlelmula,  Nayef Alyafei	Petroleum Engineering	Virtual Reality Technology to Strengthen Professional Skills for Engineering Education - Active Student Engagement in Learning	This project set out to bring real-world petroleum facilities to the classroom with the help of VR technology. The goal was to increase the students’ interest and enhance their learning experience by using innovative teaching methods.
Andre Thomas	Visualization	High engagement in online learning using gaming technology	A short talk about features of a tool I used to help engage students and make the transition from F2F classes to remote classes easier.
Laura West,  Rania Cannaday,  Cortney Graves	Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology & Medical Education	Two Weeks & One Year: Lessons learned in rapidly, sustainably converting an in-person active learning activity to a remote virtual format	In March 2020, the authors of this presentation converted a complex active learning activity involving nearly one hundred students and fourteen faculty members into a virtual format in less than two weeks. Here, they share how this was achieved, lessons learned through this experience, and how this activity and its virtual format have been refined over the past year.
Michael Paolini, II,  Heather Hoffmann,  Larry Johnson,  Ian Murray	Molecular and Cellular Medicine	In the Eye of the Beholder: Using using eye-tracking to teach histology to medical students	Eye-tracking can help teach histology by converting an implicit skill into a quantifiable and observable task that can be demonstrated to students. This study's objective was to compare eye-tracking of histology images between novices and experts and use the data for student training.

Virtual Quick Fire

Presenter(s)	Department	Presentation Title	Description	Watch the Presentation
Tara Blasor	Accounting	How to create interactive video content with Mediasite	I demonstrate how a Mediasite video looks with inserting chapters and quizzes, as well as the back-end analytics of what faculty members can see in the system.
Charles Patrick, Jr.	Biomedical Engineering	Enhancing Collaborative Student Engagement and Professional Workforce Preparation with Electronic Laboratory Notebooks	Enhancing Collaborative Student Engagement and Professional Workforce Preparation with Electronic Laboratory Notebooks
Shana Shaw	Engineering Academic and Student Affairs	Animating Course Lecture Material and Study Guides Using Free Software	The presentation will shows quick teaching tips that use free software in order to animate lecture notes and create a more active classroom experience with increased student engagement. Faculty can use the software to create summary videos of key lecture points. Students can use the software to create study guides for their classes, thus using different levels of Bloom's Taxonomy and reinforcing their learning.