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Spring 2020 was a challenging semester. Our future is still uncertain, and although the plan as of now is to go on ground, we want to be prepared for alternate scenarios of teaching remotely or use the hybrid model if health and safety requirements require us to do so. This resource webpage seeks to provide some resources that may help faculty and students prepare for the future semester and support them in someway.
Maintaining the Campus Experience in the Time of Social Distancing | Inside Higher Ed
How Online Learning Can Strengthen Our Democracy | Inside Higher Ed
Why Is Zoom So Exhausting? - The Chronicle of Higher Education
What Do Final Exams Mean During a Pandemic?
The Wiley Network COVID-19 Resources
Faculty Focus: Transforming Your Lectures into Online Videos
Faculty Focus: Mindfulness in the (Online) Classroom
The Chronicle of Higher Education: A Side Effect of the Covid-19 Pandemic? Reading Got a Lot Harder
Unequal access to learning, a fall without students and another MOOC moment? | Inside Higher Ed
Lessons for Learning After the Crisis
How University Faculty Embraced the Remote Learning Shift
Editorial: Coronavirus outbreak gives colleges a chance to revive a system already breaking
How to Reconnect With Students and Strengthen Your Remote Course
6 Steps to Prepare for an Online Fall Semester
What the Shift to Virtual Learning Could Mean for the Future of Higher Ed
The Difference Between Emergency Remote Teaching and Online Learning
Welcome to Your Hastily Prepared Online College Course, by Ryan Weber
Going Online in a Hurry: What to Do and Where to Start By Michelle D. Miller
Resources For Teaching and Learning During This Period of Social Distancing by Paul Darvasi
Teaching Practices for Your Virtual Classroom
Retaining High-Risk Students Amid the Coronavirus
Turning the Tide on Online Learning
8 Ways to Be More Inclusive in Your Zoom Teaching
Handling exams when your course unexpectedly moves online, posted on March 13, 2020 by Lisa Kurz
Eight Steps to a Smoother Transition to Online Teaching, by J.A. Miller
Five Ways to Promote Student Autonomy in Online Discussions, by Cassandra Sardo and Justin York
Coronavirus: 14 simple tips for better online teaching
7 science-based ways to cope with coronavirus anxiety, by Jelena Kecvanovic (resource provided by Father Savage)
Conversations around (Remote) Teaching and Learning: Coping and Hoping
Notes from CoTL April 7th Conversation: Supporting your students during the Coronavirus Pandemic
Library Resource Session PowerPoint
Conversations: Career support for students during the Coronavirus Pandemic
Faculty Center - Library Resources During the Coronavirus Pandemic
What One College President Learned About Remote Teaching by Becoming a Student
The Quandary: How Available Should Faculty Members Be to Students Online?
Conversations around (Remote) Teaching and Learning: Notes Career support during the Pandemic
CONVERSATIONS AROUND (REMOTE) TEACHING AND LEARNING - NOTES FROM SESSIONS ON SUPPORTING STUDENTS
PASS/FAIL POLICY – SPRING SEMESTER 2020 ONLY
Westfield State University Career Center - Remote Work with Students and Faculty Collaborations
One option for delivering instruction if campuses open this fall: HyFlex | Inside Higher Ed
Hybrid-Flexible Course Design - EdTech Books
COVID-19 Planning for Fall 2020: A Closer Look at Hybrid-Flexible Course Design - PhilOnEdTech
Episode 1: Considering Hybrid (Flexible) Models – MindWires Consulting
Can we talk about hybrid-flexible models for the fall?
Blendflex lets students toggle between online or face-to-face courses
Overcoming Burnout and Compassion Fatigue in Higher Education
Are Colleges Ready for a Different Kind of Teaching This Fall?
The advantages of block scheduling can offer when colleges reopen (opinion) | Inside Higher Ed
Conversations around (Remote) Teaching and Learning: Coping and Hoping
Notes from CoTL April 7th Conversation: Supporting your students during the Coronavirus Pandemic
Library Resource Session PowerPoint
Conversations: Career support for students during the Coronavirus Pandemic
Maintaining the Campus Experience in the Time of Social Distancing | Inside Higher Ed
How Online Learning Can Strengthen Our Democracy | Inside Higher Ed
Why Is Zoom So Exhausting? - The Chronicle of Higher Education
What Do Final Exams Mean During a Pandemic?
The Wiley Network COVID-19 Resources
Faculty Focus: Transforming Your Lectures into Online Videos
Faculty Focus: Mindfulness in the (Online) Classroom
The Chronicle of Higher Education: A Side Effect of the Covid-19 Pandemic? Reading Got a Lot Harder
Unequal access to learning, a fall without students and another MOOC moment? | Inside Higher Ed
Lessons for Learning After the Crisis
How University Faculty Embraced the Remote Learning Shift
Editorial: Coronavirus outbreak gives colleges a chance to revive a system already breaking
How to Reconnect With Students and Strengthen Your Remote Course
6 Steps to Prepare for an Online Fall Semester
What the Shift to Virtual Learning Could Mean for the Future of Higher Ed
The Difference Between Emergency Remote Teaching and Online Learning
Welcome to Your Hastily Prepared Online College Course, by Ryan Weber
Going Online in a Hurry: What to Do and Where to Start By Michelle D. Miller
Resources For Teaching and Learning During This Period of Social Distancing by Paul Darvasi
Teaching Practices for Your Virtual Classroom
Retaining High-Risk Students Amid the Coronavirus
Turning the Tide on Online Learning
8 Ways to Be More Inclusive in Your Zoom Teaching
Handling exams when your course unexpectedly moves online, posted on March 13, 2020 by Lisa Kurz
Eight Steps to a Smoother Transition to Online Teaching, by J.A. Miller
Five Ways to Promote Student Autonomy in Online Discussions, by Cassandra Sardo and Justin York
Coronavirus: 14 simple tips for better online teaching
7 science-based ways to cope with coronavirus anxiety, by Jelena Kecvanovic (resource provided by Father Savage)
Inclusive Pedagogy
Inclusion, Equity, and Access While Teaching Remotely
How to Recover the Joy of Teaching After an Online Pivot
‘Nobody Signed Up for This’: One Professor’s Guidelines for an Interrupted Semester
For the Love of Learning
The Shift to Remote Learning: The Human Element
An Unprecedented Challenge
Zoomnosis: Avoiding Mischief and Mayhem in the Great Leap to Zoom
Tips for Faculty, from Faculty
The Online Learning Collective
ACUE’s Online Teaching Toolkit
Redefining What’s Fair in Your Transition to Online
When the Tide Goes Out: Identifying and Supporting Struggling Students in Online Courses
Faculty Work/Life Balance During the Crisis
2 Principles Guiding My Reluctant Online Conversion
Faculty Center - Library Resources During the Coronavirus Pandemic
What One College President Learned About Remote Teaching by Becoming a Student
The Quandary: How Available Should Faculty Members Be to Students Online?
Conversations around (Remote) Teaching and Learning: Notes Career support during the Pandemic
CONVERSATIONS AROUND (REMOTE) TEACHING AND LEARNING - NOTES FROM SESSIONS ON SUPPORTING STUDENTS
PASS/FAIL POLICY – SPRING SEMESTER 2020 ONLY
Westfield State University Career Center - Remote Work with Students and Faculty Collaborations
If you are a student with a documented disability, please contact disability services at ds@westfield.ma.edu and if you are part of the learning disabilities program contact ldp@westfield.ma.edu.
All students have access to online tutoring through the University’s online learning management system (PLATO). If you have never logged onto PLATO, you may do that here.
The Banacos Academic Center provides a peer tutoring program which will continue online or by phone for the remainder of the spring semester. Students should contact their tutor to determine how they will proceed. Students in need of a tutor may request a tutor online (http://www.westfield.ma.edu/academics/peer-tutoring)
The Center for Reading and Writing will provide student support through remote means. Please sign up for an appointment at their website:
http://www.westfield.ma.edu/academics/reading-and-writing-center
STEM Tutoring (i.e., mathematics and sciences) will offer online appointments during their regularly scheduled times. The STEM tutoring website will have directions for securing remote appointments beginning Monday, March 23 (http://www.westfield.ma.edu/colleges/college-of-mathematics-and-sciences/stem-tutoring)
Please let your students know that the Reading and Writing Center is up and running online. After I trained the writing consultants (who are both staff and students), we started conducting online sessions this week. The sessions are going really well, and the students we have worked with are still deeply invested in their writing projects. I was impressed by the number of students who chose to keep their appointments this week.
Pass this link onto your students with these instructions:
http://www.westfield.ma.edu/academics/reading-and-writing-center
First time Reading and Writing Center users: Click on "Make an Appointment" and then "Register for an Account." Once you've signed in, the white boxes are available appointments. Click on the one that works with your schedule.
Step 1: a few minutes before you session, sign into WC Online and click on your appointment.
Step 2: then click on START OR JOIN ONLINE CONSULTATION
Step 3: a pop up should open asking you to enable video and microphone.
Step 4: the writing consultant will start the session with you by asking what you'd like to work on. Feel free to paste the assignment and, if you have one, a draft in the white board.
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QUBES: is focused on teaching statistics, quantitative biology, mathematics
SERC: has a variety of interdisciplinary sites and activities - including topics in climate change, environmental science, geography, geology, social science. There are examples of online materials that could also be adapted to any topic as well.
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How Resilience and Hope Can Shape a New Normal For Learning and Teaching - 5/15 @ 2:00 pm EST
The Future of the Faculty - 5/15 @ 2:00 PM
The Chronicle of Higher Education - TRACK I: Faculty Resilience and the Coronavirus
Inclusive Teaching in the Online Classroom - Friday, May 1 @ 2:00 PM EST
2020 Webinar: Democracy Despite Disruption - April 24th 2pm EST
Student Success: Everyone's Responsibility - April 21st
Dristi Neog
Coordinator of the Faculty Center for Teaching & Learning
Geography, Planning, and Sustainability
413-572-5721
dneog@westfield.ma.edu
Michelle M. Pescetta
Administrative Assistant
Art, Theatre & Faculty Center
(413) 572-5630
mpescetta@westfield.ma.edu
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