{"id":36863,"date":"2021-01-20t08:00:05","date_gmt":"2021-01-20t13:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/?p=36863"},"modified":"2021-01-05t16:51:53","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05t21:51:53","slug":"upcoming-conversation-on-teaching-synchronous-sessions-in-online-courses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/2021\/01\/upcoming-conversation-on-teaching-synchronous-sessions-in-online-courses\/","title":{"rendered":"upcoming conversation on teaching: synchronous sessions in online courses"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a>in this conversation on teaching, four faculty members will share their successes and challenges in facilitating synchronous sessions in online courses this fall.<\/p>\n thomas clements<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0kathy friedman<\/strong>, both from the department of biological sciences, will talk about their use of undergraduate learning assistants to facilitate interaction in a high-enrollment introductory course<\/p>\n diana heney<\/strong>\u00a0from the philosophy department will discuss lessons distilled from both introductory and upper-level philosophy courses, one taught with a ta and one without.<\/p>\n jessica watkins<\/strong>\u00a0from the department of teaching & learning will describe approaches she found helpful for promoting small group work and effective preparation in an online course with both graduate students and upper-level undergraduates.<\/p>\n attendees are encouraged to bring questions and their own teaching experiences to the discussion. questions? contact\u00a0cynthia.brame@vanderbilt.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n