Johns Hopkins is pleased to host the second annual Excellence in Online Teaching Symposium through the generous funding of the Provost's DELTA Teaching-with-Technology Grants. The Excellence in Online Teaching Symposium brings faculty and instructional staff together to share best practices in designing and facilitating online courses and programs. This is an open, online event in which members of the Johns Hopkins community hope to learn from and engage with colleagues from institutions across the globe. This year's symposium features keynote speaker Michelle Miller.
Michelle D. Miller is a professor of psychological sciences at Northern Arizona University specializing in working memory, memory encoding, and the psychology of language. She earned her PhD from UCLA. Her interest in evidence-based, technologically enhanced pedagogy led Professor Miller to get involved with the course redesign movement sparked in the mid-2000s by the National Center for Academic Transformation. Her latest book is Remembering and Forgetting in the Age of Technology.
Please consider submitting a proposal to present during one of the 45-minute breakout sessions. The deadline for submissions is Oct. 20. The review committee, whose members are faculty and instructional staff, will contact presenters by early November with the decision on their proposal.
Selection Criteria
The program committee, which is composed of representatives from various schools and teaching and learning centers, will assess submissions on the following criteria:
Contribution: the extent to which the submission provides timely and relevant insight into the enhancement of online teaching and learning, especially fostering student engagement in learning communities.
Applicability: the extent to which attendees will be able to apply your findings to their own work. Alignment with symposium's goals: the extent to which the format of your presentation will provoke conversation, spark new thinking, advance the ongoing pursuit of online education excellence.
Session Formats
Presentation/Demo—This session would demonstrate and/or present a teaching tool, method, or technology, discussing its uses and applications. Please plan to to leave time for Q&A and some other engaging activity
Panel Discussion—This session would host a moderated discussion with two or more speakers talking about a particular online teaching and learning experience and then open up the discussion for audience participation
Workshop—This session would teach participants how to use a new online teaching strategy or tool
Roundtable Discussion—This session would be an informal discussion with all session attendees on a common topic moderated by the proposer/facilitator.
Other formats accepted as well.
Join us Dec. 10 for a great symposium featuring Michelle Miller
If you are part of the JHU community, registration is free, and you can register here. Information to join the online symposium via Zoom will be shared the week before the event.
If you are from another institution, the cost is $99 for general admission, $49 for presenters, and $29 for students. Non-JHU affiliate registration will open in early October and will be available on the event website.
Johns Hopkins is committed to promoting the full participation of all individuals with disabilities in the Excellence in Online Teaching Symposium. To request an accommodation or for inquiries about accessibility, contact Haley Knapp at hknapp3@jhu.edu. In all situations, a good faith effort (up until the time of the event) will be made to provide accommodations.
