Colleague Collaboration Case Study: Demonstrating Online Multimodal Assignment Design
Presenter: Alaina Feltenberger Beaver
Co-Presenter: Allison Carr Waechter, Dr. Merrit Dukehart, and Shannon Rathod
Organization: Online Composition Hub, CU Boulder
Role: Coordinator
Track: General Presentation
Topic: Global Education
Level: For Mere Mortals
Abstract: Designing new pedagogy that utilizes multimodal technologies for online courses can sometimes be a daunting task. Three instructors each partnered with the Online Composition Hub coordinator at CU Boulder to learn new digital tools and design substantive, interactive presentation assignments in Google Slides; students then could receive one-on-one support in their work. We will reveal our collaboration strategies and semester outcomes and facilitate discussion of how other institutions might employ a similar faculty development strategy.
Bio: Alaina Feltenberger Beaver is the founder and coordinator of CU Boulder’s Online Composition Hub (composition.colorado.edu), the Division of Education’s online multiliteracies tutoring service. When not meeting virtually with students, supporting faculty or designing multimodal tutor training materials, she is completing her dissertation on online synchronous collaboration in Literacy through CU Boulder’s School of Education. She has 10+ years of experience teaching secondary and postsecondary composition. She enjoys designing online pedagogy and learning new technologies. She is currently seeking a Colorado-based position in educational research or administering a program similar to the one she founded at CU Boulder.
Description: With the increasing growth of online education, it is clear that we live in a digital, globalized world that values multiple modes of communication (Kress, 2003). Students are expected to be as equally adept at making an argument in writing as they are at building and curating a web presence. However, educators are often under-supported when it comes to improving and (re)designing their online pedagogy (Lane, 2013). CU Boulder’s Division of Continuing Education sponsored pilot mentoring partnerships where the coordinator of their online multiliteracies center (the Online Composition Hub) supported three instructors as they designed new multimodal assignments for their respective online courses, both to meet the instructors’ requests of additional support and to promote the Online Composition Hub tutoring service. This session will reveal: what preparatory meetings looked like; how learning goals were established and scaffolded throughout the courses; how digital tools were chosen and how they were taught; sample student products; how students responded to sessions with tutors at the Online Composition Hub; and reflections and lessons for moving forward. Our goal is that this cross-disciplinary set of collaborations can serve as a model for what might be possible at other institutions.
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