Developing Lifelong Skills with Active Learning Design
In the post-AI educational landscape, designing meaningful courses that engage students and prepare them for their future professions is no small feat. To engage all diverse learners and stimulate the transfer of lifelong competencies, learning design needs to deploy authentic, inclusive assessment while ensuring high quality across different learning modalities.
Are you seeking innovative strategies to drive active learning and foster collaboration in various educational settings? Join our webinar to explore the best practices and insights shared by instructors and learning designers at the Texas A&M University, who transformed their curriculum with FeedbackFruits' solutions for iterative team-based learning, peer feedback, and social annotation activities.
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In this webinar, you will learn about:
- Best practices and examples for implementing active learning design
- Leveraging collaborative and social learning to foster key lifelong competencies
- Creating authentic tasks with pedagogical approaches such as team-based learning, social annotation, group performance feedback, and more
- Examples of using AI to save time on personalized feedback
Meet our speakers
Patricia Luna received a B.A in Communication Sciences from the Tecnologico de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico in 1997 and a M.A in Educational Technology from the same university in 2002. Patricia worked as instructional designer and project manager at Universidad Virtual del Tecnologico de Monterrey from 1999 to 2009, working on courseware and online courses for areas such as public administration, NGOs, human development, and education. She moved to the US and started working for Texas A&M College of Medicine from 2015 to 2019 as Instructional Design Specialist. In 2016, she received the Woman in EdTech Scholarship Award from the Online Learning Consortium (OLC). In 2019, Patricia started working as the Director of Academic Technology for the School of Public Health at Texas A&M University and in 2022, received the Boseph D. Gibbs Endownment for Staff and Faculty Morale.
Cole Groom is an Account Executive at FeedbackFruits with over a decade of experience using educational technology and 5+ years working in the industry. His personal experience with completing multiple degrees in different learning modalities led him to pursue his dissertation research into the adoption of collaborative edtech tools at higher education institutions, during which he investigated effective strategies for improving technology usage among faculty and students. Building on his findings, Cole has worked in several edtech organizations, focusing on supporting institutions with selecting and implementing pedagogical technology that would enable them to enhance student retention, save faculty time, and deepen the learning experience.
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