Four faculty members took top honors at the Cal State San Bernardino 2017 Spring Faculty Showcase in their use of innovative teaching techniques and course redesigns.
Criminal justice Associate Professor Janine Kremling won first prize in her course redesign of Criminal Justice 312: Statistics in Criminal Justice to incorporate interactive video lectures and to provide individualized learning and help options for students using adaptive learning.
Second prize was awarded to world languages and literature Assistant Professor Maria Garcia Puente and health sciences and human ecology Assistant Professor Angie Verissimo.
Puente won for her course redesign of Spanish 302: Theory and Practice in Composition as Spanish Composition through Art, a course that applied a project-based and interdisciplinary team-teaching approach with Angeles Cutillas, educator of the Museum Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid, Spain. The project was to enable students to create a virtual multimedia tour of the museum’s finest pieces using Storymaps by Knightlab. Once curated, this product will be published online on the museum’s foundation webpage, Educathyssen, in summer 2017.
Verissimo was honored in her course redesign of Health Science 370: Health Behavior. Verissimo helped her students develop a social marketing campaign that addressed health concerns among CSUSB students, and to connect with students in the MPH program using Slack, a cloud-based team collaboration tool. The marketing campaign will be used on the CSUSB Student Health Center Instagram page.
Third place honors went to history Assistant Professor Jeremy Murray and educational leadership and technology Assistant Professor Wil Greer.
Murray was honored for his work to enhance student hands-on and independent research skills in the course History 395: Island Peoples, Island Struggles. Murray used undergraduate research, individualized and independent work, and daily or weekly presentation exercises.
Greer was recognized for adopting a project-based learning approach. He had his students in the course Education Administration 607: School and Society: Culture, Politics and Communication in a Diverse Society work in four subcommittees to plan and facilitate an educational equity conference. The conference was open to the public, brought together local educators and community members, and was the course’s final exam.
Communication studies Assistant Professor Liliana Gallegos received the Peer Award for her redesign of Communication Studies 343: Rainbow Journalism: Community-Based, Indigenist, Activist, Multi-Media Journalism as situated pedagogy. Gallegos established stronger connections between research, teaching and service by creating a course that runs as a grassroots organization of free press in which students rotate among various groups to cover community news.
At the showcase, faculty members detailed their innovations in five-minute, Ignite-style slide show presentations and compete for prizes. The format calls for the presenter to speak while slides advance automatically to support their talk. Each slide advances after being displayed for 15 seconds. The presentations were divided into two segments – Round 1 and Round 2.
A jury comprised of faculty, librarians and instructional designers awarded prizes to the most innovative course design projects.
The Faculty Showcase is a joint collaboration between Academic Technologies and Innovation, the Teaching Resource Center and the Pfau Library.
For more information, contact Mihaela Popescu, faculty associate, ATI at popescum@csusb.edu.
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