{"id":155078,"date":"2020-08-11T11:33:41","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T15:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/?p=155078"},"modified":"2020-08-11T11:41:06","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T15:41:06","slug":"professors-pool-resources-to-focus-on-compelling-courses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/2020\/08\/11\/professors-pool-resources-to-focus-on-compelling-courses\/","title":{"rendered":"Professors Pool Resources to Focus on \u2018Compelling Courses\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Assistant Professor of Biology April Wynn is among the dozens of UMW professors participating this summer in Compelling Courses, a faculty learning community to help instructors design engaging courses.<\/p><\/div>\n

To teach mitosis, April Wynn has students in her class act out the process, portraying chromosomes that divide into nuclei. The assistant professor of biological sciences hopes to replicate lively exercises like this \u2013 but virtually \u2013 in the fall.<\/p>\n

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\u201cMy goal is to promote the same level of engagement, energy and enthusiasm in an online space,\u201d said Wynn, who, as faculty director of the University of Mary Washington\u2019s First-Year Experience, is helping other instructors do the same for their classes.<\/p>\n

Professors often spend their breaks on scholarly research, but Wynn is among dozens of UMW faculty members who went back to school this summer. Through a new faculty learning community called Compelling Courses, representatives from nearly every academic department have been teaching each other how to deliver dynamic online lessons and incorporate the best of the UMW experience into distance learning.<\/p>\n

In March of this year, UMW professors \u2013 the majority of whom had never taught online \u2013 abruptly had to shift to a new method of teaching. The succeeding months have given these instructors time to tinker with and tweak tools so that they are fully prepared to teach virtually if necessary. Many, like Wynn, have found that this modality can even offer benefits.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe believe teaching can be excellent regardless of medium,\u201d said Professor of Economics Steve Greenlaw, who launched the group with Professor of Communication Anand Rao. \u201cIt all depends on how you design the course.\u201d Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To teach mitosis, April Wynn has students in her class act out the process, portraying chromosomes that divide into nuclei. The assistant professor of biological sciences hopes to replicate lively exercises like this \u2013 but virtually \u2013 in the fall. \u201cMy goal is to promote the same level of engagement, energy and enthusiasm in an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28590,"featured_media":155080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[9418,2671,9236,224,24962,24961,23621,8261,68,2371,19381],"class_list":{"0":"post-155078","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-whats-new-umw","8":"tag-adunn4","9":"tag-arao","10":"tag-awynn","11":"tag-cbrewer","12":"tag-center-for-teaching","13":"tag-compelling-courses","14":"tag-digital-learning-support","15":"tag-jslezak","16":"tag-merchull","17":"tag-sgreenla","18":"tag-vrussel3","19":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28590"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}