Hear graduate students and postdocs from across the CIRTL Network share the results of their Teaching as Research (TAR) projects in this online presentation session. TAR projects investigate questions about teaching and learning, including assessing the effectiveness of specific learning activities and tools, examining the learning process about a specific topic, or characterizing the student experience in the classroom.

Cornell TA Janani Hariharan from Soil and Crop Sciences will present during panel 1, and Dr. Colleen McLinn from the Graduate School’s Future Faculty and Academic Careers office will moderate this panel. Additionally, there will be four total concurrent panels after the event introduction. 

This online event takes place on Thursday, April 15 at 3-4:30PM ET. This year’s presentations feature 17 students from 11 institutions presenting across 4 concurrent panels:

Panel 1: Online learning & flipped classrooms

• Monika Filipovska, Northwestern: Fostering Student Motivation in a Blended Remote Learning Setting
• Janani Hariharan, Cornell University: Impact of Modality and Camera Usage on Student Performance in a Microbiology Classroom
• Sheeraz Akram, Pittsburgh: Impact of Video Resources on Student Learning
• Mi Sun An, TAMU: Improving Visualization Capability in Construction Education (Plan Reading)
• Shawn Schwartz, UCLA: College Students’ Anxiety, Preparedness, and Perceptions of Remote Learning Effectiveness During COVID-19: A Classroom Study

Panel 2: Student attitudes & active learning

Panel 3: Teaching key skills and concepts

Panel 4: Student motivation, engagement & retention

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