Student-Centered Learning at NOVA Online Teaching Webinar, Feb. 19

NOVA Online offers a series of webinars to promote best practices in teaching hybrid and online courses throughout a semester. The first webinar in the spring semester is “Teaching Remotely at a Pandemic Time: Strategies for Student-Centered Learning in a Hybrid Remote and Online Format.” This event will be held on Friday, Feb. 19, from 12 p.m. until 1 p.m.

Teaching during a pandemic presents unique challenges. Known as “best of both worlds” between the onsite and online environments, hybrid courses have their own benefits and challenges that are different from on-campus or online courses. How do you handle onsite instruction remotely and organically integrate online learning to accommodate remote teaching? How do you adapt learning activities to a remote and online format? How do you assess student learning while teaching the entire course remotely? If you are interested in answering these questions, join us for a webinar discussing strategies and lessons learned from remote teaching during this past year. The webinar will focus on four strategies promoting student-centered learning to help faculty reflect on the choices we make and how those choices impact our students. After the webinar, you’ll take away ideas for practical hybrid learning designs, adapting activities and assignments to combined synchronous and asynchronous delivery, offering low-stakes assignments and multiple ways to assess student learning.

Webinar presenter, Breana Bayraktar is an associate professor of English as a Second Language at Woodbridge Campus. She has taught adult English language learners and worked in curriculum development, assessment and teacher preparation for almost 20 years. She finds great joy in working with large and small groups of faculty to help them think through questions about their teaching practices. Breana’s research interests include faculty professional development, integrating reading and writing across the curriculum and exploring how small but meaningful instructional changes can impact student success and persistence. In addition to teaching, Professor Bayraktar is also an active presenter at professional conferences on teaching excellence including NOVA’s own PUP conference.

Click Here to Register for the webinar through a confirmed email. If you have questions about this event, contact Dr. Hong Wang at hwang@nvcc.edu.