[Air-L] AoIR-L undergraduate teaching pre-conference workshop

[Holly Kruse]

There are still spaces available in our half-day AoIR pre-conference workshop on undergraduate teaching, which is now less than a month away. Here’s a summary of the workshop, which this year is being run by me and Kelly Boudreau of Harrisburg University of Science and Technology:

Teaching is a big part of most of our academic lives, whether we are graduate teaching assistants or junior or senior faculty members; tenure-track, tenured, or contingent faculty; experienced educators or instructors relatively new to teaching. In the classroom (on campus or virtual), our students’ understandings of social media and internet use don’t always align with broader press or research narratives.
This workshop brings educators together to discuss the difficulties and joys of teaching in, on, and around the internet. Questions for discussion will focus on (but not be limited to): What do we learn from our students about the internet, how are we using the internet to teach, and what’s the best way of bringing AoIR research into our classrooms? How do we use the internet in teaching when our students don’t have broadband access, aren’t digitally-savvy, and when our institutions do not offer robust technical infrastructures or support?

As professors with teaching experience that spans types of institutions, student populations, and institutional support, we understand that there are no one-size fits all solutions to teaching in ever-changing technological and social contexts. Participation in the workshop helps us understand the Wass in which teaching loads, expectations of service to students and administration, and institutional terminologies differ around the world. Partly because of this, the workshop therefore discussion/conversation-based so we can all learn from and with one another.

If you didn’t initially register for the workshop but would like to participate, please contact the AoIR association coordinator, Michelle, at ac at aoir.org <mailto:ac at aoir.org>.


Holly

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Holly Kruse, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Communications
Rogers State University
1701 W. Will Rogers Blvd.
Claremore, Oklahoma 74017
holly.kruse at gmail.com or hkruse at rsu.edu