Zoom links can be found next to each session title. Hover over and click “Zoom Link”
Session 5 – 3:45-4:35
Information Literacy through an Equity Lens | Zoom Link
Joan Anderssen and Courtney Johnston, Arapahoe Community College
Do you have a research project or want to develop one? Help all learners to access and critically analyze information is important to be civic leaders in society. We have designed a scaffold project to help every learner to research peer-review information and data information and analyze the ethics and integrity of that information. Come learn how librarians can help all learners succeed.
Joan Anderssen is an Economics and Finance Faculty at Arapahoe Community College. She has received multiple award for her teaching including; Faculty of the Year, Distinguished Faculty, Jerome Wartgow Teaching with Technology Award, eLearning Educator of the Year. She is also a Quality Matters Master Reviewer. Joan has taught HyFlex since 2012 and is an early adopted of OER materials. She believe in using universal design and accessibility standards to build a learning community that facilitates student success.
Courtney Johnston serves as the Head Reference and Instruction Librarian at Arapahoe Community College. Her master’s degree in Library and Information Science from the University of Denver prepared her to wear many hats. She spends most of her day switching between one-on-one reference interviews, teaching one shot instructions across a variety of disciplines, and promptly answering research and citation questions as they come through her embedded discussion boards. When she’s not helping students you can find her working in the ACC Archive or spending time doing committee work for CCCS and ACC.
Create your own learning path: How assignment choice can enhance learning in your classroom | Zoom Link
Mandy Geddes, Candace McClelland-Fieler, Pat Munnelly, and Robley Welliver, Community College of Aurora
Choice in student assessment creates ownership in student learning, develops habits of metacognition and reflection, and is responsive to students’ strengths by offering multiple ways of demonstrating their knowledge. This program will draw on the tenets of Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy and Community Cultural Wealth to address the reasons choice matters in student assessment and the ways we have implemented assignment choice in the English department at CCA. We will explore how to provide choice in assignments, how to navigate the chaos of creation in your classroom, and how to assess projects that deviate from the “norm” we are accustomed to.
Mandy Geddes was an A-student in school, but never learned much except how to perform the role of “good student” and to “do school.” The fear of exposing herself as “not smart” kept her from experimenting or growing. Realizing this was the same appalling experience her students have, often compounded by social and institutional inequities, she began work to dismantle the systems that created that educational environment to create the space of trust, fearlessness and growth her students deserve. Her students are brilliant and brave. Their fierce motivation to reach their goals pushes Mandy to cultivate spaces of love and liberation.
Candace McClelland-Fieler has been teaching and learning from Community College of Aurora students for fifteen years, first as an adjunct instructor then as regular faculty. She chairs the CCA Honors Project Program and has been a leader in multiple English department course redesigns, campus interfaith initiatives, and Universal Design trainings in the CCA community. Candace loves her students, daughter, husband, documentaries, and birthday cake.
Pat Munnelly – Serving as an Instructor since 2019 and now a Faculty member of the English Department, Patrick has a dedication to writing, research, and connecting with students. With other members of the English Department, Patrick served on the original ENG 1022 redesign, now merged together with the other colleagues who worked on 1021. In his classes, Patrick uses assignments like “What is your Analogy?” and “Assignment Skill Trees” to bring together student-choice and flexibility with his hobbies of gaming & running.
Robley Welliver attended an innovative, project-based elementary school and the first time she received a grade for anything was in 7th grade. Later, when a teacher wrote her name on the board as a means of warning against her behavior she was utterly confused. She was raised to break rules and question systems, beginning in elementary school; that commitment to fighting the patriarchy has carried her all the way to a career teaching composition. Robley has used her experience questioning authority to support student learning through love, compassion, and deep commitment to the human beings with whom she shares a classroom.
Finding Common Ground | Zoom Link
Joe Brenkert and Monica Geist, Front Range Community College; Paul Golisch, Lumen Learning
In this session, you will learn how a multi-campus multi-department college collaborated and created a math course that meets everyone’s needs. By customizing an existing OER book and using Lumen’s Online Homework System (OHM), we were able to create a course that aligned with the current CCCS course learning outcomes.
Monica Geist and Joe Brenkert were part of a group of Front Range Community College math teachers who were researching the possibility of finding a set of curriculum materials that could be used across the four FRCC campuses while also saving students money.
Paul Golisch is an amazing counselor/IT pro/babysitter/collaborator who helped us cater Lumen’s expansive OER treasure trove to customize a shell to meet the needs of our Fort Collins, Boulder, Westminster and online campus students!
QM+ Peer Review Practice | Zoom Link
Veronica Koehn, Ph.D, Northeastern Junior College and Amanda Hardman, CCCOnline, Stephanie Wickman, Front Range Community College
Participants are encouraged to bring their computers for hands-on learning
Quality Matters Plus (QM+) is the set of online course design standards that informs the Healthy Course Checklist (HCC) recommended to Colorado Online @. In this session, we will focus on applying the standards explored through the prior session to review online course examples. To fully participate in this session, we encourage you to bring your device and identify a lesson or module in your own online course that you are willing to share with a colleague. Please know that an alternative online module will be provided if you are not able or do not wish to share your own.
Veronica Koehn, Ph.D., is the Director of Academic Excellence at Northeastern Junior College. She has a passion for assessment, and she coordinates the assessment efforts at NJC. Her love for assessment has dovetailed nicely with her work on the Base Standards deliverable group for the Learning Design Subcommittee for Colorado Online @, which created the Healthy Course Checklist. She has enjoyed learning more about and receiving certifications in Quality Matters and drawing out connections between the Healthy Course Checklist and Quality Matters.
Amanda Hardman is a CCCS learning designer as well as an adjunct instructor. She teaches English with CCCOnline and a course on Universal Design for Learning with University of Denver. She is part of the Learning Design subcommittee for Colorado Online @ and the work group that developed the QM+ standards and the Healthy Course Checklist.