April 28th and 29th, 2023
Now part of Faculty Excellence Week
With our 14th annual Celebration of Teaching concluded, session materials are now available.
Session Recordings for Keynote and Featured Speakers
View a montage of pictures from Celebration of Teaching below:
Keynote Speaker
Keynote Session: Academic Integrity in the 21st Century: Culture, Pedagogy & Assessment
The twenty-first century presents new challenges to teaching, learning, and assessing with integrity. Challenges such as the massification of higher education and the birth of the internet, then the pandemic (and Emergency Remote Teaching) and now artificial intelligence. These developments have occurred alongside experiences of massive student disengagement, an explosion in cheating, and frustration and burnout for faculty. And yet, we primarily continue to teach, assess and tackle academic integrity in the same ways we did in the twentieth century, with an over-reliance on inactive pedagogies, a clinging to written exams for assessment, and the use of scare tactics to prevent, and punishment to respond to, cheating. But it’s not working. In this keynote, Dr. Bertram Gallant will offer an alternative model to making cheating the exception and integrity the norm. One that brings faculty, students and staff together to reimagine what culture, pedagogy and assessment might look like if learning with integrity in positioned as the goal.
Tricia Bertram Gallant, Ph.D. is the Academic Integrity Director at the University of California, San Diego, Board Emeritus of the International Center for Academic Integrity, and former lecturer for both UCSD and the University of San Diego. Tricia has authored, co-authored, or edited numerous articles, book chapters/sections, and books on academic integrity, and consulted with and trained faculty at colleges and universities around the world. Her most recent publications include Cheating Academic Integrity: Lessons from 30 Years of Research (Jossey-Bass, 2022) and a special issue of the Journal of College and Character (February, 2022). Her earlier books such as Creating the Ethical Academy: A Systems Approach to Understanding Misconduct & Empowering Change in Higher Education (Routledge, 2011), Cheating in School: What We Know and What We Can Do (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), and Academic Integrity in the Twenty-First Century: A Teaching and Learning Imperative (Jossey-Bass, 2008) were seminal additions to the field. You can connect with Dr. Bertram Gallant at @tbertramgallant on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter.
Featured Speakers
Dr. Kennon Sheldon – Why Teacher-Student Support is Fundamental to Learning: Self-Determination Theory in the Classroom
Dr. Kennon Sheldon is currently on faculty at the University of Missouri – Columbia, a Curator’s Distinguished Professor in Psychological Sciences. He primarily studies goals, motivation, and psychological well-being and is active in the “positive psychology” movement. Learn more.
Thursday April 27th, 2023
Pre-conference Workshop
12:00pm-12:50pm
Interactive Storytelling Using Twine
The audience will follow along with a Twine tutorial on their laptops and discuss their ideas for implementation with the group.
Projected Outcomes:
- Learn about the benefits of interactive storytelling
- Initiate the creation of a short digital narrative game through the tutorial
- Brainstorm ways to incorporate interactive digital storytelling into their courses
- Learn how AI can assist you in creating your digital narrative
Diogenes Santos, Doctoral Student,
School of Information Science and Learning Technologies
Hilary Gould, Doctoral Student,
School of Information Science and Learning Technologies
Friday April 28th, 2023
9:00am – 10:15am
Featured Session: Why Teacher-Student Support is Fundamental to Learning: Self-Determination Theory in the Classroom
Join Dr. Kennon Sheldon (Psychological Sciences) to learn how Self-Determination Theory can augment your teaching and student learning. With critical interpersonal strategy, educators have opportunities to empower greater student autonomy and tap into the motivational well-springs humans possess. Dr. Sheldon will be drawing from his book publications:
Self-Determination Theory in the Clinic: Motivating Physical and Mental Health (2003), and Freely Determined: What the New Psychology of Self Teaches Us About How to Live (2020)
Projected Outcomes:
- Participants will consider how research findings in psychology can inform their teaching practices
- Participants will reflect on the importance of intrapersonal relationships in instructional settings
Dr. Kennon Sheldon, Curators’ Distinguished Professor,
Psychological Sciences
10:30am – 11:00am
Welcome to the Newly Opened Cast Gallery: Sculpture in Our Midst
Join Art History & Archaeology PhD Candidate Matthew Harder and become acquainted with Mizzou’s Ancient Cast Gallery of Greek and Roman sculptures housed in Ellis Library. Tour the gallery in 20 minutes to learn about the history of the collection and be inspired to incorporate museum collections into your teaching.
Note: This tour pairs nicely with the afternoon presentation offered by Stephen Aron, President and CEO of The Autry Museum of the American West and faculty emeritus, UCLA.
10:30am – 11:20am (Concurrent)
Online Group Collaboration: Trial & Error of following Best Practices: ”What worked and what did not”
Audience members will be divided up into small groups and provided with a teaching challenge scenario involving online group collaboration. These scenarios will be distributed to the small groups either on note cards or within Zoom chat rooms. Within their small groups, participants will work together to develop a solution to their teaching challenge scenario. Small groups will share their scenario and their solution with the large group. Additionally, there will be 5 to 10 minutes of Q&A prior to the closing of this session.
Projected Outcomes:
- Navigate the current collaborative learning best practices
- Provide examples of ways to incorporate online collaborative learning in their teaching
- Identify factors that affect the online collaborative learning results
- Adjust the online collaborative learning best practices to their teaching based on the pitfall and remedy solutions suggested by the panelists
- Identify one of the online collaborative strategies/tactics that they can implement in their online teaching
Dr. Molly Vetter Dreier, Associate Teaching Professor, Department of Health Sciences
Dr. Jenna Wintemberg, Assistant Teaching Professor, School of Health Professions
Dr. Brittany Ramirez, Assistant Teaching Professor, School of Health Professions
Dr. Ying-Hsiu Liu, Instructional Design Specialist, School of Health Professions
10:30am – 11:20am (Concurrent)
What is the CURE? Designing and Implementing Authentic Course-Based Research Activities for your Class.
After a definition of CUREs, participants will be encouraged to write down and discuss class activities they do that are CURE-ish in nature. Followed by panel discussion.
Projected Outcomes:
- Participants will be able to identify the aspects of a CURE activity and outline the primary aspects of a CURE activity that they could implement in their class
Dr. Sarah Humfield, Assistant Director of the Office of Undergraduate Research
Dr. Pamela Brown, Associate Professor, Director of Undergraduate Research in Biology, Biological Sciences
Dr. Sherri Ulbrich, Assistant Teaching Professor, Sinclair School of Nursing
Dr. Nicole Campione-Barr, Professor, Director of Undergraduate Research in Psychology
10:30am – 11:20am (Concurrent)
Enhancing Engagement & Supporting Coursework with Library Resources: Apps, Canvas Integrations, VR and Digital Media Lab Services.
In this session, we will introduce an assignment or exercise that can be modified across disciplines. We will provide real examples of past projects with faculty and hypothetical scenarios. We will introduce technologies that can be used to improve assessment and assignments to engage with content in more meannigful ways. The participants will be asked to brainstorm an assignment that includes digital media creation in their course.
Projected Outcomes:
- Raise awareness of various library resources
- Explore opportunities for collaboration between librarians and teaching faculty
- Highlight some of the kinds of interactions that exist currently
- Discuss future possibilities especially in the online environment
Dr. Navadeep Khanal, E-Learning and Web Development Administrator at the MU University Libraries
11:30am – 12:00pm
“Birds of a Feather” Lunch
Please join us for a casual lunch and conversations about these topics with your colleagues.
- Active-learning
- Mental health
- Sense of belonging
- Formative peer review of teaching
- Artificial intelligence in the classroom
12:15pm – 1:20pm
KEYNOTE: Academic Integrity in the 21st Century: Culture, Pedagogy & Assessment
The twenty-first century presents new challenges to teaching, learning, and assessing with integrity. Challenges such as the massification of higher education and the birth of the internet, then the pandemic (and Emergency Remote Teaching) and now artificial intelligence. These developments have occurred alongside experiences of massive student disengagement, an explosion in cheating, and frustration and burnout for faculty. And yet, we primarily continue to teach, assess and tackle academic integrity in the same ways we did in the twentieth century, with an over-reliance on inactive pedagogies, a clinging to written exams for assessment, and the use of scare tactics to prevent, and punishment to respond to, cheating. But it’s not working. In this keynote, Dr. Bertram Gallant will offer an alternative model to making cheating the exception and integrity the norm. One that brings faculty, students and staff together to reimagine what culture, pedagogy and assessment might look like if learning with integrity in positioned as the goal.
1:30pm – 2:20pm (Concurrent)
Academic Integrity Panel moderated by Dr. Tricia Bertram Gallant
Evidence from Mizzou and other universities suggests that there has been a recent increase in violations of academic integrity, perhaps associated with instructional changes during the pandemic. The focus of this session will NOT be on strategies for limiting opportunities to cheat on assessments, or on how to catch students who are engaged in academic dishonesty, but rather on how to cultivate a learning environment in which students choose not to cheat. This panel discussion will include voices from faculty, administrators, and students who chose to either cheat or not to cheat in their courses. The goal of the session is to initiate discussion on campus about how to establish a culture in which integrity and the value of learning triumph over the allure of cheating.
Projected Outcome(s):
Participants will be able to:
- Initiate discussion on campus about how we can establish a culture of academic integrity.
- Discuss specific strategies for reducing the incentive to cheat.
- Find ways to talk to students about the value of learning.
- Develop a different attitude about how to approach the issue of academic integrity.
Dr. Tricia Bertram Gallant – Keynote speaker
Dr. Sarah Bush, Teaching Professor – Biology
Dr. Johannes Schul, Professor – Biological Sciences
1:30pm – 2:20pm (Concurrent)
Accessible Learning: Beyond Accommodations
Our commitment to diversity must extend to students with disabilities. In this session, will discuss how go beyond “accommodation” to design learning experiences that are more inclusive of all learners.
Projected Outcomes:
- Identify who needs accessible learning experiences
- Describe accessible and inclusive teaching practices, emphasizing the UDL framework
- Identify the core skills of digital accessibility for Word, PowerPoint, and Canvas
Laura Foley, Instructional Designer, Missouri Online
Dr. Catt Friel, Instructional Designer, Missouri Online
2:30pm – 3:20pm (Concurrent)
More than Content
The session will be about best practices, small break out teams to work on reflection and collaborate on the following:
Building relationships with students is an important part of being an educator at any level. It is important for students to feel seen, included, safe and respected for them to be successful. Within this session we will be discussing best practices and strategies to create strong relationships with students:
- Get to know them. Let them express their thoughts and experiences without judgment or destructive criticism.
- Spend time with them. Make time for one-on-one connection and conversations with students in your office or on campus. Take interest in their interests.
- Empathize. Treat students with understanding and let them know that their feelings and experiences are valid.
- Encourage growth. Support students’ academic, social, and emotional growth, while holding them accountable for meeting expectations.
- Listen.
Projected Outcomes:
- Identity and recognize best practices as they apply to soft skills in an out of the classroom
- Demonstrate the basics of emotional intelligence and how to manage emotions to build successful student relationships
- Establish problem-solving techniques to troubleshoot unexpected situations effecting students in the in classroom
- Reflect on effective interpersonal communication skills (both written and verbal forms) with students
Dr. Michelle Brimecombe, Assistant Teaching Professor, CAFNR
Dr. Dana Massengale, Assistant Teaching Professor, CAFNR
2:30pm – 3:20pm (Concurrent)
PowerNotes: Organizing writing during the research process to scaffold assignments in the age of AI
An interactive presentation, including writing prompts to guide subsequent discussion, a brief demo encouraging participants to open the tool and follow along, and then use of suggested instruction applications guiding participants into a brainstorming session.
Projected Outcomes:
- Learn what PowerNotes is
- Understand how to use PowerNotes as a tool
- Consider instruction applications
Kimberly Moeller, Librarian III, Instructional Services and
Social Sciences Librarian, University Libraries
2:30pm – 3:20pm (Concurrent)
Featured Session: Community & Student Engagement with Museum Collections
Join CEO and President of the Autry Museum of the American West, historian, author, and faculty emeritus of UCLA, to learn about his approach to bridging “academic” and “public” history. Dr. Stephen Aron will share his experience in heightening engaging learning experiences through museum collections. Mizzou’s museum is opening soon; how might you teach with it, next year?
Also, at 5:00pm, Dr. Aron will be talking about his new book, Peace and Friendship: An Alternative History of the American West, which is published by Oxford University Press, 2022.
This session is presented in partnership with the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy
Projected Outcomes:
- Participants will reflect on ways they can use museum collections to deepen student engagement and learning
Dr. Stephen Aron, President and CEO of the Autry Museum of the American West
Saturday April 29th, 2023
9:00am – 9:50am
Teaching in the age of ChatGPT: Nudging Students Toward Integrity with Motivation and Emotion Science
After considering the psychology of cheating, we will explore evidence-based assignment design practices that encourage students to choose to invest meaningful effort in writing and other assignments rather than giving in to possible temptation to turn to AI to do their work for them.
Research tells us that students invest less effort in a learning activity or assessment and may be tempted to act dishonestly when a) they don’t see the value of the task, b) they don’t care much about the material, and c) when they’re anxious about their ability to do well.
We can address these challenges in our assignment design using emotion and motivation science. Based on this body of literature, Flower Darby will discuss how to minimize the temptation to “game the system” using AI by designing prompts that capture students’ attention and imagination, that are relevant to students’ daily lives and goals, and that foster confidence and integrity.
Projected Outcomes:
- Identify 3 psychological reasons students may consider cheating
- Discuss a science-based motivation theory that can help us design assignment prompts that encourage integrity
- Explore assignment design strategies that align with what the research says to foster meaningful student effort in writing assignments
Flower Darby, Associate Director of
The Teaching for Learning Center
10:00am – 11:00am
Designing Multiple Choice Questions: A Collaborative Workshop
In this highly interactive workshop, participants will review strategies and practice generating effective multiple choice questions that can be used in their own teaching contexts.
Projected Outcomes:
- Participants will review best practices for generating effective multiple choice questions and then practice creating their own
Dr. Lydia Bentley, Associate Director of
The Teaching for Learning Center
10:30am – 12:00pm
Active Learning for Inclusive Teaching: Evidence Based Strategies
Active learning is supported by a robust literature that shows the benefits for student outcomes and especially for historically underrepresented students. We’ll distill the research, then examine practical strategies to implement in person and online.
Projected Outcomes:
- Participants will engage in a high-level overview of the literature on the benefits of active learning to deepen student learning and improve outcomes
- Participants will identify one or more active learning strategies to implement in their classes
- Participants will generate the beginning of a plan to implement or enhance one active learning strategy
Flower Darby, Associate Director of
The Teaching for Learning Center
12:00pm – 1:00pm LUNCH
1:00pm – 1:50pm
Adapting to AI in Academia
Writing, teaching, and course content should interact to deepen student learning. As students work with real questions and topics in their academic discipline, this is an “excellent opportunity to develop critical thinking and field-specific expertise” (WI Guidelines). How can our assignments set up the type of critical thinking that is needed in our disciplines and that supports the student in doing the work through human-generated text?
Projected Outcomes:
- Participants will try out and leave with possible strategies to support teaching with writing
- Participants will revise or create a new writing assignment that requires the human element in writing
Amy Lannin, College of Education and Human Development
Campus Writing Program Director
Missouri Writing Projects Network Director
2:00pm – 2:50pm
MU’s Review of Teaching: New Tools and Processes
On June 24, 2021, TFELT (Task Force to Enhance Learning and Teaching) — a faculty task force convened by Faculty Council and the Provost — reported a set of recommendations for improving the evaluation of teaching at MU. These recommendations were based on two years of inquiry into the research literature on teaching assessment and conversation with MU faculty and students. Drs. Metro,, Klien, and Stone will introduce you to the TFELT framework for Inclusive and Effective Teaching, as well as the training resources for learning more about the use of student feedback, peer review and self-reflection to improve teaching.
Projected Outcomes:
- Have increased familiarity with the new MU system for evaluating teaching
- Be able to explain how to find the new teaching evaluation training resources and what information they provide
- Ask questions on how the new system may be implemented and affect your own evaluation and development of teaching
Dr. Steven A. Klien, Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Department of Communication
Dr. Rosalie Metro, Assistant Teaching Professor, College of Education and Human Development
Dr. Bethany Stone, Curators’ Distinguished Teaching Professor of Biological Sciences, Biological Sciences
3:00pm – 4:00pm
From Playful Active-Learning to Serious Games: A Design Workshop
Join colleagues to brainstorm playful activities or serious games using the Allure of Play method. Start with your learning objectives and finish by tying engagement principles and game mechanics to the experience. No prior experience with game design needed.
Projected Outcomes:
- Participants will explore simple and complex game mechanics for classroom activities
- Participants will brainstorm an activity-game idea using the ALLURE of Play method
Dr. Victoria Mondelli, Founding Director of The Teaching for Learning Center