How can you increase student collaboration on a project or assignment? We'll investigate tools that can heighten engagement and collaboration among your students, perfect for their end-of-semester group projects—or if you're thinking ahead about collaboration strategies for the Winter, Spring, or Summer terms. We'll make time for trying out different tools and sharing with one another some ideas for best use cases.
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Facilitator:
Ashlie Kauffman Sarsgard
Educational Technology Specialist, Office of Academic Innovation, PSU
Ashlie has worked in the education and training field for over twenty-five years, with the majority of that time serving higher ed and adult learners. Though her main expertise is in instructional design, online program development, and higher ed educational technology, she has also worked as a web producer and Pre-K–12 educational product and curriculum developer, has taught language arts at the K–12 level, and has also taught introductory and advanced composition, creative writing, copywriting, and writing for health professions to college and adult learners. She loves learning and teaching, and has strong interests in equity, accessibility, social justice, and student-centered, inclusive learning.
Ashlie serves as a co-lead of a higher education DEI Collaborative, working with individuals from over 70 institutions to annotate a repository of inclusive teaching practices and help infuse DEI into course quality standards. Ashlie holds an MFA in poetry from NYU, an MA in fiction from Johns Hopkins, and an MFA in fiction from the University of Maryland College Park. She has spent most of her life in Baltimore and New York and moved to Portland in 2020.