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Go2Knowledge Digital Library: Learning on Demand

Bonnie Edwards TCDC General

Go2K offers a wealth of on-demand and live presentations for instructors, administrators and advisors. If you haven’t accessed Go2K yet, visit our first blog in this series for more information on how to set up your account.

Here are some suggestions to help you get started:  

For Administrators & Leadership Roles 

  1. Faculty & Staff Mental Health & Wellness: Battling Burnout & Supporting Colleagues Langara works hard to support student mental health. But have we placed the same emphasis on our own mental health needs? This presentation overviews faculty & staff mental health trends, discusses the importance of recognizing and proactively coping with burnout, and how to best support colleagues in distress. (On demand) 
  1. The Top 10 Reasons Students Drop Out & How We Can Keep Them Enrolled This presentation explores the ten reasons students typically drop out of college and provides evidence-based best practices for prevention. Equal emphasis is placed on helping both institutions and at-risk students achieve graduation and job placement. (On demand) 
  1. Training Front Office Staff: Handling Difficult & Disruptive Behaviors Remotely This presentation offers practical advice and tips for frontline staff on how to work with frustrated and difficult students, parents and/or staff remotely. Includes ways to prevent problems before they start, reduce escalation and conflict, and turn negatives into positives. (On demand) 
  1. 5 Mental Mistakes: Strategies to Combat Them, Reduce Stress & Promote Well-Being This presentation describes five “mind mishaps” that can negatively impact productivity and our ability to support students, and identifies research-proven strategies to combat each one, and offers strategies to support the health and well-being of faculty, staff, and administrators. (On demand) 
  1. 5 Professional Development Trends In 2023 To Recruit & Retain Talent This presentation shares tips and trends for creating opportunities for growth for faculty and staff. It discusses using resources like microcredentials and OERs to engage colleagues, promote staff and faculty development, and address key topics such as burnout. (On demand) 
  1. A Supervisor’s Guide to Having Difficult Conversations with Employees This presentation helps participants reflect on past experiences to better understand how they developed their current communication patterns, learn specific strategies they can implement during difficult conversations, and learn how to feel empowered to have difficult conversations in the future. (On demand) 

For Advisors 

  1. Integrating Appreciative Advising to Positively Impact Retention, Persistence & Graduation This presentation investigates evidence-based best practices for using the Appreciative Advising approach to help students achieve their full potential both academically and in their careers. It explores Appreciative Advising impact on enhanced retention-to-graduation; explores how to develop and maintain a successful, appreciative academic advising program; discusses the challenges involved and how to overcome them; and outlines the process for fostering stronger, more productive, responsive and cost-effective advising relationships. (On demand) 
  1. Academic Advising Post-COVID: What to Discard, What to Keep & What to Enhance This presentation discusses how higher education (primarily academic advising) has changed in response to COVID, the pandemic’s impact on college students, academic advising, and student success/retention. It distills evidence-based best practices that have emerged, and explores strategies for identifying, acquiring and enhancing the resources needed to support academic advisors in a post-pandemic world. (On demand) 
  1. Peer Advising Programs: A Powerful Strategy for Enhancing Retention Interested in Peer Advising? This presentation covers the essential components of a successful peer advising program designed to meet the needs of diverse students. It focuses on developing and maintaining peer-to-peer supportive relationships, training – and how to conduct it appropriately, real case studies, and recommendations for enhancing the program’s overall efficacy. (On demand) 

For Instructors 

  1. Active Learning & Gen Z Students: Instruction, Participation, Assessments & Assignments This presentation explores how to design interactive lectures and use active learning techniques to increase participation in classroom activities; use instructional technology to promote active learning in Gen Z students, create authentic assignments to engage Gen Z students, and integrate assessment techniques uniquely suited for Gen Z learners. (On demand) 
  1. Active Learning: A Formative & Summative Assessment Approach to Teaching & Learning Participants in this webinar will focus on the interplay between the daily in-class and out-of-class formative work students do, the teacher feedback they receive, and the ways students are invited to showcase what they have learned in the summative aspects of the course. We will consider several pedagogical approaches to formative and summative assessments with a focus on formats that fit within an Active Learning approach to teaching and learning. (On demand; Live: Tuesday, April 11) 
  1. Active Learning: Utilizing Backwards Design to Articulate Learning Outcomes & Maximize Student Learning This presentation explores the Active Learning paradigm, addresses criticisms associated with an outcomes-based teaching approach, describes the use of learning outcomes in Active Learning course design, and considers how the relationship between content and outcomes impacts course design and student learning. (On demand, Live: March 30) 
  1. Improving Student Motivation Using Instructional Strategies, Relationship Building & Mindset Motivated students show increased persistence, effort, initiative, and cognitive processing skills; all of which result in increased learning and satisfaction. But many students struggle to stay motivated. This presentation explores barriers to student motivation (with emphasis on Gen Z and millennial students) and offers a holistic approach to fostering motivation in the college classroom. Specifically, techniques for empowering students via mindset and goal-awareness, and instructional and assessment strategies that emphasize authenticity, relatedness and autonomy. (On demand) 
  1. 10 Strategies to Create Teachable Moments with Your Students This presentation investigates teachable moments and their common elements, explore basic design templates for teachable moments, discusses 10 specific ways to create teachable moments that can be translated to any content or discipline, and considers the similarities and differences between teachable moments in face-to-face, hybrid, and online classes. (On demand; Live: Thursday, April 20) 
  1. 10 Technology Tools to Promote Active Learning & Engagement This presentation reviews 10 technologies that can be integrated into your classroom to increase student engagement, create interactive lectures, facilitate assessment techniques, and foster active learning. Pedagogical applications and considerations for implementation are also included. (On demand) 
  1. Success Coaching for Struggling Students: How to Support Skill Development Helping students recognize, respond to, and recover from academic challenges can be daunting and frustrating. No two students are the same; no single technique works for everyone. This presentation outlines how UCA success coaches support students who have faced academic challenges, and help them change behaviors and become strong learners. (On demand) 
  1. 10 Creative Online Assignment Ideas That Promote Critical Thinking, Engagement & Deep Learning To be effective, online assignments must meaningfully engage students in actively processing information. This presentation explores 10 creative online assignment ideas that promote critical thinking, analysis, engagement, and deep learning–and can be realistically integrated into an online classroom. (On demand) 
  1. 20 Innovative Strategies & Activities to Engage Students in Synchronous & Asynchronous Remote Learning This presentation highlights 20 innovative activities that can be incorporated in the synchronous or asynchronous online classroom to foster student learning, engagement, satisfaction, and community. (On demand) 
  1. Trauma-Informed Campus Climate: How To Create An Inclusive Space For Students This presentation explores prevalence of trauma in college students, reviews common characteristics of college students who have experienced trauma, identifies places and situations during the college experience that may be triggering or uncomfortable for students who have experienced trauma, and describes ways to make these places and situations more comfortable and less invasive for students who have experienced trauma. (On demand) 

Want an easy, accessible way to learn, with credit for your learning? Go2Knowledge also offers microcredentials! Visit our previous blog for more details.

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