Sharpen Your Teaching Skills Sessions

Presented on Friday and Saturday at the meeting, sessions in this track will feature presentations by educators from across the country sharing valuable teaching tips that you can put to use immediately in your classes.

May 10, 2019

10:45 am - 12:00 pm
Session 1.01: Visioning: What's Getting in Your Way?
Presenter: Marsha M. Huber, Youngstown State University
This visioning session will help faculty learn about an exercise they can use as an icebreaker, in a professionalism class, or with MAcc students. Visioning helps participants; recognize and overcome blocks to creativity, identify attitudes and behaviors conducive to creative thinking, and learn a deliberate proven process to solve problems and capitalize on opportunities. All participants will be given the exercise to take back to their institutions.

1:45 pm - 3:25 pm
Session 2.01: Utilizing Data-Driven Tableau Projects in Undergraduate and Graduate Accounting Courses
Presenter: Yiyang Zhang, Youngstown State University
This session focuses on the use of Tableau with class projects. The project includes six large data files (over one million observations) from Hub Analytics Education at Northeastern University that include beginning and ending inventory, purchases, sales, purchases by invoice, and purchase prices for each inventory item. 

3:55 pm - 5:35 pm
Session 3.01: MAKAR 101: Creating Your Own Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality Application for Free
Presenter: Mfon J. Akpan, National Louis University
This session will introduce participants to the free MAKAR editor and mobile application and give them firsthand experience on how to create and edit their own augmented reality application without using code. This application can be integrated into the classroom curriculum and used as an active learning tool. The active learning component used in this presentation will include a short demonstration followed by  group discussion and peer collaboration. After a brief introduction and demonstration of the application, the participants will be assigned a quick task and work together, applying what was learned, to complete the task.

May 11, 2019

9:05 am - 10:45 am
Session 4.01: Innovation in the Accounting Classroom: Keeping Generation Z Engaged
Presenter: M. Paulina Kassawat, Youngstown State University
This session explores creative and innovative activities implemented in an introductory accounting course designed to convey technical knowledge, develop skills and understanding, and keep Gen Zers engaged throughout the learning process. Faculty will learn how to transform students into active learners. Participants will be ready to renovate their classroom experience by integrating activities that tailor creativity, oral expression, active listening, logical reasoning, critical thinking, visualization, problem sensitivity, and reading comprehension, among others.

11:15 am - 12:30 pm
Session 5.01: Inspired Learning: Our University Innovation Fellows Share Their Stories
Presenter: Marsha M. Huber, Youngstown State University
Four students participated as University Innovation Students in a joint program with Stanford's design school. The students will be sharing their journey through the University Innovation Fellow (UIF) program from creating projects, bringing lasting change to campus, meeting stakeholders, to facing opposition. As a faculty member, I watched these students grow in confidence and take ownership of the project. Listen to them share the challenges and rewards of this unique collaborative program with Stanford and learn how you can act as a faculty champion to a group of students at your university.