Concurrent Sessions 9 - (Conference Attendance Credit: #1 hr)

323A-01: Blended Learning: Advancing the Field of Family Science Through New Ways of "Doing" Teaching
Debra L. Berke, Mary Kay Keller, Kelly A. Cheeseman

323A-02: Leveraging Student Engagement With Difficulty Topics in an Online Diversity Course
Nikki DiGregorio, Amanda J. Rich

323A-03: Engaging Students via Microtechniques: Pop-Up Pedagogy
Jacki Fitzpatrick

323A-04: Empire Records Strike Back! Using Movies/TV to Explore Relationships
Julie Leventhal

Discussant: Elissa Thomann Mitchell
Moderator/Chair: Debra L. Berke

Summary
As the scholarship of teaching and learning continues to progress, family science educators grow in knowledge about "best practices" and evidence-based/evidence-informed andragogy. When technological advances and other factors (e.g., low enrollment) impact learning and learning environments, educators often are challenged to push the margins of what has been established as evidence-based learning practices to what is possible, new or promising, given the current and/or future circumstances. This symposium provides an opportunity for educators to focus on emergent teaching and learning issues that expand the boundaries, including exploring different modalities (e.g., online, face to face or combinations thereof), settings (in class, outside of class), and ways of learning, with the intent of "threading the needle" by utilizing emergent trends while simultaneously meeting student needs using solid andragogical principles. Participants will leave with new understandings of emergent "best practices."

Objectives
-- Participants will be able to delineate emergent teaching and learning issues in higher education.
-- Participants will be able to identify ways to expand the boundaries of teaching and learning in family science by pairing emergent trends with solid andragogical principles for both undergraduate and graduate family science courses.
-- Participants will be able to describe ways they can expand the boundaries of teaching and learning in their courses utilizing emergent "best practices."

Subject Codes: education
Population Codes: educators, Family Life Education, Family Scientists
Method and Approach Codes: curriculum development, educational, pedagogy