Welcome to UCF / Bienvenid@s a UCF�Bilingual modules to increase FTIC and Transfer student success

Project Team Members

Patricia Farless, Department of History

Martha Hubertz, Department of Psychology

Gisele Canova, Rosen College of Hospitality

Francisco J. Fernández-Rubiera, Department of Modern Languages

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Goals for the Redesign

• Create a series of bilingual (i.e., English/Spanish), adaptive modules to be used cross-campus as tools to increase student success among FTIC and transfer students. 

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• Present effective learning strategies to succeed at UCF (and thus promote retention) in targeted courses (across our programs) whose main student population is FTIC and transfer, increasing student engagement by:
• Assisting students becoming global citizens integrated in the UCF community,
• Promoting student success in under-represented student populations,
• Utilizing teaching across-discipline-transferable knowledge,
• Adapting materials to current technology (i.e., Materia Widgets),
• Extending our project to a larger scale (i.e., Creative Commons to make available to all UCF faculty),
• Assessing effectiveness of materials, SLOs and goals using AAC&U rubrics.

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• Align with UCF’s Hispanic-Serving Institution (HIS) designation by providing access to these modules and materials in Spanish (as well as in English).

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Project Description

Project Overview

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• 3 central-adaptive-bilingual modules around 3 main themes:
1. Welcome to UCF Personalized-Adaptive-Orientation;
2. Learning strategies to promote metacognitive learning;
3. Maximizing HIP Course(s) experience(s).

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• Each of the modules has:
• An instructor’s guide;
• A student facing module description with learning objectives;
• Learning Objectives relating to AAC&U Value Rubrics;
• Adaptive Games that can be used for extra credit points or as a financial aid activity 

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Course Breakdown

Gisele Canova

Courses: HFT3940 (Internship I), HFT4941 (Internship II), HFT4944 (Internship III)

Modality: W

Redesign: Materia & Active Learning

Quality Online Designation

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Patricia Farless

Courses: AMH3558 (History of American Law), AMH2010 (U.S. History: 1492-1877)

Modality: W

Redesign: Materia & Active Learning

Quality review not yet requested / Quality Online Designation (respectively)

Course Breakdown

Francisco J. Fernández-Rubiera

Courses: SPN4410 (Advanced Spanish Conversation – SL designation)

Modality: M

Redesign: Materia & Active Learning

Quality Blended Designation

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Martha Hubertz

Courses: PSY2012 (General Psychology)

Modality: W

Redesign: Materia & Active Learning

High Quality Online Designation

Course Breakdown (additional faculty)

Humberto J. López

Courses: SPN3344 (Advanced Native Fluency I), SPN3345 (Advanced Native Fluency II)

Modality: M

Redesign: Materia & Active Learning

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Milagro Truyol

Courses: SPN2201 (Intermediate Spanish Language II – Spanish for the professions)

Modality: W

Redesign: Materia & Active Learning

Online Quality Designation

Supporting Details

The slides to follow include content and activities created for the different modules

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� Module: Appeals, Swaps, and Add/Drops! Oh my!

Patty Farless and Brandilynn Hubbard

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Do Students Understand the Terms We Throw At Them From Day 1?

How Can We Help Them With This?

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• Get to Know the Terms of the Calendar through Materia!

• Get to Know the Terms of the Calendar through Materia!

Types of Appeals

• Designed by Brandilynn Hubbard

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Different Withdrawal Impact through Materia

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Where to Get Help

• Designed by Brandilynn Hubbard

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Module: How to Study 

• This module includes:
• How to Study
• Don’t be Afraid to Fail
• Metacognition
• The transition from HS or a 2-year school to UCF

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• It also includes links to campus resources and crash course study videos 

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• Assessment: 3 Materia Widgets with point values

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JamBoard: Students are asked about the biggest difference between High School and College level Courses 

• This module is an overview of professional development opportunities at UCF including:

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• Peer-mentoring
• Research
• Internships
• Rosen College of Hospitality Management in Training Programs

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• The module also includes suggestion for faculty to implement in their HIP designated courses such as industry organizations, internship learning objectives, etc.

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• Applicable to both FTIC and Transfer students.

Spanish modules

• As a HSI (Hispanic Serving Institution), we must:
• ensure we cater for these students;
• create materials that help students navigate our institution;
• help students (as much as possible) achieve their goals.

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• Our goal: Help our students by making these modules available to any interested UCF faculty (with the option to choose Spanish, English or both!) 

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• Two GTAs (Mr. Gerardo Moreno and Ms. Génesis Pérez) and two interns (Ms. Brenda Almeida and Ms. Carmen Manrique) working on the translation of the content of modules under supervision. Thanks are also due to them!

Module translation

Spanish modules>

English modules

Project Highlights

1. Presentation at the TOPKit Workshop 2022 about our CRI project;

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• Collaboration with FCTL (and Dr. Eric Main) to potentially add these modules to Creative Commons and make the available to all UCF interested faculty;

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• Collaboration with UCF’s Assistant Vice-President of Student Development and Enrollment Services, Mr. Mark Gumble, and UCF’s Director of First year Experience, Mr. Ryan Newton, to potentially use the developed materials in UCF’s orientations.

Go Knights!