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Lolita Paff is an associate professor of business and economics at Penn State Berks. Integrating professional experience as a Certified Public Accountant with subsequent training as an economist, she teaches introductory and advanced courses in accounting, business, and economics. Her pedagogical interests include classroom and online interaction, metacognition, learner-centered instruction, and student motivation. In 2014 she received a MERLOT Classics Award in Business, a peer-reviewed national recognition, for co-authoring an exemplary online learning resource. She serves on the Teaching Professor Conference advisory board, College Teaching’s editorial board, and leads faculty development workshops on a variety of topics.
Last Updated: 10-13-2023

- How Can I Help Students See that Sweat-Working Hard and Smart-Is Key to Their Success?
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- Discover techniques for getting students to work smarter, not just harder. This programs covers questions of metacognition, the value of low-stakes feedback, and innovative ways that tests and quizzes can drive students to make more neural connections and increase long-term retention.
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- How Does My Department Become More Strategic with Online Programming?
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- Learn the importance of evaluating what has motivated online course and program development in the past to guide your decisions today. You'll discover who should be involved in the process of fine-tuning your online programming.
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- How Do I Create an Online Education Policy and Procedures Manual?
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- Learn how to choose the correct stakeholders at your school and gain their cooperation for a policy and procedures manual. You'll see how to request their feedback and make thoughtful improvements and revisions.
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- How Can I Implement UDL in the Next 20 Months?
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- In this program, you'll discover specific places where students benefit the most from UDL principles. You'll see how to provide learners with full alternative paths through your courses—and how to execute this in about 20 months.
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- How Can I Implement UDL in the Next 20 Minutes?
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- Discover how UDL benefits all students and gives extra support to vulnerable groups, including single parents, working students, and military learners.
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- How Can I Implement UDL in the Next 20 Days?
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- This program covers four effective UDL strategies that go beyond legal compliance requirements. You will finish with a 20-day plan to customize a learning experience for all students that will last throughout the course and beyond the classroom
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- How Do I Create and Implement Microlectures?
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- Gain a clear picture of how microlectures can help you deliver a meaningful learning experience, foster a personal connection with students, and promote their full engagement in your online courses.
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- How Can I Keep Students Engaged with Instructor Presence?
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- Explore the importance of faculty presence for student success in distance education. Learn how to analyze, evaluate, and improve your level of instructor presence in your courses.
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- How Can I Engage Adjunct Online Faculty in Professional Development?
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- Learn how to focus your developmental offerings on the topics that will benefit your adjuncts most; you'll consider the most effective delivery methods for this far-flung and difficult-to-schedule constituency; and you'll learn how to provide meaningful incentives for adjuncts to participate in training.
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- How Can Course Design Help Prevent Online Cheating?
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- Learn the techniques that other schools have successfully used to slash the potential of cheating, assuage student anxiety about their academic performance, and propel them toward being more honest, self-reliant learners.
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- How Can I Encourage the Growth Mindset with Three Simple Tips?
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- Discover how to build a foundation for your students, helping them understand that there is such a thing as a growth mindset, and demonstrating for them what it is and how it works.
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- How Can I Evaluate Online Teaching If I Haven’t Taught Online?
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- Learn the difference between the design elements of a course and the instructional interactions done in the online classroom that count as teaching practices. Identify the five key online teaching behaviors from your Learning Management System.
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- How Can I Get Useful Feedback to Improve My Online Teaching?
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- Learn how evaluation can help you to improve students experience, identify your professional development needs, and prepare for formal performance reviews, including promotion and tenure committees.
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- How Can I Make Online Group Projects More Effective?
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- Examine the fundamental processes in collaborative learning. Learn methods for enhancing student satisfaction with online group work and see how to integrate current technology to enhance the effectiveness and ease of asynchronous collaboration.
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- How Can Student Learning Begin Before the First Day of Class?
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- Learn to improve upon traditional first-day classroom activities and replace stilted introductions and syllabus review with active learning by utilizing distance learning tools.
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- How Can I Communicate to Engage Students and Encourage Learning?
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- Learn how to self-assess your communication skills in the instructional context to see what works best for you and your students—and pick up new techniques to broaden your abilities.
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- How Can I Save Time and Money by Repurposing Online Content?
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- This session will inspire you to look at your existing work in new ways. Seeing all the future uses of your online education materials will motivate you to take your course preparation work to the next level.
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- How Can Grading Policy Options Influence Student Learning?
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- Learn the positive results—empowering students, motivating them, increasing their engagement, achieving better learning outcomes—that can be realized through strategic decisions you make about your grading policies.
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- How Can I Assess Critical Thinking with Objective Items?
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- Learn how to assess most critical thinking skills using an assortment of methods, such as true/false, matching, multiple choice, and multiple true/false tests. Receive step-by-step instruction for designing objective items to assess particular cognitive operations in critical thinking skills for a wide range of disciplines.
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- What Is Essential in a Grading Policy?
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- Learn the merits of absolute grading versus grading on a curve, the pluses and minuses of letter-based and point-based grading, and whether—and how—to properly weight assignments across a semester.
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- How Can I Assess Critical Thinking with Student-Created Work?
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- Gain a portfolio of guidelines for assignments that test student constructed responses. You will learn the keys to defining learning goals, creating assignments, and drafting rubrics to boost and measure critical thinking outcomes.
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- What Activities and Assignments Promote Critical Thinking?
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- Learn to create a discipline-specific strategy to grow your students critical thinking skills, identify critical thinking content, and adapt your courses accordingly. This program will give you a clearer and deeper understanding of critical thinking and how to teach it in your courses.
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- What Key Factors Influence Test Performance?
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- There are a lot of things going on that can keep your students from performing at their best. This program shows you the kinds of challenges your students face and then offers a simple, adaptable classroom tool that you can use to help your students help themselves learn course material and effectively demonstrate their knowledge on exams.
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- What Key Concepts Improve Student Learning and Memory?
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- This program presents five different memory-boosting strategies to incorporate into your teaching. Learn how to use cueing, the testing effect, semantic encoding, peer teaching, and the spacing effect to help your students learn more course content, move to higher levels of learning, and recall information more easily on exams.
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