Susanne Rizzo is a Senior English Language Instructor in the Department of English Language Instruction at The American University in Cairo (AUC) with nearly 15 years of experience teaching, investing in professional development and providing service to Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL). At AUC, she teaches mainly in the Academic English for Graduates program (AEG). Prior to joining AUC, she taught both skill-focus and integrated skills courses at the university level and for adults in the United States, Turkey, mainland China, and Macau. Her interests include improving student competencies in research and incorporation of technology in the classroom as well as reading, writing and vocabulary in academic settings.
Susanne Rizzo
Course Redesign for Blended Learning: Reflections from Classroom Action Research
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The Academic English for Graduates Program (AEG) of the ELI is exploring ways to modify its Academic Reading Module Course (ENGL 311) for a more effective teaching and learning experience. Previous feedback from students and instructors of the course indicated that course meeting time should be increased in order to better meet the learning outcomes for the course, allowing for more guided practice with feedback and processing of information. In this showcase, the presenter will share her experience and results from a classroom action research project with CLT on redesigning this course for a blending learning format using a flipped classroom approach.
Rizzo will share the combination of tools used to collect data from both the students and the instructor to better understand the efficacy of the online components. In addition, she will show how the information gathered from the research and data analysis will help the department and instructor decide on the approach going forward (flipped, blended, or some combination of the two).
Overall it was a well structured symposium. Points that were beneficial for me... [include] pushing change forward [and] highlighting the importance of courses and assessments
re-design… Anonymous
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