Category: Blog

MSU faculty member Cathleen McGreal recently participated in the Rooms for Enaged and Active Learning (REAL) Academy and has been teaching in these spaces for the Spring, 2014 semester. She recently took notes on things that worked well and common instructor and student questions. From these notes, McGreal approached IT Services – Teaching & Learning about developing brief video tutorials on these common REAL questions. Read Full Article →

This year, MSU IT Services partnered with the Educause Center for Analysis and Research (ECAR) to distribute a survey measuring faculty attitudes and perceptions of campus technologies in their academic work. This report compares MSU and peer institution responses to the overall national picture, as outlined in Dahlstrom & Brooks' (2014) Study of Faculty and Information Technology. Read Full Article →

Team Collaboration We work in groups.   Almost everybody does.   Even those who work independent of an organization are not able to skirt collaborating with others. It is part of who we are as humans to be social and collaborative.   We couldn’t do much of anything of significance if this were not the case. Read Full Article →