Tag: 2016
Brown Bag: Moving from Accessibility to Universal Design for Learning: A Paradigm Shift from Fear to Hope
- Cathleen McGreal, College of Social Science
- Stephen Thomas, College of Natural Science
- Casey Henley, MSU Neuroscience Program
- Jan Bukovac Phelps, College of Communication Arts & Sciences
- Emilia Marcyk, MSU Library
Over the last year, the Faculty Learning Community (FLC) on Accessibility Through Creative Innovation has been working with MSU IT Services to create a self-enrolled course on accessibility and curriculum development. Read Full Article →
Brown Bag: Flipping a Music Class – Postponed
This week’s Explorations in Instructional Technologies brown bag seminar has been postponed until Spring 2017.
Our next brown bag session will be December 2, 2016 and features Cathleen McGreal, College of Social Science, Stephen Thomas, College of Natural Science, Casey Henley, MSU Neuroscience Program. Jan Bukovac Phelps, College of Communication Arts & Sciences, who will present “Moving from Accessibility to Universal Design for Learning: A Paradigm Shift from Fear to Hope.“ Read Full Article →
Brown Bag: Curriculum Mapping and Competency Search in D2L
- Mary Gebbia-Portice, College of Osteopathic Medicine
- R. Taylor Scott, College of Osteopathic Medicine
- Nathan Lounds, MSU IT Services
At this Brown Bag Seminar, Mary will be sharing the experiences and lessons learned by the team that is mapping the College of Osteopathic Medicine’s (COM) curriculum. She will be sharing the processes that COM is following to map the curriculum and will also be demonstrating the map and the accompanying Competency Search Tool. Read Full Article →
Brown Bag: Conceptualizing MSU’s Next Generation Digital Learning Environment
- Sherief AbouElSeoud, IT Services, Teaching & Learning Technology
- Mike Zakhem, IT Services, Teaching & Learning Technology
At this brown bag session Sherief and Mike will share the current strategic thinking about MSU’s learning environments, including:
- Highlighting recent and current project work that MSU IT is doing collaboratively with many academic units.
Brown Bag: Teaching with Social Media
- Christine Greenhow, College of Education
At this brown bag session Christine will present her research and teaching ideas about using social media in higher education classrooms. She will demonstrate some of the social media platforms she has used, how she and her students have used them, and what students are saying about these experiences. Read Full Article →
Brown Bag: Groups in D2L: Creating ad-hoc D2L Groups During Class, Submitting Photos of Group Work, and Grading Groups using Rubrics
- Jon Stoltzfus, College of Natural Science
- Terri McElhinny, College of Natural Science
We leverage D2L features to facilitate group work in large-enrollment lecture courses. D2L’s grouping, dropbox, and rubric features simplify the logistical challenges inherent with collecting and evaluating work from hundreds of students. These features allow informal groups that are formed at the start of a class meeting to work cooperatively during class and upload their final product, whether it by text and/or drawings, to D2L at the end of class. Read Full Article →
Brown Bag: Bridging the Social and Teaching Presence Gap in Online Learning
- Bei Zhang, College of Natural Science
We applaud the flexibility, accessibility and financial benefits that online learning brings to its learners, but we must carefully ponder its adequacy and effectiveness. Feelings of disconnection and isolation from teachers and other classmates could have a major negative impact on students’ satisfaction and success when learning online. Read Full Article →
Brown Bag: Introducing SocialSim: Delivering Simulation to Promote Interprofessional Education
- Mary Kay Smith, MSU Learning & Assessment Center
There have been exponential changes in the U.S. healthcare system in recent years prompting need for institutions in higher education to better prepare students to function as members of an inter-professional team. Coinciding with this is exponential growth in the field of healthcare simulation and virtual methodologies. Read Full Article →
Brown Bag: Results from Teaching Physics to Large Sections using the Digital Version of University Physics
- Gary Westfall, College of Natural Science
In this session Gary will summarize experiences in teaching PHY 183, first-year calculus-based physics for scientists and engineers, to three large sections (825 students total). The course was taught at MSU during the fall semester 2015 using the digital version of the textbook “University Physics” by Bauer and Westfall. Read Full Article →
Brown Bag: Collaboratively Embodied Content in Synchronous Learning Environments
- John Bell, College of Education
- William Cain, College of Education
Embodiment and Social Presence are important frameworks for understanding the experience of people being brought together via technology such as videoconference and robotic telepresence. Collaboratively embodied content applies these same frameworks to interactions that give priority to the embodiment of the content on collaboration, in which people are also embodied in a thinner form. Read Full Article →
