Tag: 2017
Brown Bag: MSU’s Student Success Initiative
R. Sekhar Chivukula, Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education
Deb Dotterer, Assistant Dean for University Advising
Amy Martin, Assistant Dean for Student Success Operations
MSU is committed to support the ongoing learning and persistence of its students and the belief that all undergraduate students can graduate. With this in mind, MSU has set the goal to increase our overall graduation rate to 82% by 2020. Read Full Article →
Brown Bag: The Commonplace Book: A Renaissance Tradition Brought Online
Arthur Ward, Lyman Briggs College
The Renaissance-era “commonplace book” was an intellectual journal that individuals such as Isaac Newton and John Locke used to store ideas in order to return to them for future publishing projects. For the classroom, Arthur has adapted the Renaissance commonplace book to an online format using the Google docs “slides” program. Read Full Article →
Brown Bag: Accessible Learning Experiences
James Bender and Phil Deaton, IT Services
Forrest Carter, Eli Broad College of Business
Jan Bukovac Phelps, College of Communication Arts & Sciences
Brooke Knapp, College of Nursing
It is the responsibility of instructors to ensure that students with disabilities can access their course content. From creation to remediation, this discussion will focus on case studies and technical solutions for making your course accessible. Read Full Article →
Brown Bag: Technology Landscape: The Technologies MSU Faculty Use to Teach
Jessica Knott and Ryan Yang, IT Services
This fall, the Hub for Innovation in Learning and Technology (hub.msu.edu) had its Technology Working Group send out a survey to instructors on campus, with the goal of identifying what technology tools they use for teaching. The survey also explored instructors’ information and support needs. Read Full Article →
Brown Bag: Digital Badges in a Science Class: Insights into Students’ Cognitive and Affective Reactions
Brittland DeKorver, Lyman Briggs College
This session will discuss the implementation of digital badges in a chemistry laboratory course. Brittland will address the simple questions such as: What are digital badges? and more complex questions such as: What are some obstacles (and work-arounds) to implementing them in a course? What type of learning outcomes can I measure with digital badges, and what kind of impact will badges have on my students? Read Full Article →
Brown Bag: Design for Learning
Bei Zhang, College of Natural Science
BLD, biomedical laboratory diagnostics, is a program that educates clinical lab scientists who will be dealing with the lab tests ordered by physicians in a clinical setting on a daily basis. Math, basic medical science and clinical medical science have been woven together in all our major courses. Read Full Article →
Brown Bag: MSU Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Offerings
IT Services – Darryl Taylor, Chris Lim, and Charles Struthers
MSU has been making investments in its virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). VDI allows faculty and students to have virtual labs/desktops without the need to actually purchase and run (high resource demanding) software on their local computers. The software runs on servers and the user can have the same computer user interface and experience on multiple computers across campus (and off-campus). Read Full Article →
Tech resources to start your semester off right
We know getting back to your studies and work can be tough, especially after a long holiday break. We also understand that it can be overwhelming to decide which tools make the most sense for your needs.
Check out these top seven tech tech resources to help your semester go smoothly. Read Full Article →
