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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 →
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: 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: 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 →
