Tag: faculty

Shannon Spasova, College of Arts & Letters

This presentation will explore H5P, a new, free, open-source authoring platform that offers around 30 activity types to help you create interactive and mobile-friendly activities. These activities include course presentations, interactive videos, drag and drop, timelines and personality quizzes. H5P allows the creation and use of rich HTML5 content in existing publishing platforms (https://h5p.org Read Full Article →

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 →

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 →

It seems that every year those who work in education whip out their magic crystal balls and attempt to predict what trends will have the greatest impact in the classroom. All of us want to create meaningful experiences for the students and often that means trying to anticipate what their classroom expectations will be. Read Full Article →

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 →

MSU IT launched a new technology knowledge system providing MSU students, faculty, and staff access to help and support information. This new system may be accessed one of two ways:

• The MSU IT Service Desk application or
• The Unified Self Service portal.

Articles of particular importance to individuals without an MSU NetID (e.g., Read Full Article →

MSU offers the Qualtrics survey tool as part of an enterprise license available to faculty, researchers, students, and staff. MSU Qualtrics was recently integrated with MSU NetIDs and passwords as part of the enterprise license and single sign-on authentication.

Qualtrics can be used for surveys as well as research data collection. Read Full Article →

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 →

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 →

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 →