Tag: faculty

• 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 →

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 →

• 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 →

• 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.

• 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 →

MSU recently upgraded D2L to version 10.6.3 with some exciting new features.

Below are the top 10 new or improved items and tips for instructors to check out. See the resource links at the bottom for more documentation, videos, and release notes.

The Awards tool enables instructors to issue badges and certificates which can also be based on release conditions. Read Full Article →

MSU now supports Top Hat student response system software that can be used by instructors and students at MSU. Top Hat can also be synchronized with MSU D2L grades and rosters.

The Top Hat platform can help instructors engage students inside and outside the classroom. Students can use their own mobile devices or laptops to answer questions, view annotated slides, join in discussions, and enter attendance codes. Read Full Article →

• 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 →

• 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 →

• 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 →