Month: October 2014

STEM Experiential Education at Missouri S&T

Posted by on October 7, 2014

At Missouri S&T, the experiential experience is a top priority. That’s what drives students to a STEM school with an engineering focus in a small town in Rural Missouri that’s more than an hour… Source: blog.sloanconsortium.org Here’s a look at laboratory redesign projects going on at S&T. We’ve got several courses piloting now and others […]

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iThenticate is now available to S&T academic researchers and publishers!

Posted by on October 7, 2014

The Missouri S&T Educational Technology office is proud to support a new tool on campus called iThenticate. Brought to you by the same company behind Turnitin, iThenticate is a plagiarism prevention tool intended for use by professional academic researchers and publishers. Like Turnitin, iThenticate generates originality reports by comparing submitted work to previously published work. […]

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LMS Update

Posted by on October 6, 2014

Last year, Educational Technology supported a committee of faculty and students to evaluate our current Learning Management System (LMS), Blackboard.  This LMS Review effort was part of a larger project to understand whether the portfolio of learning technologies we had implemented on campus contained the best tools to meet the needs of instructors and students […]

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Turnitin Maintenance on Saturday, October 11, 2014

Posted by on October 6, 2014

Turnitin will be performing scheduled maintenance on Saturday, October 11, 2014, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. U.S. Central Time. Turnitin will be intermittently available during the maintenance window. Instructors are encouraged to modify assignment due dates either before or at least several hours after the scheduled maintenance window. Stay current with Turnitin’s system status, […]

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