The educational tools that we choose often shape how we educate our students, so let’s choose them wisely with one eye on the future. Source: www.edutopia.org This same concept applies to a lot of lab courses. There’s some big machine which drives the lab activity because it’s there, we’ve paid for it, and it’s all […]
Read More »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 […]
Read More »Last week I attended my second Instructurecon conference in beautiful Park City, Utah. While everyone at S&T was baking in the Missouri sun, I was chilling out in the mountain snow learning some really cool things that are going on in the Canvas Network. One conference session that was particularly interesting demonstrated the use of […]
Read More »Over the last several months, many instructors on campus have come together to take a look at Blackboard and its competition. The decision was made by the faculty committee to conduct a pilot using Instructure Canvas, an open-source learning management system (LMS), which has experienced tremendous growth in the last couple of years. The faculty […]
Read More »So, you woke up this morning and thought, “Oh no! It’s Friday of dead week! I can’t cancel class…but look at all that snow!” Am I right? EdTech can help with tools that take little or no advance planning. Tool to use TODAY: Tegrity Lecture Capture: Have you noticed the “Tegrity Classes” button in every […]
Read More »I was perusing around the Centers for Disease Control Website over the weekend and I came across a very interesting resource. If you’re not into the whole CDC thing, don’t worry, it has absolutely nothing to do with disease or panic. The CDC has developed an online tool called the “E-Learning Essentials Interactive Guide” for […]
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