Blended Learning

Lecture Capture Update – Panopto is in, Tegrity is on the way out

Posted by on August 1, 2017

Panopto® will be replacing Tegrity® as the preferred lecture capture solution for Fall 2017. Panopto offers greater flexibility in recording, and is more tightly integrated into Canvas for a much more seamless viewing experience for students. Panopto Recorder will be installed on all classroom computers for Fall 2017. To enable Panopto Recordings within Canvas, follow […]

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Online Learning Consortium Effective Practice Award 2015 – Angie Hammons & Amy Skyles

Posted by on April 29, 2015

Angie Hammons, Manager of Educational Technology at Missouri S&T, and Amy Skyles, an Instructional Designer for EdTech recently accepted the 2015 Sloan-C Effective Practice Award from the Online Learning Consortium. They received the award for their project on Delivering Experiential Labs To All (DELTA). DELTA is a set of eLearning models, processes and strategies for […]

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DELTA – Congratulations to Shayna Burchett & Klaus Woelk

Posted by on March 31, 2015

Congratulations to Shayna Burchett and Klaus Woelk.  Both have been participating in the DELTA (Delivering Experiential Labs to All) project.  They have been working on a blended Chemistry redesign for Chemistry 1319 (or the old Chem 2).  There efforts were recently recognized by the American Chemical Society.  On March 24th, Shayna and Klaus were asked […]

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TLT 2015 Conference Presentations Now Available

Posted by on March 31, 2015

Did you miss the 2015 Teaching and Learning Technology Conference? You can still watch some of the highlights! Videos from the TLT 2015 Conference: http://tlt.mst.edu/tlt2015/abstracts/ CanvasCon Sessions: http://tlt.mst.edu/tlt2015/abstracts/canvasconabstracts/ We hope everyone who participated in our TLT 2015 conference was able to walk away with at least one new idea going forward! We also look forward […]

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Congratulations Amy Skyles!

Posted by on March 20, 2015

Congratulations to Amy Skyles! She has worked hard on the DELTA Lab initiative and just recently won the OLC Effective Practice Award. Check out the information on the award here http://olc.onlinelearningconsortium.org/effective_practices/delivering-experiential-labs-all.

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Our Tools Shape Us

Posted by on November 13, 2014

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 […]

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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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2nd Call for Proposals for the eFellows Program

Posted by on October 1, 2012

The Office of the Provost, along with Educational Technology (EdTech), is issuing a second call for participation in the 2013 eFellows program. This program is an opportunity for instructors to redesign their courses to incorporate more technology, with the overall goal of improving student performance. This round of proposals will only be for Tier 2 […]

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CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS: Teaching and Learning Technology Conference 2013

Posted by on September 4, 2012

Educational Technology is now accepting presentation proposals for the Sixth Annual Teaching and Learning Technology Conference, scheduled for March 14-15, 2013. Interested presenters can download a copy of the Call for Presentation form at the EdTech web site or click one of the links below:     Call for Presentations: Word Document     Call for Presentations: […]

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Alternative Assessments with EdTech on April 18

Posted by on April 16, 2012

EdTech is hosting an eLearning Community of Practice event on Wednesday, April 18, in Norwood Hall Room 208, from 2 – 3:30 p.m. The focus of this event is using alternative assessment techniques and tools. Summative and formative assessments are both important components to the learning process for both students and instructors. Summative assessments typically […]

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