Instructional Design Announcements

Instructors: October 23rd is Active Learning Day–Learn How to Get Involved!

Posted by on October 9, 2017

Last year, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy announced Active Learning Day as part of a nationwide effort to improve STEM higher education. Today, Project Kaleidoscope of the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) is proud to invite you to join us as a change agent at the forefront of STEM […]

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Using Someone Else’s Ideas and Thoughts Without Citation…Isn’t Right

Posted by on December 2, 2015

Currently, one of the hot topics on our campus is Academic Integrity.  If you look at the Office of Undergraduate Studies website you will find many resources telling students what constitutes Academic Integrity, and what the consequences are when students cross the line.  51% of the issues reported last year appear to be about a […]

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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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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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Part 2 – Using Google Docs to Build Student Engagement and Success by Involving Students in the Rubric-Creation Process

Posted by on May 29, 2014

In this blog post I’ll discuss how to set up a Google Doc, as well as relate some classroom best practices for this type of collaborative online exercise, including how to get students started, how to constructively guide the editing session, and how to ready the finished rubric for use. (NOTE: You will need to […]

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Part 1 – Using Google Docs to Build Student Engagement and Success by Involving Students in the Rubric-Creation Process

Posted by on May 29, 2014

There is a wide consensus among educators that rubrics can be very useful tools. For instructors, rubrics often enable rapid student assessment and standards-based grading as well as reinforcing learning objectives and helping to standardize a course curriculum. For students, rubrics can be a useful tool for providing formative guidelines for assignments while—ideally—spurring reflection and […]

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eFellows/eLearning Community of Practice Session Wednesday, December 4th

Posted by on October 1, 2013

An eFellows session will be held in the Havener Center’s Meramec/Gasconade room on Wednesday, December 4th from 3:00-4:00PM.

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