This summer, MSU IT’s Education Technology department is bringing together faculty and staff to learn about the latest in classroom technology. The inaugural MSU Educational Technology Summit will take place virtually July 25 – 29 and feature the most widely used educational technology solutions on campus.   In addition to hearing from technology vendors, attendees will hear firsthand accounts of how technology impacts the teaching and learning experience in MSU

Student feedback can be an excellent way to find out how a class went, but how do you interpret the data you get? While collecting feedback is important, it is only the first step in the evaluation and improvement process. In this post, we review some strategies for interpreting and analyzing student feedback. Sources of Feedback Course evaluations are a great source of student feedback, but there are other ways

The phrase “empowering educators” is a cliché that usually doesn’t mean much. We could use the language of business—as I have—to describe educators as knowledge workers and think about optimizing their workflows to reduce the amount of time they spend on low-value tasks and increase their opportunities to apply their expert judgment to high-value tasks. That formulation provides a more specific, testable, and potentially impactful description at the risk of

New book that collates the presentations from our practice sharing day at UAL on Presence and Belonging in Digital Education

Digital Bodies Tim Cook once again expressed his excitement over the possibilities of augmented reality and a forthcoming Apple AR device. UpLoadVR picked up on an interview in China Daily, where there was the following exchange:  ... This article Tim Cook on an Apple AR Device – “I Couldn’t be More Excited” first appeared on Digital Bodies by Emory Craig .

As we try to make sense of changing student enrollment numbers post-COVID and think about what “quality education” means in a pervasively blended education, part of that work requires us to think about “data” the way we would think about our senses and sense-making in a face-to-face class. My new post on the Argos website describes one way the platform enables our educator/publishers to do that and provides some eye-opening

Digital Bodies We have no official confirmation on the incredibly popular Roblox platform coming to the Meta’s Quest 2 headset, but it seems likely from yesterday’s tweet from Roblox: Get ready to experience ... This article Roblox Coming to the Quest 2 – the Implications for Education first appeared on Digital Bodies by Emory Craig .

Duke Learning Innovation welcomed 14 faculty last week to our five-day Active Learning Institute. The program looked at the use of active learning to improve student learning and success to create a more equitable classroom environment. The Active Learning Institute, held June 6-10, was a one week experience adapted from DLI’s Active Learning Fellowship, held most years from 2013 to 2019. During the program, faculty participants in the Active Learning

Dr. Sharon Lauricella (Professor and Teaching Scholar in Residence at Ontario Tech University, Oshawa, Ontario and @AcademicBatgirl on Twitter) gave the keynote address at the second Pandemic Pedagogy Research Symposium on May 11, 2022. Her session used Mentimeter interactive slides to engage attendees in a discussion about student motivation, why we grade and assess students, alternative strategies for assessment, and how we can all get more out of

A couple of weeks ago, I received an email from my friend Eli Luberoff, the founder and CEO of Desmos. It was news I'd been anticipating — dreading, really — for some time: the startup had been acquired. Amplify was buying its curriculum division; the calculator part would become a free-standing public benefit corporation. The subject of the email from Eli said "good news," and I don't mean to imply