Presence and Belonging in Creative Education with Vikki Hill ( Senior Lecturer in Learning Enhancement and Academic Development at Queen Margaret University’s LEAD Centre) and Liz Bunting (Educational Developer Academic Enhancement in Teaching, Learning and Employability Exchange) 4 October – 12 to 1pm Image created using DALL-E Liz and Vikki reflect on a strand of educational development work that aims to foster belonging and develop compassionate pedagogies. They also explore some of the

Check out the October training courses available at no cost to all MSU students, faculty, and staff. Visit SpartansLearn for more information and to register. Spartan 365 – Overview October 7, 9:30 a.m. Have you ever wanted to work collaboratively in a document or simultaneously on any device? Spartan 365 makes this type of teamwork easy! Spartan 365 offers robust features and a secure environment. This one-hour course

This is the video recording of my recent talk, “Why Open Education Will Become Generative AI Education.” I previously published some of the content in written form as How Generative AI Affects Open Educational Resources and Why Generative AI Is More Effective at Increasing Access to Educational Opportunity than OER.

By Yinghao Liu and Zhiyi Chen* Professor Daniel Weissglass Daniel Weissglass, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, teaches ETHLDR 201, PHIL 205, and GLHLTH 201 at Duke Kunshan University (DKU). In his teaching, he has adopted two new strategies to help students succeed: research-led teaching and oral exams. He finds these strategies especially helpful in DKU’s 7-week term structure, allowing students to explore module contents in greater depth.  As an

On Tuesday, Sept 10, MSU joined the Quello Center and Merit Network to celebrate the success of a partnership that took a critical step in closing the digital divide in the State of Michigan. Held in WKAR Studio A on MSU’s Campus, the celebration marked the completion of Project MOON-Light, a joint effort between the Quello Center, Merit Network, and MSU. Funded by a grant from the National Telecommunications and

What happens to higher education if Trump wins November’s election? We’ve been exploring this question over the past year, including months of reading, analysis, reflection, and conversation about Project 2025 might mean for higher education.  Today I’d like to sum up what we found. The book, Mandate for Leadership, addresses academia directly on multiple levels.  I’ll break them down here.  The implications for the broader society within which colleges and

How might a likely second Trump administration impact higher education?  How can academics plan for and anticipate that major event, should it occur? This week we conclude our reading of Project 2025, a key document in understanding the near- and medium-term future of American politics.  This is an online, open, and distributed reading and anyone can participate. Here’s a post explaining how it works.  You can find all of our

Tonight is the first and so far only scheduled debate between the two major party candidates for the American presidency. I can’t watch it live, as I’ll be teaching. Hopefully I can listen to a recording as I walk, train, and drive back home. On a lark, I came up with these questions which I’d ask if I had the opportunity. I’m not a politician nor a journalist, so my

This is the opening section of my September 19, 2024 presentation, Why Open Education Will Become Generative AI Education. I’m pre-posting some of the presentation content due to the very active conversation the announcement of the presentation has created. Last week I posted the middle section of the presentation, How Generative AI Affects Open Educational Resources, in which I described how we need to move beyond narrow thinking about how

How might a likely second Trump administration impact higher education?  How can academics plan for and anticipate that major event, should it occur? This week we continue our reading of Project 2025, a key document in understanding the near- and medium-term future of American politics.  This is an online, open, and distributed reading and anyone can participate. Here’s a post explaining how it works.  You can find all of our