ABSTRACTS - Poster Sessions
NOTE: Posters will be displayed in the Butler-Carlton Hall Atrium at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 16, during the Vendor Reception.
All sessions take place in Butler-Carlton Hall on the Missouri S&T campus
THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 2017
Bringing Entrepreneurial Thinking and Innovation to a Senior Design Course
POSTER SESSION
Presenter: Dr. Mihail Cutitaru - Assistant Teaching Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering; Missouri S&T
Tags: course redesign; entrepreneurship; senior design
Audience: Higher Education
Time, Date, and Location: 4:30 - 5:30 p.m., Thursday, March 16, BCH Atrium (Vendor Reception)
This project aims at improving the Senior Design course in the ECE department by adding elements of entrepreneurship and innovation in the design cycle for the projects used in the course. The goal is for the students to finish the 2-course sequence with knowledge and experience in designing more innovative engineering products that will better fit a customer’s needs and, ideally, be able to start their own engineering business.
Reaching students in a digital age
POSTER SESSION
Presenter: Tracie Devault - Lecturer of Arts, Language, & Philosophy; Missouri S&T
Tags: technology; digital; student engagement
Audience: Higher Education
Time, Date, and Location: 4:30 - 5:30 p.m., Thursday, March 16, BCH Atrium (Vendor Reception)
This poster session will outline the steps that have been taken to reach students in an increasingly digital age. It is important to teach students how to communicate effectively using this technology.
Digital Initiatives - Reducing the Cost of Course Materials
POSTER SESSION
Presenter: Mark Gallardo - Assistant Director of The S&T Store; Missouri S&T
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Audience: Higher Education
Time, Date, and Location: 4:30 p.m., Thursday, March 16, BCH Atrium (Vendor Reception)
AutoAccess is a collaborative program between The S&T Store, faculty and publishers that provides required materials automatically when a student enrolls in the course--at a reduced cost.
AutoAccess offers:
- Day 1 access to critical learning resources through LMS (Canvas)
- Robust interactive digital content
- Reduced costs to the students compared to current print/digital options
- Increased student engagement
- No hassle with access codes
An Elementary Solution for Math and Literacy Summer Learning Loss
POSTER SESSION
Presenter: Ben Gwynne - Senior Schools Manager; EverFi
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Audience: K-12 Education
Time, Date, and Location: 4:30 - 5:30 p.m., Thursday, March 16, BCH Atrium (Vendor Reception)
Each summer, students lose critical math and literacy skills, widening the achievement gap and requiring remediation each year. To prevent this “summer slide,” Major League Baseball partnered with EverFi to develop a web-based resource that prepares students to enter the next school year on track. This baseball-themed, game-based learning experience is available at NO COST through a partnership with MLB. The resource is six hours long, focusing on sentence structure/correction, commonly confused words, synonyms/antonyms, factors, multiples, ordering units of measure, fractions, and more. Aligned with state standards and is geared toward grades 4 & 5.
Canvas Analytics for Student Performance Analysis
POSTER SESSION
Presenter: Dr. Amardeep Kaur - Assistant Teaching Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering; Missouri S&T
Tags: Canvas; online HW platforms; analytics
Audience: Higher Education
Time, Date, and Location: 4:30 - 5:30 p.m., Thursday, March 16, BCH Atrium (Vendor Reception)
This poster will be aimed at presenting a case that using analytics or other similar tools available in various online educational platforms can help instructors to track the performance of the class as a whole and/or individual students, diagnose the progress and act to address any commonly seen difficulties being experienced by class as a whole or a significant number. In addition, there can be outreach opportunities to “get-to” the students who may not be actively engaged in accessing the available material and/or their submissions.
Creating a Writing Research Environment with Personalized Library Instruction
POSTER SESSION
Presenter: kYmberly Keeton - Academic Librarian & Assistant Professor; Lincoln University
Tags: assessment; student learning environment; library incubator research spaces; faculty and student collaboration
Audience: Higher Education
Time, Date, & Location 4:30 - 5:30 p.m., Thursday, March 16, BCH Atrium (Vendor Reception)
Poster Session that deals with an ACRL Assessment in Action project regarding collaboration, assessments in higher education (Academic Libraries) and leadership. This poster project documents a year's work with regard to student success initiatives at Lincoln University.
Do paid online study services make the grade?
POSTER SESSION
Presenter: Razmus Kerwin - Instructional Developer; Missouri S&T
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Audience: Higher Education
Time, Date, and Location: 4:30 - 5:30 p.m., Thursday, March 16, BCH Atrium (Vendor Reception)
Going to university is expensive, and for many students, anxiety about failure and the cost of education are two sides of the same stressor. This anxiety, common enough among students, has fueled a rather large and growing aftermarket of education-related services such as textbook rental, tutoring-on-demand, online study help, and access to curated textbook question and answer databases. There are currently many such services competing for student dollars, and often their marketing and approach makes educators suspect about the actual educational value that such services represent. Instructors have voiced concerns that these online study services merely enable students to cheat, or that they exist only to extract money from naïve or lazy students. In order to explore this general question, “Are these online ‘study’ services any good?”, and to provide an informed answer, S&T EdTech purchased a one-year subscription to two of the most popular of such services, Chegg.com and WolframAlpha.com, in order to evaluate them and bring you findings about what students actually receive—and what they don’t receive—when they purchase a subscription.