Teaching and Learning Technology 2011
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PRESENTATION ABSTRACTS
NOTE: Presentations will be posted here (if available) as soon as possible after the conference. Attendees will be notified via email when the majority of presentations are available.
OPENING KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dr. Eric Mazur -- Balkanski Professor of Physics and Applied Physics; Harvard University
Confessions of a Converted Lecturer
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I thought I was a good teacher until I discovered my students were just memorizing information rather than learning to understand the material. Who was to blame? The students? The material? I will explain how I came to the agonizing conclusion that the culprit was neither of these. It was my teaching that caused students to fail! I will show how I have adjusted my approach to teaching and how it has improved my students' performance significantly
Time, Date, and Location: 10:30 a.m. - Noon, Thursday, March 10, Civil 125
CLOSING KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dr. Ron Phillips -- Associate Professor of Architectural Studies; University of Missouri-Columbia
Time, Date, and Location: Noon - 1:30 p.m., Friday, March 11, Civil 125
Transcending Imagination: It really isn’t about us!
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This address argues for a more facilitative approach in education; a process deeply rooted in empowering students with the capacity to independently go from "not knowing" to "knowing". All too frequently, educators prescribe how to accomplish this – after all, some sense of control in the classroom is required. If education is to reach its full potential as an empowerment intervention tool, we collectively need to rethink our role as "experts" focusing more on facilitating individual learning styles rather on attempting to control educational outcomes that by their very nature will never transcend the instructor’s imagination.
Lightning Round
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Presenters:
Julie Phelps -- Instructional Technologist
Malcolm Hays -- Content Support Analyst
Caetlin Brantley -- EdTech Student Assistant
Quentin Hendricks -- EdTech Student Lead
Barb Wilkins -- Instructional Technologist
Craig Richardson -- EdTech Student Assistant
Track(s): N/A
Time, Date, and Location: 12:00 - 12:30 p.m., Thursday, March 10, Civil 124
Each presenter will speak for no more than five minutes. This will provide the audience members with a brief overview of six programs that are intended to make our daily lives easier. The best part of this presentation...? All of these programs are absolutely FREE!
Prezi: An Introduction
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Presenters: EdTech Students -- Missouri S&T
Track(s): Teaching with Technology; Hands-on Activity
Time, Date, and Location: 1:00 - 2:00 p.m., Thursday, March 10, Civil 115 (Computer Lab)
Student workers for Educational Technology will demonstrate how to create and work with Prezi content. Prezi is a free, interactive tool for creating dynamic, fun, and engaging presentations on the web.
Using YouTubeTM in the Delivery of Online (and Face-to-Face) Courses
Presenter: James West -- Instructor of CIS, Web/Database Programmer, and Technical Assistant for Distance Learning; Missouri Baptist University
Track(s): Teaching with Technology; Blended Learning
Time, Date, and Location: 1:00 - 2:00 p.m., Thursday, March 10, Civil 120
"Clip culture is here to stay." So said the creators of YouTubeTM in celebration of the 1,000,000,000 video views per day milestone they achieved in 2009. We as educators can capitalize on the explosive growth and success of YouTubeTM to present courses that resonate with today's Millennials, and the students of tomorrow. This session will feature an examination of the use of YouTubeTM videos in online and face-to-face courses offered by Missouri Baptist University between 2008 and 2010. Attention will also be given to the YouTubeTM integration of Blackboard Learn® Release 9.1 Learning Management System.
Blogs, Peer Grading, and Self-Assessment as Student Motivation, Engagement and Relationship-Building Tools
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Presenters: Dr. Irina Ivliyeva -- Assistant Professor; Arts, Language (Russian), and Philosophy; Missouri S&T
Track(s): Teaching with Technology; Best Practices
Time, Date, and Location: 1:00 - 2:00 p.m., Thursday, March 10, Civil 121
This presentation examines the concept of "student engagement" in the context of globalization and internationalization of education and the diversity of the student population. It will show how the use of communication technologies in a blended (hybrid, enhanced) classroom can provide new insights on students' motivation, self-confidence, and teamwork needs in the interactive collaborative learning environment. We will examine the role of surveys (both traditional and online) in evaluating learning outcomes, measuring student engagement and assessing the quality of instruction. Further, we will discuss pedagogical recommendations for enhancing our understanding of students' learning and for transforming teaching so that it takes full advantage of technology's potential.
Bringing Distance Education into the Traditional Classroom
Presenter: Dr. Doug Carroll -- Director of Cooperative Engineering Program; Missouri State University / Missouri S&T
Track(s): Teaching with Technology; Blended Learning
Time, Date, and Location: 1:00 - 2:00 p.m., Thursday, March 10, Civil 124
Dr. Carroll has been developing methods to mainstream the use of distance education technology in the regular classrooms. Teaching all of the university classes from the high technology distance education classrooms is impractical from a cost viewpoint. Dr. Carroll will present two low-cost solutions to teaching classes from an ordinary classroom, where the classes are broadcast on the internet and recorded. Traditional on-campus students, distance students and part-time students all benefit from the use of the technology.
Making Effective Tegrity Recordings for Distance and E-Learning Courses
Presenter: Garet Marling -- Instructional Developer; University of Missouri-Columbia
Track(s): Teaching with Technology
Time, Date, and Location: 1:00 - 2:00 p.m., Thursday, March 10, Civil 125
Many instructors at MU have heard of Tegrity, or seen it used in lecture-based courses for review purposes. Tegrity can also be leveraged—to great effect—in e-learning and hybrid courses to deliver lecture-style instruction. As you might expect, the rules are different! This presentation consists of advice and point-and-click demonstrations of best practices when trying to wrangle this beast.
Adding the Pizzazz to Your Course with Digital Content
Presenter: Angie Hammons -- Instructional Technologist; Missouri S&T
Track(s): Teaching with Technology; Hands-on Activity
Time, Date, and Location: 2:20 -3:20 p.m., Thursday, March 10, Civil 115
Angie Hammons will explore ideas on how to add learning objects and other pieces of digital content to a course. She will also describe some basic principles on how to make Blackboard "look good."
Teaching Online in a Quickly Changing World
Presenters:
Dr. Lee Graham -- Instructional Designer; University of Missouri-Kansas City
Lisa Thomas -- Mississippi State University (via Skype)
Track(s): Teaching with Technology; Best Practices
Time, Date, and Location: 2:20 - 3:20 p.m., Thursday, March 10, Civil 120
This session will focus on flexible teaching online in a quickly changing world using interactive tools that are free, predictable, and time-tested. Emphasis will be placed on assisting students to collaborate online in a manner which enhances student community, and depends on synthesis of resources which are current and immediate through a Wiki tool. A participation tool will be presented and discussed for grading of student process in the collaborative environment.
Using a Combination of Diploma, Respondus and Blackboard to Create and Grade Exams in a Large-Enrollment, Problem-Based Class
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Presenters:
Dr. Jeff Thomas -- Assistant Teaching Professor; Civil, Architectural & Environmental Engineering; Missouri S&T
Malcolm Hays -- Content Support Analyst; Missouri S&T
Track(s): Teaching with Technology
Time, Date, and Location: 2:20 - 3:20 p.m., Thursday, March 10, Civil 121
Dr. Jeff Thomas and Malcolm Hays have been exploring the of Diploma to create dynamically-generated tests for a course. Tests are passed through Respondus before publishing them to Blackboard for easy deployment and grading. The purpose of this experiment is to ensure students are assigned problems with the same difficulty level, but different numbers for the numerical components of the problems. Blackboard allows for automated grading and feedback (if desired). Respondus is required to create tests from a pool of questions, so that no two students in a class will receive the exact same test. Dr. Thomas will explain his philosophy behind his tests, and Malcolm will describe some of the challenges that needed to be overcome.
CENTRAL STATE BLACKBOARD USERS GROUP (CSBUG)
Presenter: N/A
Track(s): N/A
Time, Date, and Location: 2:20 - 3:20 p.m., Thursday, March 10, Civil 124
CSBUG meetings are regional gathering of Blackboard users from Missouri and all surrounding states (Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee, Illinois). Anyone at the conference is invited to attend this meeting to exchange ideas, get help, and share experiences with working inside Blackboard.
MasteringChemistry Online Platform as a Tool in Course Redesign
Presenters:
Dr. Klaus Woelk -- Associate Professor; Chemistry; Missouri S&T
Tim Wilson -- Pearson Education
Track(s): Teaching with Technology
Time, Date, and Location: 2:20 - 3:20 p.m., Thursday, March 10, Civil 125
Pearson’s Mastering/MyLab online homework platform can be utilized as an advanced tool for modern course redesign. It engages students in practicing course material and assessing their content mastery. It provides instant grading, valuable feedback, and individualized tutoring help. Instructors on the other hand are presented with a multitude of evaluation tools from individual analysis of student performance to listings of common mistakes to comparisons with national average performances. The online platform is well-suited to be part of whole-course redesign in which several student-engaging strategies are used such as collaborative learning centers, peer tutoring, or course discussion boards. It can also facilitate timed online quizzes taken in a computer learning center or short preparedness and reading tests (pop quizzes) conducted from dorms or at home. In a student survey, Pearson’s online tutoring and practice problems were rated more valuable than other instructional tools such as office hours with professors or TA’s, collaborative learning efforts, or personalized peer tutoring. The successful incorporation of online homework, recitation quizzes, and reading quizzes in Missouri S&T’s redesigned large-enrollment general chemistry course (Chem 1) will be presented.
Design of Problem-based Learning for Face-to-Face, Blended, and Distance Learning
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Presenters:
Holly Henry -- Instructional Designer; eLearning Initiative; UM-System
Carla Allen -- MU Health Professions
Meena Iyer -- MU Health Professions
Track(s): Blended Learning
Time, Date, and Location: 2:20 - 3:20 p.m., Thursday, March 10, Civil 125
Holly Henry, Carla Allen, and Meena Iyer will offer practical design considerations for employing technology in PBL courses based on different delivery modes. They will demonstrate applicability across disciplines and academic levels.
SMART Teaching: Enhance Lessons with SMART Tools and SMART Notebook
Presenters:
Julie Phelps -- Instructional Technologist; Missouri S&T
Gandalf Sidio -- Classroom Technology Support; Missouri S&T
Track(s): Teaching with Technology; Hands-on Activity
Time, Date, and Location: 3:40 - 4:40 p.m., Thursday, March 10, Civil 115 (Computer Lab)
Take advantage of the software available on SMART Boards and SMART Podiums. If you want to see a technology that can transform the way you teach with a SMART Board or SMART Podium (Sympodium), this hands-on session is for you. As you view the demonstration, computers will be available to try out the software so you can learn to do more than just project your computer screen or write on documents. See how to utilize SMART Tools, Notebook, Gallery Essentials and Lesson Activity Toolkit to make the most of your presentations.
eFellows Presentation
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Presenters:
Kellie Grasman -- Lecturer; Engineering Management & Systems Engineering; Missouri S&T
Dr. Ryan Hutcheson -- Assistant Teaching Professor; Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering; Missouri S&T
Dr. Jeff Thomas -- Assistant Teaching Professor; Civil, Architectural & Environmental Engineering; Missouri S&T
Time, Date, and Location: 3:40 - 4:40 p.m., Thursday, March 10, Civil 120
The eFellows from 2009-2010 will share their experiences on implementing online/blended courses on our campus.
Pedagogical Benefits of Using Clickers in the Classroom
Presenters:
Ben Bestic -- Account Executive; TurningTechnologies
Dr. Klaus Woelk -- Associate Professor; Chemistry; Missouri S&T
Track(s): Teaching with Technology
Time, Date, and Location: 3:40 - 4:40 p.m., Thursday, March 10, Civil 121
Chemistry professor Dr. Klaus Woelk and Ben Bestic, Account Executive with Turning Technologies, will provide a presentation regarding the pedagogical benefits of using a student response “clicker” system in the classroom. This technology enables instructors to gather student data and feedback instantly, as well as assess academic performance. Dr. Woelk and Ben will be on hand to discuss best practices, answer questions, and showcase advancements in student response technology.
Technology in Mathematics?
Presenter: Barb Wilkins -- Instructional Technologist; Missouri S&T
Track(s): Teaching with Technology; Blended Learning; Best Practices
Time, Date, and Location: 3:40 - 4:40 p.m., Thursday, March 10, Civil 124
Looking for ways to integrate technology effectively in problems based courses? Best teaching practices with technology will be demonstrated with a variety of technologies.
Blackboard Listening Session
Presenter: Keith Giltner -- Blackboard, Inc.
Track(s): N/A
Time, Date, and Location: 3:40 - 4:40 p.m., Thursday, March 10, Civil 125
Keith Giltner from Blackboard, Inc. will be here on campus to listen to the campus concerns with the Blackboard suite of products. All conference attendees are invited to attend to provide valuable feedback to Blackboard.
Creating ePosters using Glogster
Presenters:
Becky Lopanec -- eLearning Coordinator; Saint Louis University
Keeta Holmes -- Assistant Director of Center for Teaching and Learning; University of Missouri-St. Louis
Track(s): Teaching with Technology; Hands-on Activity
Time, Date, and Location: 9:00 - 10:00 a.m., Friday, March 11, Civil 115 (Computer Lab)
In this session, participants will learn about a fun and simple way to have students create eye-catching collage-style ePosters. Glogster allows students to create online ePosters using photographs, images, graphics, video files, and sound files. This is a hands-on session in which participants will discuss ides for best practices for use and implementation.
Problem-based Learning Approaches for Social Entrepreneurship
Presenter: Dr. Daniel Oerther -- Professor; Civil, Architectural, & Environmental Engineering; Missouri S&T
Track(s): Best Practices
Time, Date, and Location: 9:00 - 10:00 a.m., Friday, March 11, Civil 120
Problem-based learning (PBL) is a style of learning that can involve a diverse range of pedagogical approaches. This presentation will highlight critical aspects of PBL by introducing results of a six-year case study that included: student design competition, extra-curricular student team design, and team study abroad. The focus of the case study was social entrepreneurship which is an effective umbrella for successfully introducing the ABET criteria of ethics, contextual learning, and contemporary issues. Social entrepreneurship employs the synchronicity of the Millennium Development Goals and the recognition that engineering designs can be used to develop commercially viable products for the two billion humans living on less than two dollars per day.
Pervasive Cyberinfrastructure for Personalized Learning and Instructional Support (PERCEPOLIS)
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Presenters:
Dr. Ali Hurson -- Professor; Computer Science; Missouri S&T
Dr. Sahra Sedighsarvestani -- Professor; Electrical & Computer Engineering; Missouri S&T
Track(s): Blended Learning
Time, Date, and Location: 9:00 - 10:00 a.m., Friday, March 11, Civil 121
This session will introduce the PERCEPOLIS educational cyberinfrastructure, which enables intelligent personalization of courses and curricula and facilitates resource sharing and collaboration in teaching and learning. Dr. Hurson and Dr. Sedighsarvestani will also describe a blended instruction approach using PERCEPOLIS that shifts the emphasis of class time from lecturing to active and peer learning.
YouTube U: Leveraging YouTube Content for Student Enrichment, Engagement, & Fun in the Classroom
Presenter: Dr. Katie Grantham -- Assistant Professor; Engineering Management & Systems Engineering; Missouri S&T
Time, Date, and Location: 9:00 - 10:00 a.m., Friday, March 11, Civil 124
The average person spends 15 minutes a day on YouTube; why not steal some of those minutes reinforcing course content? YouTube consists of videos on any topic, available anytime, from anywhere. Since it's the first video upload in August 2005, now hundreds of millions of free videos are watched on even mobile devices. "If you can’t beat 'em, join 'em." This talk focuses on the use of YouTube videos to demonstrate curriculum principles that would not be available otherwise, to encourage class participation, and to maintain student attention and focus on topic. Specific examples of lecture materials, class participation exercises, and homework for a 3xx level product design course will be presented.
5 Strategies to Ease the Transition to Teaching Online
Presenter: Olena Zhadko -- Center for Teaching and Learning; University of Missouri-St. Louis
Track(s): Teaching with Technology; Best Practices
Time, Date, and Location: 9:00 - 10:00 a.m., Friday, March 11, Civil 125
This session will present 5 major techniques to ease the transition from a traditional face to face classroom to teaching blended or fully online classes. The presenter will distinguish five major principles and provide examples.
Using VoiceThread as an Alternative to Discussion Boards
Presenters:
Rebecca Lopanec -- eLearning Coordinator; Saint Louis University
Keeta Holmes -- Assistant Director of Center for Teaching and Learning; University of Missouri-St. Louis
Track(s): Teaching with Technology; Hands-on Activity
Time, Date, and Location: 10:15 - 11:15 a.m., Friday, March 11, Civil 115 (Computer Lab)
Learn how VoiceThreads can be used in a variety of ways to capture and share authentic learning. See for yourself how VoiceThread can be used in addition to discussion boards. Participants will be shown how to sign up for an account and the different options in creating presentations. Becky will also discuss best practices and participants will get inspiration for use in their own courses.
Do Unto Others: Addressing Civility in College Classrooms
Presenter: Dr. Peggy Cohen -- Director; Center for Teaching and Learning; University of Missouri-St. Louis
Track(s): Best Practices
Time, Date, and Location: 10:15 - 11:15 a.m., Friday, March 11, Civil 120
Consumer attitudes about academic success can overpower respectful attitudes towards learning, professors, and peers. Effective alternatives are demonstrated in this workshop to help colleagues across the disciplines learn to promote, assess, and maintain professional and civil behaviors in their courses...face to face and online.
Clickers in the Humanities: Using the Personal Response System to Generate Discussion and Improve Student Participation
Presenter: Dr. Dan Reardon -- Assistant Director; Writing Center; Missouri S&T
Track(s): Best Practices
Time, Date, and Location: 10:15 - 11:15 a.m., Friday, March 11, Civil 121
While "clickers," or personal response software, are most often used at Missouri S&T in engineering, science, and math courses, they can be equally effective in humanities courses. Current research demonstrates that best practices with clickers occur when they are used to gauge student retention or to generate discussion; clickers can therefore be an effective tool in assisting students with developing their literary, historical, or philosophical points of view. By demonstrating how Dr. Reardon used clickers in his British Literature II : 1800-Present course in Fall 2010, he hopes to show humanities instructors how effective they can be in engaging students and maintaining their involvement in the humanities.
Integrating Gallery Walks and Wikis in a Synergic Student-Focused Instructional Activity
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Presenters:
Dr. John Hogan -- Associate Professor of Geological Science & Engineering; Missouri S&T
Dr. Dan Cernusca -- Instructional Designer; Missouri S&T
Track(s): Best Practices
Time, Date, and Location: 10:15 - 11:15 a.m., Friday, March 11, Civil 124
Dr. Hogan and Dr. Cernusca present some exploratory findings from a synergic integration of Gallery Walks (an active learning strategy) with a course Wiki (a collaborative Web tool). In a “Gallery Walk” students, or small groups of students, will spend a limited amount of time on a problem or task presented to them on a large post-it note during class. After each group has viewed all the post-it notes, the final group provides an oral summary of the problem. However, at the end of class, the active learning momentum evaporates, and for many students the time spent on anyone problem remains a scant five minutes.
Dr. Hogan mitigated this limitation by integrating the Gallery Walk Exercises into the course Wiki. At the end of class each group now claims ownership of one of the post-it note problems. They (the students) use this post-it note and additional material to populate their entry on a dedicated Wiki page. Each wiki contribution was then evaluated (e.g., accuracy, content, usefulness) with the aid of a grading rubric by two other groups in the class. The wiki transformed a transient cooperative active learning environment into an extended cooperative active learning community. It also expanded the opportunities for synthesis and reflection by allowing unlimited access to all the problems and solutions by the entire class.
An anonymous exit survey was administered online at the end of the course. Findings indicate that students perceived Gallery Walks as out-of-norm-classroom activities, while Wikis felt more like an extension of the classroom activities. Students’ open-ended feedback on the two instructional tools complemented these quantitative findings. This first implementation provided also ideas on how to modify these tasks to increase their educational effectiveness.