Teaching and Learning Technology 2012

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OPENING KEYNOTE SPEAKER:  Dr. Kenneth C. Green -- Founding Director; The Campus Computing Project

Time, Date, and Location: 10:30 a.m. - Noon, Thursday, March 15, Civil 125

~ The Fourth Decade of the "IT Revolution" in Higher Education

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The “IT revolution in higher education” began with the slow migration of IBM-PCs and Macintosh computers onto campuses in the mid-1980s. While the technologies have changed and improved dramatically over time, the campus conversations about instructional integration, faculty utilization, the impacts and benefits of IT, and managing the costs of information technology seem all too familiar and have changed little over the past three decades. Drawing on data from The Campus Computing Project and other sources, Green’s presentation will address the continuing, great aspirations for IT that pose both challenges and opportunities for the higher education community.

CLOSING KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dr. Klaus Woelk -- Associate Professor and Interim Chair of Chemistry; Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T)

~ Why We Need Course Redesigns

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Time, Date, and Location: Noon - 1:30 p.m., Friday, March 16, Civil 125

When Gutenberg invented the movable-type printing press in the 15th century, his partner tried to sell the first printed books as handwritten copies. The uniformity, however, was obvious and revealed the means by which they were produced. Despite a perceived lower value of the new technique, it took less than 40 years to sell more than 15 million printed copies. Scholars now had access to knowledge that was previously guarded by only a few. The internet has similarly changed the way we spread and access knowledge. Because of this change, new ways of teaching and learning must be explored and the formats of lectures, recitations, tests, and work assignments reconsidered. True innovation in teaching and learning is transformative and must make use of communication in new ways. Videotaping instructors in front of chalkboards or PowerPoint slides might be as limited as selling printed books to customers that like them handwritten. This keynote address introduces course redesign in a variety of perspectives, from teachers’ perceptions to administrators’ demands, from small alterations to complete course redesigns, from efficacy data assessment to teaching and learning research.

~ Lightning Round

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Presenters:
   Dropbox - Stephen Schwartz
   Evernote - Nolan Poole
   Bubbl.us - Craig Richardson
   Symbaloo - Sara Rymarcsuk
   Wordle - Kenny Moore
   Piazza - Amy Hymer

Track(s): N/A

Time, Date, and Location: 12:00 - 12:30 p.m., Thursday, March 15, Civil 121

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!   

1 ~ Learning-Centered Teaching with Google Apps: Successful Strategies for Collaborative Learning in Online, Hybrid, and Traditional Courses

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Presenters:
    Dr. Peggy Cohen - Associate Provost for Professional Development and Director
       of Center for Teaching and Learning; University of Missouri-St. Louis
    Keeta Holmes - Instructional Designer and Assistant Director of Center for
       Teaching and Learning; University of Missouri-St. Louis

Track(s): Teaching with Technology; Blended Learning; Best Practices; Hands-on Activity

Time, Date, and Location: 1:00 - 2:00 p.m., Thursday, March 15, Civil 115 (Computer Lab)

Collaborative Learning can teach students to take responsibility for their own learning and teach them how to contribute effectively to a group. In so doing, collaborative learning prepares students for the work place by (1) helping them understand and respect differences between and among their team members and (2) teaching them the skills and strategies they need to be productive in a group. Learning-centered practices guide us to know how to adopt these strategies successfully. In this workshop participants will develop a plan to transform an assignment from an individual to a group-learning project using a variety of Google applications.

2 ~ Education Videos 201: Recording and Editing Your Own Videos

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Presenter: Dr. Jeff Thomas - Assistant Teaching Professor of Civil, Architectural
       & Environmental Engineering; Missouri S&T

Track(s): Best Practices

Time, Date, and Location: 1:00 - 2:00 p.m., Thursday, March 15, Civil 120

Do you want to create your own videos? Dr. Jeff Thomas will demonstrate how he uses basic tools and techniques to record, edit, and post hundreds of short videos for his classes. These videos are viewed 10,000 times per semester. Dr. Thomas will briefly discuss how he categorizes and tracks this usage.

3 ~ The Right Tool for the Right Job: Tegrity Lecture Capture in the FTF and Blended Classroom

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Presenters:
    Dr. Irina Ivliyeva - Assistant Professor of Arts, Language (Russian) & Philosophy;
       Missouri S&T
    Julie Phelps - Instructional Designer; Missouri S&T
    Amy Skyles - Instructional Technologist; Missouri S&T

Track(s): Teaching with Technology; Blended Learning; Best Practices

Time, Date, and Location: 1:00 - 2:00 p.m., Thursday, March 15, Civil 121

In recent years the teachers' toolbox (Audacity, Lecture Capture, Voice board, Wikis, Blogs, etc.) in the course management and learning systems (Blackboard, Moodle, etc.) has grown substantially. Sometimes it is difficult to know when and how to use each technological tool in order to maximize the effectiveness of students' learning.

This presentation will address challenges related to transition from face-to-face to hybrid to online courses and will show how to create new learning opportunities for students using Tegrity -- a system which allows instructors to capture synchronized audio, video and computer screen activity.

In addition to illustrating real classroom applications of Tegrity in Blackboard, we will provide the results of student surveys which evaluate their experience using this technology in the Russian language classes in Fall 2011 at Missouri S&T. The Ehrmann's Seven Principles of Good Teaching (1996) will be used to categorize student perceptions of the various applications of Tegrity (e.g., time on task, etc.).

Participants will leave with fresh ideas, engaging examples, and practical advice on how to optimize the use of Tegrity and to redesign their courses, lessons, and assignments in order to deepen students' learning and to boost student motivation.

4 ~ An Open Conversation with Kenneth C. Green

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Presenter: Dr. Kenneth C. Green - Founding Director of The Campus Computing Project

Track(s): Teaching with Technology; Blended Learning; Best Practices

Time, Date, and Location: 1:00 - 2:00 p.m., Thursday, March 15, Civil 124

Our plenary speaker invites you to bring your comments, questions, and opinions to an open, unstructured  conversation about information technology, online ed, and other related issues.

5 ~ Surveys, Evaluations, and Clickers, Oh My!

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Presenters:
   Patty Frisbee - Director of New Student Programs; Missouri S&T
   Trish Watson - Assistant Director of New Student Programs; Missouri S&T

Track(s): Teaching with Technology

Time, Date, and Location: 1:00 - 2:00 p.m., Thursday, March 15, Civil 125

This session will focus on the variety of ways technology can be used to survey, assess, inform, and engage students with examples taken from results generated by New Student Programs activities. Learn about the impact of technology to allow you to understand your audience, convey information, improve programs/classroom, and be environmentally smart. Discussion will take place on the different software and programs used in New Student Programs and their pros and cons. Apps discussed include Poll Daddy, Blackboard, Facebook, TestingPoint, and TurningPoint.

6 ~ Desire2Learn (D2L): Improving Learning Outcomes and Increasing Effectiveness with Innovative eLearning Solutions

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Presenters:
   David Horne - Technical Solutions Engineer; Desire2Learn
   Mick de los Santos - Desire2Learn

Track(s): Teaching with Technology; Hands-on Activity

Time, Date, and Location: 2:20 - 3:20 p.m., Thursday, March 15, Civil 115

Join David Horne and Patricia Armstrong to learn more about all the exciting features in the newest version of Desire2Learn® Learning Suite.  New tools now make it easier to design, launch and expand your online programs. With dashboards, analytics and more, hear how you can enrich the overall teaching and learning experience.

7 ~ Congratulations on Your New iPad! Now What?

Presenters:
    Cathryn Friel - Instructional Designer; University of Missouri-Columbia
    Jacquelyn Sandone - Instructional Designer; University of Missouri-Columbia

Track(s): Teaching with Technology

Time, Date, and Location: 2:20 - 3:20 p.m., Thursday, March 15, Civil 120

The entertainment aspects of having an iPad are obvious, but using an iPad to enhance teaching may not be as obvious. This presentation showcases some apps that will help instructors with productivity, presentations, and classroom management. Session focuses on instructor, rather than student use.

8 ~ Google Apps and Sites for Teaching and Learning

Presenter: Dr. Tom King - Professor of Secondary Education; Doane College

Track(s): Teaching with Technology

Time, Date, and Location: 2:20 - 3:20 p.m., Thursday, March 15, Civil 121

This session will introduce Google Apps and Google Sites, web-based applications that teachers and students can use to develop eportfolios, class sites, or use as a collaborative presentation tool. Dr. King will demonstrate how Doane College uses Google Sites as an eportfolio for its teacher education program.

9 ~ Everything You Wish You Knew About eLearning Course Redesign But Were Afraid to Ask

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Presenter / Facilitator: Meg Brady - Director of Educational Technology; Missouri S&T

Track(s): Teaching with Technology; Blended Learning; Best Practices

Time, Date, and Location: 2:20 - 3:20 p.m., Thursday, March 15, Civil 124

Listen to your fellow faculty, eLearning veterans, tell the real story behind course redesign for blended/online and their perspective on the eFellows Program.  Get honest, candid answers to the question “what do you wish you’d known before you started down the path of course redesign?” and other questions you might have.

10 ~ Using Rubrics to Help Students Focus on Learning

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Presenters:
    Paul Wilmarth - Technical Trainer; University of Missouri-St. Louis
    Keeta Holmes - Instructional Designer and Assistant Director of Center for
       Teaching and Learning; University of Missouri-St. Louis

Track(s): Best Practices

Time, Date, and Location: 2:20 - 3:20 p.m., Thursday, March 15, Civil 125

Even for traditional assignments, students are often preoccupied with the final grade of an assignment and might disregard an instructor's substantial efforts of planning the learning activities, providing guidance, and phrasing constructive feedback. Non-traditional assignments are even more challenging for instructors who struggle with how to evaluate in-class and online participation, multimedia projects, wiki and blog contributions, and group presentations. Presenters will showcase a variety of scoring guides for assessing individual and group work and facilitate a discussion of effective strategies for getting students to take ownership of their learning.

11 ~ Tegrity Lecture Capture: An Introduction

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Presenter: Amy Skyles - Instructional Technologist; Missouri S&T

Track(s): Hands-on Activity

Time, Date, and Location: 3:40 - 4:40 p.m., Thursday, March 15, Civil 115

Tegrity is a lecture capture system that has a number of useful features for instructors teaching a blended or online course. Lectures can be recorded for later review by students. Students can also contribute their own questions and comments to the lecture, which are also captured. This presentation will showcase some of the features available when using the Tegrity lecture capture system.

12 ~ [ CANCELLED ] Introducing Google Plus and its Potential for the Classroom 

Presenter: Holly Henry - Instructional Designer; University of Missouri-System

Track(s): Teaching with Technology

Time, Date, and Location: 3:40 - 4:40 p.m., Thursday, March 15, Civil 120

This session will introduce participants to the functionality of Google Plus, including circles, hangouts, and content posting features; describe how it compares to other social networking tools; and discuss how it might be used in the classroom. Information will be provided about how Google Plus integrates with Google Apps for Education for those institutions who are licensees. A brief introduction to Google Plus Pages for organizations and institutions will also be included.

13 ~ CENTRAL STATE BLACKBOARD USERS GROUP (CSBUG)

Presenter: N/A

Track(s): N/A

Time, Date, and Location: 3:40 - 4:40 p.m., Thursday, March 15, Civil 121

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. 

14 ~ 2013 eFellows Program Call for Participation Workshop

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Presenters / Facilitators:
   Meg Brady - Director of Educational Technology; Missouri S&T
   Angie Hammons - Manager of Educational Technology; Missouri S&T
   Julie Phelps - Instructional Designer; Missouri S&T
   Barb Wilkins - Instructional Designer; Missouri S&T

Track(s): Teaching with Technology; Blended Learning; Best Practices

Time, Date, and Location: 3:40 - 4:40 p.m., Thursday, March 15, Civil 124

This workshop will unveil the newly expanded Missouri S&T Provost’s eFellows Program for 2013.  The eFellows Program is designed to incentivize and support faculty to redesign courses using best practices for teaching methodologies and technology for blended or online delivery. Mini-grants are available to support the redesign process as well as focused support and instructional design expertise from Educational Technology. Participation in this workshop is required before applying to the 2013 eFellows Program.  Program materials and application packets will be distributed at the workshop.

15 ~ Make Online Content for Your Course and Everybody Wins -- You, Your School, and Your Students

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Presenter: Clayton Price - Associate Teaching Professor of Computer Science;
       Missouri S&T

Track(s): Blended Learning

Time, Date, and Location: 3:40 - 4:40 p.m., Thursday, March 15, Civil 125

The benefits of making a course usable as an online/blended course are numerous. The up-front labor involved can be substantial, but the effort invested will provide instructors and the institution a very valuable instruction tool. Professor Price will present the motivation behind such a project, techniques of development, a look at an example of the final product, the expected (and unexpected) payoff, and valuable data demonstrating the utility and effectiveness of this effort.

16 ~ Blackboard Collaborate: An Introduction

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Presenter: Malcolm Hays - Instructional Developer; Missouri S&T

Track(s): Hands-on Activity

Time, Date, and Location: 9:00 - 10:00 a.m., Friday, March 16, Civil 115 

Blackboard Collaborate is a virtual classroom environment that can be set up in a Blackboard course. It shares many features with both Wimba Live Classroom and Elluminate Live (in fact, Blackboard purchased both products and combined them into the new Collaborate). Blackboard Collaborate features include an electronic whiteboard, desktop and application sharing, shared web browsing, and more. Each Collaborate session can be archived for later review. Currently, only a handful of courses on campus are actively using Collaborate as part of a pilot program supported by EdTech. Collaborate is expected to be fully rolled out to all of campus when IT upgrades Blackboard to 9.1.

17 ~ Blending Needs in a Blended Environment

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Presenters:
   Julie Phelps - Instructional Designer; Missouri S&T
   Barb Wilkins - Instructional Designer; Missouri S&T

Track(s): Blended Learning

Time, Date, and Location: 9:00 - 10:00 a.m., Friday, March 16, Civil 120

The growing diversity in our student and faculty populations has required us to explore new ways of reaching students.   Video mini-lessons, lecture capture, interactive games and web design all play a role in student success.  In this session, the Instructional Design staff from Missouri S&T will share some of the ways we are assisting faculty to redesign their classes to use sound instructional design, strong objectives and appropriate technology to reach a variety of student needs.   Faculty development plays a strong role through our CyberEd blended learning course where faculty members are in the shoes of students as an active participant.  A new space on campus called the eStudio allows faculty to create a variety of content without purchasing additional hardware or software.  Rapid student feedback through the use of clickers also assists faculty in determining whether learning objectives are met on the part of the student.

Faculty taking advantage of instructional design services are seeing increased student satisfaction, increased student retention, and an overall increase in grades over the same material by changing instructional mode.  Online mini-lectures can be used to replace some classroom lecture time, shortening the time needed to teach new material.  Instructors have found that they often spend less time speaking to the masses and more time personalizing instruction.

18 ~ Evaluation of a Hybrid Case-Based and Just-in-Time Inductive Teaching Method for Risk Analysis Instruction

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Presenters:
   Dr. Katie Grantham - Assistant Professor of Engineering Management & Systems
       Engineering; Missouri S&T
   Dr. Jeff Thomas - Assistant Teaching Professor of Civil, Architectural & Environmental
       Engineering; Missouri S&T
   Dr. Ryan Hutcheson - Assistant Teaching Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace
       Engineering; Missouri S&T
   Kellie Grasman - Lecturer of Engineering Management & Systems Engineering;
       Missouri S&T

Track(s): Educational Research Symposium

Time, Date, and Location: 9:00 - 10:00 a.m., Friday, March 16, Civil 121

This presentation will present data collected at Missouri S&T during a research project to test the hypothesis that expert knowledge can be leveraged to promote undergraduate risk analysis instruction. Expert knowledge was provided to students using the Risk in Early Design (RED) web-tool which identifies and analyses risks based on historical events. Over 2000 students during the 2011-2012 academic year will actively examine case-studies in the areas of engineering design, engineering failure analysis, and engineering economics and be asked to identify the risks of their case study situations. Their performance on related curricula assessment tools and their responses on surveys will be used to measure the impact of the educational tool. The faculty who run the three courses will also evaluate the teaching method with respect to its utility in their courses and their perception of students’ cognition. The status and preliminary results of the evaluation, the case studies, and the web-tool will be presented.

19 ~ Development, Assessment, and Implementation of Metrics to Improve Innovative Thinking through Project-based Design Courses

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Presenters:
   Dr. Shun Takai - Assistant Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering;
       Missouri S&T
   Dr. Ashok Midha - Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering; Missouri S&T

Track(s): Educational Research Symposium

Time, Date, and Location: 9:00 - 10:00 a.m., Friday, March 16, Civil 124

One of the main challenges in a design course is that students do not know how good their design concepts are until they build and test the physical design products. This research discusses an on-going investigation of Creative Product Semantic Scale (CPSS) as the metrics to predict innovativeness of design products (both creativity and performance) at the concept evaluation stage. Concept sketches, proof-of-concept (POC) prototypes, and final design products are evaluated using CPSS and correlations between CPSS of final products, CPSS of concept sketches and POC prototypes are analyzed.

20 ~ Evidence from Blended Learning, a Flipped Classroom, and Mastery Grading

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Presenter: Dr. Dan Oerther - Professor; John A. and Susan Mathes Chair of Environmental
       Engineering; Missouri S&T

Track(s): Blended Learning

Time, Date, and Location: 9:00 - 10:00 a.m., Friday, March 16, Civil 125

A traditional two-hour lecture-discussion plus three-hour laboratory course offered in two parallel sections of fifty students each was substantially modified over three semesters, and is now offered in a single section of one hundred students with only twelve required face-to-face active learning sessions. This presentation will summarize how blended learning was coupled with a flipped classroom approach requiring students to complete reading comprehension, lecture review, and homework activities asynchronously prior to face to face class time. A unique modification of mastery grading, where students repeat an assignment until they achieve a predetermined performance, was employed to allow students the option of mastering required materials to earn a grade of C and to complete optional materials towards a grade of B or A. Optional evaluations of the course were completed by students using online tools after the fourth and fifteenth week of the course as a means of assessment. The take home messages from this presentation include: (1) a substantial investment of time is needed to succeed in this modified format; (2) a willingness to persevere despite trial-and-error is necessary for an instructor to find success; and (3) while some students react strongly negatively to the change from traditional instruction, many students find empowerment when treated as adult learners provided with clear expectations and a flexible course format.

22 ~ Blending an Upper-Level History Course: What Worked and What Didn't

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Presenter: Dr. Jeff Schramm - Associate Professor of History; Missouri S&T

Track(s): Blended Learning

Time, Date, and Location: 10:15 - 11:15 a.m., Friday, March 16, Civil 120

Dr. Jeff Schramm transitioned an upper-level history course from a traditional to a blended format in Fall 2011. This session will examine what approach he took, what techniques he used, how he transitioned the course, and the results of his initial effort including data from student assignments. Dr. Schramm will also discuss what was learned the first time the blended version of the course was taught and what changes he is making to future versions of the course.

23 ~ Using Student-Produced Videos to Enhance Learning Engagement in a Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics Course

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Presenter: Dr. Douglas Ludlow - Professor of Chemical & Biological Engineering;
       Missouri S&T

Track(s): Educational Research Symposium

Time, Date, and Location: 10:15 - 11:15 a.m., Friday, March 16, Civil 121

The traditional term research project report has been replaced with student-produced videos (YouTube-like) describing some principles or topics covered in the class. The videos from previous semesters are posted on S&T's YouTube page so that students can access the information asynchronously. Some examples of student work will be presented.

24 ~ Redesign STEM Courses to Maximize Assessment

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Presenter: Dr. Jeff Thomas - Assistant Teaching Professor of Civil, Architectural & Environmental
       Engineering; Missouri S&T

Track(s): Best Practices

Time, Date, and Location: 10:15 - 11:15 a.m., Friday, March 16, Civil 124

When do students study? What do they study? Where do they study? This presentation will detail how a junior-level engineering course was redesigned to answer this question and to provide a 50-fold increase in exam data. The online resources for this course have been used for over 14,500 hours by people in 1,600 cities over the past 18 months.

25 ~ Using Radio Controlled Toys to Incorporate Experience into Teaching Construction Operations

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Presenter: Dr. W. Eric Showalter - Associate Teaching Professor of Civil, Architectural
       & Environmental Engineering; Missouri S&T

Track(s): Educational Research Symposium

Time, Date, and Location: 10:15 - 11:15 a.m., Friday, March 16, Civil 125

Engineering students are frequently physical learners and all students learn better with experience. Heavy construction is difficult for students to actually experience. We used radio controlled toys to simulate trucks and excavators in a materials moving operation. Students in Section B of Civil/Architectural Engineering 248 completed a simulation of moving earth an exercise with the trucks, followed by a short assignment designed to move from the experience to the abstract concept. Section A only had a 75 minute lecture on mathematical models. It was anticipated that the group doing the exercise would perform better on a follow up exam. The result was no significant difference in performance. This did seem to show that giving up lecture time in favor of hand-on exercise does not have negative consequences. Better design of the simulation exercise in future semesters is expected to improve learning and retention.