ABSTRACTS - Standard Sessions
NOTE: Standard Sessions are approximately 45-60 minutes long (largely depending on how much time the presenter allows for Q&A).
All sessions take place in Butler-Carlton Hall on the Missouri S&T campus
THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 2017
Video Communications Center (VCC) Open House
Presenters: VCC Staff
Tags:
Audience: Higher Education
Time, Date, and Location: 1:00 - 2:00 p.m., Thursday, March 16, BCH 213
The Video Communications Center is an integral part of Global Learning and Distance Education at Missouri S&T. In 1985 the VCC began its operations by recording video tapes of courses for checkout in the library as well as pioneering some satellite broadcasts throughout the nation. By 1999 they were delivering lectures live to distance students worldwide and had secured their spot as a leader in the growing field of distance education. The VCC currently delivers hundreds of high quality, real-time, live courses each year and provides archived recordings for students to review throughout the semester. Visit Butler-Carlton 213, one of our 9 studio classrooms, to see how we accomplish this and to try out the technology for yourself!
Keeping Connected with Online Students via Canvas
STANDARD SESSION (45-60 minutes)
Presenter: Kellie Grasman - Lecturer of Engineering Managment & Systems Engineering; Missouri S&T
Tags: online instruction; virtual classroom; Canvas; VoiceThread; Piazza; Adobe Connect; Poll Everywhere; digital textbook; large-enrollment course; buffet model; social presence
Audience: Higher Education
Time, Date, and Location: 2:20 - 3:20 p.m., Thursday, March 16, BCH 101
This virtual session will highlight one instructor’s approach to ensuring strong social presence in a high-enrollment, math-based, hybrid/online course. In spite of large class size and vast geographic distance, thoughtful implementation of Canvas features and LTI tools enables a robust online learning environment. This session will let you see what it’s like to be a student in an interactive virtual classroom session—join in and learn how to use the power of Canvas to make online work. We will explore course design ideas and tools to make online feel friendly!
Embedding Experiential Learning with Interactive Virtual Learning Environments (VLE)
STANDARD SESSION (45-60 minutes)
Presenters:
Dr. Barbara Martin - Assistant Professor of Teaching and Learning; Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville
Dr. Susanne James - Assistant Professor of Teaching and Learning; Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville
Tags:
Audience: Higher Education
Time, Date, and Location: 3:40 - 4:40 p.m., Thursday, March 16, BCH Room 101
Virtual Learning Environments (VLE) are rapidly demonstrating utility for expanding experiential learning. VLEs offer safe, flexible, and appropriate training conditions to practice pedagogical skills. During this session we will share our experience using and conducting research on the implementation of best instructional strategies in VLEs. If time permits, we will also give short demonstration of the Virtual Learning Environment simulated classroom.
 |
Embedding Experiential Learning with Interactive Virtual Learning Environments [ PowerPoint ] |
 |
Virtual Professional Practice Lab (Flyer) [ PDF ] |
Implementing Active Learning in STEM-based Curriculum, Does It Really Work?
Presenters:
Iman Mehdipour - Ph.D. Candidate in Civil, Architectural, & Environmental Engineering; Missouri S&T
Nicolas A. Libre - Assistant Teaching Professor of Civil, Architectural, & Environmental Engineering; Missouri S&T
Tags: technology; digital; student engagement
Audience: Higher Education
Time, Date, and Location: 9:00 - 10:00 a.m., Friday, March 17, BCH 120
This session presents an active learning technique for engineering students that explores how students’ engagements enhance their learning and discusses to what extent it has affected performance of students. For a given course topic at each class session, problem-based questions were designed for students to stimulate their thinking by implementing the knowledge that students gained during lecture toward solving practice problems. It will be explained how the student response is collected through an online response collector system as well as how such responses were used to adapt the teaching style with student’s needs. The students’ answers and the level of their engagement were also analyzed to examine the correlation between level of student engagement and their performance as evaluated by formative and summative assessments.
Striving for Excellence in Teaching Circuit Analysis
STANDARD SESSION (45-60 minutes)
Presenter: Dr. B.J. Shrestha - Associate Teaching Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering; Missouri S&T
Tags: excellence; learning by teaching; brainstorming; active learning; learning by facing challenges; cognition; mathematical modeling; state function; transformation matrix, Eigen function expansion; agent of change
Audience: Higher Education
Time, Date, and Location: 10:15 - 11:15 a.m., Friday, March 17, BCH 121
Striving for excellence is the only way a profession becomes a passion. Teaching should not just be a job, it needs to be a passion for an educator to deliver the best to his students. The idea and techniques of how to strive and achieve excellence in teaching a subject, any subject for that matter, is a matter of wide interest among educator, researchers, and scholars across the board. The presentation is about some approaches to achieve this goal for a circuit analysis class. However, the methods are generic enough to be of interest to a wider audience.
Active Learning Video Showcase Showdown
Presenter / Facilitator: Victoria Hagni - Instructional Developer; Missouri S&T
Tags:
Audience: Higher Education
Time, Date, and Location: 10:15 - 11:15 a.m., Friday, March 17, 2017, BCH 101
EdTech hosted a contest challenging instructors to develop a short video highlighting their active learning efforts in the classroom. This session showcases the best entries.