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Who are your students, what are their needs, and how are they changing? How can you redesign your policies and processes to increase students success at scale? We dive into these questions with Terry Brown, VP of Academic Innovation at AASCU, the American Association of State Colleges and Universities.
How can design inspire change? What are the tools and techiques of design that college and university leaders can use to increase student success? How can this help instiutions shift from an access mindset to a success mindset? We dive into these questions with Sukhwant Jhaj, VP of Academic Innovation and Dean, University, at Arizona State University.
26. Frederick Wehrle (UCLA): How Gen AI Will Drive Near- and Long-Term Change in PCO It's YOUR time to #EdUpPCO In this episode, YOUR guest is Frederick Wehrle, Assistant Dean for Academic Innovation and Learning at UCLA Extension. YOUR host is Amrit Ahluwalia, Executive Director of Continuing Studies at Western University in London, Ontario, Canada Some key questions we tackle: Why Generative AI is a marker of industrial revolution… and how higher ed institutions can avoid the typical “extinction event” that accompanies industrial revolution How the ease of cheating with Generative AI helps to clarify gaps in learning and assessment How AI can create immediate impact to addressing key Challenges, including recruitment and administrative process optimization. Why learners favor professional certifications over traditional degrees Listen in to #EdUp! Thank YOU so much for tuning in. Join us on the next episode for YOUR time to EdUp! Connect with YOUR EdUp Team - Elvin Freytes & Dr. Joe Sallustio Join YOUR EdUp community at The EdUp Experience! We make education YOUR business!
It's YOUR time to #EdUpPCO In this episode, YOUR guest is Anissa Vega, Associate Vice Provost for Curriculum & Academic Innovation at Kennesaw State University YOUR host is Amrit Ahluwalia, Executive Director of Continuing Studies at Western University in London, Ontario, Canada Some key questions we tackle: Why a clear and consistent instiutiton-wide microcredential framework is critical to building credential clarity How faculties, the registrar and PCO divisions can balance and share responsibilities in managing institution-wide microcredentials How to separate learning outcomes from the learning experience in microcredential records Listen in to #EdUp! Thank YOU so much for tuning in. Join us on the next episode for YOUR time to EdUp! Connect with YOUR EdUp Team - Elvin Freytes & Dr. Joe Sallustio Join YOUR EdUp community at The EdUp Experience! We make education YOUR business!
Thirty-first Episode: Brian is a Partner with CDI Global LLC, an international M&A firm. A former Assistant Professor at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida, he designed, developed, and taught in the Entrepreneurship Program and is a Fellow of its Institute for Achievement and Learning. He also led classes at the Watson Institute for Social Entrepreneurship in Boulder, Colorado, consulted with The Advisory Board for the University of North Carolina Asheville's Department of Management and Accountancy in its development of a Center for Organizational Innovation, and served on the Advisory Board for Academic Innovation and Strategy at Palm Beach State College and Stetson University's Disruptive Leadership Program. Brian is a former Golf Teaching Professional at the Stratton Golf University in Stratton Mountain, Vermont. He holds a Ph.D. in Leadership from Concordia University Chicago, an MBA and a BA from Lynn University, and graduate level Finance Certifications from Cornell University and the University of Miami. Please join us for what surely will be a wide-ranging conversation. Video Version: https://youtu.be/K8o-8Btt4fk?si=TWVBPF9LEEj__gYD Learn more about Mark here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4cXoftnMYJ7bREYG-K9eng https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-anxious-voyage/about/?viewAsMember=true https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100095313165139 https://www.linkedin.com/in/markobrien/ https://www.facebook.com/MarkNelsonOBrien https://www.facebook.com/MartinTheMarlin/ mark@obriencg.com
Marc Watkins, first time Pencil Buster and longtime education advocate, joins the show. Marc is the Assistant Director of Academic Innovation at the University of Mississippi, where he also directs the AI Institute for Teachers. AI is advancing at a mind-boggling, human society-altering pace. Many of us, our esteemed hosts included, feel like we're barely keeping up with the constant innovation and advancement of AI technology. Marc assures us that's a normal feeling. So what IS happening with AI development? How might AI technology reshape how we perceive and consider reality, knowledge, and even life? Find out! BustED Pencils: Fully Leaded Education Talk is part of Civic Media. Subscribe to the podcast to be sure not to miss out on a single episode! To learn more about the show and all of the programming across the Civic Media network, head over to https://civicmedia.us/shows. Join the conversation by calling or texting us at 608-557-8577 to leave a message! Guest: Marc Watkins
In this episode Professor Dave Webster talks to Marc Watkins, Assistant Director of Academic Innovation at the University of Mississippi. Marc Watkins is an award-winning educator and writer, with an interest in AI in Education. In this episode, Dave Webster asks him about why, despite all the threats and worry, he is still optimistic about Higher Education and GAI. You can find lots of Marc's writing here. Speakers: Professor David Webster and Marc Watkins 8 October 2024 You can view the full Transcript here.
Stand Up is a daily podcast that I book,host,edit, post and promote new episodes with brilliant guests every day. Please subscribe now for as little as 5$ and gain access to a community of over 700 awesome, curious, kind, funny, brilliant, generous souls Check out StandUpwithPete.com to learn more I'm Moe Davis. I was born and raised in Shelby, North Carolina. We had a farm in Rutherford County where my dad grew up where we had horses and black angus cows. I graduated from Appalachian State University with a degree in criminal justice and I worked in law enforcement training at the North Carolina Department of Justice before I went to law school at North Carolina Central University. I've been a member of the North Carolina Bar since 1983, which is the same year I joined the Air Force. While in the Air Force, I earned a Master of Laws in government procurement law from the George Washington University School of Law and a Master of Laws in military law from the U.S. Army JAG School. I'm best known for having served as the Chief Prosecutor for the terrorism trials at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. After serving in that role for two years, I resigned when I was ordered to use evidence that was obtained by torture. Later, I was head of the Foreign Affairs, Defense and Trade Division at the Congressional Research Service; a law professor at the Howard University School of Law; and an administrative law judge at the U.S. Department of Labor. I've written for the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal and I've appeared on MSNBC, CNN, Fox News and NPR. I retired in 2019 and moved back home to western North Carolina. I was the Democratic Party nominee for the NC 11 congressional seat in 2020. My wife and I have a rescue cat named Mika and a rescue dog named Maggie. Built to lose. I've been training to lose this Senate race for all of my life. I voted for Al Gore in 2000, cheered for Carolina basketball during the Matt Doherty era, and watch the Carolina Panthers on Sundays (shudder). It's the thrill of a lifetime to give voters in District 37 the opportunity to choose their next representative. I'm going to lose, but we'll have some fun, make some noise, and raise some hell on the way down. My platform Abortion is healthcare. We must fully fund public education. We need common sense gun laws to keep our communities safe. And all of those would be achievable in our purple state if we had a representative democracy instead of this gerrymandered nonsense. When I'm not losing Family I'm mom to Winnie (7) and Max (6) and wife to Dan. Community • Davidson Town Planning Board Member • Davidson K-8 PTO President • Volunteer for the Davidson Housing Coalition • Past President of the Davidson-Cornelius Child Development Center • Past Member of the Davidson Mobility Committee • Past Member of the Davidson Sustainability Committee Science I'm a Senior Behavioral Scientist at the University of Michigan's Center for Academic Innovation. My job is to use technology and behavior change theory to help college students succeed. Entrepreneurship Prior to my work at UM, I was Founder and CEO of pip & grow, a baby box company. During our seven years in business, we received national awards (including SCORE small business of the year), were featured in Forbes and MSN, and I was named to the inaugural Forbes Next 1000 list. I left the company in September 2021 in the hope of finding better work-life balance. (Spoiler: I was not successful The Stand Up Community Chat is always active with other Stand Up Subscribers on the Discord Platform. Join us Thursday's at 8EST for our Weekly Happy Hour Hangout! Pete on Threads Pete on Tik Tok Pete on YouTube Pete on Twitter Pete On Instagram Pete Personal FB page Stand Up with Pete FB page All things Jon Carroll Follow and Support Pete Coe Buy Ava's Art Hire DJ Monzyk to build your website or help you with Marketing The Stand Up Community Chat is always active with other Stand Up Subscribers on the Discord Platform. Join us Thursday's at 8EST for our Weekly Happy Hour Hangout! Pete on Threads Pete on Tik Tok Pete on YouTube Pete on Twitter Pete On Instagram Pete Personal FB page Stand Up with Pete FB page All things Jon Carroll Follow and Support Pete Coe Buy Ava's Art Hire DJ Monzyk to build your website or help you with Marketing
Hear about how Maria College, a small liberal arts school in Albany with undergrad and grad programs primarily in health-related fields, incorporates incredible state-of-the-art virtual reality (VR) work into the training of nurses and occupational therapists. Dr. Jason Coley, director of the Center for Academic Innovation, explains the many ways that VR prepares nursing students for their clinical experience. He notes many benefits of the technology, including providing enhanced opportunities for student-student collaboration, repeated practice, identification of opportunities for skills improvement, and much more. He also notes how the tools can be used to offset some of the challenges for traditionally marginalized communities. For more information, visit www.mariacollege.edu. Produced by Brea Barthel for Hudson Mohwak Magazine.
Faculty concerns over student use of AI tools often focus on issues of academic integrity. In this episode, Marc Watkins joins us to discussion how the use of AI tools may have on student skill development. Marc is the Assistant Director for Academic Innovation at the University of Mississippi, where he helped found and currently directs the AI Institute for Teachers. A transcript of this episode and show notes may be found at http://teaforteaching.com.
Inclusive Impactful Instruction with Kevin Merry. Dr. Kevin Merry is the Head of Academic Development and Associate Professor of Learning, Teaching and Assessment at the Center for Academic Innovation and Teaching Excellence at DeMontfort University in Leicester, United Kingdom. His most recent book is Delivering Inclusive and Impactful Instruction: Universal Design in Higher Education. In today's episode, we talk about the changing nature of higher education, mastery, feedback, and the cheese sandwich, but not the kind you eat. Tune in for an enlightening conversation with Dr. Kevin Merry and thank you for listening to this conversation on the Think UDL podcast.
Step into the realm of AI as a learner in the final part of our captivating series on artificial intelligence. Host Dr. F. Scott Feil unveils the power of using AI as both a professor's ally and a student's guide. Learn how carefully crafted prompts can transform AI into a dynamic learning tool, challenging students to teach and understand complex concepts. This episode is not just a conclusion; it's an invitation to reshape the future of education.Key Points:Teach to Understand: Explore the profound concept that teaching is the ultimate path to understanding, and witness how AI becomes a versatile learner through this process.Crafting Effective Prompts: Dive into the art of creating prompts that empower AI to learn, adapt, and provide valuable insights for both professors and students.Student Agency with AI: Discover how AI gives students the agency to choose topics, fostering a deep understanding of areas where they need it the most.Evaluating AI's Output: Uncover the strategies students can use to evaluate AI's responses, identifying strengths and weaknesses and recommending improvements for a richer learning experience.Articulating Ideas and Cognitive Burden: Delve into how using AI as a learner challenges students to articulate their ideas, organize their knowledge, and face the cognitive burden of reassessing assumptions.If you are taking the NPTE or are teaching those about to take the NPTE, visit the NPTE FInal Frontier at www.NPTEFF.com and use code "HET" for 10% off all purchases at the website...and BREAKING NEWS!!!! They now have an OCS review option as well... You're welcome! You can also reach out to them on Instagram @npteff If you're a PT and you have student loan debt, you gotta talk to these guys. What makes them unique is that they view financial planning as like running hurdles on a track. And for PTs, the first hurdle many of us run into is student loan debt. Varela Financial will help you get over that hurdle. They not only take the time to explain to you which plans you individually qualify for and how those plans work, but they ALSO take the time to show you what YOUR individual case looks like mapped out within each option. So if you're looking for help on your student loan debt, or any area of your personal finances, we highly recommend working with them. You can check out Varela Financial out at varelafinancial.com. Feel free to reach out to us at: http://healthcareeducationtransformationpodcast.com/ https://www.facebook.com/HETPodcast https://twitter.com/HETpodcast Instagram: @hetpodcast @dawnbrown_pt @pteducator @dawnmagnusson31 @farleyschweighart @mail.in.stew.art @ujima_institute For more information on how we can optimize and standardize healthcare education and delivery, subscribe to the Healthcare Education Transformation Podcast on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to podcasts.
(AURN News) — Bowie State University has announced an ambitious initiative aimed at enhancing its online education programs. The university is set to significantly improve its online offerings through "Bowie State Online," an online education program that will incorporate 31 new courses, effectively expanding the program to accommodate more than 6,000 students. University officials expressed their optimism about the potential of these new offerings to provide students with enhanced flexibility in tailoring their learning experiences to suit their unique needs and schedules. "An effective online strategy has been a key component of how we are meeting the needs of the diverse students that we serve. The expansion of Bowie State's online programs will help expand access to courses online—and provide students with additional flexibility as they work to achieve their education and career goals," Dr. Kimetta Reynolds-Hairston, Assistant Vice President for Regional Higher Education Centers and Online Programs, said in a statement. The move comes as part of BSU's ongoing efforts to modernize and diversify its educational delivery methods, making quality education more accessible and flexible for students. Funding for this expansion has been made possible through support from the University System of Maryland's William Kirwan Center for Academic Innovation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today our host, Dustin Odham, Managing Director at FranklinCovey Education, is joined by Shauna Hittle, Assistant Superintendent of Academic Leadership. Shauna dives into the key factors that are involved in leadership roles in school districts and highlights the importance of culture, and how it creates trust and collaboration between teams. Listen in as we explore the differences between primary and secondary schools, transferring knowledge across diverse environments, and the challenges and rewards of leading a school district. Learn why preparing students for unexpected situations is important and how collaboration is the key to excelling. This episode provides insights for leaders, educators, and advocates for education so stay tuned to learn from an individual with over twenty years in the education industry. Don't forget to like, and turn on those bell notifications to make sure you don't miss our next episode. If you want to learn more about FranklinCovey, visit us at https://www.franklincovey.com/solutions/education/Host: Dustin Odham, Managing Director at FranklinCovey EducationGuests: Shauna Hittle, Assistant Superintendent of Academic LeadershipTime stamps: (00:00 - 02:45) Introduction (02:46 - 04:14) Welcome Shauna Hittle(04:15 - 07:02) Differences Between Primary and Secondary School(07:03 - 07:55) Transferring Knowledge to Different Environments(07:56 - 09:30) Leading a School District(09:31 - 11:45) Preparing Students for the Unexpected (11:46 - 13:30) Collaborating to Excel(13:31 - 16:01) Creating Models for Success (16:02 - 17:50) Culture Builds Relationships(17:51 - 19:08) Learning Curves (19:09 - 20:51) Focusing on the District's Vision(20:52 - 23:16) Pride Within Your School(23:17 - 26:02) Honesty is Key to Leadership(26:03 - 27:52) Continuous Growth(27:53 - 29:48) Hate to Lose vs. Love to Win(29:49 - 31:05) Planning and Importance of Organizing(31:06 - 32:38) The Multiplier(32:39 - 36:54) Communication Within the Unknown (36:55 - 37:02) Outro
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REIMAGINING EDUCATION : A PREVIEW OF THE COSN CONFERENCE : COSN brings us Michele Sengara , Director of Academic Innovation at Canada's York University and Holly Doe, Director of Technology at RSU 40 in Maine . More at http://cosn.org/cosn2023
REIMAGINING EDUCATION : A PREVIEW OF THE COSN CONFERENCE : COSN brings us Michele Sengara , Director of Academic Innovation at Canada's York University and Holly Doe, Director of Technology at RSU 40 in Maine . More at http://cosn.org/cosn2023
Since its release in November 2022, ChatGPT has been the focus of a great deal of discussion and concern in higher ed. In this episode, Robert Cummings and Marc Watkins join us to discuss how to prepare students for a future in which AI tools will become increasingly prevalent in their lives.. Robert is the Executive Director of Academic Innovation, an Associate Professor of Writing and Rhetoric, and the Director of the Interdisciplinary Minor in Digital Media Studies at the University of Mississippi. He is the author of Lazy Virtues: Teaching Writing in the Age of Wikipedia and is the co-editor of Wiki Writing: Collaborative Learning in the College Classroom. Marc Watkins is a Lecturer in the Department of Writing and Rhetoric at the University of Mississippi. He co-chairs an AI working group within his department and is a WOW Fellow, where he leads a faculty learning community about AI's impact on education. He's been awarded a Pushcart Prize for his writing and a Blackboard Catalyst Award for teaching and learning. A transcript of this episode and show notes may be found at http://teaforteaching.com.
What happens when a major university partners with a huge corporation to offer a program that helps employees earn college degrees? You get University of Memphis (UofM) Global's LIFE: Learning Inspired by FedEx. Dr. Richard Irwin and Courtney Brafford, both of UofM Global, describe how the two organizations worked together to create a program that requires no out-of-pocket payments by employees and has resulted in high retention rates. Dr. Irwin is the Executive Dean, Academic Innovation and the College of Professional & Liberal Studies, and Courtney is Director of Student Success. They've created corporate partnerships that provide employees with opportunities for professional development that translate into college credit.You'll discover: The need FedEx had that caused them to approach UofM GlobalKey elements of the LIFE program that have led to great results for participantsThe PREP Academy that UofM Global created to ensure participants succeeded with their courseworkBenefits that both FedEx and their employees have experiencedWhy the LIFE program now serves as an excellent recruitment tool for FedExCheck out all the episodesLeave a review on Apple PodcastsConnect with Meredith on LinkedInFollow Meredith on TwitterDownload the free ebook Listen Like a Pro
Innovative fields often struggle to find qualified staff, and the payments industry faces this problem every day. The University of Georgia has created a program across its system to prepare students to solve problems in Fintech. In this episode, we present an edited version of a presentation done by Art Recesso, Vice Chancellor for Academic Innovation at University System of Georgia. He covers how the system is working with the industry to understand its needs and create a pipeline of new talent. The IPA thanks our member sponsor, Netspend, for helping to make this show possible. This podcast was recorded on November 16, 2022. Things may have changed by the time you hear it.
Michela Arnaboldi, PhD, lecturer in the department of earth and environmental sciences, discusses her recent funding awarded by the Center for Academic Innovation that allows her to add an educational technology tool, GradeCraft, into her Introductory Oceanography course. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.
Journalist Jeff Young joins hosts Kelvin and Tom to talk about lessons learned from higher education's recent academic innovations and whether these ideas bring hope or merely hype to the field of online education.
Happy Birthday, Inits. Today 20 years ago – July 27, 2002 – Inits – Vienna's most important high Tech Incubation Program was created.In this episode, I am talking with Irene Fialka, CEO of Inits. In 20 years, Inits has supported over 300 high-tech #startups with the necessary tools for a successful and sustainable market entry.Dr. Irene Fialka is CEO of INiTS, Vienna's University Business Incubator (UBI), supporting entrepreneurs with R&D-based business ideas serving all academic institutions in Vienna. She has a genetics/molecular biology background and has worked with deep-tech startups since 2004. Under her leadership, INiTS was awarded three times by UBI Globalas, one of the TOP ranked UBIs in the world. INiTS' startups have proven to be extremely successful in raising funds (12 x the average UBI-supported startup according to UBI Global) and finding strategic partners. She worked with the founders of, e.g., Apeptico, Blue Danube Robotics, Lexogen, Lithoz, Marinomed, mySugr, and many more. Marinomed is the first of over 300 companies that went public in 2019 (IPO on the Vienna Stock exchange).In collaboration with partners such as Boehringer Ingelheim, Pfizer, and Uniqa, Dr. Fialka and her team launched the HealthHubVienna (healthhubvienna.com) in 2018, an acceleration program for international health startups to drive innovation and change in the healthcare industry in Europe.In this episode, we are talking about:Success Story of Inits from 2002 to 2022Development of the Startup Eco-System in Europe3 Major Developments of Inits in the last 20 yearsInits Vision for the coming two decades Female Founders andMuch moreYoutube VideoI wish the team of Inits all the best for their birthday celebration. Keep up your great work – it has a huge positive impact on the startup ecThe Business SamuraiIf you enjoy the how-tos and behind the scenes of different businesses and industries.Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify The Leadership Conversations PodcastLeaders from around the world share leadership stories and how they got where they are.Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify Taming the Hustle... or Something of the SortsHelpful and entertaining financial planning and marketing advice mixed with lots of laughsListen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifyBuzzsprout - Let's get your podcast launched! Start for FREEThe LSG2G Partners Experts in Life ScienceDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show
Part 2 of 2 Alison Carson is the Associate Provost for Academic Innovation and Design Thinking and a Professor of Psychology at Manhattanville College. In this Digication Scholars Conversation, Alison describes her role in promoting awareness and appreciation for design thinking among the faculty and students of Manhattanville, and describes the school's newly created certificate in design thinking. While acknowledging the challenges of fostering understanding and willingness to adopt new methods, her commitment to design thinking continually leads to innovative teaching and student success across an array of disciplines. Alison and host Kelly Driscoll discuss a number of these successes, including the school's Atlas program, incorporating ePortfolio into advising, and a recent marketing capstone bringing in four female entrepreneurs to mentor students. Throughout, Alison emphasizes the importance of empathy throughout the design process. “If you're trying to … solve a particular problem, you have to understand the problem from the point of view of the person who's actually experiencing that problem.”
Part 1 of 2 Alison Carson is the Associate Provost for Academic Innovation and Design Thinking and a Professor of Psychology at Manhattanville College. In this Digication Scholars Conversation, Alison describes her role in promoting awareness and appreciation for design thinking among the faculty and students of Manhattanville, and describes the school's newly created certificate in design thinking. While acknowledging the challenges of fostering understanding and willingness to adopt new methods, her commitment to design thinking continually leads to innovative teaching and student success across an array of disciplines. Alison and host Kelly Driscoll discuss a number of these successes, including the school's Atlas program, incorporating ePortfolio into advising, and a recent marketing capstone bringing in four female entrepreneurs to mentor students. Throughout, Alison emphasizes the importance of empathy throughout the design process. “If you're trying to … solve a particular problem, you have to understand the problem from the point of view of the person who's actually experiencing that problem.”
One of the least talked about goals of attending college is to leave having built meaningful relationships with a new group of folks that you can now call family; your new play-cousins. You spend years together figuring out your courses, your career goals, and more importantly, who you are as a person. In doing so, you get to take part in life changing experiences that have the potential to mold you into your most authentic self, and solidify who you want to be in the world around you. Yet, in order for this to happen, your campus has to intentionally provide space for you to experiment, explore, fail, and succeed safely with the support of your peers, teachers, and administrators. We recognize that this may look differently depending on the environment you're in, but nevertheless, we all want the vibe of having felt included, encouraged, and inspired. This episode, we'll hear directly from Stillman College junior, Hanna Fields, about what she needs from her institution in order to perceive her campus culture as equitable and inclusive, and senior administrators, Darryl Ann Lai Fang and Chanel L. Fort, on what we can be doing to instill this sense of family and protect our most vulnerable. Let's meet our guests: Hannah Fields - She's a 21-year-old Junior at Stillman College. She recently became a Journalism and English major. So far in her college career, she has been a part of the English Honors Society-Sigma Tau Delta, Harte Honors, and many other academic opportunities/organizations. Outside of school, Hannah reads, writes, and spends time with her friends and family (over the phone). Facebook: Hannah Fields Chanel L. Fort - With 21 years of experience, Fort has made a career in designing, implementing, and evaluating sustainable learning and development, workforce education, and change management programs for private, non-profit, government, and higher education entities. Fort serves as Director of Academic Innovation at Stillman College, a historically Black college and university (HBCU) located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Fort leads as Creator and Learning Strategist of Fortified Learning Solutions, designing and implementing equitable strategies for change, and serves as a National Designer in Residence for Education Design Lab reimagining the role of higher education to close racial and economic opportunity gaps. She's a member of various organizations and committees and remains actively engaged in the community as Change Agent for UNCF's Institute for Capacity Building. A native of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Fort earned a B.S. in Health Sciences and an M.S. in Human Services Administration. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Education from Pepperdine University, focusing on global leadership and change. What's important to me are the community, equitable higher education, and social change strategies for closing racialized opportunity gaps. Twitter: @clfort5 & LinkedIn: Fortified Education Solutions Darryl Ann Lai Fang - ICB Director of Strategy Execution and is responsible for implementing strategies for the institutional transformation of Black colleges and universities. She oversees the fastest-growing service vertical of program managers assigned to institutional cohorts. Don't mess with her. Darryl Ann is a U.S. Air Force veteran who served in Desert Shield and Desert Storm. She leverages the discipline, hard work and attention to detail that she learned in the military to propel higher education institutions toward transformational change. Darryl Ann earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management from the University of Phoenix, a Master of Science degree in Human Resource Management from Nova Southeastern University, and is currently pursuing a Doctorate of from the Interdenominational Theological Center (UNCF Member) Twitter @Watkins1024 & TikTok Darryl Lai Fang --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/just-a-thought-el/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/just-a-thought-el/support
In this episode Shane, Jamie, and guest host Jamal Boyce chat with Joe Marquez, Director of Academic Innovation at CUE to discuss the intersection of IT and EdTech and the upcoming CUE Conference! Learn more about the CUE conference at cue.org.
Dawson Alum and BRINC Drones Founder/CEO Blake Resnick '13 (recently named the youngest honoree of the 2022 Forbes 30 under 30 Social Impact list) joins Assistant Head of School Andrew Bishop and Director of Academic Innovation and Design Rich Lehrer to discuss the importance of innovation, the origin of BRINC, and how technology can be used to benefit the greater good. You'll also hear about the skills and mindset needed to be successful as an entrepreneur and real-world problem-solver. Learn more about BRINC at brincdrones.com. For more from the Dawson Podcast, check us out online at adsrm.org/podcast.
In support of National Rural Health Day 2021, the CSRHA has curated together four insightful episodes from the This Is Rural Health podcast. WHAT IS NATIONAL RURAL HEALTH DAY? Since 2011, the National Organization of State Offices of Rural Health, the 50 State Offices of Rural Health, and rural health stakeholders from across the country have set aside the third Thursday of November to celebrate National Rural Health Day (NRHD). This day promotes the “Power of Rural,” which brings much-needed attention to the ongoing efforts to communicate, educate, collaborate, and innovate to improve the health of an estimated 57 million rural Americans. Over the years, NRHD has transformed from a daylong event to a sustainable movement. To learn more visit: https://www.powerofrural.org/ (powerofrural.org) To learn more about the CSRHA you can visit our website at https://www.csrha.org (csrha.org) Thank you and enjoy this special series celebrating National Rural Health Day on November 18, 2021. --- Today, we are joined by a panel from Western University of Health Sciences, one of the largest medical schools in the US. Facilitating the discussion is CSRHA board member and treasurer Jeff Dunbar. Jeff is the CEO of OffSite Care (OSC), a multispecialty telemedicine company. In this episode, the panel explores the topic of training the physicians of the future and how telemedicine can be an effective tool to prepare them for rural patient care. You'll hear from Di Lacy, Assistant Vice President, Oregon Campus. “We really did prove for a year that many different sectors can work off-site. Those folks are looking at rural locations [to live]. I think healthcare has got to pay attention to that and we've got to be able to have physicians that really understand how that demographic is changing.” Gregory Pecchia, Senior Director, Academic Innovation and Telehealth, provides a look at some of the challenges that practitioners face with telehealth. “Prior to the pandemic, the literature anecdotally documented the effectiveness of appropriately used virtual care to bridge the quality chasm inherent in many rural health care settings. The pandemic, of course, accelerated the use of such tools sometimes successfully and sometimes not as successfully as one might have otherwise hoped.” Dr. Katsaros, Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine shares an insider's view on how students are adapting to telehealth training. “It's really fun to see as an educator. To see the excitement in a student and to know that really this is something that's going to contribute to his educational experience in the future and contribute to the way he practices in the future.” Dr. Sanchez, Assistant Dean for the Office of Academic Affairs shares the evolving approach to curriculum development. “The walls of the traditional doctor's offices are now dissolved. And there is no distance between the doctor and the patient with a virtual visit. Now that it's becoming a standard and widely adopted, that's a skill set that the doctors need to have moving forward.” Rounding out the panel discussion is Dr. Loveless, Chief Medical Officer at WesternU Health. He highlights for us how today's student physicians are well-positioned to step into telehealth environments such as asynchronous medicine and the value this brings to rural health. “I think a big element that is also going to be beneficial in the rural setting is the notion of asynchronous telemedicine. The real challenge, I think, is less around teaching our students and our patients how to do it. It's around figuring out how we're going to get paid for those kinds of interactions.” --- The CSRHA has been a go-to resource for rural healthcare and community leaders since 1995. The CSRHA brings an accumulation of actionable insights to the next generation of rural healthcare leaders. For more information visit our website at csrha.org For more behind the scenes of this...
In conversation with RevDem editor Ferenc Laczó, Emily Levine (Stanford University) discusses key ideas in her new book Allies and Rivals: German-American Exchange and the Rise of the Modern Research University. Allies and Rivals is a transatlantic monograph that draws on extensive historical research and applies sociological theory to study how the academic social contract was repeatedly renegotiated in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The conversation addresses the rise of modern research universities and its alternatives, questions of meritocracy and democracy, academic freedom and hard compromises, the global exchange of ideas and academic innovation in the twenty-first century.
History has shown that a strong university is a key element for an innovation ecosystem to thrive. The good news is that Austin is the home of the University of Texas, one of the largest and strongest universities in the US, and I'm not just talking about football. Podcast Production Services by NCC Audio Our music is “Tech Talk” by Kevin MacLeod. Licensed under Creative Commons 4.0 License
Hello there! I am so pleased you're joining us today. In this episode, I'm talking with Dr. Kim Middleton. Dr. Kim Middleton is an Academic Strategy Consultant at ACUE (Association of College and University Educators). Her almost 20-year career in Higher Education has focused on experimental, high-impact teaching practices and environments that create transformative learning for both students and faculty. As a professor, administrator, and scholar, Kim's work has attended to the core values of liberal education and new approaches to foreground their enduring relevance. Kim is the founder of the Center for Academic Innovation and Creativity at Mount Saint Mary's University in Los Angeles. In that role, she designed and implemented professional development opportunities and pilot programs to support both faculty interests and institutional strategic initiatives. As a second-generation educator, Middleton began her education at the back of her mother's classrooms. She earned a BA in Literature, Language Theory, and the Creation of Meaning from the experimental Johnston Center for Integrative Studies at the University of Redlands. She holds a MA and Ph.D. in English, with a concentration in Literature and Philosophy, from the University of Notre Dame. In this episode we discussed: - how her education began at the back of her mother's classroom - who we are is related to the work we do - why structural systems matter in leadership - systems and structures that remove obstacles and create individual impact - the ways in which people are leaders all the time - how leadership purpose is a tool to offset decision fatigue - why leadership purpose is important Connect with Kim at: Website: https://acue.org LinkedIn: middletonkim Instagram: @middlemiddlek Want more from Dr. Robin? Sign up for a free "Unlock Your Zone of Genius" strategy session at https://www.robinlowens.com/gift OR Download your free guide today! "Unlock Your Zone of Genius: #1 Key to Discovering Your Leadership Purpose" at www.RobinLOwens.com Thank you for listening! Be sure to follow the show so you don't miss the next episode! You can connect with Dr. Robin on LinkedIn or Facebook or contact me via email at: robin@purpose-based.com You can read more about Leadership Purpose and my upcoming book on my website at: https://www.robinlowens.com/ Talk to you soon!
While many edtech tools were integrated into school and district digital learning ecosystems in the last year, many are now being re-evaluated. Today, I talk with Joe Marquez, Director of Academic Innovation for CUE, about why it's important to sort our education tools as game changers or life savers! Thanks for joining us today on Focus on K-12, EdTech and The Education Experience. If you enjoyed the show, please subscribe. If you have any ideas for future guests or you'd like to contact us about the show, please reach out to me on Twitter @dkonopelko. Thanks for tuning in and we will see you next time, as we Focus on K-12. Links to Resources from the Show: Video Podcast
Episode #11: Jeff McCoy, Associate Superintendent, Greenville County Schools In today's episode, Todd sat down with Jeff McCoy, the Associate Superintendent for Academics of Greenville County Schools. Jeff McCoy started his career in Greenville County schools at Greer Middle School in 2000. He also served in the role of International Baccalaureate Coordinator at Greer Middle school until moving to the Central Office as an Instructional Technology Specialist. He has served various roles in the district including Distance Learning Coordinator, Director of Instructional Technology, and Director of Academic Innovation and Technology. He earned his Bachelor's Degree in Elementary Education and his Master's Degree in Education Technology with a focus on leadership. Learn more about Jeff McCoy on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jmccoygcs/ Stay updated on Jeff's work via Twitter @jmccoygcs
Dr. Deb Bushway, PhDDr. Bushway currently serves as the President and CEO at Northwestern Health Sciences University, where she previously served as Provost and Executive Vice President. She has also served as a consultant to the Lumina Foundation regarding Competency Based Education in Higher Education. She was previously an Advisor in the Office of the Undersecretary at the Department of Education in Washington, DC. Prior to this, she was an interim associate Dean at the University of Wisconsin – Extension and the Chief Academic Officer and Vice President of Academic Innovation, Provost and interim President at Capella University. She has long been interested in innovations in higher education designed to improve student success. In fact, she pioneered the development and implementation of a successful competency based, direct assessment program. This delivery model strives to improve transparency of learning outcomes while reducing costs and improving completion rates for adults working to earn postsecondary degrees. She has expertise in distance education and its surrounding technologies, including LMS, student success solutions, adaptive learning and financial aid delivery.Dr. Bushway has more than 20 years of experience in higher education, including 17 years with Metropolitan State University in St. Paul, Minnesota, where she held a variety of faculty and leadership roles. She earned both her Master of Science and Ph.D. in Psychology from Iowa State University. She has authored numerous articles, book chapters and conference presentations throughout her career. She recently co-authored the book “A Leader's Guide to Competency-Based Education: From Inception to Implementation”. In addition to ongoing professional interests regarding adult learners in higher education, Bushway is currently focused on methods of innovation in established institutions, the application of action analytics to higher education and the power of competency based education to support our nation's educational goals.The Board of Trustees appointed Dr. Deb Bushway as the President of Northwestern Health Sciences University on November 12, 2018.NWHSU Paper:https://2jjk8wjsh3n66prxu6h27okz-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Policy_Racial-Inequities-in-Integrative-Healthcare_Nov-20-FINAL.pdfWFC 20 Principles: https://www.wfc.org/website/images/wfc/WFC_Principles/WFC_20_Principles_2020.pdfABOUT WORLD OF CHIROPRACTIC (WoC):World of Chiropractic is a web series and Apple Podcast interviewing chiropractic leaders around the globe. To learn more about world chiropractic, visit www.wfc.org.
Every March since 1992, the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan deploys student teams all over the world for its Multidisciplinary Action Projects (MAP) course. 2020 was different. How did the school modify MAP for the lockdowns? What did they learn? What comes next? Join GBSN's CEO, Dan LeClair and Mike Barger, Executive Director, Office of Strategy and Academic Innovation, for a discussion around project-based learning, summer internships, and how to plan for the upcoming academic term.
Learning loss is a common and traditional term, but how can learning be lost if it were never found? That is the situation with remote learning during the pandemic. Teachers worked hard and students work hard, but some standards may not have yet been met, hence the term from the DOE, unfinished learning. Many schools are leveraging summer school as a solution to address this issue, but what are other solutions that schools are implementing? In our podcast, we talk to Jeff McCoy and Darcy Krause about the plans their districts are making to close learning gaps. Jeff and Darcy discuss specific ideas and the action steps their districts are taking to close learning gaps. Jeff McCoy is the Associate Superintendent of Academics for Greenville County Schools. Greenville County Schools is the largest district in South Carolina and the 44th largest in the nation with 77,000 students in attendance. Jeff oversees the Offices of Academic Support, Academic Innovation and Technology, Accountability and Quality Assurance, Career and Technical Education and Early Childhood Education. Prior to assuming the Associate Superintendent role, Jeff held various district leadership positions and is proud to be starting his 21st year with Greenville County Schools. Jeff is active both state and nationally on multiple advisory boards including the National K12 Congress Advisory Board, National School Transformation Conference Advisory Board, National Chief Academic Officers Working Group and serves on the Board of Directors for the Upstate Children's Museum. He and three of his colleagues recently published a series Blueprints on Personalized Learning, Cybersecurity and The Marriage of Information Technology and Academics. He presents frequently around the country on the topics of personalized learning, innovation in education and systems level change and support. Darcy Kraus I has served of the educational community for 35 years as a elementary and secondary teacher, learning coach, consulting teacher, principal, and now as the Elementary Director of Lawrence Public Schools. Darcy is known for her positive support of all educators and ability to bring out the best in educational leaders. Darcy is currently leading the district's summer school program in addition to her many other duties as a district director..
LEXINGTON, Ky. (April 15, 2021) – Last March, as the country began to come to grips with a global pandemic, University of Kentucky officials made the decision to move all classes to online formats. Thousands of classes and courses sections were moved – in two weeks. In the last year, significant investments have been made in technology to help facilitate a combination of different formats for learning and classes – online and remote, in-person, hybrid and other teaching methods such as synchronous and asynchronous learning. In some ways, the pandemic has hastened a conversation around the different ways – and the best ways – students learn, particularly since our students have grown up with sophisticated technology at their fingertips. To discuss trends in both technology and teaching, Behind the Blue talked with experts on campus, who are exploring what’s new in these fields as well as what works best for students and faculty when it comes to learning. Kathi Kern is a professor of history, the director of the Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching and Associate Provost of Teaching, Learning and Academic Innovation at UK. Emily Croteau is a lecturer in biology at UK, who is interested in learning about best methods and practices in teaching biology, which includes using real-life examples to demonstrate how relatable biological concepts are to our lives. Matthew Wilson is an associate professor of geography and a visiting scholar at Harvard, who co-founded and co-directs the New Mappings Collaboratory, which studies and facilitates new engagements with geographic representation. "Behind the Blue" is available on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher and Spotify. Become a subscriber to receive new episodes of “Behind the Blue” each week. UK’s latest medical breakthroughs, research, artists and writers will be featured, along with the most important news impacting the university. For questions or comments about this or any other episode of "Behind the Blue," email BehindTheBlue@uky.edu or tweet your question with #BehindTheBlue. Transcripts for this or other episodes of Behind the Blue can be downloaded from the show’s blog page. To discover what’s wildly possible at the University of Kentucky, click here.
I did this introduction and interview with Prof. Ching W. Tang as part of the 2019 Kyoto Prize Symposium at UC San Diego, delayed until 2021 because of COVID-19. It was a real honor to chat with him about industrial research, the invention of the OLED, science in an international context, and advice for rising scientists.
Evolving Through Travel Molly is a world traveller with a gift for storytelling, which allows her to bring years of travel experiences to life in a whole new way. She has a background in journalism, health IT, educational design, behavioral science, and user research. I’ve had the pleasure of working alongside Molly in her previous position within the Center for Academic Innovation at the University of Michigan, and by way of this work, I’ve really come to know who she is and what she stands for. What really strikes me about Molly is her facility to meet the moment. Whether in a professional setting, or an uncomfortable travel scenario, she’s a true master of communication and connection. She maintains a strong sense of humility coupled with a unique brand of awareness. In this conversation we talk about travel, diving deep into the minutiae of what drives Molly to explore. We also talk about behavioral science and motivational interviewing, two of my favorite topics, in which Molly puts a distinctive spin on as she connects these practices to an array of experiences traveling across contexts. I thoroughly enjoyed this one and I’m positive that you will too. Connect with Molly: Instagram: @mollycmaher Twitter: @mollycmaher LinkedIn: Molly Maher Resources from Molly: Heath Brothers: https://heathbrothers.com/ Decision Corner: https://open.spotify.com/show/6K2pEufhqJCupCkszfhF9m NPR's Hidden Brain: https://www.npr.org/series/423302056/hidden-brain Irrational Labs: https://irrationallabs.com/ Center for Advances Hindsight: https://advanced-hindsight.com/ Please also subscribe to the Techawat with Benjamin Morse podcast on your favorite platform, it is greatly appreciated! Also, you can connect with me on Instagram at: Podcast: @techawat_with_benjamin_morse Me: @benjamin_august_blair Original Music by Elly Daftuar, connect on Instagram: @elecaster Logo by Jeff Butler, connect on Instagram: @butlejef2
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"Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?" by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2010) (http://bit.ly/3kfTN1P) "Whites, it must frankly be said, are not putting in a similar mass effort to reeducate themselves out of their racial ignorance. It is an aspect of their sense of superiority that the white people of America believe they have so little to learn" (p. 10). References: TED (https://www.ted.com/) Erin Raab (https://twitter.com/erinlynnraab) 100 Days of Conversations (https://www.100daysofconversations.org) The Center for Academic Innovation, University of Michigan (https://ai.umich.edu) Michael Lipset, PhD of PassTell Stories (http://www.michaellipset.com/) Connect: Twitter (https://twitter.com/mjcraw) Website (https://www.mjcraw.com) Music from Digi G'Alessio CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 (https://bit.ly/2IyV71i)
Paul Welty is the Vice Provost for Academic Innovation, Interim Executive Director, Emory Continuing Education. Powered by a partnership between award-winning Fullstack Academy and Emory Continuing Education (a division of Emory University), Emory Tech Bootcamps provide condensed, immersive programs taught by industry experts. Students who complete the bootcamp leave ready for fulfilling tech careers in […] The post Paul Welty with Emory Continuing Education appeared first on Business RadioX ®.
Paul Welty is the Vice Provost for Academic Innovation, Interim Executive Director, Emory Continuing Education. Powered by a partnership between award-winning Fullstack Academy and Emory Continuing Education (a division of Emory University), Emory Tech Bootcamps provide condensed, immersive programs taught by industry experts. Students who complete the bootcamp leave ready for fulfilling tech careers in […]
Show Notes also available at jakemiller.net/eduducttape-episode-54 Today's Sponsor: Texthelp EquatIO - text.help/equatio-fft Soapbox Moment: “Granny Shots & Better Ways” The premise of this is based on an episode of Malcolm Gladwell and Pushkin’s Revisionist History Podcast: revisionisthistory.com/episodes/03-the-big-man-cant-shoot Today’s Guest: Joe Marquez Joe is an educator, technology leader and the Director of Academic Innovation for CUE. His innovative spirit, outgoing attitude and outrageous personality has granted him the wonderful opportunity to speak, train and collaborate with educators across the world. Joe is also the co-host of the Sons of Technology Podcast. #DitchThatFear @JoeMarquez70, Youtube.com/sonsoftechnology, sonsoftechnology.com 2 Truths & 1 Lie Educational Duct Tape Question: How can I make tasks more UDL-friendly? You have to look at both the delivery and the reception How are you going to make a lesson more accessible in a virtual or hybrid instructional setting? Hybrid vs. concurrent Teacher-student bookend Joe’s 3 filters: inspect, redirect, make correct Pear Deck Nearpod - audio responses are huge for UDL How are you understanding what they’re understanding while they’re reading - edji.it Like EdPuzzle for text Start with text (pdf, copy and paste), add in prompts & questions, highlight things… students respond with text, audio vision button allows students to see each others’ highlights Flipgrid Reading is based off of writing from author’s perspective and reading from reader’s perspective Student end: What does the student do with it? Collect, reflect, recollect Take screenshots in Nearpod Pear Deck Takeaways Google Slides - “SlidesSnap” http://bit.ly/slidesnap Multimedia learning theory - Richard Mayer Record to Slides extension Hands on, text, video Celebration of the Adjacent Possible April Rueb McKenzie' Tweet Classkick Ways to Support the Show or Connect with Jake & other Duct Tapers! Apple Podcast Reviews FlipGrid.com/EduDuctTape Speakpipe.com/EduDuctTape #EduDuctTape on social media Telling your friends & colleagues The Duct Tapers Facebook Group - facebook.com/groups/ducttapers Stickers! Want to pass some out? Want some for yourself? JakeMiller.net/SendMeStickers The JakeMillerTech Newsletter – Sign up! jakemiller.net/newsletter Upcoming Events Links: jakemiller.net/KSUCourse2020 https://cue.org/spring Your Homework: Find an educator who loves Schitt’s Creek and tell them about the podcast!
Joe is the Director of Academic Innovation at CUE. He is also a Google Innovative Educator/Trainer, a Microsoft Innovative Educator, and the co-host of the Sons of Technology Podcast. In this episode, Joe and I share the stories of our journeys to a more fit and healthy lifestyle, along with encouragement and tips on how others can take the journey as well.
Dr. Kathi Kern, Associate Provost of Teaching, Learning, and Academic Innovation, and Kathy Hamperian, Executive Director of Customer Support and Student IT Enablement at University of Kentucky, joined the podcast to talk about the massive and ambitious investment they made in hybrid learning technology in preparation for this fall.
In this week’s MiXR Studios podcast, we talk with Michael Nebeling, an Assistant Professor of Information at the University of Michigan’s School of Information and the XR Innovator in Residence for the XR Initiative. We conducted a podcast recording in front of a live audience where we discuss Michael’s new “XR for Everybody” MOOC set to come out on 11/9/2020 on the Coursera platform as well as the first year of the XR Initiative. We covered a number of topics from Michael’s history of teaching AR and VR design to the incredible amount of work that he and the team at the Center for Academic Innovation put into the creation of this new MOOC specialization.
In this week's MiXR Studios podcast, we talk with Michael Nebeling, an Assistant Professor of Information at the University of Michigan's School of Information and the XR Innovator in Residence for the XR Initiative. We conducted a podcast recording in front of a live audience where we discuss Michael's new “XR for Everybody” MOOC set to come out on 11/9/2020 on the Coursera platform as well as the first year of the XR Initiative. We covered a number of topics from Michael's history of teaching AR and VR design to the incredible amount of work that he and the team at the Center for Academic Innovation put into the creation of this new MOOC specialization.
When Duo Security sold to Cisco for $2.35 billion it was basically like the moon landing for the Ann Arbor startup community. Most of us had nothing to do with it, but we all remember where we were when we heard about it and still feel extremely felt proud of and connected to their success. Everybody does. It's not just the money though, it's how they did it. Everybody employee had equity. They stayed in Ann Arbor when it must have been tempting to move to the Valley. They always stayed present and accessible. It reminds me of the Pistons winning championships with hard work and toughness. For some reason it's extra satisfying when the values of the team reflect the values of the community. And that's really what this episode is about. Dug Song is going to explain how Duo didn't succeed in spite of their midwest values and ties to the community - they succeeded because of those things. You should know about two things Dug started that you can get involved in: The first is the Ann Arbor Entrepreneurs Fund (A2EF). A2EF is essentially a club for startup founders. Here's what it is and why Dug and his wife invested a million dollars to get it off the ground.The second is a monthly meetup called A2 New Tech, which is basically the friendly front door for the Ann Arbor startup community. I get value from it every single time I go. This is the last episode of Finding Your Venture for 2020. The podcast is funded by the University of Michigan Center for Academic Innovation for two more years so we'll be back next spring with more lessons and stories. The podcast is designed like a Wikipedia page. You can scan the episode titles and get the gist of the message, and if you see something interesting you can click and go deeper. This year we made an effort to feature a more diverse set of storytellers and we'll continue to do better in the years ahead. I learn so much from the diverse and interesting students in our course and building those relationships is far and away the #1 reason we teach. Teaching and creating has been an antidote to the gusher of bad news and fear spewing from my phone. People are good. You'll never regret investing time and resources into relationships with the people around you. Thanks for spending this time listening to the stories I love.
Adam Barger is the Associate Director for Academic Innovation at William & Mary, specializing in exploring and operationalizing new or different approaches to teaching and learning across the university. He equips faculty and campus partners with appropriate pedagogical and technological resources for their teaching and research goals. In other words, to perfect person to listen to right now if you're interested in Academic Excellence in a difficult time of forced online learning. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/benjamin-d-robertson/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/benjamin-d-robertson/support
In this episode, Paul Corliss talks to Dr. Jeff Beeson, Vice Provost Academic Partnerships & Initiatives for the UNT Health Science Center and Jessica Rangel, Vice Provost for Academic Innovation at UNT Health Science Center about the UNT Health Science Center's efforts to test first responders during the COVID-19 Pandemic.
To curb the spread of the coronavirus, universities have dispersed their students and are counting on teaching over the internet to keep students learning. The University System of Maryland, comprising a dozen public universities, had started down that road, but this is a big acceleration. How will it work? How will hundreds of professors who have not taught online before learn how to convey their knowledge and keep students engaged? What about students who don’t have their own computers? Or a strong wi-fi connection? The system’s Associate Vice Chancellor, MJ Bishop, directs the Kirwan Center for Academic Innovation. She says what’s taking place now is remote teaching, not a full-fledged online university.
USING LESSON JAMS (HACKATHONS) TO PROMOTE COLLABORATIVE, CROSS-CURRICULAR LESSON PLANS Meet Mike Russell, Director of Studies and Academic Innovation at NJ's Doane Academy and learn to JAM with us. Thank you SMARTBRIEF for this introduction
USING LESSON JAMS (HACKATHONS) TO PROMOTE COLLABORATIVE, CROSS-CURRICULAR LESSON PLANS Meet Mike Russell, Director of Studies and Academic Innovation at NJ's Doane Academy and learn to JAM with us. Thank you SMARTBRIEF for this introduction
Sam and Scott take a deep dive into the third episode "She Was Killed By Space Junk" as we get our introduction to the legendary Laurie Blake! Also we have a NEW friend of the podcast! Dr. Jeremy Larance, Assistant Provost for Academic Innovation and Strategic Planning Professor of English joins us in an analytical deep dive into the original Watchmen graphic novel! Make sure you again check out the latest in the Peteypedia Pages of extended material that answer a lot of questions that weren't answered directly in the episode and expands on the VERY detailed world building this show is doing! Follow us on Twitter @nerdcyclopedia, leave us feedback at watchingwatchmen@nerdcyclopedia.com and we'll try to get that read on the podcast! Join our facebook group Sam and Scott are Watching Watchmen and visit our website www.nerdcyclopedia.com!
Sam and Scott take a deep dive into the third episode "She Was Killed By Space Junk" as we get our introduction to the legendary Laurie Blake! Also we have a NEW friend of the podcast! Dr. Jeremy Larance, Assistant Provost for Academic Innovation and Strategic Planning Professor of English joins us in an analytical deep dive into the original Watchmen graphic novel! Make sure you again check out the latest in the Peteypedia Pages of extended material that answer a lot of questions that weren't answered directly in the episode and expands on the VERY detailed world building this show is doing! Follow us on Twitter @nerdcyclopedia, leave us feedback at watchingwatchmen@nerdcyclopedia.com and we'll try to get that read on the podcast! Join our facebook group Sam and Scott are Watching Watchmen and visit our website www.nerdcyclopedia.com!
Welcome to the Teaching and Tech podcast. Where Dedicated Mentoring Meets Innovative Technology. This podcast is brought to you by the educational technologists of SUNY Empire State College. Today, Jill Anderson, educational technologist for our Western New York Region, is chatting on personal experiences with podcast publishing in higher education with Shantih Clemans, Director of the SUNY Empire State College’s Center for Mentoring, Learning and Academic Innovation and Mike Fortune, educational technologist for the Capital District and School of Graduate Studies. If you enjoyed this episode, join us again next time and recommend us to your friends and colleagues. To learn more about Educational Technology at Empire State College, visit the link in the description www.esc.edu/edtech
This week on the Tech Cat Show, the Road To The Infinity Festival of Hollywood, we chat with Erin Reilly, who is currently Professor of Practice and Director of Innovation & Entrepreneurship for Moody College of Communication at University of Texas at Austin. Students play a big role in how tech and storytelling will evolve and Erin will share how she designs and teaches courses on the future of media and entertainment. Erin is also an advisor for building out the student program at the festival and she'll also discuss the launching of a new exciting program, Texas Immersive, that will help foster more entrepreneurship between students and startups. Join us this week on the Tech Cat show as we jump into the education scene with Professor Erin Reilly of the University of Texas at Austin.
Dr. Michelle Marks, Vice President for Academic Innovation and New Ventures at George Mason University joined the podcast to talk about their new partnership with Amazon Web Services, and the importance of incorporating additional tech credentials and certifications within our degree programs.
Rolin is Seattle Pacific University’s Director of Academic Innovation. He describes his work as "connective tissue" as he turns pedagogical research into best practices in action. Have a listen and check out his page at rolin.moe to see just how brilliant and dynamic Rolin's work really is.
Rolin is Seattle Pacific University’s Director of Academic Innovation. He describes his work as "connective tissue" as he turns pedagogical research into best practices in action. Have a listen and check out his page at rolin.moe to see just how brilliant and dynamic Rolin's work really is.
On this episode, Katie is joined by Gaetano R. Lotrecchiano, EdD, PhD, an Associate Professor in the Department of Clinical Research and Leadership in the School of Medicine and Health Sciences. He is also the Associate Dean of Collaboration and Academic Innovation at the George Washington University. Dr. Lotrecchiano's work is dedicated to team and collaboration science. He is also the President Elect of the International Network for the Science of Team Science. Segment 1: Creating Effective Teams [00:00-20:53] In this first segment, Guy shares about how he began his research on creative effective teams. In this segment, the following resources are mentioned: International Network for the Science of Team Science Salas, E., Shuffler, M. L., Thayer, A. L., Bedwell, W. L., Lazzara, E. H. (2014). Understanding and improving teamwork in organizations: A scientifically based practical guide. Human Resource Management,54(4), 599-622. Segment 2: Effective Collaboration in Teams [20:54-34:47] In segment two, Guy shares some tips and strategies for effective collaboration in teams. In this segment, the following resources are mentioned: Hall, K. L., Stokols, D., Stipelman, B. A., Vogel, A. L., Feng, A., Masimore, B., Morgan, G., Moser, R. P., Marcus, S. E., & Berrigan, D. (2012). Assessing the value of team science: a study comparing center-and investigator-initiated grants. American journal of preventive medicine, 42(2), 157-163. Bonus Clip [00:00-05:10]: Guy Shares about a Tool for Assessing Teams In this bonus clips, the following resources are mentioned: MATRICx Lotrecchiano, G. R., Mallinson, T., LeBlanc-Beaudoin, T., Schwartz, L., Lazar, D., Falk-Krzesinski, H. (2016). Individual motivation and threat indicators of collaboration readiness in scientific knowledge producing teams: A scoping review and domain analysis. Heliyon 2(5), e00105. http://www.heliyon.com/article/e00105/pdf Mallinson, T., Lotrecchiano, G. R., Furniss, J., Schwartz, L., Lazar, D., Falk-Krzesinski, H. J. (2016). Pilot analysis of the motivation assessment for team readiness, integration, and collaboration (MATRICx) using rasch analysis. Journal of Investigative Medicine 64, 1186-1193. To share feedback about this podcast episode, ask questions that could be featured in a future episode, or to share research-related resources, contact the “Research in Action” podcast: Twitter: @RIA_podcast or #RIA_podcast Email: riapodcast@oregonstate.edu Voicemail: 541-737-1111 If you listen to the podcast via iTunes, please consider leaving us a review. The views expressed by guests on the Research in Action podcast do not necessarily represent the views of Oregon State University Ecampus or Oregon State University.
Join us as we talk with Nell Thompson, Vice President of Academic Innovation at Full Sail University, one of our school partners.
How does a world class institution help its graduates communicate their career readiness to employers? At the University System of Maryland, it’s through digital badges. Dr. MJ Bishop, Associate Vice Chancellor and Director of the William E. Kirwin Center for Academic Innovation, has lead such a comprehensive digital badge program that leverages the strength of multiple institutions collaborating. In this episode, MJ explains the process of designing and implementing Maryland’s badges to help students “get better at articulating the skills that they are accomplishing along the way.”
As faculty, we engage with education technology as it relates to our classes but rarely consider the larger EdTech ecosystem. Dr. Rolin Moe, the director of Academic Innovation and an Assistant Professor at Seattle Pacific University, joins us to discuss the politics, economics, and culture of EdTech. A transcript of this episode and show notes may be found at http://teaforteaching.com.
On this episode, Katie is joined by two guests: Zapoura Newton-Calvert serves as Digital Coordinator and Capstone faculty member in Portland State University's University Studies Program. Her research and pedagogical foci include removing barriers to educational equity, social justice in online learning, community-based learning online, and Universal Design for Learning. She served as Faculty-in-Residence for Community-Based Learning in P.S.U.'s Office of Academic Innovation for three years and also worked as a Service-Learning Coordinator at Portland Community College. Her recent publication (also co-authored with Deborah Smith Arthur) Online Community-Based Learning as the Practice of Freedom: The Online Capstone Experience at Portland State University explores instructor presence and community formation in online CBL courses. Dr. Deborah Smith Arthur, an Associate Professor at Portland State University, in the interdisciplinary University Studies program. Her work mostly revolves around juvenile and criminal justice and educational access for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated students. She has been teaching Capstone courses for 15 years and teaches a fully online Capstone once a year. Segment 1: Research on Capstone Courses [00:00-18:15] In this first segment, Deborah and Zapoura share some of their research on and experiences teaching capstone courses. In this segment, the following resources are mentioned: Segment 2: The Benefits of Moving a Capstone Online [18:16-36:28] In segment two, Zapoura and Deborah discuss some of the benefits of moving a capstone course online. In this segment, the following resources are mentioned: Bonus Clip #1 [00:00-05:08]: Choosing Each Other as Co-authors HIP Clip #3 [00:00-16:17]: The Challenges of Editing a Collection To share feedback about this podcast episode, ask questions that could be featured in a future episode, or to share research-related resources, contact the “Research in Action” podcast: Twitter: @RIA_podcast or #RIA_podcast Email: riapodcast@oregonstate.edu Voicemail: 541-737-1111 If you listen to the podcast via iTunes, please consider leaving us a review. The views expressed by guests on the Research in Action podcast do not necessarily represent the views of Oregon State University Ecampus or Oregon State University.
He held out for a long time, but Donald Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort has finally flipped. What does Manafort know about the Trump Tower meeting and the Trump campaign? Is a pardon still on the table? And how close is Robert Mueller to concluding his investigation? We're joined by Emma Shortis from the European Union Centre at RMIT University in Melbourne, and Professor Sandeep Gopalan, the Pro Vice-Chancellor for Academic Innovation at Deakin University. Want to get in touch? Email russia@abc.net.au.
He held out for a long time, but Donald Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort has finally flipped. What does Manafort know about the Trump Tower meeting and the Trump campaign? Is a pardon still on the table? And how close is Robert Mueller to concluding his investigation? We're joined by Emma Shortis from the European Union Centre at RMIT University in Melbourne, and Professor Sandeep Gopalan, the Pro Vice-Chancellor for Academic Innovation at Deakin University. Want to get in touch? Email russia@abc.net.au.
He held out for a long time, but Donald Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort has finally flipped. What does Manafort know about the Trump Tower meeting and the Trump campaign? Is a pardon still on the table? And how close is Robert Mueller to concluding his investigation? We're joined by Emma Shortis from the European Union Centre at RMIT University in Melbourne, and Professor Sandeep Gopalan, the Pro Vice-Chancellor for Academic Innovation at Deakin University. Want to get in touch? Email russia@abc.net.au.
This special podcast series on emergent scholarship is designed to inform, advise and inspire higher education constituencies in their approach to and actions involving the production and dissemination of scholarship, with a keen eye on what we have defined as emergent scholarship, or scholarship of historic rigor but not historically considered or valued by governing bodies. These podcasts are entry points into the conversation; you can start with the first one or engage based on topic or guest, and can access as few or as many as you desire. The hope is to develop a foundational understanding of the topic, its current trajectory, and manners in which progress in supporting emergent scholarship can unfold. ABOUT THE HOST Dr. Rolin Moe is an Assistant Professor and the Director of Academic Innovation at Seattle Pacific University. His research sits at the confluence of technological engagement, educational methodology and sociocultural values. As a practitioner, his work seeks to not only inform and develop but to model practice through high-quality interaction. More on Rolin can be found at rolinmoe.org
Learning spaces greatly influence the teaching methods and learning activities we can employ. In this episode, Lisa Stephens and Rebecca Frazee join us to discuss the Flexible Learning Environments eXchange, an international platform for archiving, exploring and planning informal and formal learning spaces. Lisa serves as the Assistant Dean for Digital Education in the UB School of Engineering and is a Senior Strategist for Academic Innovation in the Office of the SUNY Provost. Her work at SUNY includes serving as the Interim Director of FLEXspace. Rebecca Frazee is a member of the San Diego State University faculty in the Learning Design and Technology Program. She serves as the FLEXspace Manager. A transcript of this episode and show notes may be found at http://teaforteaching.com.
As Vice Provost of Curriculum and Academic Innovation, Chief Innovation Officer, and Associate Professor of Education at Concordia University, Dr. Bernard Bull is a true thought leader when it comes to education and learning. In this episode of the Leading Learning podcast, Celisa talks with Bernard about some of the biggest issues affecting education including the future of credentials, the impact of artificial intelligence, and the potential benefits and drawbacks of data analytics. Full show notes available at https://www.leadinglearning.com/episode137. Highlighted Resource – How to Predict Educational Trends: It Doesn’t Happen Overnight, by Bernard Bull - a brief look at fifteen factors that are valuable when you are studying trends likely to shape and change education over time. Our sponsor this quarter is ReviewMyLMS, a collaboration between our company, Tagoras, and 100Reviews, the company that is behind the very successful ReviewMyAMS site. As the name suggests, ReviewMyLMS is a site where users can share and access reviews of learning management systems, but in this case, the focus is specifically on systems that are a good fit for learning businesses, meaning organizations that market and sell lifelong learning. Contribute a review and you will get access to all existing and future reviews—there are already more than 100 on the site. And, if you don’t have review to contribute, there is also a subscription option. Just go to reviewmylms.com to get all the details. 7dzrrwew
In this episode, the instructional designers from CONHI’s Academic Innovation (Celia Coochwytewa, Aaron Kraft, Jinnette Senecal, and Steven Crawford) are joined by Dr. Karen Saewert (Clinical Professor and Senior Director, Academic Innovation) define the term formative assessments and describe the difference between formative and summative while understanding the gray areas. In addition, they identify various formative assessment strategies. Transcript: https://www.dropbox.com/s/eqqpeolxlhiavpo/InstructionByDesign_Season02Episode14_FormingFormativeAssesment.pdf?dl=0 Resources from the episode: * Unlocking the Promise of Digital Assessment (Faculty Focus, October 30th, 2017) https://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/teaching-with-technology-articles/unlocking-promise-digital-assessment/ * Baleni, Z. G. (2015) Online Formative Assessment in Higher Education: Its Pros and Cons. Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 13(4). p228-236. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1062122 * Duers, L.E., Brown N. (2009) An exploration of student nurses' experiences of formative assessment. Nurse Education Today, 29(6). p654-659. DOI: 10.1016/j.nedt.2009.02.007 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19285761
Business Radio Special: Host Dan Loney is LIVE from the Reimagine Education Conference 2017 in Philadelphia. Dan talks with Jerry Wind, Professor of Marketing at the Wharton School and Organizer of the Reimagine Education conference, and Barbara (Bobbi) Kurshan, Executive Director of Academic Innovation at the Penn Graduate School of Education, about the formation of the conference five years ago, it's aim to increase access to high quality education, and how they will be judging this year's "Ed Tech" competitors on this special episode of Knowledge@Wharton. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
In this episode, Academic Innovation’s Steven Crawford is joined by Eddie Andreo from Cowley College (KS) to discuss their experiences at the Quality Matters’ 2017 QM Connect Conference. We discussed the various takeaways we gained at the conference as it applies to teaching and learning. The conversation also includes trends that we are seeing at the conference at what it means for the future of education. Transcript: https://www.dropbox.com/s/4k45fdzkrus0dg0/InstructionByDesign_Season02Episode05_TheQMConference.pdf?dl=0 Resources from the episode: * QM Connect Conference - https://www.qualitymatters.org/events/attend/qm-connect-conference
On this episode, Katie is joined by Dr. Rolin Moe, an Assistant Professor and the Director of the Institute for Academic Innovation at Seattle Pacific University. Rolin's 15+ years of working with formal, informal and non-formal learning institutions have focused on empowering all members of the community to engage teaching and learning. In formal education settings, Rolin works across the environment to conceptualize, design, implement and assess learning environments and models. Outside of formal education, Rolin celebrates the "gap" between artifact design and learning assessment, at organizations such as the Museum of Modern Art, LinkedIn, and the nonpartisan Annenberg Learning Center at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum. His scholarship explores the dissonance between educational practice and mass media portrayal of education. Segment 1: Responsibilities of a critical scholar [00:00-17:18] In this first segment, Rolin discusses what it means to him to be a critical scholar. Segment 2: Dealing with Criticism [17:19-34:17] In segment two, Rolin shares how he has dealt with criticism of his work. Bonus Clip #1 [00:00-3:40]: Rolin's Recommendations for Researchers Dealing with Criticism To share feedback about this podcast episode, ask questions that could be featured in a future episode, or to share research-related resources, contact the “Research in Action” podcast: Twitter: @RIA_podcast or #RIA_podcast Email: riapodcast@oregonstate.edu Voicemail: 541-737-1111 If you listen to the podcast via iTunes, please consider leaving us a review. The views expressed by guests on the Research in Action podcast do not necessarily represent the views of Ecampus or Oregon State University.
In this episode Steven Crawford from Academic Innovation introduces the Instruction By Design Podcast and provides a sneak peek of what to expect this next season. Transcript: https://www.dropbox.com/s/xbt5ejjluikjen0/InstructionByDesign_Season02Episode%2000%20Introducing%20Season%202.pdf?dl=0
In this episode Steven Crawford from Academic Innovation introduces the Instruction By Design Podcast and provides a sneak peek of what to expect in upcoming episodes. Transcript: https://www.dropbox.com/s/u4dddxf1n88jklc/InstructionByDesign_Season%2001Episode00%20Series%20Intro.pdf?dl=0
I was optimistic, sure, and a bit too confident, but I learned how to fail forward. Follow: @jcorippo @Jonharper70bd @bamradionetwork Jon Corippo is the Director of Academic Innovation for CUE, leading CUE's professional learning throughout California and Nevada. He is the creator of the CUE Rock Star Camp Series.
Recently the great homework debate went viral on social media. We have all seen the research, so why are we still talking about this?Follow:@gustafsonbrad, @benjamingilpin @jcorippo @bamradionetwork Jon Corippo is the Director of Academic Innovation for CUE, leading CUE's professional learning throughout California and Nevada. He is the creator of the CUE Rock Star Camp Series.
Recently the great homework debate went viral on social media. We all seen the research, so why are we still talking about this? Follow: @gustafsonbrad, @benjamingilpin @jcorippo @bamradionetwork Jon Corippo is the Director of Academic Innovation for CUE, leading CUE's professional learning throughout California and Nevada. He is the creator of the CUE Rock Star Camp Series.
Jon Corippo is the Director of Academic Innovation for CUE, leading professional learning and his creation, the CUE Rock Star Camp series. These small, hands on camps will be lead by admins, and be designed for admins, focusing on new skills that are needed for 1:1 deployment, Common Core, Project based learning, social media skills and many other skills that there is simply no equivalent for in education. Jon keynotes, leads and designs Professional Learning experiences all over the country and is a Google Certified Innovator, has been a Lead Learner for a Google Teacher Academy, and is also an Apple Distinguished Educator and has facilitated sessions in Final Cut Pro for the 2013 Apple Institute in Austin, TX. Jon was the co-designer of Minarets High School, which has been named an Apple Distinguished School three times. Jon has been named a CUE Gold Disk Recipient, Madera County Teacher of the Year, and CVCUE Teacher of the Year. Jon has served as an Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum and Instruction and Director of Technology at the county level. Jon’s last district was selected as a Future Ready District, implementing 1:1 from 7th grade up, adding coding, 3d printing, PBL and Minecraft Edu in all K-8 schools, among other notable innovative activities. http://www.cue.org/jcorippo @jcorippo https://sites.google.com/site/mistercorippo/ About EducatorsLead: Educators Lead is a podcast created to help launch educators into the next level of leadership. This show is for you if you are interested in educational leadership as an assistant principal, principal, superintendent, teacher or someone who hopes to be a school leader one day. Educators Lead offers inspiration and practical advice to help you lead more effectively. Jay Willis interviews school leaders three days a week to discuss why and when these educators made the decision to move into school leadership, challenges along the journey, and stories that made it all worthwhile. Educators Lead is a great resource for any educator looking to make a greater impact. Educate. Inspire. Lead. www.educatorslead.com
Reinventing the education system. Host Rahul Kapoor is joined by Bobbi Kushan, Executive Director of Academic Innovation and Senior Fellow in Education at the University of Pennsylvania. How is technology changing out approach to education? Plus, from higher education to primary school hear how entrepreneurs think about disrupting a student's approach to learning.
There is a focused movement to reinvent traditional learning spaces and rearrange the entire educational experience — a trend that is largely being driven by the influence of innovative learning approaches. Century-old practices in which students learn subject-by-subject, while uniformly facing the front of the classroom, are perceived by many as an antiquated approach to teaching and learning. The multidisciplinary nature of project-based learning, co-creation, and other contemporary approaches has brought attention to innovative designs of learning environments. Panel Moderator: Holly Ludgate, Senior Director of Program Development, NMC Panelists: Stephanie Barbuto, Social Studies Teacher at String Theory High Schoool Lambert Heller, Head of the Open Science Lab at TIB Hannover, Germany Rudolf Mumenthaler, Professor of library science at the University of Applied Sciences (HTW) Chur in Switzerland Seema Rao, Director of Intergenerational Learning, Cleveland Museum of Art Lisa Stephens, Senior Strategist, Academic Innovation at SUNY Annie Tuttle, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Sociology - SUNY - Onondaga Community College About the NMC On the Horizon Series The "NMC On the Horizon" series reflects the research and work of the NMC Horizon Project in action. International panels of experts are convened across all education sectors to address the emerging technologies poised to significantly impact teaching and learning. Learn more at http://www.nmc.org.
There is a focused movement to reinvent traditional learning spaces and rearrange the entire educational experience — a trend that is largely being driven by the influence of innovative learning approaches. Century-old practices in which students learn subject-by-subject, while uniformly facing the front of the classroom, are perceived by many as an antiquated approach to teaching and learning. The multidisciplinary nature of project-based learning, co-creation, and other contemporary approaches has brought attention to innovative designs of learning environments. Panel Moderator: Holly Ludgate, Senior Director of Program Development, NMC Panelists: Stephanie Barbuto, Social Studies Teacher at String Theory High Schoool Lambert Heller, Head of the Open Science Lab at TIB Hannover, Germany Rudolf Mumenthaler, Professor of library science at the University of Applied Sciences (HTW) Chur in Switzerland Seema Rao, Director of Intergenerational Learning, Cleveland Museum of Art Lisa Stephens, Senior Strategist, Academic Innovation at SUNY Annie Tuttle, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Sociology - SUNY - Onondaga Community College About the NMC On the Horizon Series The "NMC On the Horizon" series reflects the research and work of the NMC Horizon Project in action. International panels of experts are convened across all education sectors to address the emerging technologies poised to significantly impact teaching and learning. Learn more at http://www.nmc.org.
An exhibition of photographs to enhance learning. Students and staff are invited to submit photographs to an exhibition of photographs and stories to be held in Sheffield Hallam University in May 2008. There is also a photo competition to encourage students to submit work. A Picture is worth a thousand words - Prove it! Digital cameras in one form or another are within reach of most of us everyday, wherever we are. Tools to edit and distribute the photographs we produce are also widely accessible. Your challenge is to demonstrate how can we take advantage of this in education. Picture This! will be an exhibition featuring photographs taken by students and staff in the course of learning and teaching. To encourage students to contribute a photograph, and the story of why it was taken, the University is running this competition with three £150 prizes. Your photo assignment... Send us one photograph with between 150 and 300 words that explain why you took the photograph and how it related to your work. 5 further prizes of £10.00 each are available to students who email us the best ideas for how their course could make use of photographs. So whether your strength is in writing, photography or coming up with ideas there's a prize for you! There are 3 categories: *Ideas - creative ideas for the use of photographs to support learning *Photograph - most engaging photograph *Story - best learning story Submission deadline: 28 March 2008 The Exhibition An exhibition of submitted work will be hosted in the University during May 2008. The judging panel: A panel of three judges will select the winners. They will include the Academic Affairs Officer of the Hallam Student's Union and the Head of Academic Innovation in the Learning and Teaching Institute at Sheffield Hallam University. Organisers: This initiative is being run by Academic Innovation in the Learning and Teaching Institute at Sheffield Hallam University. For further information contact Andrew Middleton, a.j.middleton AT shu.ac.uk Submission rules: You can submit up to 3 entries with 3 different stories. Joint entries are permitted. You can nominate your preferred category or leave it open. Submit digital photograph(s) in JPG format as an email attachment or through a link to a photo-sharing service like Flickr.com. Include your name, year and course details. All submissions may be used to inform research and promote best practice. By submitting your entry you give the University permission to reproduce it in publications and at academic events with acknowledgement, but no fee. You may only submit work that belongs to you. Check the Show Notes at http://ltapodcast.blogspot.com
Helen Rodger in Academic Innovation at Sheffield Hallam has been leading the Backpack pilot for the last 9 months. Andrew Middleton speaks to Helen to find out about Backpack, the add-on tool for the Blackboard learning environment. They discuss the pilot and some of the tentative findings that are emerging at the end of the academic year. More information about Backpack can be found on the Agilix website at: http://www.agilix.com/backpack.aspx which says, "Improving student and instructor access to Blackboard resources. Backpack provides offline access to Blackboard course documents, assignments, announcements, grades and more." Blackboard inc describes Backpack as 'Blackboard to go' in its own introduction to the tool: http://www.blackboard.com/extend/backpack.htm Check the Show Notes at http://ltapodcast.blogspot.com
The Closer! pilot is a new educational podcasting initiative being run at Sheffield Hallam. It will run in the 2007-08 academic year and will evaluate the Podcast LX Building Block in Blackboard. The pilot will be supported by Academic Innovation in the Learning and Teaching Institute and e-Learning support teams in the faculties. Podcasting, audio and video are relatively new media and Academic Innovation are particularly interested in working with people who are interested in taking the opportunity to introduce innovation into their own practice. The pilot seeks to encourage ideas that introduce either new voices or new ways of sharing voices in the learning environment. The pilot is called Closer! because one important area for innovation is how the learning community can be brought closer together through the use of audio. Here are the 10 points I propose in the recording that will help podcast designers to create a good educational experience with podcasting: 1. Relevance is clear to the students 2. Recording quality is adequate and represents the significance of the podcast to the course 3. Embedded amongst, and integrated with, other course material appropriately 4. It informs or leads to other learning activity 5. Engaging format appropriate to the audio medium 6. It does not create a burden on the students (time, access, technology) 7. It does not create a burden on the academic (production time, technology) 8. Academically rigorous (ethically and legally appropriate, participants consent, basis of claims to knowledge are clear) 9. It does not exclude some students 10. It connects to related information through its 'show notes' . An introduction to the Closer! pilot can be found at: http://teaching.shu.ac.uk/podcast/pilot/intro.mp3 Check the Show Notes at http://ltapodcast.blogspot.com
Andrew Middleton travels to Scotland for the second episode in a row, this time to Glasgow to the Massively Multi-leaner Conference held at the University of Paisley. He reports back on several of the sessions. A more detailed report can be found in the Creativity in Academic Innovation blog at: http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wordpress/?p=352 Second Life: http://www.secondlife.com Jeremy Kemp's SimTeach: http://www.simteach.com/ Check the Show Notes at http://ltapodcast.blogspot.com