By William Heinrich, Director of Assessment
Summer is over us and campuses welcomed new cohorts of eager students in our (hopefully air-conditioned) classrooms and offices. This annual pattern reminds me to think ahead about who is coming to our campuses. Beloit College’s Mindset List is a great place to begin that exploration of what incoming students carry in their minds.
By Bill Heinrich, Director of Assessment at MSU Hub for Innovation in Learning and Technology
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Encountering and addressing the challenges of a new campus-wide record. This is the second post about the emerging Co-Curricular Record at MSU.
Bill Heinrich, Director of Assessment, Hub; Heather Shea, Assistant Program Director, Residential Initiative on the Study of the Environment
Academic progress is regularly complemented by learning outside of courses at most campuses,
Purpose, Definitions, and Positioning.
By Bill Heinrich, Director of Assessment, Hub & Heather Shea, Assistant Program Director, Residential Initiative on the Study of the Environment
Student academic success is regularly complemented and enhanced by out-of-class learning at most campuses, including ours. Yet, how do we know what students’ experiences outside of the formal classroom at Michigan State University contribute to their learning and development?
Crafting Student Employment Experience – One Semester In
A reflection on the student employee experience at the Hub, and how it can evolve.
By Nick Noel
Nearly a semester has gone by since I last discussed crafting an intentional student employee experience. This idea grew out of my personal observations,
Leigh Graves Wolf, Assistant Director at the Hub for Innovation in Learning and Technology
The purpose of the Learning Design Strategy (LDS) at Michigan State University is to: inspire innovation, shape behavior, and guide decisions. The LDS, as it currently exists, is a set of heuristics which have been designed to help make decisions about how we design learning experiences that are shaped by our values,
Careers, Love Potions, and Grilled Meat: Adventures in Structures and Functions, a Dispatch from Nairobi
By Bill Heinrich, Director of Assessment
The dust, diesel fumes, and honking motorbikes in Nairobi overwhelmed all the senses. The open-market hawkers were making their livings from fresh fruits, vegetables, and ugali (a corn-meal staple).
Faculty Technology Use in Teaching: Results from a Recent Landscape Survey
We asked MSU faculty what technologies they use in their teaching, and how they learned about them – here’s what they said.
By Jessica L. Knott, Learning Design Manager, MSU IT and MSU Hub
This post discusses the findings of the recent technology landscape survey that was sent to instructors at MSU.
An exploration into alternative lecturing techniques.
By Rashad Muhammad, Instructional Designer
If you wanted to design a space that deterred student engagement, it might look like a large lecture hall. Fixed seating, 100+ students, an instructor anchored at the front of the classroom.
This way of communicating information goes back to the middle ages and it is a product of how people viewed and shared knowledge at that time.
The second in a series of three musings, focused on Learning Management Systems.
By Jeff Grabill, Associate Provost for Teaching, Learning, and Technology & Director of MSU Hub for Innovation in Learning and Technology
What does a “post-LMS” university look like? I asked this of a close colleague of mine who knows this terrain better than I do,