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EdTech News – EdTech Connect https://edtechconnect.mst.edu Keeping you up-to-date on Educational Technology Mon, 09 Oct 2017 15:44:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.7 51477935 Instructors: October 23rd is Active Learning Day–Learn How to Get Involved! https://edtechconnect.mst.edu/2017/10/09/instructors-october-23rd-is-active-learning-day-learn-how-to-get-involved/ Mon, 09 Oct 2017 15:44:31 +0000 https://edtechconnect.mst.edu/?p=1990 Last year, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy announced Active Learning Day as part of a nationwide effort to improve STEM higher education. Today, Project Kaleidoscope of the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) is proud to invite you to join us as a change agent at the forefront of STEM higher education reform.

Learn more about AAC&U’s Project Kaleidoscope and the 2017 Active Learning Day
How can you participate in active learning?

  • Spend at least 10 minutes implementing a culturally responsive STEM teaching strategy that promotes active learning in your classroom (Culturally Responsive Teaching is a pedagogy that recognizes the importance of including students’ cultural references in all aspects of learning);
  • Identify innovative ways to deepen and extend your departmental/institutional commitment to inclusive STEM higher education reform throughout the week, academic year, and beyond;
  • Tell a friend! Reach out to at least one colleague (in either a STEM or non-STEM discipline), and engage in dialogue around what they can do to implement similar strategies in their classroom;
  • Tweet or post on social media about your participation using #ActiveLearningDay2017; and
  • Share with others what you did on Active Learning Day by creating and uploading a two-minute video! Upload the video to YouTube and send us the link at pkal@aacu.org. We will showcase your effort on STEM Central.

 

Interested in participating and/or need help with making a video? Contact EdTech@mst.edu to schedule a videographer to stop by your classroom while you engage your students in an active learning exercise!

 

EdTech resources for active learning in the classroom

]]> 1990 Weekly Canvas Stats Digest: 21Aug—28Aug, Week 1 https://edtechconnect.mst.edu/2017/08/28/weekly-canvas-stats-digest-21aug-28aug-week-1/ Mon, 28 Aug 2017 16:17:03 +0000 https://edtechconnect.mst.edu/?p=1971 Users – The first semester of the year started out strong with a steady uptick in Canvas usage actually beginning on Sunday, August 20 when cumulative student usage peaked at 2899 users. By Monday, that number had climbed to 5400 users. Wednesday saw the highest number of users at 7100. Participation then saw a steady decline to a low point of 2200 users on Saturday the 26th. The next day, Sunday the 27th, was a fairly studious one, with a peak cumulative user count of 4300.

Overall, S&T students initiated 63,451 Canvas sessions and racked up 488,422 pageviews over the first week of the Fall 2017 semester. If we average these numbers across the entire site for each day, each student session consisted of about 7 pageviews.

 

Location – 99.9% of student connections to Canvas originated from within the United States. 94% of those student connections were from within the state of Missouri. Students connected to Missouri S&T’s Canvas from every state in the Union except for Montana, Vermont, and Delaware.

There were a small handful of students connecting from outside of the United States. Students from China, Saudi Arabia, Canada, Mexico, France, Belgium, Greece, Japan, and the United Kingdom also connected to S&T’s Canvas, but all of the sessions originating from outside of the US were numbered in the single digits.

 

Courses – The most “popular” Canvas course (as measured by student pageviews) is easily Chemistry 1310, the general Chemistry 1 course, with around 23000 pageviews in the first week. With over 750 enrolled users, it’s not a total surprise that it’s a very busy course!

The second most popular course by student pageviews is the FE 1100 Freshman Engineering course with 7745 pageviews in the first week. After that, it’s Math 1215, Calculus 2 with 3148 pageviews.

Rounding out the rest of the top five is Mech Eng 1720 (Intro to Engineering Design) and Eng Man 1210 (Econ Analysis of Engr Projects) with right around 3000 pageviews each.

 

Technology – In the first week of class, 90.7% of student access to Canvas was on a traditional desktop or laptop computer. 7.9% of student access was via a mobile cellular device, while only 1.4% of student access to Canvas was done on a tablet computer such as an iPad.

Windows is the most popular OS with 77% of sessions being made from a Windows machine. Macintosh machines accounted for 12.8% of sessions. Linux machines represented 0.48% of sessions, and one person even logged into Canvas using their Xbox One!

Chrome is the most popular Browser with 72% of sessions compared to Safari’s 11%. Surprisingly, Edge is more popular than Firefox, with 8% of sessions compared to 5.5%, respectively. Internet Explorer got 1.8% of sessions. The least popular browser, the stock Android Browser, was only used in 0.01% of Canvas sessions.

Mobile device usage was interesting. Literally hundreds of different types of Android-based cellular devices were used to access Canvas, but the Apple iPhone seems to be the most popular single cellular mobile device used, representing 45% of all mobile sessions.

 

Interested in Canvas stats like these? Follow us for more weekly Canvas analytic updates!

]]> 1971 Canvas Teacher App Now Available on Android and iOS https://edtechconnect.mst.edu/2017/08/07/canvas-teacher-app-now-available-on-android-and-ios/ Mon, 07 Aug 2017 14:28:59 +0000 https://edtechconnect.mst.edu/?p=1957 Good News S&T Instructors,

Canvas has published a mobile app meant for instructors called “Canvas Teacher”. Now you can keep track of several different aspects of your course from your mobile device. The Canvas Teacher app is available for both Android and iOS.


Announcements, Assignments, Discussions, Quizzes

The Canvas Teacher app lets you make announcements, browse and grade assignments, moderate discussions, and evaluate quizzes from within the app. The Canvas Teacher app is not meant to be a full replacement for your primary working computer, but rather to compliment your setup and to allow you the flexibility to communicate with students and to check submissions or give feedback when you’re on the go.

Give it a try..

In general, instructors are not heavy mobile users of Canvas. Our usage analytics indicate that less than 5% of instructors regularly interact with Canvas on a mobile device. Why is that? One likely reason is that the previous Canvas app was very student-centric, and instructors couldn’t do much but look at the course. That has changed—with the Canvas Teacher App you can now do many of the tasks you could normally do at your office computer on your smartphone.

]]> 1957 The First Day of Summer Marks Another Season of Changes For EdTech https://edtechconnect.mst.edu/2017/06/20/the-first-day-of-summer-marks-another-season-of-changes-for-edtech/ Tue, 20 Jun 2017 14:20:22 +0000 https://edtechconnect.mst.edu/?p=1931 Summer is here, and that means EdTech is busy with a number of changes and initiatives! We’ve got a lot of projects, and only a few months before the start of the Fall semester. Here’s a quick rundown: The Video Communication Center is merging with EdTech under Global Learning, which is going to give us some expanded capability for supporting and delivering distance instruction. We’re overhauling our website to put more emphasis on support and media services, and we’re fine-tuning our instructional services.

On the technology front, we’re supporting the IT department as they work on the continuing rollout of Windows 10 & Office 2016 in classroom computers around campus. In our own technology portfolio, we’re sundowning the Tegrity lecture capture tool in favor of another tool called Panopto, and we’re upgrading to the latest Turning Point software release.

We’ll be in touch as these projects mature, and as the Fall semester gets closer. Have a happy and productive summer!

 

]]> 1931 Student Success Center Open House This Week! Visit 198 Toomey Hall, 11:00AM to 1:00PM on Jan. 27th, 28th, and 29th https://edtechconnect.mst.edu/2015/01/27/student-success-center-open-house-this-week-visit-198-toomey-hall-1100am-to-100pm-on-jan-27th-28th-and-29th/ Tue, 27 Jan 2015 14:48:08 +0000 https://edtechconnect.mst.edu/?p=1456 Are you a student? Then the Student success center is for YOU! Stop by 198 Toomey Hall this week and check out what the Burns & McDonnell Student Success Center has to offer.

The SSC is staffed with 15 trained Student Success Coaches that are ready to assist in your journey towards success at Missouri S&T. All students are welcome to come by the Burns & McDonnell Student Success Center in 198 Toomey to connect with a coach and learn more about the following topics:

• Motivation
• Goal Setting
• Campus Resources
• Getting to Know Your Professor
• Note-taking Skills
• Study Skills
• How to be Successful

Check out the Student Success Center website at http://studentsuccess.mst.edu/

]]> 1456 CERTI and EdTech present an upcoming faculty learning event, “Rules of Student Engagement: A Workshop on Active Learning Strategies for the Classroom”, on Jan. 16th https://edtechconnect.mst.edu/2014/12/18/certi-and-edtech-present-an-upcoming-faculty-learning-event-rules-of-student-engagement-a-workshop-on-active-learning-strategies-for-the-classroom-on-jan-16th/ Thu, 18 Dec 2014 15:29:52 +0000 https://edtechconnect.mst.edu/?p=1429 CERTI and EdTech presents an upcoming faculty learning event, “Rules of Student Engagement: A Workshop on Active Learning Strategies for the Classroom”, to be held on Jan. 16th from 8AM to Noon in the Missouri/Ozark room of the Havener Center. All S&T faculty and instructors are invited to this event!

Join us for an interactive workshop featuring faculty who use active learning strategies to increase student engagement and enhance learning
You can expect to learn about:
• A variety of active learning strategies for different classroom environments
• Best practices and benefits of flipping, or partially flipping, a classroom
• Optimal use of clickers
• Generating good classroom discussions, and more!

When: Friday, Jan. 16, 2015, 8 AM-Noon (breakfast provided)
Where: Missouri/Ozark Room, Havener

Please RSVP to: hagnid@mst.edu by Monday, Jan. 12
Sponsored By: New Faculty Programs, Center for Educational Research and Teaching Innovation (CERTI), and Educational Technology

Hope to see you there!

]]> 1429 iThenticate is now available to S&T academic researchers and publishers! https://edtechconnect.mst.edu/2014/10/07/ithenticate-is-now-available-to-st-academic-researchers-and-publishers/ Tue, 07 Oct 2014 15:58:15 +0000 https://edtechconnect.mst.edu/?p=1312 The Missouri S&T Educational Technology office is proud to support a new tool on campus called iThenticate. Brought to you by the same company behind Turnitin, iThenticate is a plagiarism prevention tool intended for use by professional academic researchers and publishers. Like Turnitin, iThenticate generates originality reports by comparing submitted work to previously published work. Unlike Turnitin—which is intended for classroom use—iThenticate is intended solely for the world of professional academic publishing. iThenticate is intended to be a formative tool which gives authors and editors the power to eliminate unintended plagiarism and improve citation practices. To that end, iThenticate searches over 100 million scholarly books, articles, and conference proceedings as well as periodicals, encyclopedias, abstracts, and over 50 billion current and archived web pages.

The primary users of iThenticate are academic researchers and publishers, including graduate and doctoral students (and their advisors!) who are writing theses or dissertations. These writers will appreciate iThenticate’s easy-to-use interface as well as several features not found in Turnitin. iThenticate allows for much longer documents to be submitted, as well as allowing for document sharing and version comparison. Unlike Turnitin, iThenticate does NOT save a copy of submitted work to a central database. This means your in-progress publication will stay confidential until it is ready for publication.

If you are a scholarly writer interested in using iThenticate, please contact the IT Help Desk to submit an iThenticate access request to the Educational Technology office; The EdTech office will get you set up and also provide a short training session, if desired. Happy writing and publishing!

]]> 1312 GRANT OPPORTUNITY: UM Inter-Campus Course Sharing https://edtechconnect.mst.edu/2014/02/21/grant-opportunity-um-inter-campus-course-sharing/ Fri, 21 Feb 2014 16:19:48 +0000 https://edtechconnect.mst.edu/?p=1040 UM-System-LogoUniversity of Missouri-System is providing funding to encourage faculty members to share their expertise with other UM campuses.

Grants will be awarded to faculty interested in developing and offering “shared courses” to be made available on at least two UM campuses.

The RFP linked below provides the full details of the Inter-Campus Course Sharing grant program.

ATTACHMENT-Course sharing- RFP – 01.27.14

]]> 1040 Tegrity Service Restored https://edtechconnect.mst.edu/2013/10/23/tegrity-service-restored/ Wed, 23 Oct 2013 15:43:26 +0000 https://edtechconnect.mst.edu/?p=881 Tegrity service has now been restored.  Classes may now be viewed under Tegrity Classes in Blackboard, and any recordings created during the outage should automatically upload to Tegrity’s servers.

If you are an instructor who created a recording during the outage and it has not uploaded by this afternoon, please submit a ticket so that Educational Technology can manually upload your recording.

Thank you for your patience!

]]> 881 Tegrity Service Interruption https://edtechconnect.mst.edu/2013/10/23/tegrity-service-interruption/ Wed, 23 Oct 2013 15:27:51 +0000 https://edtechconnect.mst.edu/?p=876 Educational Technology became aware of an interruption in Tegrity service at 10:03 this morning.  The vendor has been notified, and is currently working on restoring service.

Until Tegrity service is restored, all Tegrity videos will be unavailable for viewing and starting a new recording through Blackboard will not be possible.

If you are an instructor who needs to record a class, this is still possible by double-clicking the Tegrity tray icon, selecting your course, and starting a recording.

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Please be aware that the recorder will take several minutes to start while it attempts to contact the service and the recording will not be uploaded until service is restored.  Your recording will be stored safely on the local hard drive.

More information will be shared as it becomes available.

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