Educational Technology
Celebrate Active Learning Day
The educational technology (EdTech) staff invites Missouri S&T faculty to show the unique ways you use active learning methods in your classroom. Active Learning Day will be observed Monday, Oct. 23. It is a nationwide movement to improve science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education. For help creating a short video about your active learning methods, please contact EdTech by Thursday, Oct. 19, at 341-4131 or edtech@mst.edu. Get more details at edtech.mst.edu.
Read More »In the news: Dachau liberation, DELTA Labs, Oroville Dam, ‘World of Warcraft’
- Dr. John McManus, Curators’ Distinguished professor of history, was quoted in The Times of Israel article, “These U.S. Soldiers Liberated Dachau While Their own Families Were Locked Up Back Home,” published May 29. Rich Tenorio wrote the article about the 522nd Field Artillery Battalion, the only U.S. military unit during World War II whose enlisted men were of Japanese descent. Read More »
Skyles participates in University of Arizona panel on online labs
Amy Skyles participated in an expert panel discussion during the Online Lab Summit at the University of Arizona in Tucson, held Feb. 6. Skyles, an instructional designer in educational technology, was one of four panelists who discussed the implementation of online science labs.
Read More »Skyles publishes on ‘thinking outside the lab’
Amy Skyles, instructional designer in educational technology, recently published an article, “Thinking Outside of the Lab: Special Considerations for Lab Course Redesign,” for the International Journal on Innovations in Online Education. This article is in reference to Delivering Experiential Labs To All (DELTA).
Read More »The Teaching Professor features article by Kerwin
Razmus Kerwin, instructional designer in educational technology, published an article, “Involving Students in Rubric Creation and Using Google Docs to Make It Happen” in the October issue of The Teaching Professor.
Read More »Campus members publish in ASQ journal
A Missouri S&T group recently published a paper titled “Blending the Best of Both Worlds: Overcoming Skepticism in a Hybrid Engineering Course” in the American Society for Quality’s Quality Approaches in Higher Education. The group is comprised of Dr. Susan Murray, interim chair of psychological science and professor of engineering management and systems engineering at S&T; Julie Phelps, instructional designer in educational technology at S&T; and Kelly Jones, an adjunct instructor at Webster University and training manager at Nestle Purina in St. Louis.
Read More »Skyles presents DELTA project to eEducation specialists
Amy Skyles, instructional designer in educational technology, recently traveled to the Florida Institute of Technology to present at the Spring eEducation Series on the DELTA project (Delivering Experiential Labs To All).
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