Faculty Using Technology

Video Practice Sheets for Piano Instruction

Using flip cameras, GSIs and instructors for the Pre-College Piano Program as well as the College Class Piano course create digital practice sheets for students. Videos and practice instructions are uploaded to Ctools and are accessible by students and their families through the internet. Students can track their progress on the skills highlighted and correspond with their instructor through the site. 

For more information, contact John Ellis in the School of Music, Theatre, and Dance.

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Michigan’s Comprehensive Research Responsibility and Ethics (RRE) Podcast Library

Kate F. Barald in the School of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, coordinated an online repository for resources aimed at aiding course directors at all levels (undergraduate to postdoc) devise RRE (Research Responsibility and Ethics) courses that are both interdisciplinary and relevant to specific groups of students. The podcast library of lectures, panel discussions, mock IRB boards and interviews with researchers and ethicists are available to course directors through the Program in Biomedical Sciences CTools site.

Subjects for the podcasts include:

  • ethical and moral reasoning and values presented by faculty from the Philosophy Department
  • issues of mentoring, fraud, fabrication and plagiarism
  • specific problems in social science research
  • professional ethics and regulatory issues

An improved website will soon provide vignettes on RRE issues in the languages of the majority of our international students, and this course will soon be offered at the Shanghai Jiao Tong Joint Institute (SHJTJI).

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Examples of UM Faculty Using Technology in Teaching

Alphabetical list of faculty members

Using the Web to Promote Experiential and Collaborative Learning

Using Multimedia in Classroom Teaching

Using the Web for Students to Publish Projects and Research

Using Web-based Training, Tutorials, and Simulation to Engage Students

Using Technology Tools and Teaching Strategies to Promote Active Learning

Using Online Tools to Promote Interaction and Engagement with Course Content

For additional examples, click on the "Faculty Using Technology" tag at the bottom of this page.

Using the Web to Promote Experiential and Collaborative Learning Read more »

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Using simulations to illustrate how leadership emerges through daily activities

Susan Ashford, Ross School of Business, teaches a leadership course where she wants students to understand how leadership emerges through daily activities. In order to do this, Ashford uses a program called Leadership Inbox Simulator where students take on the role of a busy executive about to leave for a trip. They have to prioritize and respond to an inbox full of requests, complaints, and opportunites and make leadership decisions while doing it. 

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Simulations familiarize students with "real-world" use of museum objects

Bob Bain, School of Education, uses two electronic tools, Virtual Curator and Virtual Expedition, to support students' use of museum objects and to learn history.

The Virtual Curator allows students to take of the role of a museum curator. They are asked to review a number of primary sources in order for the Henry Ford Museum to reconstruct one of the houses purchased for Greenfield Village. The Virtual Expedition allows students to explore a number of the houses on the ground of Greenfield Village in order to support students learning of history and/or science.

These tools were developed in the Primary Sources Network project, a collaboration between the Henry Ford Museum, Henry Ford Academy, Melvindale Schools, and University of Michigan's Center for Highly Interactive computing in Education (hi-ce)

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