Teaching with Technology

Enriching Scholarship Registration Now Open

If you are interested in adding to your technology toolkit or learning about great uses of technology in teaching at U-M, you have over 130 sessions to choose from at Enriching Scholarship during the week of May 6-10. Enriching Scholarship is an annual event that takes place across U-M's campus: a week of workshops, presentations, panels, and discussions on a wide range of technology topics sponsored by the Teaching and Technology Collaborative. 

Registration is open to all U-M students, staff, and faculty, but many events will be of particular interest to teachers. The week starts off with a teaching focus at the keynote event, featuring a poster fair and panel. From 9-10am on Monday morning, winners of the Provost's Teaching Innovation Prize and recipients of the Investigating Student Learning grant will present their innovative teaching projects. A continental breakfast will be served. After the poster fair, a panel of U-M faculty who have taught Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) will address the question, "What have we learned from MOOCs?" They'll share their experience teaching thousands of students from around the world in the Coursera platform, and reflect on how those experiences can inform face-to-face teaching.  Read more »

Submitted by mbakewel on Tue, 04/02/2013 - 4:17pm
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disruptED: The Impact of High Tech on Higher Ed

A provocative essay in The Ann by U-M business professor Scott Moore analyzes the disruptive impact of internet technology on higher education and asks, "Will the Wolverines remain the leaders?" According to Moore, the traditional model of education is shifting, and students will have far more choices as to how (and where) they learn. He predicts a future where education is a partnership between .edu, .com, and .org, where credit hours are replaced by certificates earned via competency exams, and where an increasing number of educational experiences happen away from campus. To remain leaders and the best in such a future, the university and faculty must experiment with emerging educational methods and technologies, and adopt those that foster transformative educational experiences that are relevant for students, parents, and future employers. 

As Moore points out in his article, CRLT is partnering with faculty and administrators to develop creative approaches that will enable U-M to navigate this changing landscape. For example, an experiment with new educational technology now in progress at U-M focuses on incorporating Online Collaboration Tools (OCTs) in and out of classrooms. As the campus began widespread use of Google Apps for collaboration over the past year, CRLT gathered early adopters to share ideas about how to best use these tools for education. To help spread innovations far and wide, CRLT distributed an Occasional Paper on the topic and organized a Provost’s Seminar on Teaching last November, both of which featured U-M faculty who had successfully used blogs, wikis, and other tools to promote student reflection, to facilitate collaborative authorship, to improve student teamwork, and more. Scott Moore was one of the featured speakers at the Provost’s Seminar, where he described how his students’ blog posts reached an audience of over 40,000 readers--the kind of transformative experience that makes a U-M education relevant in a changing higher ed landscape.  
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Submitted by mbakewel on Mon, 01/28/2013 - 10:04am
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Teaching with Clickers

 

This occasional paper discusses research showing how student personal response systems (often called 'clickers') can support student learning. It gives specific strategies for using clickers to assess student knowledge prior to the course, check students' understanding of new material, administer tests, document attendance, and more. The paper also discusses challenges and proposes best practices for using clickers for a range of purposes. 
 
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Principles for Teaching the Millennial Generation: Innovative Practices of U-M Faculty

This Occasional Paper describes some of the differences that Millennial students bring to the classroom and outlines four principles for teaching Millennials successfully. To illustrate how these principles inform specific teaching strategies, we highlight examples of innovative teaching by U-M faculty.

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Lecture Capture: A Guide for Effective Use

 

A number of faculty members at the University of Michigan (U-M) are capturing lectures and creating podcasts and screencasts to provide supplementary learning material, to free up class time for active learning experiences, or to make learning material accessible to the general public. This paper reviews research on the use and impact of lecture capture technology, discusses challenges and implications of using this technology in classrooms, and provides guidance for using this tool to enhance teaching and student learning.

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