Gabe Tippery is an adjunct lecturer from OSU’s Design department, whose passion for strengthening teaching with technology dates back to his years here as a GTA. During spring semester, I had the opportunity to observe one of his classes and talk with him at length about some of the assignments he has used over the …Read more at the full article: Gabe Tippery: Engaging Students in the Digital Era
For this Game-Based Learning lunch series workshop, we joined Jane Wright from OSU Extension, along with Dan Rockwell and Jeremy Patterson from the Ohio State Technology Commercialization and Knowledge Transfer office. We got an inside look at how development is progressing for a project to develop Total Animal. Total Animal is a mobile app that digitizes existing content from Ohio 4-H …Read more at the full article: Game-Based Learning Lunch: Teaching About Animals–Total Animal and TCO (5/17/2013)
The charter for our GTA Boot Camp for Teaching Online has been approved, and we’re excited to move to the production phase of our project. The GTA Boot Camp is a one-credit-hour, online, five-day, mobile workshop to prepare graduate teaching associates to facilitate online courses. We have worked with graduate students in our online teaching …Read more at the full article: GTA Bootcamp for Teaching Online
The Office of Distance Education & eLearning, which is responsible for the design and oversight of labs and experimental classrooms across campus, will be closing the original Eighteenth Avenue Library (former SEL) location on May 3rd, 2013, and will spend the summer completing new collaborative lab spaces slated to open this fall.
The Digital Union began …Read more at the full article: Digital Union Changes Location to Meet Growing Need
Prezi is an cloud and software based presentation tool that continues to add features and gain users at a rapid pace. A recent press release from Prezi announced the addition of two types of audio to the tool; this combo makes Prezi considerably more useful in the multimedia presentation sphere. The first option is a …Read more at the full article: Easy audio has finally been added to Prezi
The iPad just celebrated its third birthday! Apple’s tablet computer has dramatically changed how people are accessing information and creating content via mobile technology. While the iPad has done amazingly well for Apple in the consumer market, it has also been equally successful, if not more so, in the world of education. The iPad provides …Read more at the full article: Digital First Impact Grant
There are many possible directions when trying to develop successful online courses and programs along with many pitfalls to avoid. At The Fisher College of Business we’re considering the feasibility of expanding our online offerings, either as targeted courses or even entire programs. During this research, we’ve discovered that The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools …Read more at the full article: Strategies for Delivering Online/Hybrid Courses and Degree Programs
In Autumn 2012, Ohio State and Coursera partnered to deliver OSU courses open and free to the world. Starting in January 2013, Jim Fowler (Mathematics) began his Calculus course featuring his home-built exercise and textbook website called MOOCulus connected right to the course in Coursera. His course alone is approaching 1 million unique videos watched and …Read more at the full article: Here’s the Scoop on Ohio State MOOCs
A good conference brings colleagues together to share ideas and discuss current trends in their field. A great conference generates ideas for application, so attendees can later involve new resources or methods into their own work. Innovate 2013 did all this and more, turning intention into on-the-spot action. Several instructors left this year’s conference with …Read more at the full article: Innovate 2013 Moves Educators from Intention to Action
Two Apple Distinguished Educators Named at Ohio State
Two members of the Ohio State community have been selected to join the Apple Distinguished Educator (ADE) program class of 2013. Dr. Matthew Stolzfus of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Michael Hofherr, associate vice president for distance education and eLearning, have been invited to join the Apple community of educators because of their commitment to …Read more at the full article: Two Apple Distinguished Educators Named at Ohio State