Table of Contents
- COLA: Colleges Online Learning Academy
- Drawing as Educational Exercise NSF Grant Submitted
- Multimodal Classroom Project
- Quality Matters
COLA: Colleges Online Learning Academy
This month we continued the Colleges’ Online Learning Academy (COLA). The program is a summer fellowship that allows 29 graduate students to more deeply engage with digital teaching and learning in their work. For July, we have developed weekly podcasts focusing on components of teaching and learning to support students in developing online course modules and teaching portfolios.
In addition to developing and delivering the professional development sessions and resources for the COLA fellows, we have also been conducting COLA program evaluation activities such as participant surveys. Participant survey 1 has provided us with baseline information regarding COLA fellows’ needs, basic demographic composition, as well as their prior engagement in teaching-focused professional development programs/communities at MSU. This survey serves as a pre-survey, and will be coupled with a post-survey as well as other evaluation data for us to evaluate the learning experience of the COLA fellows (Contact: Jun Fu).
Drawing as Educational Exercise NSF Grant Submitted
EDLI has been working with faculty partner Dr. Julie Libarkin to help identify the role of technologies in promoting drawing as an instruction modality and developing curriculum around drawing as a learning process. Caitlin, Jun, Stephen, and collaborator Julie Libarkin submitted a grant application to the NSF Improving Undergraduate STEM Education program for a $300,000, three-year project. (Contact: Caitlin Kirby and Stephen Thomas)
Multimodal Classroom Project
IT is continuing to modify six rooms to be upgraded to be hyflex-enabled. To prepare faculty for using these rooms EDLI is working on working with faculty who would like to promote these approaches, developing methods for hiring and training undergraduates to facilitate this work, and communicating to the broader faculty and staff the opportunities of the Hybrid Tech Carts as well as the Hyflex enabled rooms.
EDLI has been working on professional development for faculty and a range of evaluation instruments to help gauge the success of these rooms. An overview of multimodal teaching can be found on the EDLI website with specific identified steps for progression on this project forward. (Contact: Caitlin Kirby and Scott Schopieray)
Quality Matters
As a part of the longer-term EDLI Quality Matters (QM) strategy, Sarah Wellman completed training to become a certified Course Review Manager which will allow her to run official Subscriber-Managed QM course reviews at MSU without having to pay additional fees to QM. EDLI has also connected with Dave Goodrich from the HUB, who will be offering an online section of the Applying the Quality Matters Rubric (APPQMR) workshop to faculty at MSU in early August, to collaborate on a broader campus-wide QM strategy. Additionally, as a part of COLA Sarah Wellman and Scott Schopieray recorded a podcast overview of QM, and created an asynchronous workshop to provide an overview of Quality Matters and their peer review process to the fellows. The EDLI team is working with members of the Hub and MSU IT to form an MSU QM Network that will coordinate to provide QM support on campus.
(Contact: Sarah Wellman)
