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Providing A Context For Learning Using Problem-Based Learning And Assignment Scaffolding, Carrie Lewis Miller
Providing A Context For Learning Using Problem-Based Learning And Assignment Scaffolding, Carrie Lewis Miller
IT Solutions Publications
Have your students ever asked you "Why do I need to know this?" Do you struggle to make connections between your content and your students' lives? Using problem-based learning combined with carefully aligned and scaffolded assessments, you can both increase the cognitive skill level of assignments and provide real-life examples for your content. This workshop will help you develop a contextual problem for your class and multiple aligned and scaffolded contextual assessments.
Supporting Faculty In Learning, Adopting, And Embracing Oers, Kimberly Johnson, Carrie Lewis Miller, Karen Pikula
Supporting Faculty In Learning, Adopting, And Embracing Oers, Kimberly Johnson, Carrie Lewis Miller, Karen Pikula
IT Solutions Publications
Minnesota State, a public system of 7 universities and 30 colleges serving nearly 400,000 students, has partnered with the Open Textbook Network (OTN) since 2014 to deliver training to nearly 300 faculty to OTN and the need, purpose, and possibilities of OER use in the classroom. Many of these faculty have gone on to peer review one or more texts housed in the Open Textbook Library. While there is still need for these basics, there is also growing interest in aiding faculty to move beyond reviewing existing OERs to adopting, redesigning courses, and even authoring their own open texts. To …
A Method To The Madness: The Challenges & Successes Of Training Faculty To Use Brightspace, Carrie Miller, Jeffrey Henline
A Method To The Madness: The Challenges & Successes Of Training Faculty To Use Brightspace, Carrie Miller, Jeffrey Henline
IT Solutions Publications
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Our Courts: Making Strides In Educational Gaming, Jason Lancaster, Carrie Lewis Miller, Nancy Haas, Wilhelmina Savenye
Our Courts: Making Strides In Educational Gaming, Jason Lancaster, Carrie Lewis Miller, Nancy Haas, Wilhelmina Savenye
IT Solutions Publications
The iCivics study will be of interest to those affiliated with educational gaming, multimedia production, technology integration or evaluation. The study and results described below will be covered in the session, as will the overall vision of Justice O’Connor and the iCivics group. A detailed PowerPoint presentation and handouts will be provided in addition to the opportunity to play one of the iCivics games and explore the website for those who bring laptops to the session.
iCivics and its products are the vision of Justice Sandra Day O’Connor as a method of helping middle-school children learn about civics and civics …