Conference Session

Faculty Development for Distance Learning

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gene Dixon, East Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

Continuing Professional Development

. ≠ Left to discretion of the committees. ≠ OES-I publications are discounted and treated separately from technical publications. ≠ Peer review has no special context with respect to OES-I. It is simply applied across the board with respect to refereed publications and conference proceedings. It is a yes or no tick box. ≠ Peer Review in our institution is only by senior faculty at other institutions of published work. ≠ Peer review means anonymous review of your work by peers, with potential rejection by your peers. I would discourage my peers from writing papers focusing on outreach activities, if it means not writing a paper on their primary subject. ≠ Peer review means having someone who has

Conference Session

Technology-Enhanced Learning

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven Cramer, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Robert Jeanne, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Moira Lafayette, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Michael J. Litkow, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Amber R. Smith, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Lillian Tong, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Tagged Divisions

Continuing Professional Development

: ≠ Orientation workshops for instructors which highlight the background educational research, student survey data from previous semesters, and provide activities to practice writing open-ended higher-order thinking questions. These workshops built a community of users and provided more information to faculty about best practices in scientific teaching. ≠ Meetings between the instructors and the programmer to learn how the instructors would tag responses. Our team began with the idea of being able to quickly sort responses and provide feedback. After talking to faculty we found that there are many methods of sorting responses and different perspectives on the types of feedback that should be sent to

Conference Session

Technology-Enhanced Learning

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Glenda Scales, Virginia Tech; Sharon Caraballo, George Mason University; James Groves, University of Virginia; Rosalyn Hobson, Virginia Commonwealth University; Linda Vahala, Old Dominion University; Catherine Amelink, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Continuing Professional Development

adding online students to their existing courses using NEW,and these efforts gradually expanded to allow students to complete an MS in Computer Science Page 15.687.4entirely online.The open-source NEW system has similar functionality to many widely-used commercialsystems for online synchronous course delivery. The primary interface is a computer-basedwhiteboard, which can be used to display slides, share images of running applications, write, ordraw. The system includes audio, so that the instructor's voice is broadcast along with theimages, and students in the distance environment who have microphone-equipped computers canparticipate via voice

Conference Session

e-Learning Course Development and Instruction

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marie-Pierre Huguet, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Tom Haley, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Yaron Danon, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Divisions

Continuing Professional Development

completed experiment when later trying to write a lab report based on their fuzzyrecollections of the experimental details. Instructors can also direct students to use theseinteraction tools to facilitate peer review and/or assessment of the measureable products.Blended formatThe course material was designed to be delivered both locally and to remote classes. In this Page 15.638.7project, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute collaborated with the United States Military Academy atWest Point (USMA), which recently received ABET accreditation for their nuclear engineeringprogram. The USMA does not have local access to a critical facility or a linear