There is an intense movement today toward the flipped classroom model, with budgets, technology development, media hype, free and open educational resources, and advances in learning theories experimenting with the flipped...
There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year and endless ways in which they can be used for teaching and learning. So many in fact, that most instructors are simply overwhelmed. Curt Bonk offers two simple yet...
Librarianship is becoming more complex with a broader range of services to support with little or no new people to take on these additional roles. The group of libraries in the Private Academic Library Network of Indiana...
The keynote speaker, Kevin Gannon, facilitated an interactive workshop during which participants were introduced to the research supporting Inclusive Pedagogy and encouraged to see it as a crucial part of our mission from the...
When students engage in academically dishonest behaviors, they may be responding to subtle pressures in the learning environment that interfere with deep learning and nudge them toward cheating. Hence if we can gain a better...
In 2013, a consortium of small to medium academic libraries prioritized moving to a shared web-scale management system in order to enhance collaboration between the members and realign services within them. The group...
We are in the midst of a learning revolution. During the past few years, learning has become increasingly collaborative, global, mobile, modular, informal, immediate, self-directed, open, blended, visual, hands-on, ubiquitous,...
Experiential learning, the key feature of the re-designed curriculum of the Byrum School of Business, begins early in the students’ experience and continues throughout their academic career. This enables graduates to be versed...
Politics and gender, race and religion, healthcare and war – our country is divided over many important issues. Dialogue is a way of talking and listening to create shared understanding, and in the classroom, we need it now...
MU Library recently made the decision to migrate from Illiad to Tipasa. Our motivation for the move was a recent merger with another university and discovering Illiad no longer met our needs. While the prospect of doing a...
Today’s classroom can be a challenging learning environment. In this session we will share best practices, suggestions, and Marian University resources to support student learning environments. We will explore setting...
This presentation will cover two different strategies for engaging students in course content with the intent of improving academic achievement. One example will discuss the use of video to explain assignments prior to the due...
This presentation describes how two educational technology tools were used to enhance student-centered learning. These tools, an online Qualtrics survey completed in tandem with a jigsaw discussion activity and an online...
The anaerobic bacteria, Clostridium perfringens is the primary bacterial cause of gas gangrene, a life-threatening infection. The bacterial toxins induce severe myonecrosis by emitting gas under the skin. With standard...
Does the library play a part in your curriculum, instruction, assessment, or research? How would you describe information literacy, and what would you want your students to know or be able to apply? This presentation will look...
Presented at the 2020 Celebrate Science Indiana Festival. Celebrate Science Indiana, Indiana’s Premier Science Festival, is a public event that demonstrates the importance of studying science and the joy of discovery, the...