Academic Technology @ Notre Dame
Digital Innovation in Teaching and Learning
Need to record your class lectures? Need to create brief tutorials for your courses or labs? Using laptops and mobile devices, a new OIT service–Panopto–makes it easy for faculty and students to record and share videos and screencasts. The OIT recently selected Panopto to provide campus-wide lecture recording and video content management capabilities to replace the Echo360 platform. For those curious, check out Panopto’s website
Look for more information in the coming months!
For the new Silicon Valley Semester immersion program, Computer Science & Engineering needed an easy way to connect students in California synchronously with classes in South Bend. Thankfully, Zoom conferencing made it easy for students to participate in classes from three time zones away on their laptops.
Here on campus, Zoom conferencing allows instructors to bring in guest lecturers or hold virtual office hours. Zoom is easier to use than Skype, and has added features such as recording—all without forcing you to remember any new passwords!
For more information, check out these Zoom for Education tutorials.
To encourage student engagement and participation during her “God & the Good Life” philosophy course, professor Meghan Sullivan reused media content created for her online course. Instead of lectures, Sullivan flipped the classroom—having students read essays, watch interviews and thought experiments, and complete assignments before coming to each session. During class-time, students interact with the material through community debates as well as in-class polling and voluntary responses.
youtu.be/svT52xTJpVM
James M. Lang, Professor of English and the Director of the Center for Teaching Excellence at Assumption College, will discuss his book Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning.
Research from the learning sciences and from a variety of educational settings suggests that a small number of key principles can improve learning in almost any type of college or university course, from traditional lectures to flipped classrooms. This workshop will introduce some of those principles, offer practical suggestions for how they might foster positive change in higher education teaching and learning, and guide faculty participants to consider how these principles might manifest themselves in their current and upcoming courses.
Smith Ballroom, Morris Inn
Friday, September 29, 2017
10:30am – 12pm
At Notre Dame, a recent OIT survey of incoming first-year students confirmed that at least a third of them carry and use tablets, and almost all of them carry smartphones. This May, Notre Dame will launch Sakai 11 with a more contemporary look and the responsive design to meet the growing need for interaction on mobile devices. Not only will Sakai 11 offer a fresher, more modern interface, but will work equally well no matter what device students and faculty use. This version promises some dynamic improvements to commonly used tools such as the Lessons module.
Visit the Sakai home page for additional information.