UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA — This collection of digital stories documents the pedagogical design and research projects of faculty in the Office of Information Technology Faculty Fellowship Program (FFP) at the University of Minnesota from August 2012 to December 2013. These stories attest to the value of multi-disciplinary learning communities and a cohort-based approach to the exploration and research of technology-rich learning environments.
These stories are the result of a collaborative, supportive, and inspiring eighteen months in which we were deeply engaged in the challenges of teaching and technology. They are quintessential learning artifacts — expressions of learning designed to instruct by example …
Student Voices: Networked Learning
My faculty fellowship project focused on a course redesign for FMIS 3141: Business Communications. Business Communications is a required course for all …
Changing the Culture of Medicine
Sometimes things come together, sometimes they fall apart, and sometimes those pieces form new things. My project has taken a number of …
The Gamification of eLearning: Adventures for Intercultural Competence Development
My teaching, advising, and research work are primarily aimed at professional development for aspiring and practicing preK-12 school leaders. Since 2001 I …
Creating “The Changing Story”: Digital Stories, Teaching, Learning
“The Changing Story: Digital Stories that Participate in Transforming Teaching and Learning” is a digital book that will provide educators with examples …
Going Digital
CSt 1101: Introduction to Cultural Studies was a course that I created in 2001 as part of a civically engaged, interdisciplinary new …
Contextual Calculus: Using a story to tell a story
I am an assistant professor of mathematics at the Center for Learning Innovation, or CLI, at the University of Minnesota Rochester. I …
Odyssey in Photojournalism: An iPad Portrait of Red Wing Minnesota
As a direct result of the OIT Faculty Fellowship Program I believe I accomplished two things for the students who took JOUR …
GIS in Nursing Education
As a public health nursing and informatics faculty in the School of Nursing, I wanted to expand and update student learning by …
Creative Chaos: Mobile App Development at UMD
In my first year at UMD I started a Mobile Languages Learning Group with some of my colleagues. A series of grants …
Waves, Rays, and Transit Appeals
Personal learning networks (PLNs) are aggregates of people and tools activated to support learning. They differ from study groups in their focus …
Teaching Digital Signal Processing by Partial Flipping
I taught the Digital Signal Processing (EE-4541) class in Fall 2013 in a different style than before. The class was taught in …
Don’t Just Sit There…Do Something! Using electronic whiteboard technology to promote group learning
I teach the veterinary pathology lecture course, and for a while now I have been seeking ways to enhance in-classroom student engagement …
Evaluation of NILMOs: Neurology Independent Learning Modules Online
The goal of the NILMO project was to help medical students develop life long learning skills using elearning. The desired skills include researching …
Teaching Horticulture by Augmenting Reality
Teaching horticulture in Minnesota presents many challenges. For some instructors, the ideal method of teaching is to bring students outdoors so they …
Creating a Scenario-Based Learning Environment
In my efforts to transition my courses to a digital medium I’ve struggled with the appropriate balance between online delivery and face-to-face …
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