Learning Technology Development Council (LTDC)
ePedagogy at LTDC
Dr. Geoff Pederson
Clickers IN the Classroom@UW-Eau Claire
Dr. Geoff Pederson has been using Student Response Systems (SRS/clickers) for several years at UW-Eau Claire. This presentation explains the research he recently conducted with two of his Political Science 100 lectures courses. One class he used clickers and the other class he did not ... and the interesting data he has collected on how effective clickers are for student learning.
Jakob Iversen
Dr. Nancy Chick
Wikis for Student Learning and Faculty Collaboration
In “Wikis for Student Learning and Faculty Collaboration,” Nancy Chick (UW-Barron County) and Jakob Iversen (UW-Oshkosh) will discuss their LTDC Curriculum Redesign Grant on using wikis in the UW System. They will give a brief demonstration of how wikis work before showing a variety of examples of how they and their grant colleagues have used wikis in their classes, as well as how wikis have supported some of their collaborative work with other faculty. Finally, they will discuss different wiki platforms, including some easy-to-use free wikis.
Dr. Chris Henige
Media Suitcase Packs Instructional Text within Media for the Classroom
Dr. Chris Henige, art historian and assistant professor of art history at UW – Whitewater, used an LTDC Curriculum Redesign Grant in the development of a tool to integrate media and instructional text. Media Suitcase allows the instructor to insert instructional text into audio or visual media to point out structure, define terms, clarify significant pieces or provide other valuable instruction at the point of need. In this session, Chris explains the purpose of Media Suitcase, demonstrates how it has been used and suggests applications of the tool for more effective use of time and media.
Dr. Alan Aycock
Designing a Learning Module for a Blended Course
Alan is an anthropologist at UW-Milwaukee, and has been teaching blended courses for more than a decade. He also directs the Learning Technology Center at UWM, and has been team lead for UWM’s workshops on blended course redesign, which have been offered all over the United States and even abroad, in Saudi Arabia and Lebanon. The presentation uses “backwards design” (Wiggins and McTighe) to show how to develop a learning module which creates a peer learning community both online and face-to-face, and which integrates the two venues of instruction in a way that allows them to complement and elaborate one another.