Category: Student Technology

Aligning How Faculty Teach with How Students Learn

Instructional technology, often referred to as informational technology, continues to evolve at an increasing rate of growth. Some technologies are used by faculty and/or students simply because they are new technologies. In some cases technologies rise quickly as fads and are adopted early only to fade in their importance and use later. The integration of …

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QR Codes: Practical Uses

Quick Response or “QR” codes have been around for a while now, but they have never been as prevalent as they are right now. Advances in technology have made them more valuable and useful to the public, including the University. The remainder of this post is going to talk about what QR Codes are, how …

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Faculty Spotlight – Alan Francis

Dr. Alan Francis, Applied Arts & Sciences Changing Content in Online Courses As an online instructor I have found that it is important to change the content in my courses frequently. I believe by making certain changes it will reduce plagiarism on research papers and possible cheating on online exams and quizzes. After a semester …

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Faculty Spotlight – Mutlu Mete

Dr. Mutlu Mete, Computer Science & Information Systems Collaborative Real-Time Codies Motivates Students Teaching programming and problem solving together requires great effort for us. At the Department of Computer Science, I teach C++ programming to help student implement their various algorithmic solutions in a computer language. Usually, introducing a new topic with coding involves in …

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Faculty Spotlight – Leah Wickersham

Dr. Leah Wickersham, Educational Leadership Assessing Students Online With the increase of students in online classes and the loss of face-to-face contact, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to assess students, especially in a writing intensive course such as research methods. Enter Jing and YouTube! The solution to my dilemma! I use Jing, a free software program …

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