Students and instructors will notice a slightly new appearance and some welcome new features when they log into ReggieNet after the winter break. These enhancements come the system shifts to off-campus hosting and receives some important upgrades.
This year, Illinois State University is honoring seven individuals who demonstrate the highest commitment to teaching and to student learning.
Elizabeth Barkley, author, scholar, musician, and educator, will be the keynote speaker at “Next Steps in Student Engagement,” the 2015 University-Wide Teaching & Learning Symposium.
The Office of International Studies and Programs and the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Technology are sponsoring a workshop for faculty members on how to create and lead a study abroad program. This event will be held Friday, October 17, from 10 to 11:30 a.m. in 103B Instructional Technology and Development Center.
Massive open online courses (or MOOCs) have been in the news almost daily since 2011, when two Stanford University professors offered a computer science course online to 160,000 students. Some believe that MOOCs could transform access to higher education worldwide, while others fear MOOCs could also mean the end of brick and mortar universities and their faculties.
Every instructor has experienced it—distracting noises and disengaged students, all thanks to smartphones and other portable digital devices. Some instructors see this technology as a modern plague, while others hope it is the key to a new kind of teaching.
Illinois State’s Center for Mathematics, Science, and Technology (CeMaST) will partner with Macy’s in Bloomington for the eighth annual Shop For A Cause, a national shopping event for charity.
