Event Description
Town Hall III: Research in Technology Enhanced
Teaching and Learning
May 3,
2018
9:30-11:00
Behrakis Grand Hall South and via Zoom
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Immersive Media
(VR) Content Creation for Distributed Online Learning
Nick
Jushchyshyn, MFA
Access to Immersive VR content is now trivial for online distance
learners, thanks to the proliferation of widely available, low cost VR viewers.
Coupled with built-in support for immersive formats adopted by existing
internet distribution channels, access to immersive, VR content is now
routine. With existing tools already in use at Drexel University’s Digital
Media Department, capture and distribution of real-world lectures, events,
demonstrations and learning spaces as immersive content for use by distance
learners is also a routine process.
This presentation will provide an overview of current immersive VR
content creation workflows, as well as inexpensive playback technologies with
“on-your-doorstep-tomorrow” availability for online faculty and students.
Nick Jushchyshyn is Program Director for Animation, Visual Effects & Immersive Media in
the Westphal College of Media and Design. Coming from a background in feature
film animation and visual effects on films including The Curious Case of
Benjamin Button, his research focuses on the development and application of
production pipelines for VR/AR and other immersive media formats in areas
including education, cultural heritage, medicine and narrative experiences.
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Drexel University’s Global Classroom Program Dana
D’Angelo, MBA Adam Zahn,
MS Since 2013,
Drexel University’s Global Classroom
program has provided a collaborative online international
learning (COIL)
experience for over 1,500 Drexel student and students from
our international
partners through over 55 courses. This session will cover the
history of how
the Global Classroom program was developed by the senior
international office,
the goals and impact of COIL at Drexel for both students, and
faculty, and use
of international, innovation, and interpretation to develop
global communities
and bridge students from different cultural backgrounds. A
case study from
Drexel business faculty will be discussed as an example of
COIL course
development, synthesis, and expansion. Staff and faculty will
discuss how they
developed partner relationships, engaged their students in
project-based learning
through COIL, and will provide evidence of success and
expansion. Finally, the
panelists will explain how they leveraged these COIL courses
into research of
teaching and practice.
Adam Zahn is Associate Director of Global Engagement
in the Office of International Programs where he works with
faculty to develop
and strengthen their international research goals, manages
the Global Classroom
program, and oversees the Global Engagement Scholar program
for undergraduate
students. He is an instructor for the Lindy Center for Civic
Engagement's
Introduction to Civic Engagement courses and has worked
closely with university
colleagues to develop global-local initiatives and
programming. He has
presented and published on the Global Classroom at numerous
domestic and
international conferences.
Dana D’Angelo is a Clinical
Professor. She has also served as a LeBow
College of Business Center for Teaching Excellence Fellow, as
well as Associate
Director in the Office of Faculty Affairs. Dana is
a Visiting Lecturer at
Leeds University (UK), and holds CPA and CMA certifications,
and is a licensed
trainer in the Ennea International Five Lens Program. Her
areas of interest and
research include global classrooms and alternative study
abroad (for which she
has spent the past five years developing multiple new
programs), team
leadership development and experiential education. Her work
has been published
in journals such as Global Education and Academy of Business
Research, and she
has presented at conferences both in the US and
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From “Required" to Dynamic: Innovative
Strategies to Transform Discussion Boards Kristen
Betts, Ed.D. Discussion
boards are a cornerstone
activity in most online and hybrid courses and typically
require students to
“Read, Post, and Reply” to their peers and/or
the instructor. This Pecha
Kucha presentation will provide strategies that can be easily
be integrated
into current or planned online and hybrid courses to
transform the discussion
board experience for students and faculty. The
presentation will connect
discussion boards to principles of learning as well as
constructivism, social
constructivism, and transformative learning.
Strategies, technologies,
and artifacts will be shared to highlight and demonstrate
ways in which discussion
boards can be used to support active learning, mastery, and
real-world
transfer.
Dr. Kristen Betts is a Clinical Professor at Drexel
University. She has over 20 years of experience in higher
education serving in
key leadership positions within private, public, and
for-profit institutions.
Dr. Betts’ expertise is in online and blended
learning, course/program design,
online pedagogy, Brain Targeted Teaching, and faculty
development.
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