INTERDISCIPLINARY SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING COMPLEX • APRIL 9, 2019

Visit the digital poster session to get a closer look at projects in progress.

Online course design: Notes from the CSSH interdisciplinary faculty working group.
The presenter focuses on the on-going “Online Learning and Teaching in CSSH initiative” that was started in fall 2018. First, the presenter briefly outlines the online course design training program developed for CSSH faculty in collaboration with ATS and CATLR. Next, the presenter shows specific examples of content items, interaction/collaboration items, and assessment items that faculty have developed, as well as the lessons learned so far.
Presenter: Carolin Fuchs, College of Social Sciences and Humanities Slides

Arming A2M Scholars with Technology to Succeed.
The Associates to Masters (A2M) Scholars program is an NSF funded S-STEM program that scholarships and supports low-income students through an associate’s degree at Middlesex Community College and Bachelor and Master’s degrees at Northeastern in Biotechnology. Students receive scholarship money to cover tuition costs, but also additional supports in increase student retention, including laptops, textbooks, a specialized advisor coined a “Biotech Navigator”, team building events, mentoring, internships, and more. Here, we share what technologies we have found valuable for students to succeed in the classroom and communicate outside of the classroom, including the selection and implementation process.

Presenter: Elizabeth Zulick, College of Professional Studies

Leveraging Blackboard’s Hidden Features in an Educational Study: a Use Case.
Notice how there are 14 options in Blackboard dropdown menus when you just want to run an item analysis? They have some use! When I started an educational study to determine which method was most effective for student learning I had specific tools I needed to set things up and collect data. It turns out Blackboard had much of what I needed “hidden” in menus I never used. With the help of Academic Technologies I was able to leverage these already-available tools to structure my study!
Presenter: Andrew Mackie, Physician Assistant Program Slides

Digital Posters: Maximizing Instructional Impact.
How do we provide for instructor engagement, assessment of prior learning, building a community of learners, and supporting student success? Using Digital Posters for deeper student learning is explored through models, student examples, and student feedback.
Presenter: Dr. Darin Detwiler, LP.D., M.A.Ed., Assistant Dean of Academic and Faculty Affairs, Lead Faculty: Regulatory Affairs of Food and Food Industries, College of Professional Studies Slides

Using Learning Analytics to Inform Online Course Design & Delivery
As instructors, we design our online courses with assumptions about which course features, resources, and activities are important for students to view and/or engage in. But how do we know that students access these resources as anticipated and/or that engaging them is associated with student learning or success? This presentation will highlight some open-source Learning Analytics methods and tools that can be used to analyze course design and student activity within courses, in order to better understand what is working and what might be improved or revised.
Presenter: Susan Gracia, PhD, Lecturer, Graduate School of Education, College of Professional Studies Slides

Students as Infrastructure – Customer Experience Technicians
Northeastern University is home to some of the smartest students in the world. Information Technology Services (ITS) Customer Experience and Engagement has created a student employee program that harnesses these talents and allows student employees to apply their classroom, co-op, and personal interests within the IT field.
Presenter: Ryan Bender, Senior Service Desk Analyst, ITS Customer Experience and Engagement Slides

Video Production and Editing Support for Northeastern Faculty
There are many benefits to using video in education – among them are facilitating problem solving, assisting with learning, and engaging and inspiring your students. See how Academic Technologies can provide support and assistance from concept to completion to help you create videos to support your teaching efforts.
Presenters: Terry Beadle and Jesse Savage, Academic Technologies, Information Technology Services

Paperless Professor – A Digital Whiteboard Assistant
PaperlessProf enables you to smoothly teach engineering lectures from a tablet PC. The key advantage is having a OneNote page to read as you teach, and another page that the class sees as a virtual white board. Also works with Power Point, Chrome, DrawboardPDF. https://github.com/thisIsMikeKane/PaperlessProf
Presenter: Michael Kane, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Teaching Behavioral Methods in Class with Volunteer Science
Volunteer Science is a Northeastern-based startup you can use to expose students to experiments across the social and behavioral sciences. Students can participate in experiments in class, create experiments as part of assignments, or participate for extra credit. Students can perform experiments with markets, implicit cognition, bargaining, problem solving, and even content coding experiments with one click.
Presenter: Jason Radford, Postdoctoral Fellow, Lazer Lab, Northeastern University

The Virtual EXPO: Leveraging Technology to Capture & Showcase Student Learning
This poster will demonstrate how the Service-Learning Program at Northeastern University has utilized WordPress to create an archive of digital artifacts that represent student learning from service-learning courses across 8 colleges at the university. This archive, the Virtual EXPO, can be updated, organized, and catalogued over time to reflect each semester’s work.
Presenters: Chelsea Lauder and Lisa Roe, Center of Community Service

Centralize Team Collaboration and Communication with Office 365
Learn how to leverage Microsoft Teams and SharePoint to streamline your communication and collaboration process. During this poster session, you will hear about uses of these tools throughout the university and learn how to get started.
Presenters: Deb Thayer, Business Systems Analyst- SharePoint/O365, Information Technology Services

Rethinking faculty development with the D’Amore-McKim Instructional Design Group
The Instructional Design Group for the D’Amore-McKim School of Business will present their plans to enhance the teaching and learning experience for faculty and students by promoting the adoption and integration of interactive learning tools such as Microsoft Teams, Articulate Rise, Poll Everywhere, and Northeastern’s Self-Authored Integrated Learning (SAIL). Through classroom demos, faculty showcases, and interactive workshops, we aim to build upon our professional learning community by creating high-quality, media-rich, and engaging face-to-face and online learning experiences at D’Amore-McKim.
Presenters: Jacob Cragg and Anna Wright, Instructional Design Group

No remote join options are available for this session. Presentations will be linked after the event.