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Using Microsoft Teams

by | Mar 5, 2020 | CFC Insider, Educational Technology

Did you know that you have one of the most advanced collaboration suites available to use with your students?

The WCU license of Microsoft Teams allows you to create a collaborative classroom light space that your students can access through their Smartphones or their computers.

Every part of Teams other than synchronous video chat does not rely upon a persistent and strong connection and so can be a part of a low-bandwidth continuity of instruction plan.

If you want an overview of how Teams works there is a great on-demand video available from Microsoft here.

Microsoft also offers faculty training on the Microsoft Educator Center including Transform Learning with Microsoft Teams

 

Digital Learning Webinar, October 25, 2019

Digital Learning Webinar, October 25, 2019

by | Oct 16, 2019 | Blog, Educational Technology

UNC System Digital Learning Webinar

October 25, 2019

(11:00 AM – 12:00 PM)

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11:00 AM – 11:10 AM

Welcome

James Garner Ptaszynski, Ph.D., Vice President, Digital Learning, UNC System Office

Jim will provide recent Digital Learning Initiative (DLI) updates and an overview of today’s topics.

11:10 AM – 11:30 AM

Guest Speaker

Karen Vignare, Ph.D., M.B.A., Executive Director, Personalized Learning Consortium, Association of Public and Land-grant Universities

Personalizing Education in a Digital World

Session Summary

Adaptive learning technologies have the potential to transform the learning experiences of students. Increasing adoption of these technologies by faculty across the country have helped to enhance the collective understanding of how to support successful transformation through their effective implementation. Drawing from her experience with a network of institutions with expertise in implementing and supporting adaptive courseware for personalized learning, Karen will share what the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) has learned and how it might be applied at UNC institutions.

Karen’s Bio

Karen Vignare, Ph.D., M.B.A, is a strategic innovator leveraging emerging technologies to improve access, success and flexibility within higher education. As Executive Director for the Personalized Learning Consortium at the APLU, Karen manages a network of universities committed to student success through personalization. She also oversees several adaptive courseware grants providing leadership and support to multiple public four-year universities. She has been leading a scaling initiative with eight pioneering universities since 2016, many of which are seeing improved student success rates and higher retention.
Karen previously served as a Vice Provost, at University of Maryland University College, the largest online public open access institution where she led innovations in adaptive learning, student success and analytics. Previous to that work, she served as Director of Project Planning and Implementation for MSUGlobal at Michigan State University where she helped multiple units leverage emerging technologies in extension, non-credit programs, corporate settings, and research projects. She has published extensively on online learning, analytics, and open educational resources. She has a Ph.D. from Nova Southeastern University and an M.B.A from University of Rochester, William Simon Business School.

11:30 AM – 11:40 AM

Learning Technology
Partner SessionHolistic Course Design and Development

Maria Andersen, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, Coursetune

Session Summary

Online course and curriculum design is a very complex process that requires the alignment of learning objectives at the institutional, academic program and course level while also addressing workforce needs. Maria’s presentation will demonstrate how Coursetune supports a holistic and team approach to quality instructional design through the use of learning blueprints and features such as curriculum visualization and mapping. She will also discuss how Coursetune can be used to facilitate continuous course and curriculum improvement leveraging built-in instructional design metrics and reports that enable curriculum analysis from the learner’s perspective.

Maria’s Bio

Maria Andersen, Ph.D., has been teaching mathematics and chemistry at the college level since 1998, as well as writing curriculum for mathematics, and developing digital products for learning. She built iPad games to teach algebra, launched the Canvas Network MOOC platform, and created adaptive learning platforms used by McGraw Hill. Maria also worked as the Director of Learning Design for Western Governors University. While a professor at Muskegon Community College (MCC), she directed the week-long MCC Math & Technology workshop for five years, helping faculty to prepare to teach online (or enhance their skills). Maria teaches at Westminster College, is an author, a speaker, a learning futurist, and the CEO of Coursetune. She holds degrees in Math, Chemistry, Biology, Business Administration, and Higher Education Leadership.

11:40 AM – 11:50 AM

DLI Initiatives Segment

Quality Matters Across the UNC System
John J. Falchi, M.S., Director of Special Projects, UNC System Office

Session Summary

Nearly 35% of UNC System undergraduate students completed online courses in Spring 2019. As the UNC System online presence continues to grow, along with student expectations for online education, how can UNC universities ensure the quality of online course design and implementation? One resource that is being utilized across the System is the Quality Matters (QM) program. This presentation will provide a basic understanding of QM, how it can be leveraged at your university and the value it brings to improving online learning across the System.

Join Webinar – HTTPS://MCNC.ZOOM.US/J/943706306

Phone: 646-558-8656; MEETING ID: 943 706 306

October 25, 2019 (11:00 AM – 12:00 PM)

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Source: https://myapps.northcarolina.edu/digitallearning/webinar-series/

CFC Staff Presents at System Educational Technology Conference

by | Oct 7, 2019 | Blog, Educational Technology

The staff of the CFC had the largest number of sessions ever accepted for the annual UNCCAUSE conference. 

From October 1-3, the staff attended sessions, joined networking and special-interest groups, and presented at 5 sessions.

In order of delivery, the sessions were:

The CFC would be happy to do encore presentations as requested.

 

CFC Hosting Educause Encore Event

by | Feb 11, 2019 | Blog, Educational Development, Educational Technology

For More Information About the Event Go Here
Hunter Library Room 156 Drop In

March 5

  • Noon – The Role of Learning Engineering for Next-Gen Learning Technologies
  • 12:45 pm – What We Know About Online Leadership
  • 1:30 pm – A Strategic and Collaborative Approach to Online Education Compliance
  • 3:00 pm – Senior Academic Technology Officer Roles
  • 3:45 pm – Faculty Development and Engagement
  • 4:30 pm – Accessible Interactive Simulations

March 6

  • Noon – Exploring, Conceptualizing, and Navigating the Digital Learning Environment
  • 12:45 pm – Accessibility and Universal Design for Learning
  • 1:30 pm – Design Symposium for Dream Classrooms: Rethinking the Space Conversation
  • 2:30 pm – Learning Sequence Building Blocks: A Collaborative Design Tool
  • 3:15 pm – Rethink Peer Review: Hands-On with Purdue’s Circuit App
  • 4:00 pm – App Smackdown! A Battle Royal of Education Technology

For more information, contact Jonathan Wade

Merging Sessions in Panopto

by | Oct 3, 2018 | Blog, Educational Technology, Panopto

(Source: https://spotlight.panopto.com/)

Panopto allows you to merge any two sessions together. This is often necessary when recordings are made using two different computers to capture audio, video, powerpoint and screen capture, but the recordings are not recorded in the same session.

How to combine separated recordings

Merge

  1. Go to your Panopto website and log in with an account that has access to the folder where the content has been recorded.
  2. Once you have found the folder, hover over the first session to reveal the settings icon.
  3. On the settings page, click Manage.
  4. The first drop down selection box allows you to select the folder where the other price of the session is located. The second drop down selection box is where you would select the other session name that you want to merge this recording with.
  5. After you have selected the folder and session to merge with, click the merge button. The session will re-encode and be synchronised as one recording.

Copy

Copying can be a useful way to move a session to a new or additional folder while preserving the original session location.

  1. Go to your Panopto website and log in with an account that has access to the folder containing the session to copy.
  2. Once you have found the folder, hover over the session to reveal the settings icon.
  3. Click manage and locate the copy session selection, simply name your new session and click copy.

Using additional monitors to record in Panopto

by | Sep 25, 2018 | Blog, Educational Technology, Panopto

How to install an additional monitor:

  • To add a second monitor to your computer, you’ll need to make sure that you either have a video card that supports multiple monitors, or that your computer has more than one video card.
    • Once you have made sure that your video card can support a second monitor, turn off your computer and monitor. Next, locate the video ports on your computer.
  • Connect the second monitor to the unused video port. Plug the second monitor into an electrical power source and turn it on.
  • Turn on your original monitor. Next, turn on your computer. Windows should recognize the monitor once the computer has started. If you are prompted to install driver software, see the instructions that came with the monitor. When you have confirmed the second monitor is functioning properly, you are now ready to begin screen capturing with multiple monitors.

Capturing on multiple monitors

  1. Open the Panopto recorder. In the secondary sources area of the recorder screen, click the checkbox next to capture second screen and/or capture third screen.
  2. A new tab labelled second screen will appear, displaying the output of the second monitor.
  3. If you only want to capture the output from the secondary monitor, be sure to uncheck capture primary screen. After naming your session and selecting a folder, hit the large record button to begin your recording.

(Source: https://spotlight.panopto.com/)