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Topic Area: Pandemic Pivot
Presented By: Xuefei Hao
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During the pandemic, students have been facing many challenges including but not limited to health, financial, academic, and emotional issues, which often results in poor attitudes, low motivation, and corresponding weak grades. In this presentation, I will discuss several efficient ways to stimulate students’ language interest and increase their engagement and motivation based on my Chinese language courses’ practices from March 2020 to 2021 spring semester. Through building a Chinese learning community inside and outside the classroom, students can use the target language in practical communication and feel connected and supported.

Topic Area: Student Success
Presented by: Regina Gong, Jason Almerigi
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The MSU Libraries' OER Program is a student success initiative that was launched in the Fall 2019 semester. The OER program goals are affordability, access, agency, innovation, and engagement in innovative pedagogical models that facilitate learning. This presentation will provide an overview of the OER program, including the courses using an OER as course learning materials. It will also present survey results and course success metrics disaggregated by relevant demographic background factors from over 8,000 students enrolled in Fall 2020 courses that adopted OER learning materials. We will discuss how the cost of textbooks has impacted our students' lives and how OER has provided them the means to address the affordability and accessibility of learning materials, especially during the pandemic.

Topic Area: Student Success
Presented By: Candace Robertson, Brittany Dillman, Liz Boltz
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How can we support student success by removing the barrier of grading? What impact would this have on feedback and iteration? Members from Team MAET (Master of Arts in Educational Technology) will share how they worked through these questions and others to move the majority of program courses to an ungrading philosophy as an act of social justice. In this session, you will learn from the triumphs, challenges, and solutions from their journey.Session resources:Google Slidedeck (website)

Main take-aways: Do not speak too slowly. Watch your intonation so that you sound authoritative. Use informal and friendly language (I, you, we) and stay away from academic language. Don't use machine-read audio. Use your own examples and let your personality come through. Create a connection with your learners. References:Moreno, R., & Mayer, R. E. (2000). A Coherence Effect in Multimedia Learning: The Case for Minimizing Irrelevant Sounds in the Design of Multimedia Instructional Messages. Journal of Educational Psychology, 92(1), 117–125. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022Simonds, B. K., Meyer, K. R., Quinlan, M. M., & Hunt, S. K. (2006). Effects of instructor speech rate on student affective learning, recall, and perceptions of nonverbal immediacy, credibility, and clarity. Communication Research Reports, 23(3), 187–197. https://doi.org/10.1080/08824090600796401 

This workshop guides GTAs in developing strategies for supporting student motivation in any modality and apply motivation theory to support student success in any learning environment. In addition, workshop participants will identify potential barriers to student motivation and use tools to address these.
By the end of this session, GTAs will be able to: 

Develop strategies for supporting student motivation in their role and modality 
Apply motivation theory to support student success in a variety of modalities (e.g., face-to-face, hybrid, online asynchronous) and subject areas  
Identify and troubleshoot potential barriers to supporting student motivation 

 
MSU IT now offers a self-paced training course in many of the technologies available on campus. MSU Tools and Technologies is open to any instructor who is looking for basic information on the free technologies available on campus. We are working to provide as much useful information as possible, so we are continuing to build and imporve on the materials available. We want to make sure we are meeting the needs of instructors, staff and students, so if there is something missing from the course, please let us know how we can imporve it. 
 
You can sign up for the training by going to this self-enrollment link: MSU Tools and Technologies Course

Dr. Jeff Grabill, Associate Provost for Teaching, Learning, and Technology / Director of the Hub for Innovation in Learning and Technology, launches the Spring Conference on Teaching, Learning, and Student Success by introducing Provost Woodruff. 
Teresa K. Woodruff, Ph.D. serves as Michigan State University’s Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs. As the chief academic officer for Michigan State University, Provost Woodruff provides leadership for matters that affect academic programs, research, and outreach involving faculty, students, and staff. She oversees the quality of instruction and research at the University through collaborative work with deans, departmental chairs, and other vice presidents, addressing issues such as effective planning, good management, and program reviews.You can engage with presentations and information sessions from Spring Conference by searching "spring conference" in the search bar above. 
Asynchronous Poster Sessions can be accessed via this playlist!

Topic Area: Pandemic Pivot
Presented by: Ryan Thompson, Andrew Dennis, Valeta Wensloff
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When MSU’s campus activity closed due to COVID-19, units and departments across campus sought solutions to transition to remote learning and maintain student engagement. The game development program in the Department of Media and Information turned to a familiar source; a video game communication platform called Discord. While we were already using Discord for casual links and outside of class communication, the quarantine put our server into overdrive. Now, our community Discord is a thriving community spanning 30 classes, 10 faculty, and over 800 members. It is helping game developers of all stripes learn, share, and communicate in a screen dominated era, and keeping faculty, students, and alumni connected and collaborating.
Join three Media & Information faculty as they discuss their experience building, fostering, growing, and maintaining this online community consisting of hundreds of game and interaction design students on Discord. By involving alumni and forthright peers, they found a natural balance between professionalism and creative expression.