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Project Title: Opening New WindowsProject Leads: Jon Frey, Daniel Trego





College/ Unit:



Arts and Letters








 











Elevator Pitch:Transparent projection offers the opportunity for students and educators to turn nearly any large glass surface into a space for dynamic communication and learning. In the classroom, this technology allows for the creation of convincing holographic displays of objects and monuments that are typically seen in three dimensions. In other settings, displays of student generated research and design content and faculty research are possible as well. This allows for better dissemination of creative and scholarly content in a novel and eye-catching way.Team Bios: The team currently consists of Jon Frey and Daniel Trego. Jon is a classical archaeologist who teaches in the Department of Art, Art History and Design. He is also director of the MSU Excavations at Isthmia. Daniel Trego is an Educational Media Design Specialist in the College of Arts and Letters and a director of the MSU iOS Design Lab. What are some of the successes?We have not yet been able to implement this technology. The funding arrived later in the term than anticipated, so we remain in the fabrication stage with implementation in the classroom scheduled for Fall 22 / Spring 23.What are some of the challenges that you have experienced on this project?Mostly timing.
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"MOMA's hot video" by sahadeva is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.

Open Educational Resources
The acronym OER refers to open educational resources. These are teaching, learning and research materials that are found within the public domain or are released with an intellectual property licence (i.e. Creative Commons) that allows for free use, adaptation, and distribution.
OERs are typically:

    Free to access.
    Free to reuse.
    Free to modify or adapt to your needs.
    Intended to support active teaching and learning.

There are several ways to explore and use OERs for your course. First, you may want to consult the MSU Library for information on the OER program ( https://lib.msu.edu/oer ). Second, you may wish to explore commonly used OER repositories to see what useful materials may be available for your course. One such resource is MERLOT (https://www.merlot.org). Others you may want to explore:
 

    Mason OER Metafinder (MOM) - https://oer.deepwebaccess.com/oer/desktop/en/search.html
    OASIS - https://oasis.geneseo.edu/index.php
    OER Commons - https://oercommons.org/
    Lumen Learning - https://courses.lumenlearning.com/catalog/lumen
    Openstax - https://openstax.org/
    Teaching Commons - https://teachingcommons.us/

 
Remember it is a good idea to look for the licensing information for any resources that you use. If you are unclear of this, check with the MSU OER program for guidance.

Registration is now open for the Basic Needs Educator Training, which will be held in-person on Tuesday, April 2nd from 9:30AM-11:30AM. This training aims to equip MSU advisors and instructors with knowledge and skills to identify and support students who are having difficulty in meeting one or more basic needs. The training will cover how to navigate these sensitive situations with compassion, respect boundaries, and connect students with campus and community resources. 
Participants will also have an opportunity to put together finals week thriving kits to take back to their spaces and share with students. A wishlist has been created if you are interested in donating items for the finals week thriving kits. All items not used for the thriving kits will be donated to divisions on campus that stock free self-care items and toiletries for students, including the Student Parent Resource Center. Items are linked to Amazon but do not have to be purchased from this site.
Upon successful completion of the Basic Needs Educator Training, attendees will receive a digital certificate of completion.
Recommended Prerequisite: Attend or watch all recordings from the four Basic Needs Series presentations. All session recordings can be found on iteachmsu: https://iteach.msu.edu/pathways/437/playlist Register here for the Basic Needs Educator Training: https://bookings.lib.msu.edu/calendar/CTLI/BasicEducatorTraining Space is limited, please sign-up soon if interested!

The Open Pedagogy and Open Educational Practices Learning Community is excited to announce an open call for participation in our community for the 2021-22 academic year. This community will explore how open pedagogy and open educational practices are enabled through the use of open educational resources (OER). Participants will read works and share practices that promote open pedagogy and discuss specific approaches for improving teaching, learning, and student engagement both in-person and online environments.
This learning community is intended for instructors from any discipline who teach undergraduate and graduate courses and are actively interested in open educational resources and open pedagogy.  All instructors (fixed-term, tenure stream, specialists, graduate instructors, adjuncts) who wish to integrate open educational practices into their courses are welcome to apply.
The community will be a combination of monthly virtual meetings and asynchronous social annotation. All virtual meetings will take place via Zoom. Preliminary dates for the Fall semester are outlined below:

October 15, 10:00-11:30am
November 19, 10:00-11:30am
December 17, 10:00-11:30am

Please complete this application form to indicate your interest in participating. For this year, our learning community has 14 openings remaining. This call will close on Friday, September 24.
Thanks,
Regina



 

Regina Gong
Open Educational Resources (OER) & Student Success Librarian
Michigan State University Libraries
366 W. Circle Drive, W225 (DB9)
East Lansing, MI 48824
Phone: 517-884-6396
gongregi@msu.edu
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Greetings from the Writing Center @ MSU!
We’re excited to announce applications for Strategies for Teaching Across Fields (STAF), running May 15-18 2023 in 300 Bessey Hall. STAF is a four-day learning community focused on incorporating effective and equitable writing pedagogy across the disciplines open to any MSU educator. 
As a learning community, STAF will provide tangible, effective support for instructors who teach with writing and will provide you with the theories and practices for implementing meaningful writing pedagogy in your classes. In particular, STAF cohort members will work on a mentored  teaching with writing project– a specific course or assignment that will be workshopped and revised for a future semester. 
Facilitators from various MSU colleges will share research and practice for engaging in effective writing pedagogy across the disciplines. Topics will include designing effective assignments, providing actionable feedback, backward design of larger projects, and accessible and equitable approaches to teaching with writing. 
This opportunity is open to any MSU educator– graduate student, faculty, and staff interested in effective and equitable ways to teach with writing across the disciplines at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Please share widely!
Applications to this year’s cohort are open until April 3rd. Interested MSU educators should complete this brief application, designed for us to get to know your teaching interests and goals. We'll use these responses to inform the design of our learning community.  Selected participants will be contacted by mid-April. Application URL: https://forms.gle/W9TwsvmMZwK6CCnK8  
Questions? Feel free to email Nick Sanders (sande463@msu.edu) with any questions, concerns, or ideas. Learn more about STAF here. 
Nick Sanders
 

The MSU Libraries’ Open Educational Resources (OER) Award Program call for applications for the academic year 2022-2023 is now open.
Now in its 4th year, the OER Award Program provides financial incentives and support to instructors interested in adopting, adapting, or creating OER as an alternative to traditional learning materials to advance our goals of affordability, access, equity, and student success. 
You can download the Call for Proposals overview to learn more about the application categories, eligibility, participation requirements, timelines, and criteria for evaluation. 
Application forms are available in the OER LibGuide. The deadline for submission is January 16, 2023. The OER Advisory Committee will meet to review applications, and we will notify successful awardees on February 10, 2023.
Regina Gong, OER & Student Success Librarian, offers a one-on-one project consultation if you have questions about the OER Award program and the application categories. You can send an email to Regina at gongregi@msu.edu to schedule a project consultation. 

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This article from the Chronicle of Higher Education discusses the author's work tracking the post-graduate career paths of history Ph.Ds, with an emphasis on the variety of successful non-academic paths available. While the article specific discusses the field of history, its focus on what transferable skills from graduate training might look like in alternate careers is useful for all fields.