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So why do educators work with the Hub? Here’s what we’ve heard…
Educators collaborate with the Hub to design learning experiences. We help you understand learners, map the experience, prototype and test the experience, and create a plan for success and sustainability.

Educator units come to us to help create the conditions for growth and change you’d like to see in your program. We provide a variety of facilitated sessions to help with team alignment, strategic planning, change management, and learning and development for long-term transformation.

Educators come to us to help facilitate design sprints. Design sprints provide key insights for solving complex challenges and a powerful team-building opportunity. We can facilitate sprints focused on your strategy, process, research, and culture.

If you’ve collaborated with the Hub on a project, tell us more about your experience in the comments below!

MSU's Office of Inclusion and Intercultural Initiatives hosts "Learn at Lunch"!

Held monthly during the academic year, the Learn at Lunch series presents informal seminars on a variety of topics related to inclusion, social justice and equity. Everyone is welcome to bring their lunch and join the conversation.

The Learn at Lunch series is sponsored in collaboration with the Academic Advancement Network, the Office of the Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education, the Graduate School and MSU Libraries. The sessions bring important topics related to inclusive teaching to the campus community, with a focus on presenting best practices and fostering dialogue in an effort to build inclusive communities.

Check-in here for the schedule as more opportunities to Learn at Lunch are scheduled:
https://inclusion.msu.edu/education/learn-at-lunch.html

20+ years ago when I began teaching as a graduate assistant, I was was spoiled when it came to student motivation and engagement.

At UW-Madison, I taught several freshman writing and discussion sections that were part of two huge undergraduate Scandinavian literature courses (several hundred students each) with a newly instituted writing component. Many, though not all, of the students were what we call, in second language pedagogy, heritage learners from primarily Norwegian, Swedish, and Danish backgrounds along with a few whose ancestors came from Iceland or Finland, which meant that their motivation and performance was reasonably good to high. In short, most were interested, engaged, and did the work to a reasonable standard.

The same was true a few years later at The University of Minnesota. where I was responsible for planning, developing, and teaching numerous sections of Beginning Norwegian 1001 and 1002 five days a week. Again, mostly heritage learners, so my job was easier than it might otherwise have been.

Here at MSU, I teach numerous IAH courses, once F2F, now asynchronous online. A few seem excited and engage well, but many, or even most, do not. It is a hoop they need to jump through, and many choose a particular course based not on their interest but on how well it fits their schedule.

Given that particular mindset, student motivation and engagement can be thin on the ground sometimes! So, these are two related points, along with how they relate to student success, that I come back to again and again in my reading and related thought behind what I do and how I do it.

Today, I came across a concise webpage on 'The Role of Motivation in Learning' from The Education Hub in New Zealand. Here is the link for people who might like to take a look:
https://theeducationhub.org.nz/motivation/

For anyone curious about AI in the post-secondary classroom, I've just completed a 10-program summer series as part of my regular podcast that might be interesting to you. Here are links to the Youtube channel and each particular 16- to 20-minute episode:

The Collaborative Café@WSTKS-FM Worldwide Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/@wstks-fmworldwide5390


Episode 121 – Align AI-Enhanced Pedagogy with DEI Goals!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSBctkKzdJY

Episode 120 – Cultivate Critical Thinking, Creative Problem-Solving, and AI Literacy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skh5SrXHeek

Episode 119 – GenAI’s Own Arguments against Its Inclusion in the College Classroom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWpGfzpc2XM

Episode 118 – Circling Back, Touching Base, and Looking Ahead
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ueM_Fz4pIg

Episode 117 – Practical Suggestions for Moving forward with GenAI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLnjw4-kLzQ

Episode 116 – Fostering Greater Academic Integrity and More Ethical Use of GenAI by Students https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHkNYREmI_8

Episode 115 – Cautionary Note and Suggestions for the Ethical Use of GenAI in the College Classroom https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZhSIageffI

Episode 114 – How Can Instructors and Students Use GenAI in Teaching and Learning?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x38lEAkIJBE

Episode 113 – Why Integrate GenAI into Our Teaching and Learning Practices?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-3ifzRYlok

Episode 112 – GenAI in Our Teaching and Learning Practices
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gup8phmHpL4


The Collaborative Café@WSTKS-FM Worldwide began in May 2022, serving up practical tips, tricks, and advice to the undergraduates enrolled in Professor Schwartz's literature, drama, and film courses. His continued goal is to help students navigate their routine digital-collaborative activities with greater success. More recently, Schwartz has ventured into an ongoing exploration of GenAI, and how it will transform higher education in the 21st century.

There are important engagements between peer-educator and instructor-educator before and after the actual learning session observation. Check out the attachment (.docx, 86KB) to review this process and the considerations of each "step".

It is important to note that the peer-educator dialogue should be an iterative process of lifelong learning and practice improvement. These are tools aimed at helping educators learn with and from one another. How an instructor-educator utilizes or shares the feedback provided in through this dialogue process is completely up to them.

Click the attachment below to download a copy of the Peer-Educator Dialogue Protocol (.docx, 41KB).

Hello and welcome all!

The 2024 Educator Developers Network (EDN) is shaking and baking, moving and quaking!

This is a collaborative space for anyone passionate about improving teaching through effective design, pedagogy, and technology, and anyone who provides training, consultation, instructional/learning experience design, or other learning and development support to instructors on campus. Here, anybody with an interest in enhancing education can come together, share their experiences, and mutually learn from one another. Our synchronous meetings are the 1st Tuesday of every month, were people share their department’s work, ask for advice, or celebrate success. We also communicate asynchronously in our Educator Developers Network channel.

The goals of the network are to provide a dedicated location for people to share ideas and ask questions around instructor support, learning and development, promoting useful practices and ideas to campus at large, foster community through regular meetings that highlight accomplishments and central services, and archiving and externalizing conversations. Our asynchronous discussions occur in Microsoft Teams, where we have an initial structure of channels for members to explore MSU’s Learning Management System (D2L - Brightspace), discuss course design, or seek out technology recommendations and tips. Ultimately, EDN is a place to source answers to your questions or ask for help, participate in the community, and share what you know with others!

Come share your work and ideas! Be part of a learning community with other professional in learning development, training, design, pedagogy, technology, and anyone who provides consultations and instructional/learning experience design. Come join the network!

Join the Educator Developers Network

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/team/19%3ae51cb2ed28a14bee8346fa507cff42ad%40thread.skype/conversations?groupId=13506591-8eca-4a14-a674-69a08dfd6020&tenantId=22177130-642f-41d9-9211-74237ad5687d

Our Spring Conference on teaching and learning was focused on the guiding philosophy of our Teaching Center: Engaging and Equitable Education for All. This philosophy not only guides our center's educational development and pedagogical strategies but also reflects our commitment to creating learning environments where every student feels valued and empowered. Indeed, it's at the core of MSU’s mission to ensure that all students can succeed, and the work educators do is central in the pursuit of that mission.

The conference was a day not just to celebrate successes in the classroom, but also to offer sincere thanks for the work Spartan educators do to make MSU a place of deep and meaningful learning. Educators are well aware of the powerful role gratitude plays in higher ed. Gratitude is not just about saying 'thank you.' It is about acknowledging the hard work and passion of everyone involved in the educational endeavor—recognizing that each contribution, no matter how small it might seem, enriches our students’ collective experience and understanding.

I’ve seen that enrichment play out in my own family over the past four years. Just last weekend my son graduated from James Madison College. His growth as a writer, a thinker, a critic, and a leader has been remarkable to watch. His college experience was defined by all the things that make MSU so great – football games, RSOs, dorm food, parking tickets, an unforgettable study abroad experience, wicked winter walks between Wells Hall and Case. But ask him today what stood out the most and he’d without question say it was in the classroom where he changed the most. His experience is typical of so many of the 6,200 students that walked across stages all last weekend. They leave here more prepared to thrive and lead because of what MSU’s educators gave them day in and day out in class. And it’s because of those thousands of changed lives that it’s so important to pause on occasion to thank educators.

CTLI’s “Thank an Educator” initiative, which launched 2018, exemplifies the ethos of gratitude that I hope to elevate in the Teaching Center. Since it's inception over 900 educators have received notes of gratitude for the excellent work they do. They all are testaments to the varied ways in which education can impact the lives of the members of the Spartan community. I encourage you to click the Thank and Educator link to the left or visit https://iteach.msu.edu/home/thank_an_educator so you can thank an educator yourself!

At the Teaching Center we celebrate and recognize the diverse array of educators across roles on our campus; each one plays a crucial role in shaping the vibrant educational ecosystem at MSU. At CTLI, our definition of educator is broad and inclusive. We believe that everyone here contributes to our teaching and learning mission. From the lab supervisor engaging with students in hands-on research to the campus tour guide sharing the Spartan spirit with prospective students to the veteran professor delivering that inspiring lecture, you are all educators in the fullest sense. The interactions educators foster and the knowledge they share underscore our “Spartans Will” ethos—demonstrating determination, resilience, and a commitment to excellence.