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Spartan Ally Quick Start Guide
Improve The Accessibility and Usability of your Content Spartan Ally is a D2L/Brightspace integration that automatically scans course content for common accessibility issues and provides feedback to help faculty gauge the overall accessibility of their course, along with step-by-step guidance for fixing issues. Alternative Formats Ally automatically scans your content (PDF, DOCX, PPTX, ODF, HTML,…
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Whole Spartan
The EDLI Team works with faculty to help leverage their own values in combination with the scholarly literature to improve the student experience. Our work sits at the intersection of teaching, learning, and technology, and seeks to bring about broader changes in higher education that are focused on diverse, equitable, inclusive, and accessible learning. In…
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Multimodal Teaching and Learning – Overview
DEFINITION Multimodal Teaching and Learning (related to Resilient Pedagogy) is a technologically fluid system of instruction that tries to maximize student learning and faculty pedagogy in highly diverse or rapidly changing environments. Modality refers to location and where interactions take place. In-person is one modality, online is another modality, and hybrid approaches combine modalities. Multimodal…
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Spring 2021 Readiness Materials – Academic Technology
In following with prior semesters we will again be offering a readiness series during the week preceding spring semester 2021. This series is done in collaboration with MSU IT and the Enhanced Digital Learning Initiative (EDLI). The readiness series this semester will run from Monday 1/4/21 through Friday 1/15/21 and will include opportunities for workshops,…
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EDLI Collaborates on MSU Webcam Policies
During the start of the 2020 school year, the EDLI team collaborated with the Provost’s Office, MSU Hub, and MSU IT to create a policy regarding web cameras and virtual instruction. This work leveraged EDLI’s extensive experience working with faculty and students in the classroom, and connected it to administrative decision-making to create a policy…
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Model for Professional Development and Course Quality in Online Teaching
The Challenge: What Resources to Draw On When Planning Online Learning When developing online courses it is often difficult, as an instructor, to determine which resources to connect with at different points of the process. From an administrative perspective, it can also be difficult to determine which supports to invest in and plan for,…