Research
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An Example Report from a Faculty Fellowship with EDLI
EDLI engages with instructors from our three colleges each semester to design, implement and analyze a project focused on enhancing teaching and learning practice in their coursework. This post highlights an example outcome from a faculty fellowship during the 2022-23 year, sharing our analysis of a large course’s alignment based on student survey data. The…
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Promoting Instructor and Student Satisfaction in Hyflex and Blended Courses
Many current educators have developed a strong reaction to the term “hyflex”—most often one of horror, an involuntary recoil as they relive forced emergency instruction and the chaotic semesters that followed the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, some instructors and institutions have embraced hyflex and other blended modalities for the flexibility they afford students,…
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NSF COVID-19 DEI Challenge
Overview: The EDLI team developed a submission to the NSF DEI COVID-19 challenge, detailing EDLI as a key player in improving DEI across MSU through projects in student success, course evaluations, and institutional policy changes. Outcomes: A submission representing Michigan State University to the NSF DEI COVID-19 challenge for our work with undergraduates. EDLI submitted…
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EDLI Program Evaluation Plan
Overview: With a central mission to enhance the teaching and learning effectiveness in the online or multimodal settings at MSU, it is of critical importance to develop a sound plan for evaluating what and how the EDLI team has been and is building towards achieving its vision as well as the core teaching and learning…
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Manual for Understanding and Using SIRS Evaluation
Overview: The official end-of-semester student evaluation of instruction is one of the most commonly used methods in higher education to evaluate teaching effectiveness. Here at MSU, the data collected from the Student Instructional Rating System (SIRS) are given a considerable weight as an indicator of teaching effectiveness, and often factored into personnel decisions (tenure, promotion)…
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EDLI Fellows Evaluation Model
Overview: We have developed an evaluation model for the Fellows or Consultation work we do with faculty and programs. The general components of the model are based on showing impacts across a broad spectrum of teaching and learning work. Outcomes: This model helps us plan and frame the evaluation of our Fellows or Consultation work with…
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Software Evaluation – Conceptual Model
Overview: To evaluate the effects of a given software or educational technological tool, we developed a conceptual model that depicts the key areas for software evaluation, and the relationships between our software evaluation work and the relevant stakeholders on campus. Outcomes: This model helps us plan and frame the evaluation of specific software or educational technological…
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PlayPosit Evaluation
Overview: We collaborated with the Department of Physiology, the College of Nursing, and the MSU Libraries, to design and conduct an evaluation for a pilot use of PlayPosit. Outcomes: The results from the PlayPosit evaluation project helped our collaborating departments to create and conduct several professional development workshops and consultations with participating faculty and prospective…