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- Focus on thinkSpace development: meeting to discuss current status, work to be done, priorities, tests, etc.
Spring semester schedule, joint meetings with CELT
- Feb 3: We will show the instructional problems that brought each group (dP, PSLP and MyCase teams) to the table to make the foundations for ThinkSpace. We also will also show our student outcomes data that demonstrate significant learning gains and form a basis of what we are trying to accomplish in ThinkSpace.
- Feb 17 PSLP group will present a seminar that delves deeper, showing ill structured, complex problems that collaborating faculty are currently implementing in their courses using ThinkSpace.
- Mar 5 showcase the Vet Med/Pathfinder group. We are still using the Pathfinder in our classrooms as this technology is more complex to implement, but we are making great progress and hopefully by then, we will be using ThinkSpace.
- Mar 31 Andrea Peer and Sree Nilakanta will talk their immersive collaborative learning environment for the mandatory capstone course in the management information systems major.
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From their Miller project "In “In the capstone course senior level management information systems students working in teams show their ability to assimilate knowledge and skills and apply them in new contexts to solve real business problems. Applying social theories of learning and communities of practice principles, pedagogical tools such as eDoc, and drawing on the advances in immersive collaborative technologies, we propose to redesign the pedagogy and execution of the course. The system provides capabilities to store, maintain, and share personal, work group, and community information and knowledge artifacts. These artifacts represent evidences of learning and moreover may be used to enhance subsequent learning and assessment by self and others. On successful completion and evaluation we anticipate scaling up the system for college and university wide adoption."”