2009-2010 ISU

Fall semester schedule

• 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.

Meeting Notes:

September 18, 2009

1. Current status of beta
2. Version 0.8
   1. Finishing up grade-book,
      1. commenter
      2. Select phases
      3. Upload grades (not yet)
      4. Dump to csv as well
   2. Other work,
      1.   portfolios etc. next version of eDOC
      2.  teams
      3. myCase is an event-based simulation, Generalize to history, geology: any content that has events arriving at different time
3. Usage documentation
   1. Help window built-in
   2. We're encouraged to edit wiki
4. Planned courses,
   1. Fall09 C&I
   2. Sp10 Phys 222
   3. Craig to contact former-pslp users
   4. Fall10, for other users
5. College CAC grants to port etc.
   1. Encourage John to write grant for porting script from PSLP
   2. Craig, graphics, equations
   3. Dale, evaluation $
   4. Documentation via Dave Russell, LASCAC
6. Other funding opportunities?, perhaps collect on development site?
   1. Lori and Dale on creativity, forward to Dale

October 2, 2009

1. Current status of thinkSpace (Pete)
2. Show and tell of  current vet med problems (Kristina, Pete)
3. Show and tell: other features that people might be interested in (Pete)
4. Porting script from PSLP to thinkSpace (John, unconfirmed)
5. Status of college CAC grant requests (Craig)
6. COE: porting script
7. LAS/CALS: Help with porting problems, documentation
8. Other?
   1. Work to be done before first usage in course (Sp09) (all)

February 17, 2010

Using the ThinkSpace Learning Platform

This session, will highlight how faculty members in Geology and Curriculum and Instruction have used the ISU ThinkSpace learning platform to enhance student learning. They will share specific examples of how they have used the technology in their courses and answer your questions about how you might adopt this multifunctional teaching tool to yours. ThinkSpace is currently being used in multiple courses across campus to help your students solve ill-structured problems, case studies and other types of learning activities.

March 31, 2010

Andrea Peer and Sree Nilakanta will talk their immersive collaborative learning environment for the mandatory capstone course in the management information systems major.

From their Miller project “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.”