The Network for Educational Development (NED) provides educational development opportunities that are designed by Minnesota State faculty and staff for Minnesota State faculty and staff. These opportunities help build awareness, develop knowledge, skills, and abilities, and provide space for reflecting and revising.
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OER Community Conversations: October
Description
In this exciting online session, Dr. Mary Lebens from Minneapolis College will demonstrate two virtual field trip apps she developed to teach information technology and business concepts. Faculty can use these OER apps in their own classes.
These virtual experiences increase student engagement and offer an innovative solution to common barriers in traditional field trips, such as cost, transportation, and childcare concerns.
Dr. Lebens will demonstrate how to use Lumi, a free tool based on H5P and HTML5 technology, to develop immersive online OER lessons for your courses. Join her as she showcases these cutting-edge tools that are reshaping the landscape of distance education.
About the Presenter
Dr. Mary Lebens is an Information Technology instructor at Minneapolis College and has taught within the Minnesota State college for over ten years. She was named an Outstanding Educator in 2018 by the Minnesota State Board of Trustees. She is currently researching using Agile software development practices in the classroom and recently published several journal articles on her research. Prior to joining higher education, she worked as a software engineer for thirteen years at Twin Cities technology companies including Oracle and Lifetouch. She holds a Master’s in Management Information Systems from Metropolitan State University, a Master of Science in Computer Science from Barrington University, and a Doctorate of Business Administration in Economics and Finance from Saint Mary’s University.
Open Educational Resource (OER) Community Conversations are open forum conversations for all to share, discuss, and learn from colleagues in the Minnesota State OER community. Hosted by Karen Pikula, the OER Faculty Development Coordinator, these conversations are virtual, hour-long meetings held twice per semester and feature a guest speaker on a topic of interest.
RSVP Required
Use the RSVP tool below to register. In addition to Minnesota State faculty and staff, Concurrent Enrollment instructors are also welcome to join.
After registering, a calendar invite with details on how to join will be sent to you, please add this event to your calendar.
Accommodations
The NED is committed to providing universal access to all of our events, we’d like to discover how we can make the event more inclusive so you can fully participate!
Machine generated captions are available in real-time for all Zoom events, however human generated CART (live caption) service and ASL interpretation can be requested with advanced notice (2 weeks) to make the event more accessible.
Please, let us know of any disability-related accommodations that will facilitate your full participation.
Contact Karen Pikula.
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