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Academic Innovators: Carla van de Sande’s Keep in School Shape (KiSS) Program
Carla van de Sande, associate professor of mathematics education at ASU, had gotten used to receiving blank stares from her students in response to this question at the beginning of each new semester. Now, van de Sande offers her students the option to participate in the KiSS program over break, which emails or texts them daily challenge so they can keep the content fresh in their minds.
Academic Innovators: Dan Frank’s Imaginative Rusty’s Riddles
Daniel Frank has created a learning environment that cultivates imagination in his first year engineering courses. Frank’s innovation had him taking a few clues from a popular television series and creating a fictional customer for his students to design for.
Academic Innovators: Steve Millman’s Logic Tutor and Flipped Classes
Steve Millman, a Professor of Practice in the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, programmed his own software that randomly generates practice problems for his Digital Design course, called Logic Tutor.
Academic Innovators: Alicia Baumann and Haolin Zhu Gamification
Alicia Baumann and Haolin Zhu, Senior Lecturers at the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, have implemented gamification elements into their engineering courses.
Academic Innovators: Alexandra Mehlhase’s SparkyBot
Alexandra Mehlhase is a Software Engineering faculty member who has created a Slackbot, called SparkyBot, that allows her and her teaching team to provide students with timely formative feedback.
MediaPlus: ASU launches new media delivery platform in December
On December 6th, ASU is launching MediaPlus: a multimedia hosting and delivery platform created in partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS)! MediaPlus will replace MediaAMP/Modalis as the media delivery platform for ASU. Learn more about the transition.
Academic Innovators: Ryan Meuth and Phill Miller in CSE 110
Ryan Meuth and Phill Miller are Senior Lecturers under the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence (SCAI) who have been creatively reimagining their approach to teaching and learning in the CSE 110, Principles of Programming course.
“Programming is hard,” says Meuth. “And we’ve been teaching it the same way for so long - it needed a refresh.”
“Programming is hard,” says Meuth. “And we’ve been teaching it the same way for so long - it needed a refresh.”
Announcing the new Learning and Teaching Hub
The FSE Learning and Teaching Hub will broaden access to innovative teaching strategies, technologies, tools and resources. Read more in In the Loop.