Plenary Speaker: Avoiding User Services Burnouts
Avoiding User Services Burnouts
Advancing global education: joining the open courseware consortium
This presentation outlines the work that was involved with NJIT becoming a member of the Open Course Consortium (OCWC). The OCW is collaboration of more than 200 higher education institutions from around the world that make available high quality fr...
Classroom Redesign: Designing a Smart, Smarter and Smartest Classroom to Meet the Changing Student and Faculty Needs
Users want learning environments that are flexible and that can promote active learning, classroom technology that can support the multiple devices to make it easier to facilitate student learning and a technological infrastructure that is reliable ...
Using Piazza for Online Math, Physics and Chemistry Tutoring
Piazza is a free online tutoring site that allows for instructors to setup areas where students can ask and answer questions. Normally Piazza is set-up by individual instructor and associated with specific courses. At NJIT, Instructional Technology ...
Implementing an Adaptive Learning Math pilot
Flipping a classroom is a type of blended learning that allows instructors more time to interact with their students by placing traditional classroom activity, such as lectures, outside of class time. Watching lectures in class leaves class time for...
Publishing a Service Catalog with SLAs for the Benefit of Your Users
At NJIT we are working continually to apply ITSM best practices by following the ITIL 2011 framework. ITIL first requires the IT organization identify the services provided and understand their benefit to the university. This is best accomplished by...
Identifying Pain Points, Avoiding Burnout and Learning to Love ITIL
As Higher Education professionals, we find creative ways to turn problems into opportunities. Part of what it takes to be effective is being able to take a step back, identify pain points and rethink how we can improve the effectiveness and efficien...
NJIT Brings Tech to the Educator
NJIT restructured the Technology Support Center and Instructional Technology & Media Services departments to focus on bringing technology-based solutions directly to the students and educators.
We set out to increase the effectiveness and visibilit...
Embracing Moodle: how NJIT implemented an open source LMS solution
Presentation Abstract: With the increasing costs, complexities and concerns associated with many of todays commercial learning management systems (LMS) many schools are beginning to explore open source alternatives. In doing this, two questions that...