1. Innovative Teaching & Learning With Technology Glenda R. ScalesAssociate Dean, College of Engineering gscales@vt.edu September 18, 2013

2. Setting the Context • Engineering at Virginia Tech • The state's largest engineering college • Ranks among the top ten suppliers of new B.S. degrees in the United States • Online Masters of Information Technology • Commonwealth Graduate Engineering Program • Collaboration with engineering colleges in VA • Thirty years of experience • National Institute of Aerospace • Multi-state consortium September 18, 2013

3. Things that we know… September 3, 2013

4. Technology-enhanced Learning • The Experience • Active • Engaging • Exciting • Motivations for Change • Ease to use • Efficient • High Quality http://cdn.sheknows.com/articles/2013/04/toddler-on-computer.jpg • Trends • Online content • Assessment • Flexibility September 18, 2013

5. The Experience: Shared electronic note taking Professor Charles Bostian Professor Leigh McCue-Weil Online Learning Hybrid Design • Face to Face • Collaboration • Efficiency • Increase time on task • Just in time assessment • In class polling September 18, 2013

6. Lessons Learned • The Experience: Shared electronic note taking • NSF grant • Transforming Undergraduate Education in the Sciences, Technology, Engineering, and Math (TUES) program • Examining the role that instructional technology can play in enhancing innovative thinking skills of undergraduates enrolled in large lecture classes • Preliminary results • These techniques have been shown to enhance innovative thinking and are being shared through professional development sessions with engineering faculty. September 18, 2013

7. The Experience: Informal learning • Residential Living & Learning Community • Open ended problems; Teamwork • Thinking outside the box • Integrates formal and informal learning experiences into an integrated transition from high school to college to career September 18, 2013

8. Lessons Learned • The Experience: InVenTsLiving and Learning Community • Residential communities are multigenerational • Retention – Overall Graduation Rates • 64.5% College of Engineering • 78% Hypatia • 79% Galileo September 18, 2013

9. Trends • Online Content • Assessment • Flexibility September 18, 2013

10. Trends Massive Open Online Courses The goal of changing education for the better by providing a free world-class education for anyone anywhere. • 2002 MIT Open Courseware • Feb 2012 Udacity • April 2012 Coursera • May 2012 EdX September 18, 2013

11. Future Innovative Thinkers Creative Solutions • The Experience • Active • Engaging • Excited • Motivation for Change • Ease to use • Efficient • High Quality • Trends • Online content • Assessment • Flexibility September 18, 2013