OU Academic Technology Expo

Brightspace by D2L now offers single sign on integration with Office 365, meaning students and instructors can seamlessly use both technologies to their fullest potential; keeping them engaged, productive, and focused on learning.  Through their integration solutions, D2L and Microsoft Office 365 services (Email, Calendar, & more) improve how students and teachers interact online.  The seamless integration allows instructors and students to focus on teaching and learning, and not spend time jumping between applications and devices.  Students will have quick access to tools they use - Email/calendar right in D2L and documents right from One Drive to Assignment Dropbox.  It gives faculty access to Word, Excel and other Office applications online.

Discover Local is a new and different instance of the search system at OU Libraries. It allows researchers to search just the libraries’ current holdings, both physical and digital. Discover has many benefits, which is why so many academic libraries, including Harvard University, are now using it. The new Local system accommodates modern search strategies such as keyword, virtual browsing, faceted searching, and automated suggestion that our users have come to expect from modern search engines like Google or Amazon.

During this session, you will learn more about how you can leverage various tools and programs from Microsoft to support a collaborative learning experience at University of Oklahoma.  We will review how Office 365 in conjunction with OneNote for the Classroom can create a vibrant experience to enhance learning, provide some insight into other tools that are available to University of Oklahoma that can be utilized to support teaching and learning in new ways, and lastly, we will provide a sneak peak at Windows 10.

Do you want personal and professional training right at your finger tips? Lynda.com is exactly that! It's an online learning company that helps anyone learn software, design, and business skills to achieve their personal and professional goals. Students, faculty and staff have unlimited access to a vast library of high quality, current, and engaging video tutorials.

To celebrate OU’s 125th anniversary, the Galileo’s World exhibition connects the story of Galileo with the University of Oklahoma. Because of OU Libraries and the Galileo collection, the story of Galileo is part of every student’s & researcher’s experience at OU. Now, just as the Library serves the entire university, so the Galileo’s World exhibition will showcase the entire University, connecting our worlds across time and space. Galileo’s World will be an Exhibition without Walls: distributed across 7 locations, including three University of Oklahoma campuses; comprised of more than 20 galleries; and featuring more than 300 rare books, historical instrument replicas, and various interactive digital resources. Joint exhibitions will occur at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, and the National Weather Center. Galileo’s World will engage adults, university classes, and school groups, across a broad spectrum of interests in the natural sciences, engineering and humanities. Direct connections to the exhibit will be appreciated by anyone with an interest in physics, astronomy, science and music, science and art, science and religion, science and literature, science and politics, manuscripts and printing history, geology, botany, zoology, microscopy, and all branches of engineering and mathematics. The Galileo's World exhibition connects the past and the future, from Greek mathematics to the space age. Galileo’s World connects the natural sciences to other cultural endeavors including music, the visual arts, literature, philosophy, religion and popular culture. Galleries devoted to Galileo and Islamic science, Galileo and China, and to Galileo and America, suggest the breadth of the exhibition. Learn about programming opportunities, how to participate, and how to incorporate the exhibit into your courses.

Objective: To evaluate the success of using a MOOC to teach a leadership course. Methods: The College of Public Health offered a leadership course that combined in-person instruction with a MOOC taught by faculty at Case Western Reserve. Results: The MOOC was hard to align with the course schedule and to assure its quality; however, students enjoyed it. Conclusion: Given the alignment and quality demands, there is a limited future for MOOCs in traditional courses.

The Innovation Hub is a collaborative university-wide activity involving Libraries, Information Technology and the Price College of Business to build a space for teaching, research, creative and entrepreneurial activities. In this presentation we will go over the components of the Innovation Hub and discuss connections to other activities on campus. After the presentation we will be soliciting input to further develop programs and activities at the Hub which are embedded throughout campus.

This session will be informational and conversational about crowd-sources content, specifically Wikipedia, focusing on the technical backend of the Wiki platform, and the positive and negative impact it can have on teaching and learning. We will also address the movement to improve Wikipedia articles from within information organizations like universities and libraries.

Hear from an array of students about their preferences and experiences with technology - inside and outside of the classroom.

This presentation will highlight the OU Libraries Alternative Textbook Initiative grant winners from 2014, including how they have adopted reduced-cost textbooks for their courses. The session will highlight the different methods these faculty have used for their textbook, ranging from adopting a current textbook to creating a custom resources for students. There will also be information on the 2015 grant process and how you can find and adopt an alternative textbook.

In this presentation, OU IT Digital Spaces will share what's happening in our world - new tools, new features, and new staff! Our portfolio includes a number of technology tools that can be used to enhance both instructor and student experiences. Hear what's new with OU D2L and learn about the changes made by the 10.3 upgrade, explore new tools such as Qualtrics and iClicker, and meet our new specialists that are ready to assit you!