Office of Academic Technology :: Spring Arbor University

Blackboard Upgrade Course Checklist

Blackboard Checklist After the upgrade is completed on Friday, August 2, 2013, please check your courses to ensure that all of your content was copied successfully. If there are issues with your course, such as missing files, updates, or course changes, please use this form to notify OAT by Wednesday, August 7, 2013. By contacting [...]

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Introducing Teaching Cell Group: Podcast Producing

On Tuesday, February 26 the Teaching Excellence Committee, in partnership with the Academic Technology Committee, hosted a buck lunch for SAU faculty. Dr. Randy Meredith presented “Podcasting, to Enrich and Engage: An Overview” and Dr. Dave Hopper demonstrated “AudioBoo” – a free podcasting tool. View Dr. Meredith’s presentation here. This spring semester SAU offered teaching cell [...]

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Blackboard Upgrade July 29 – August 2

I have some exciting news. We will be upgrading Blackboard the week of July 29 to August 2 to the latest version of Blackboard Learn™, Service Pack 11, which will provide a more user friendly and modern experience for you as a daily user of the system. You should feel confident that the updates to Blackboard Learn [...]

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SAUonline Pedagogical Model

SAUonline courses are intentionally developed to foster community by employing four avenues of interaction. In each online course you will find that within the structure of the course: Context, Content, Reflection, Dialog, Collaboration, Application and Assessment, interaction happens in the following ways: Student to Content Student to Instructor Student to Student Student to Jesus Christ Students [...]

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Teaching Excellence Committee: The Learner’s Perspective 11.27.12

Kathleen Wilcox of Spring Arbor University’s Teaching Excellence Committee (TEX) hosted a session in the White Library on Nov. 27, 2012, titled: “The Learner’s Perspective.” The lecture, a part of “The Art of Teaching: Best Practices From a Master Educator” series, presented a variety of questions for discussion; these being foremost: Do you think students [...]

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Open Educational Resources

Today we hosted a webinar on Open Educational Resources (OERs) entitled, "Where to find the good stuff." Here is a list of the resources mentioned during the presentation...

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What is Instructional Design?

When I tell someone I’m an Instructional Designer they often give me a blank stare and ask “What does an instructional designer do?” As you can tell from the meme above, there seems to be a lot of misconceptions as to what the job entails.

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A Hook: Crafting a Weekly Online Introduction

The introduction is the first thing your students see when they open up a new week module in an online course. The question is, what will you do with it?

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Blackboard Collaborate: What You Need to Know

If you are interested in hosting live lectures, webinars, or discussion groups for your students online, you'll want to keep reading.

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A Facebook Study

On Friday Morning, Facebook hosted the second largest IPO in history valued at over 100 billion dollars. Not bad for a company started by a Harvard freshman a little over eight years ago. The question is, can it be leveraged for learning?

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