Technology is a powerful tool for transforming learning. It can help affirm and advance relationships between educators and students, reinvent our approaches to learning and collaboration, shrink long-standing equity and accessibility gaps, and adapt learning experiences to meet the needs of all learners. At Des Moines University, we are exploring innovative approaches and tools that provide learner-centered classroom environments and empower personalization for our students.
Services Provided
- Application support for DMU tools
- New educational technology tool selection and review
- Exam support
- Media support and development
Education Technology Team
Educational Technology Highlights
Adobe Connect is a web conferencing software service that offers immersive online meeting experiences for collaboration, virtual classrooms and large scale webinars
Articulate Storyline is used to create interactive slideshows, screencasts and simulations. Storyline allows for rapid development of eLearning content.
Camtasia lets you record a video of what’s on your computer screen. Use it to make lessons, tutorials, or product demos.
Brightspace (D2L) is an online learning management system (LMS) used here at Des Moines University. Whether courses are taken online or face to face, D2L is the driving mechanism for delivering content and supplemental materials to students.
DMU is on the cutting-edge of 21st Century learning with the renovation of the Munroe Building. Munroe was designed to allow for innovative technology-enhanced instruction in a flexible, transformative teaching environment. Faculty using the space are encouraged to arrange the furniture for their unique pedagogical purposes.
Poll Everywhere is an online service for classroom and audience response collection. The great thing about Poll Everywhere is that you can engage your classroom without any clunky hardware, as you will be asking your students to use their phones, tablets, or laptops to respond to polls that you present. The results appear live on the display. You can use this tool to quiz your class, discuss the results, and use that insight to guide the classroom discussion or curriculum as you move forward through your presentation. Real-time polling allows you to transform one-way lectures into two-way conversations, instantly. In the time it would take one student to raise a hand and respond, live polling allows you to hear from every student in class, and then tailor instruction to their needs. Project responses up on a screen in front of class, and this low-pressure way of getting everyone to contribute.
SnagIt lets you share what can’t be put into words. Easily create custom images and videos for demos, feedback, reviews, and more. Snag any image and enhance it with effects or create a quick video of your computer screen with no time restrictions.Current Projects
- Upgrading classroom technology hardware
- Enhancing the functionality of our Integrated Learning Management System
Educational Technology Research and Readings
Future Ready Learning: Reimagining the Role of Technology in Education in Higher Education
The National Education Technology Plan is the flagship educational technology policy document for the United States. This January 2017 supplement focusing on higher education articulates a vision for engaging and empowering learning through technology and provides recommendations for leading and implementing an innovative system of support for all students.
Horizon Report: 2017 Higher Education Edition
The 2017 Horizon Report: Higher Education Edition is a collaborative effort between the NMC and the EDUCAUSE Learning initiative (ELI). This edition describes annual findings from the NMC Horizon Project, an ongoing research project designed to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have an impact on learning, teaching, and creative inquiry in education. Six key trends, six significant challenges, and six important developments in educational technology are placed directly in the context of their likely impact on the core missions of universities and colleges, and detailed in succinct, non-technical, and unbiased presentations. Each has been tied to essential questions of relevance, policy, leadership, and practice. The three key sections of this reports constitute a reference and straightforward technology-planning guide for educators, higher education leaders, administrators, policymakers, and technologists.