ABSTRACTS - Room 115

All sessions take place in Butler-Carlton Hall on the Missouri S&T campus

1-115 // Innovation in Teaching and Learning in the context of the vision of Fred and June Kummer to make S&T the leader of S.T.E.M. Education

STANDARD SESSION (45 minutes)

Presenter: Dr. B.J. Shrestha - Associate Teaching Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering; Missouri S&T

Audience: Higher Education; K-12 Education

Time and Location: 12:15 - 1:00 p.m.; Room 115

As is now common knowledge across Missouri and the nation, in the largest single gift in the history of Missouri higher education, our own alumnus Fred Kummer and his wife June have donated $300 million to a foundation now known as “The Kummer Institute Foundation” at Missouri S&T that will enable this university to become one of the nation’s leading universities for innovation. This foundation will support several initiatives such as establishing research entities focused on infrastructure, advanced manufacturing, artificial intelligence, and autonomous systems and environmental and resource sustainability, Kummer College of Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Development, etc. Their extraordinary generous gift has the potential to transform Rolla and the state of Missouri itself.

The Kummer’s had a vision of making Missouri S&T a leader of S.T.E.M. Education among others. They knew that as a society and a nation, our future needs require more scientists, technicians, engineers, and mathematicians than ever which in turn require a population highly educated in S.T.E.M. fields. Despite the recently focused attention on the need of our youth in the S.T.E.M. field, we are still struggling in this endeavor. The future of our nation and the world at large depends on the expertise of our next generation in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics to meet the challenges coming our way.

The present talk will address some thoughts about bringing innovation in the teaching and learning process to help realize Kummer’s ideal vision of fostering S.T.E.M. education at our great university. 

2-115 // Debunking Neuromyths and Embracing Research-Based Teaching Strategies

STANDARD SESSION (45 minutes)

Presenter: Dr. Lauren Hays - Assistant Professor of Instructional Technology; University of Central Missouri

Audience: Higher Education; K-12 Education

Time and Location: 1:15 - 2:00 p.m., Room 115

In this presentation, the presenter will share common neuromyths such as learning styles that instructors often use when designing instruction. Once those are shared, the presenter will spend the majority of the session discussing research-based teaching strategies such as interleaving, the spacing effect, and retrieval practice that educators can use instead.

3-115 // Ways to Create Video with Active Learning in Mind

STANDARD SESSION (45 minutes)

Presenter: Victoria Hagni - Instructional Developer; Missouri S&T

Audience: Higher Education; K-12 Education

Time and Location: 2:15 - 3:00 p.m., Room 115

Calling all faculty who believe in developing their students to think outside the box, this presentation will focus on online design for video-based teaching.

Having created hundreds of videos for faculty during her career at S&T, Miss Hagni invites K-12 teachers, and any others who may be interested, to come and garner ideas on how to create a video with active learning as the priority.

During the presentation, Miss Hagni will invite participants to beta test the first module of her online course and then each participant will get to try out their own storytelling techniques.