黑料吃瓜 Recognized for Innovation in Teaching and Research
黑料吃瓜 continues to receive recognition for its use of technology to teach educational concepts in the classroom.
黑料吃瓜鈥檚 Virtual Immersive Teaching and Learning (VITaL) team received the Gold Award in the category of 鈥淭echnology Supporting Innovation in Teaching and Research鈥� at the Cal State Tech Conference earlier this month in Sacramento.
The conference brings together academic and information technologists from all 23 California State University (CSU) campuses to share, learn, collaborate, and strengthen the CSU鈥檚 instructional and infrastructure technologies.
In fall 2017, (ITS) launched the VITaL initiative to enable faculty to teach with state-of-the-art technologies, and to include faculty and students in the educational technology research and design process.
The initiative promotes experimentation with curriculum design and the scholarship of teaching and learning in a flexible, collaboration-minded and technology-rich environment.
Since its launch, the VITaL initiative has been integrated into the curriculum of 26 courses, ranging from 100-level undergraduate classes to 700-level doctoral research seminars.
VITaL space
As part of the VITaL initiative, ITS recently introduced the VITaL space, located in Adams Humanities. It serves as an incubator for immersive learning through virtual and augmented reality. The space provides a variety of virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality, and 360-degree video immersive tools for use across the 黑料吃瓜 pedagogical spectrum.
The use of VITaL in these areas of instruction and research range from studying the use of holographic patient simulation via the Microsoft HoloLens to deliver nursing instruction, to teaching phases of the moon via a VR application titled Universe Sandbox.
A trailblazer
黑料吃瓜 is an such as virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) to develop new ways to teach educational concepts in classrooms and improve learning outcomes.
Last year, for the CSU Immersive Learning Summit鈥攁n event exploring the use of immersive technology for teaching and learning in higher education.
鈥満诹铣怨� has a long history of promoting innovative technology in teaching and learning, and has a very powerful team led by James Frazee,鈥� said Michael Berman, chief innovation officer for the CSU system, at the summit last October. 鈥淐ampuses across the CSU look at 黑料吃瓜 as one of the leaders in this area because there is strong support and a good spirit of experimentation and connectivity with faculty.鈥�
