M.O.S.T. 2024 OER Grant Program: Submit a Proposal Proposal deadline: March 1, 2024 The Maryland Open Source Textbook (M.O.S.T.) Initiative is pleased to announce a Request for Proposals for the 2024 OER Grant Program.


For 2024, M.O.S.T. is seeking proposals for two grant programs. Learn more below. Note that all institutional and faculty grants awarded to UMBC must be routed to the Office of Sponsored Programs prior to submission. Contact your unit's business manager or proposal development staff to discuss your application.

CAHSS faculty can request assistance from CARAT (Creative Achievement and Research Administration Team). 

Faculty OER Grant Program
The Maryland Open Source Textbook (M.O.S.T.) initiative is seeking proposals for its Faculty OER Grant Program, which supports faculty efforts to increase access, affordability, and achievement for students at Maryland’s postsecondary institutions through the incorporation of open educational resources (OER) into teaching practice.

Available grants in 2024:

Institutional OER Grant Program
The Maryland Open Source Textbook (M.O.S.T.) initiative is seeking proposals for the Institutional OER Grant Program, which supports strategic institutional efforts to increase access, affordability, and achievement for students at Maryland’s postsecondary institutions through more systemic incorporation of open educational resources (OER) into teaching practice.

For 2024, selected institutions will be awarded $20,000 grants to support significant advances in OER adoption, scaling, and sustainability in support of student success. In addition, grantees will receive strategic planning and implementation support for their projects from M.O.S.T. in the form of consultations and regular monthly check-ins.
 


All proposals must be submitted by 11:59 p.m. ET on Friday, March 1, 2024
 


Informational Webinar
Join us on Monday, January 22, 2024 from 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. ET for an Informational Webinar to learn more about the grant requirements and expectations for successful grants. We will also answer any questions about the grants at that time. Register for the Informational Webinar
 

Please feel free to share this information with interested faculty and staff. If you have any questions, please reach out to us at most@usmd.edu 

Thank you for your support in increasing access, affordability, and achievement for all Maryland higher education students through open educational resources (OER).
 

Nancy
 
Nancy O’Neill, Ed.D.
Acting Director, William E. Kirwan Center for Academic Innovation
University System of Maryland
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DoIT's Manager of Online Learning, Dr. Susan Biro, has been selected to serve on the Quality Matters Academic Advisory Council (QMAAC) for a three-year term beginning January 1, 2024. The Council provides guidance to and oversight of the programmatic directions and initiatives of Quality Matters.

QMAAC members represent an institution or organization's interests and viewpoint to QM; provide guidance on QM to ensure QM's long-term sustainability and success; help to review new initiatives and act in an advisory role for new projects; and disseminate QM-related information, materials, and opportunities to others. 

Biro came to UMBC in May 2019 as Coordinator, Online Learning with more than 20 years of experience in distance education, including accreditation, program management, faculty support, and online student support and retention. 

"I was introduced to Quality Matters early in my higher education career," said Biro. "QM has been an integral part of how we do the important work of supporting faculty in designing effective online and hybrid learning environments. It's an honor to have been selected and I look forward to working with my QM colleagues on initiatives and projects."

Susan Biro

Biro currently serves as one of UMBC's QM Coordinators. She is also QM-certified as a Course Review Manager, a Peer Reviewer, and Independent Online APPQMR Facilitator.

About the QM Academic Advisory Council

Created in 2004 during the grant phase of Quality Matters, the Council has evolved in purpose and composition. The QMAAC's 15 members include representatives of QM subscriber schools, QM senior staff, and online and blended learning leaders who provide a national perspective. 

The Council is chaired by Dr. Morris Thomas, Assistant Provost for Digital and Online Learning and Director, Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning, and Assessment at Howard University. 

Biro is one of five new members selected to serve on QMAAC. The others are Julian King, M.Ed., Instructional Designer & Quality Matters Coordinator, Center for the Advancement of Learning, University of the District of Columbia; Katherine McAlvage, Ph.D., Associate Director, Faculty Development and Support, Oregon State University; Antoinette R. Miller, Ph.D., Professor and Department Chair, Psychology, Clayton State University; and, Alicia Reed, Director of eLearning and Instructional Innovation Center, Laredo College.

About Quality Matters at UMBC

A total of 18 faculty have earned Quality Matters certification of their online or hybrid courses following rigorous peer reviews as part of the Quality Matters Impact (QMI) program. To date, more than half of the QM-certified courses in the University System of Maryland are from UMBC.

For more information about Quality Matters at UMBC, including course reviews, please contact Dr. Susan Biro (sbiro@umbc.edu).

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Google Jamboard, a cloud-based digital whiteboard app, has been a popular choice for instruction and group collaboration. Along with the announced end of support for Google's Jamboard devices, Google has announced that support for the Jamboard app will wind down in late 2024.

Jamboard Retirement Timing

October 1, 2024 is the last date that it will be possible to create new or edit existing Jams. Existing Jams can be accessed to view or export from October 1, 2024 to December 31, 2024. Please export any Jams you wish to retain by December 31, 2024.

Microsoft Whiteboard

For current Google Jamboard users, Microsoft Whiteboard offers similar features for collaboration in the physical or virtual classroom. Microsoft Whiteboard is available to the UMBC campus as part of the Office 365 suite of apps. The following links are provided if you would like to learn more about Microsoft Whiteboard:

Whiteboard for instruction:

With the addition of the Microsoft Teams integrations in Blackboard, Microsoft Whiteboard may help streamline activities in your course.

Connect with Instructional Technology

As always, if you have any questions about teaching, learning, and technology at UMBC, please consider the following options:

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Poll Everywhere recently launched a new Attendance Management tool, which is available to users with a presenter role in Poll Everywhere. Using geolocation, Attendance Management allows instructors to track in-person attendance when students check-in and respond to polling activities. This feature is part of a beta release for the Spring 2024 term; Instructional Technology will gather feedback from instructors and students using Attendance Management during this period.

Join Instructional Technology on February 26th for our upcoming Explore Poll Everywhere Attendance Management Tool webinar. We will demo the Attendance Management tool and other Poll Everywhere settings to support academic integrity.

Enable Attendance Management

Instructors may access and enable Attendance Management from the My Activities panel or their Poll Everywhere profile settings. Up to 10 geofence locations may be added to an instructor's profile to match their teaching locations.

Image 1. Access Attendance Management from the profile and add check-in locations.

Student Check-In & Location Data

When geolocation is enabled, Poll Everywhere will prompt students to check-in before they may respond to polling activities. If geolocation is enabled and a student does not check in to the physical location check-in point, their responses will still be recorded for participation, but they will not receive credit for attendance. Students who check-in successfully and respond to polling activities will receive credit for both attendance and participation.

Image 2: Student view of check-in prompt.

Important

Student location data is not stored by Poll Everywhere and instructors are not able to see student location data, other than to view a "checked-in" or "not checked-in" status. Additional information about student and instructor privacy is available in the Poll Everywhere Attendance Management privacy statement and privacy policy.

Poll Everywhere Resources

For Attendance Management resources, please see our FAQ articles:

For additional Poll Everywhere information, please see our Poll Everywhere FAQ collections:

Connect with Instructional Technology

As always, if you have any questions about teaching, learning, and technology at UMBC, please consider the following options:


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To all HCPF Users,

Given interest in a new hardware purchase to extend the taki HPC, we would like to convene a meeting of those faculty interested in contributing to a community purchase in the coming weeks. The goal of this meeting would be to quickly review HW options and discuss topics ranging from desired machine specifications, purchase timeline, desired number of machines, and language we would like to distribute to departments and colleges to find other potential contributors ahead of the purchase.

Please email me at roy.prouty@umbc.edu by Wednesday February 7 at 1200 ET if you are interested in attending such a meeting.

Note: You may be receiving this message in duplicate. Identical postings were made to the HPCF myUMBC Group and sent to the ada HPC PI List.

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Dear Colleagues and all users of HPCF,


TL;DR:
(i) Recording available from user meeting Fri 01/26/2024
(ii) Some notes of user meeting.
(iii) send publication info!






(i) We got the HyFlex technology in Webex to work and I recorded the meeting, which lasted just about exactly 1 hour. The recording is available in Panopto at

https://umbc.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=08c6dcd3-8d8e-40cc-9565-b104002765de


(ii) We had a great attendance both in-person and online, namely listed below.  I introduced myself, in case anyone did not know, and the two HPCF RAs Mostafa Cham and Ehsan Shakeri, see hpcf.umbc.edu under Contact Us.  We also appreciate that DoIT was represented by several staff, Roy Prouty, Andy Leeds, Todd Haddaway, and Damian Doyle.  My aim was to collect questions and concerns, depending on audience, and provide any information.  Damian Doyle very graciously actually came with two agenda items that essentially covered these goals. First, he provided an overview of the RCA Computing Taskforce from 2023, whose co-chair Zhibo Zhang was also present; the other co-chair was Karuna Joshi.  We thank all of them for their service. The ending point was that the leading VPs for Research Karl Steiner and for IT Jack Suess are in the process of implementing the new governance structure recommended and adopted by the taskforce.  Second, Damian shared that a purchase is intended in very near future, such as even within February; any interested faculty should contact Damian Doyle by e-mail (damian@umbc.edu).

Attendees: Matthias Gobbert, Mostafa Cham, Ehsan Shakeri, Roy Prouty, Damian Doyle, Zhibo Zhang, Tyler Josephson, Daniel Lobo, Joseph Bennett, Enrique Barbosa, Vijay Sharma, Andy Leeds, Todd Haddaway, Curtis Menyuk, Tim Finin, Lei Ren, Akash Vartak, Xuezhi Cang, Dimitry Sushon.


(iii) And please remember again, since it is really the most important, please send me the citation of publications that we can list on the HPCF webpage!


Matthias Gobbert, Math & Stat, gobbert@umbc.edu

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Dear Colleagues and all users of HPCF,

TL;DR:
Reminder for user meeting with Webex link
(i) user meeting Fri 01/26/2024 10:00 in MP102/103,
(ii) send publication info!


Publications:

To start with item (ii), since it is really the most important, please always remember to send me the citation of publications that we can list on the HPCF webpage!


User meeting:

The purpose of this -- perfectly voluntary -- user meeting is just to offer help if anyone can profit from in-person communication or to get to know other users. It's just a personal offer from me.

The meeting is Friday 01/26/2024 at 10:00, which is the Friday before semester start. I will be in the physical location Math/Pysc 102 or 103, depending on crowd size, but the meeting will also be in Webex and recorded.

The Webex link is, and I hope I did this correctly,

https://umbc.webex.com/umbc/j.php?MTID=m205716b996e91fe56c2a85573cf049fc

If you want to contact me, e-mail gobbert@umbc.edu (do not just hit reply if you get this via mail.


Matthias Gobbert, Math & Stat, gobbert@umbc.edu
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In February, a new tool will be available in Ultra courses, designed to make information gathering simple and efficient for instructors: Forms. Whether assigning students to clinical experiences or seeking to understand their interests and opinions through surveys, Forms will streamline these processes. The Forms tool supports several question types including essay, multiple choice, true/false, and Likert. Instructors can view student responses or question responses. Instructors can mark a Form as complete/incomplete or optionally award points.

Image 1: Example of the Form creation page. The first phase of Forms will not be anonymous. Export Form data to CSV or Excel.

Sending reminders about missed work can encourage students to stay on track. Faculty can send reminders to students through the assessment submission page or the Ultra gradebook, including third-party tools. Updates to the workflow ensures all students will be included as long as they have not received an automatic zero or a manual override grade.

Grading workflows are improved in the February release including the ability to provide feedback for automatic zeroes and override grades. Additionally, instructors can upload feedback for manually created grade columns using a CSV file.

Additional Updates
  • Feedback for all attempts on a test or assignment is visible to learners in a peek panel. Students can view override feedback after grades are posted. 
  • Rubrics grading interface will store the most recently used display option. This means that instructors who rely on performance level descriptions when grading don't have to turn them on each time they navigate to grade another submission. 
  • To ensure easy and clear access to the Audio/Video Recording Feedback tool, the recording window appears on the right side of the screen so that the instructor can view the student submission. 
  • Instructors can view the number of missed due dates for students in the Course Activity Report. Instructors can customize the missed due date alert in the Alert Settings via the Gradebook. 
  • Instructors can now import Moodle packages into Ultra and Original view courses. Blackboard has a guide to explain the differences in terminology.
Faculty should see the latest updates in Ultra courses around February 1-2, 2024. The next update to our Ultra test environment will take place on February 6, 2024; release notes are posted to the What's New in Ultra that same week. Faculty who are interested in test driving new features before they are released to production should open an RT ticket to request early access. Please watch the FAQs, including the What's New with Ultra page, and myUMBC for additional information about Ultra. 

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Dear Colleagues and all users of HPCF,

TL;DR:
(i) user meeting Fri 01/26/2024 10:00 in MP102/103,
(ii) send publication info!
(iii) hopefully MRI proposal this year






Publications:

To start with item (ii), since it is really the most important, please always remember to send me the citation of publications that we can list on the HPCF webpage!  This is invaluable to demonstrate our community's weight for our university administration -- all new by now really! -- and will be used in future NSF (or other) proposals. Include student theses (undergrad, MS, PhD), as well, please.


User meeting:

Item (i) calls for a general user meeting next Friday 01/26/2024 at 10:00, which is the Friday before semester start. I will be in the physical location Math/Pysc 102 or 103, depending on crowd size, but the meeting will also be in Webex and recorded.  The Webex link will be in the reminder posting on Friday morning.  If you plan to attend, maybe reply to this mail -- with indication of in-person or online -- so I can plan (and make doubly sure you receive the web link). In particular if you have to RSVP negative, feel free to include notes (see below).


HPCF proposals / purchases:

I really thank a user who reminded me by asking about purchase (and MRI) that I should inform you all better. Some of you may recall me saying -- and certainly sharing with the governance committee -- that we should participate in the November 2023 NSF MRI competition.  Since the NSF changed the time frame, this was the second MRI competition in the year after one in January 2023. Future ones will be in November of each year. In fact, I had been suggesting throughout the preceding year that we should hold back on any purchase, until after that MRI was submitted (so we do not look rich at the time of submission). Given I am aware of 10+ faculty who were at some point ready to contribute funding, my suggestion was not crazy, but did lose out on the energy of the willingness to contribute at the time.

Last year 2023, we had a task force on computing (under the RCA and led by the VPs for Research and for IT, chaired by our own Zhibo Zhang and Karuna Joshi). When this taskforce came together, it was frankly a year after the intent had been born, yet it was clever timing in that we were supposed to have a new provost, so I understand the thinking of the VPs. It would yet have fit with the timing that I angled for, but the taskforce worked out quite differently than expected by me at least. In short, the taskforce also considered many other aspects of computing (cloud) and necessary issues (storage, controlled access needed by certain types of research, etc.), so HPCF was not the focus. Inasmuch as HPCF was a focus at times, there was an endorsement of the concept and a request for resources, but no concrete plan.

It then came also to pass that it never came to a campus competition for the 3 MRI slots for November 2023, since all proposals that had gone forwarded the previous January were allowed to compete a second time. This is the reason why you did not hear from me late last year. I assure you, if I had led an MRI proposal, you would have heard from me through this channel. So, in this spirit, consider this the first communication for my suggestion to compete for the November 2024 NSF MRI. But that said, this meeting can and should really provide a broader forum for ideas and other channels how to continue funding HPCF for all of us users.


Closing

In summary, please come to the user meeting, if you can; please RSVP if able to plan ahead; feel free to include comments in your RSVP that I will collect; I will introduce the HPCF RAs at the meeting; I can share more details on last year; and we should discuss with those at the meeting what plan we all see going forward.


Matthias Gobbert, Math & Stat, gobbert@umbc.edu,
chair, HPCF Governance Committee
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For 2024, M.O.S.T. is seeking proposals for two grant programs. Learn more below. Note that all institutional and faculty grants awarded to UMBC must be routed to the Office of Sponsored Programs prior to submission. Contact your unit's business manager or proposal development staff to discuss your application.

CAHSS faculty can request assistance from CARAT (Creative Achievement and Research Administration Team). 

Faculty OER Grant Program
The Maryland Open Source Textbook (M.O.S.T.) initiative is seeking proposals for its Faculty OER Grant Program, which supports faculty efforts to increase access, affordability, and achievement for students at Maryland’s postsecondary institutions through the incorporation of open educational resources (OER) into teaching practice.

Available grants in 2024:

Institutional OER Grant Program
The Maryland Open Source Textbook (M.O.S.T.) initiative is seeking proposals for the Institutional OER Grant Program, which supports strategic institutional efforts to increase access, affordability, and achievement for students at Maryland’s postsecondary institutions through more systemic incorporation of open educational resources (OER) into teaching practice.

For 2024, selected institutions will be awarded $20,000 grants to support significant advances in OER adoption, scaling, and sustainability in support of student success. In addition, grantees will receive strategic planning and implementation support for their projects from M.O.S.T. in the form of consultations and regular monthly check-ins.
 


All proposals must be submitted by 11:59 p.m. ET on Friday, March 1, 2024
 


Informational Webinar
Join us on Monday, January 22, 2024 from 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. ET for an Informational Webinar to learn more about the grant requirements and expectations for successful grants. We will also answer any questions about the grants at that time. Register for the Informational Webinar
 

Please feel free to share this information with interested faculty and staff. If you have any questions, please reach out to us at most@usmd.edu 

Thank you for your support in increasing access, affordability, and achievement for all Maryland higher education students through open educational resources (OER).
 

Nancy
 
Nancy O’Neill, Ed.D.
Acting Director, William E. Kirwan Center for Academic Innovation
University System of Maryland

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