An Inclusive Syllabus Template

This resource is an inclusive syllabus template.  It is designed for new faculty at Massachusetts Maritime Academy.

Material Type: Syllabus

Authors: Mike Gutierrez, Kurt DeCicco

HOT Moments and Dealing with Conflict in the Classroom

This resource provides strategies for preparing and dealing with HOT (Heated, Offensive, Tense) moments. 

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

Authors: Shelagh Smith, Caleb Pendygraft

Using Reflection to Enhance Experience

This module provides students with resources and ideas for how to enhance an experience using reflection. It provides an introduction to the DIVE framework of reflection, a series of resources, and sample of how the DIVE framework could be used to examine an image, provides students an opportunity to practice using the DIVE framework, and offers students an opportunity for self-assessment.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Authors: Paul Szwed, Ashok Pandey, Laurel Goulet

Digital Multimeter Training

This resource provides is a multimeter tutorial as well as an assignment for students to create a video showing that they understand how to use a multimeter.  Its purpose is to get beginning engineering students, with varying levels of experience with a multimeter, to learn and master a multimeter's features and functions.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment

Authors: Laura Wilcox, Peter Carroll

Writing Across the Curriculum: DEI Strategies for Low-Stakes and High-Stakes Writing

This Writing Across the Curriculum resource includes 5 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) strategies for Low-Stakes Writing and 5 DEI Strategies for High-Stakes Writing.  It includes a list of the strategies and a description of each strategy as well as a set of pdf slides that include all of the material.

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

Authors: Jenna Morton-Aiken, Melissa C Freitag

Solving Rational Equations Videos and Worksheets

This resource is a series of four videos that provide scaffolding for students who are learning to solve rational equations.  Subtitles are included on the videos and for each video there is an accompanying worksheet for students to practice.  Solutions are provided for each worksheet.

Material Type: Module

Authors: Valeria Dorazio, Robert Nanna

Engineering Statics: Open and Interactive

Engineering Statics is a free, open-source textbook appropriate for anyone who wishes to learn more about vectors, forces, moments, static equilibrium, and the properties of shapes. Specifically, it has been written to be the textbook for Engineering Mechanics: Statics, the first course in the Engineering Mechanics series offered in most university-level engineering programs. This book’s content should prepare you for subsequent classes covering Engineering Mechanics: Dynamics and Mechanics of Materials. At its core, Engineering Statics provides the tools to solve static equilibrium problems for rigid bodies. The additional topics of resolving internal loads in rigid bodies and computing area moments of inertia are also included as stepping stones for later courses. We have endeavored to write in an approachable style and provide many questions, examples, and interactives for you to engage with and learn from.

Material Type: Textbook

Authors: Daniel W. Baker, William Haynes

Listening with Power (from Theory)

Listening is the least emphasized mode of communication. As such, it deserves a more thorough treatment. Upon scanning the OER landscape to determine existing opportunities to learn about listening, it was discovered most are devoted to the practical skills of listening. However, much can be learned by learning about the theories and research of listening.Therefore, this module is intended to serve as either a stand-alone learning module on listening or a more advanced module that can be added to other more practically-oriented modules. This module introduces students to academic study of listening and treats listening as a thriving sub-discipline (of interpersonal communications) that can be explored from an academic perspective.It provides sufficient references and resources that can be examined more thoroughly and perhaps even built out into an entire course or mini-course on listening.Upon successful completion of this module, you will be able to:DEFINE listening using theoretical developments. (Bloom 1)CLASSIFY effective listening practices by affective, behavioral, or cognitive processes. (Bloom 2)USE theoretically-based listening practices to improve communication. (Bloom 3)DEVISE a personal listening strategy based upon theory. (Bloom 4)This module has eight sections: Overview, Engage, Explore, Explain, Evaluate, Elaborate, Express, and Extend.

Material Type: Module

Author: Paul Szwed

Experiential Exercise to Examine Universal Design/Ability Privilege

This exercise allows students to explore how people with site-impairment “read” documents and digital media using screen readers. It provides students with a sample memorandum to review for communications effectiveness. Then, by using a freely downloadable screen reader (and/or an enabled text-to-talk feature) and an embedded accessibility checker, students will evaluate the accessibility of the sample memo. With an altered appreciation of audience (now aware of sight-impairment disability), students will revise the memo using universal design principles and best practices for creating accessible documents. Using those experiences, students will be guided to reflect upon other disabilities and accommodations in the workplace. Finally, students will explore ability privileges and create a plan to identify, monitor and control blind spots. | Introductory except from a presentation at the Eastern Academy of Management on 26 June 2020 | Appendix containing ideas for modifying the exercise

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Interactive

Author: Paul Szwed

Project Management Fundamentals

This is a first course in project management, one in which students will learn the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to be an effective project manager. They will learn how to plan, execute, and monitor a project. The course will cover the latest theories and concepts on scoping, stakeholder management, team leadership, budgeting and contracting, scheduling, quality control and assurance, and risk management. Students will have the option to apply their learning to a real-world project. 

Material Type: Full Course

Project Management text / workbook

This student workbook is intended to accompany an introductory course in project management. It contains elements of both traditional (waterfall) and adaptive (agile) project management. It provides links to videos and other learning resources. It provides reflection points and learning exercises. As a bonus, it provides several project management hacks at the end.

Material Type: Reading, Student Guide

Author: Paul Szwed