{"id":984,"date":"2018-10-16T14:34:16","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T19:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/?p=984"},"modified":"2018-10-22T10:45:45","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T15:45:45","slug":"acu-goes-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/2018\/10\/16\/acu-goes-blue\/","title":{"rendered":"ACU Goes Blue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-985 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/files\/2018\/10\/product-blue-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"132\" height=\"132\" \/> <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/innovation_foundry\/category\/innovation-foundry\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Innovation Foundry<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">recently implemented a new course evaluation system called<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/explorance.com\/solutions\/course-evaluations\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Blue by Explorance<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that integrates with their learning management system and can be completed by students, in the classroom.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Every semester, students can evaluate the instruction and course content of each of their courses. Course evaluations are an important part of the educational process because they provide valuable course feedback, and spark teaching and learning improvements.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In an effort to transition to Blue, two of the Educational Technology staff, Marisa Beard, Director of Educational Technology, and <\/span><b>Stephen Rektenwald (\u201899)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Assistant Director of Educational Technology, engaged in an intensive Blue Administrator and Blue Expert training at the BlueNotes International Conference in Louisville, KY.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Innovation Foundry recently implemented a new course evaluation system called Blue by Explorance that integrates with their learning management system and can be completed by students, in the classroom. Every semester, students can evaluate the instruction and course content of each of their courses. Course evaluations are an important part of the educational process because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15468,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15468"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=984"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1021,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984\/revisions\/1021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}