MAET Blog

We love to brainstorm! This is probably an understatement if you know us, so please allow us to emphasize it: we love to brainstorm! Whether we’re brainstorming around a challenge that has emerged, a creative vision that one of us has dreamt up, costumes for Halloween, or an idea to streamline a process, we have… Read More »

This year’s theme of the MACUL Conference is, “Unboxing Education,” and it calls to encourage participants to imagine, innovate, and inspire. Every year at MACUL, we try to do something fun — and dare we say innovative — at our booth. We always hope that the interactive twist we put on a standard booth’s experience… Read More »

In keeping in line with the Master of Arts in Educational Technology (MAET) program’s core principles, we make a commitment to provide support to our learners from application to beyond graduation. This is because the heart of the MAET program is our learners—they are the reason why we do what we do. Our learners are… Read More »

We are excited to welcome a familiar face to Team MAET – Heather (formerly Johnson) Williamson!  As the MAET Academic Program Coordinator, Heather enjoys assisting all members of the MAET community – current students, prospective students, instructors, and alumni. Heather received her degree from Davenport University and has been a part of the MSU community… Read More »

In the Master of Arts in Education Technology (MAET) program, we believe that our learning community is strengthened by diverse perspectives, experiences, and cross-cultural sharing. Supporting Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) graduate students and learners with disabilities is a priority for MAET because of the systemic barriers and inequalities that have historically hindered… Read More »

The Master of Arts in Educational Technology (MAET) program was awarded the 2022 Graduate School Outstanding Graduate Program Community Award. This award recognizes the ways in which MAET enacts our core values: It’s now time for the fun part: supporting our amazing MAET graduate students and alumni in the amazing work and innovation they are… Read More »

MAET is searching for an organized, hard-working, detail-oriented person who cares about supporting students to join our dynamic team as our new Program Assistant. Information about the posting can be found on MSU’s Careers Website, job posting #812328. Please submit all application materials by September 27, 2022. MAET Program Assistant is responsible for overseeing admissions… Read More »

Interested in applying to the award-winning programs from MSU’s Master of Arts in Educational Technology (MAET)? Join Team MAET on Thursday, May 12, at one of two virtual information sessions (via Zoom at 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. Eastern) to learn more about the MAET student experience.  Along with Team MAET, both sessions will include a current student or recent graduate,… Read More »

Join Our Team! As we are planning for the 2022-2023 school year, we are searching for some amazing instructors to help us round out our Fall 2022 and Spring 2023 courses. Information about the posting can be found on MSU’s Careers Website under job posting #765058. Please submit all application materials by May 1, 2022.… Read More »

It’s a new year and we have a new MAET Director. Welcome, Dr. Liz Owens Boltz! Dr. Boltz completed her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology and Educational Technology (EPET) in 2019 and has been an active member of the MAET community since 2013 as an instructor, advisor, and most recently as MAET’s Co-Director. In her tenure,… Read More »

Over the years, we’ve had a lot of fun expressing our creativity in celebration of Halloween. Due to COVID, we invited the MAET community to be a part of the fun last year (2020) and we’d like to do the same this year (2021). We know that your plates are full, so we’re hoping we can provide 20 minutes of fun through a creative escape — literally, by creating a postcard of somewhere you wish you could be right now.

Since the onset of COVID-19, educators have been inundated with a variety of terms to describe the various modes of teaching that have occurred in response to the pandemic. Not all of them are new. And although many institutions are now focused on the return to “normal,” for many, these alternatives to in-person learning may… Read More »

What’s more American than baseball? What’s more Master of Arts in Educational Technology (MAET) than a quickfire? Here in the world of MAET, we love ideating, creating, and polishing our work to perfection (or as close as we can), but we also love to brainstorm challenges and create the best solution possible under certain constraints.… Read More »

Each year, MSU recognizes outstanding technology-enabled courses with the AT&T Faculty and Staff Award Competition in Instructional Technology. MAET is honored to have received two of these prestigious awards for the 2021 academic year. CEP 815: Technology and Leadership was named as Best Enhanced Course. In the midst of stay-at-home orders going into effect, co-instructors… Read More »

We love talking about online course design, teaching, and learning! On Monday, May 10, 2021, Team MAET members Liz Boltz and Candace Robertson joined Antoinette Tessmer as panelists in the “D2L Course Setup & Showcase” organized by MSU IT. In the session, they supported instructors across MSU in designing online learning experiences for Summer 2021… Read More »