Ken Dirkin

1. Faculty Test Server
(Professional/Center for Teaching and Technology)

Growing from a need that has arisen by the more technologically competent faculty and staff at the College of Education to have access to the bevy of open source software, but not have to manage it on ...

2. Instructional Spaces Redesign
(Professional/Center for Teaching and Technology)

... Macs & PCs, replaced with a transparent system that allowed the users to leverage their own laptops as presentation and collaboration devices.  A team of IT specialists at the College of Education, ...

3. 3E International Kindergarten Promo
(Professional/examples)

The US-China Center for Research on Educational Excellence was one of the parties responsible for the establishment of the Sunwah Education Foundation's flagship school, the 3E International Kindergarten, ...

4. College of Education - Recent Projects
(Professional/Employment)

Instructional Spaces Redesign More info Faculty Test Server More Info

5. Beijing Channel Company
(Professional/Presentations)

The Confucius Institute at Michigan State University provides Chinese teacher placement services through a program sponsored by the Teacher Education program at the College of Education. Part of the process ...

6. College of Education
(Professional/Employment)

Since October, 2001 I have been employed by the College of Education at Michigan State University, working under the supervision of Dr. Yong Zhao, Executive Director of the Confucius Institute at Michigan ...

7. Academic History
(Academic/Academic Info)

... College of Education at MSU and focused on developing my video & new media work, figuring one day I would move on to a production job in film or video. I never did. I kept my skills sharp and eventually, ...

8. Beijing Channel Company
(Academic/Courses Taught)

The Beijing Channel Company (BCC) is the feeder system for our new College of Education Teacher Education Chinese Language Certification Program. What it allows us to do as the Confucius Institute, is ...

9. Course: CEP991a
(Academic/Courses Taken)

... work in exploring technology and education. As the first class, we embarked on building a virtual learning space in Second Life. The project was to be a semester long look into creating a virtual space, ...

10. Course: CEP891
(Academic/Courses Taken)

Special Topics in Education Psychology and Educational Technology | Spring 2008 CEP891 is the designation for a course that hasn't been officially given a course number assignment in the course catalog. ...

11. Course: CEP890
(Academic/Courses Taken)

Independent Study | Spring 2009 Traditionally the capstone course of the MAET program is taught by Dr. Patrick Dickson, which holds the course listing of CEP807: Proseminar in Educational Technology. ...

12. Course: CEP890
(Academic/Courses Taken)

Independent Study | Spring 2008 | Project Site Between 2004-2007, the College of Education participated in a research grant known as PT3 (Preparing Teachers for using the Technology of Tomorrow). This ...

13. Course: CEP822
(Academic/Courses Taken)

Approaches to Educational Research | Summer 2008 "Approaches to Education Research" is exactly the type of course I signed up for the Masters to be in.  I somewhat dreaded it, being a meat & potatoes ...

14. Course: CEP817
(Academic/Courses Taken)

... and Dr. Matt Koehler to help scope out a project they were working on for the college, which was putting the introductory education course TE150 completely online. My "Big Kahuna" project was a blog that ...

15. Course: CEP800
(Academic/Courses Taken)

... Carey Roseth, had just been hired by the Counseling, Education Psychology and Special Education department as an Assistant Professor the prior semester and was to spearhead the debut of the course. My ...

16. CEP822
(Academic/Course Descriptions)

Approaches to Educational Research "Alternative methods of educational research. Identifying researchable problems in education and developing a research proposal. Applications of descriptive and inferential ...

17. CEP817
(Academic/Course Descriptions)

Learning Technology through Design "Design of educational tools and software. Designing for learners. Human computer interaction. Art and aesthetics of design. Iterative design. Collaboration in design." ...

18. CEP807
(Academic/Course Descriptions)

Proseminar in Educational Technology "Perspectives on educational technology, current theories, research findings, and methods of design and evaluation." MSU Registrar Link  ...

19. CEP818
(Academic/Course Descriptions)

Creativity in Teaching and Learning "Value and relevance of creativity in education. Recognizing, analyzing, and supporting creativity in multiple contexts. Psychological, motivational, and organizational ...

20. Vita
(Professional/cv)

... design and deployment of Confucius Institute products. Manage a development team of staff, graduate and undergraduate student workers. Instructor 2006-Present Masters of Educational Technology, Michigan ...