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Highlights from the MALXD Spring Sprint Series

05/15/2024
Highlights from the MALXD Spring Sprint Series

This spring, Michigan State University’s new Master of Arts in Learning Experience Design (MALXD) program hosted a two-day sprint series that brought designers from across the country together to learn about the ways social justice, accessibility, AI, and creativity interact with learning experience design. If you weren’t able to attend or are just here to learn, this post shares all of the resources you’ll need to work through the series on your own.

MAET Design Series: Creating the Spark

04/03/2023
MAET Design Series: Creating the Spark

Once we have done the critical reflection and planning required, we move to something that we like to call the “spark” of the MAET learning experience. This is that gut feeling…that creative twist…that extra bit of magic…that captivating element of the design that illuminates the learning experience.  We’ve thought a lot about how we get… Read More »

MAET Design Series: Brainstorming Possibilities

03/22/2023

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 »

MAET at #MACUL23: GIFs of Imagination

03/14/2023

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 »

MAET Design Series: Focusing on the Learner

03/13/2023

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 »

Welcome our new Academic Program Coordinator, Heather Williamson!

03/06/2023
Welcome our new Academic Program Coordinator, Heather Williamson!

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 »

MAET is hiring a program assistant

09/19/2022
MAET is hiring a program assistant

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 »

Join us for an MAET Online + Hybrid Open House on May 12, 2022

04/29/2022
Join us for an MAET Online + Hybrid Open House on May 12, 2022

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 »

MAET is Hiring Instructors for Fall 2022 and Spring 2023

04/13/2022
MAET is Hiring Instructors for Fall 2022 and Spring 2023

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 »

Dr. Liz Owens Boltz Named MAET Director

01/19/2022
Dr. Liz Owens Boltz Named MAET Director

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 »