Teaching

What research tells us about learning and how that can and should be used to guide the design and use of educational technology. This was the Keynote session from the 2008 Colorado Learning and Teaching with Technology Conference (COLTT).

The author has found that her military experience has proven to be good training for teaching ill prepared students.

A faculty development survey analyzed what faculty want and need to be successful teaching online.

Technological skills and understanding how to employ Web 2.0 tools to successfully support pedagogy are vital for foreign language faculty today.

The effective use of games in academia requires a critical approach to the medium and a willingness to let go of the learning process and harness its outcomes.

Many of the emerging Web 2.0 technologies pertain to communication innovations. Using the communications theory of diffusion of innovation, this presentation will examine the adoption and implementation of wikis and their related pedagogical approaches. Methods for institutional implementation will be proposed to answer questions of sustaining the initial adoption phase.

Launched in January 2006, the Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) at the University of South Carolina is located in the heart of campus in the Thomas Cooper Library. Enabling the wise use of new technologies to enhance student learning and providing synergy to campus teaching support activities through a systems approach are two of the CTE's five stated goals. To achieve these goals, the CTE created a new associate director position for teaching technology excellence.

This presentation will discuss the results of a yearlong study on using social networking technology to facilitate collaborative research in undergraduate-level English courses. Students collaboratively constructed wikis that served as research guides and incorporated a wide range of primary and secondary source material. The project brought about many successes and raised issues about what we value in student writing and research, as well as what we hope to gain from employing these new and ever-changing technologies in humanities courses.

Mark Werner reviews Audience Response Systems in Higher Education: Applications and Cases, written by David A. Banks.