EDUCAUSE | IT Integration and Presented at NERCOMP Conferences

Assessing Student Learning Outcomes with Tablet PCs

drupal — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:14:59 -0500

Tablet PCs used in undergraduate field courses in archaeology and ecology have transformed the way we teach field-mapping and data-collection concepts. Curriculum redesign and assessment strategies were applied to two unique classes, introducing tablet PCs, an emerging mobile technology, with the goal of improving how spatial data are handled, viewed, and collected.

Instituting an Institute: FITSI Goes National

drupal — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:14:57 -0500

In 2002, UNH inaugurated a Faculty Instructional Technology Summer Institute (FITSI) to help our faculty explore emerging instructional technologies and instructional design best practices. This session will report how the overwhelming success of FITSI has led us to expand it to a national audience.

The Future of the Library

drupal — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:14:57 -0500

Information and technology support organizations in higher education face a future of dramatic and constant change. Digital information creation and delivery is challenging what we know about learning and teaching, and what we assumed would be our roles in higher education. To continue to support scholarly communication, delivery and preservation of digital information, and online teaching and learning environments—to continue to be relevant and helpful to the academic mission—we must radically redefine the services we offer to the academy.

This session will offer an interactive review of the fluid landscape of the changing world of libraries, IT, and higher education, and will draw on the presenter’s experience of leading a forward-thinking merged information service organization. Topics will include defining a new learning/teaching professional, reallocating staff, defining priorities, staffing institutional repositories, finding skilled cross-functional leaders, supporting data-rich scholarship, defining critical literacies for the new millennium, inserting library and technology staff into the curriculum in radical new ways, supporting community learning and learning outside of courses, matrix management organizations, cross-breeding research and social software, and thinking beyond the course management system.