Faculty Development and Presented at NERCOMP Conferences

Like many WebCT campuses, SUNY Delhi must select a new LMS and complete migrating to the new system in the next year. The total cost of ownership comparison led us to adopt a remotely hosted open source solution. We'll examine the facts, figures, and progress of moving from WebCT to Moodle and integrating with Banner.

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.

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.

Disruptive changes affect all teaching and learning activities at institutions of higher education. Support organizations, especially the library and IT organizations, are often the first to react to but risk being overwhelmed by these changes. Rather than simply react to change, this session will argue that libraries and IT organizations need to define their own futures.

The blended learning environment (part online and part face-to-face) introduces both faculty and students to emerging technologies and meets students where they reside in a digital- and media-driven world. This presentation will discuss how UMass Dartmouth's Instructional Development team created training to assist faculty in developing effective blended learning experiences.