Podcasts, IT Integration, and EDUCAUSE_WRC07

This is a 6 minute interview with Jenn Stringer, Director of Educational Technology at Stanford School of Medicine. It was recorded at the 2007 Educause Western Regional Conference in San Francisco, California. Jenn Stringer was part of a panel for a session entitled, Campus Learning Spaces: Two Innovation Design Approaches.

As educators emphasize learning over teaching, campus facilities are redesigned and repurposed. The decentralized Stanford University academic culture informs a "test kitchen" approach for piloting and disseminating instructional technology innovations.

Claremont McKenna College's FITness program (Fitness In Technology) allowed faculty to rapidly integrate teaching with technology and help struggling students catch up. Grants from the Mellon Foundation and the Fletcher Jones Foundation funded specialized programs to help students meet faculty expectations of their technical knowledge, skill, and application. It's a unique approach that garnered unanimous faculty buy-in.

In this 14 minute interview with Mike Malsed, Assistant Director for Student Technology Services at Claremont McKenna College, he discusses the development, implementation, and success of the FITness program. The conversation was recorded at the EDUCAUSE 2007 Western Regional Conference in San Francisco, California where Mike was delivering a presentation entitled, From FITness to Fantasy Congress: The Growth of FITness Within Faculty and Student Projects.