Presented at NERCOMP Conferences, IT Integration

Assessing Student Learning Outcomes with Tablet PCs

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Title:Assessing Student Learning Outcomes with Tablet PCs (ID: NCP08068)
Author(s):Meg Stewart (Vassar College), Virginia Jones (Vassar College), Robert Fritz (Vassar College), and Keri Van Camp (Vassar College)
Origin:Presented at NERCOMP Conferences (03/10/2008)
Type:Presentations/Speeches
Abstract:

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.

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Instituting an Institute: FITSI Goes National

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Title:Instituting an Institute: FITSI Goes National (ID: NCP08049)
Author(s):Marquis Walsh (University of New Hampshire) and Michael McIntire (University of New Hampshire)
Origin:Presented at NERCOMP Conferences (03/10/2008)
Type:Presentations/Speeches
Abstract:

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.

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The Future of the Library

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Title:The Future of the Library (ID: NCP08058)
Author(s):Susan V. Wawrzaszek (Brandeis University), David G. Wedaman (Brandeis University), Amira Aaron (Brandeis University), Lori Dembowitz (Brandeis University), and John Turner (Brandeis University)
Origin:Presented at NERCOMP Conferences (03/10/2008)
Type:Presentations/Speeches
Abstract:
 

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.

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