Faculty/admin and staff are invited to an ACAT sponsored faculty consultation, the third and last one of the semester, on the topic of text markup. This will be a lunch with simultaneous discussion on Thursday, April 7 from noon to 1PM. Who said faculty can't multitask--eating and talking at the same time? Please go through the Phelps cafeteria line and then join the group in the Barber Room adjoining the cafeteria. The gathering will discuss ways to leverage technology to collect student written work, annotate it, and get it back into students' hands electronically. This will include a demonstration of tablet readers and pdf markup tools, and talk of efficient workflow to make our professional lives just a bit easier.
*Please note that this event replaces and supersedes the previously announced April 5 consultation, whose date had to be changed because it conflicted with the Religion Department's Danforth lecture event.
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Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Saturday, March 12, 2011
GLCA.IT.2011 at Hope College March 16-18, 2011
Hope College CIT is hosting the annual Great Lakes Colleges Association instructional technology conference March 16-18, 2011. Detailed information is available at the conference web site. This conference is entitled "Make A Connection & Find Your Niche."
Educause Learning Initiative "Seeking Evidence of Impact" April 13-14, 2011
Hope College has registered for the "Seeking Evidence of Impact" Educause event. You are invited to join a Hope College faculty/admin team that plans to attend this webinar event; if you are interested, please contact bandstra@hope.edu. The following information was gleaned from the ELI website.
The 2011 ELI (Educause Learning Initiative) Online Spring Focus Session is entitled "Seeking Evidence of Impact." It will be held online April 13-14. ELI will engage the teaching and learning community in exploring initial questions around seeking evidence: do our innovations accomplish our desired outcomes, how do we define "impact," and how do we measure it? Through plenary sessions and various institutional case studies, we will attempt to answer these questions.
As the pace of technology change continues unabated, institutions are faced with numerous decisions and choices to support teaching and learning. With many options and constrained budgets, faculty and administrators must make careful decisions about what practices to adopt and about where to invest their time, effort, and financial resources. As critical as these decisions are, the information available about the impact of these innovations is often scarce, scattered, or both.
The 2011 ELI (Educause Learning Initiative) Online Spring Focus Session is entitled "Seeking Evidence of Impact." It will be held online April 13-14. ELI will engage the teaching and learning community in exploring initial questions around seeking evidence: do our innovations accomplish our desired outcomes, how do we define "impact," and how do we measure it? Through plenary sessions and various institutional case studies, we will attempt to answer these questions.
As the pace of technology change continues unabated, institutions are faced with numerous decisions and choices to support teaching and learning. With many options and constrained budgets, faculty and administrators must make careful decisions about what practices to adopt and about where to invest their time, effort, and financial resources. As critical as these decisions are, the information available about the impact of these innovations is often scarce, scattered, or both.
Thursday, March 10, 2011
The Liberal Arts Online audio conference March 17 at 2PM, LH113
The Association of American Colleges and Universities (www.aacu.org) in cooperation with Inside Higher Ed (www.insidehighered.com) is organizing an audio conference on the topic "The Liberal Arts Online." Hope College has registered to join the one hour online conference. Faculty and staff are invited. We will together tune in to the live conference Thursday, March 17 beginning at 2:00 PM in Lubbers 113 (the first floor conference room near the elevator). A special invitation is extended to summer online course faculty, faculty interested in blended learning, and anyone else who is interested in exploring the use of digital courses in higher education. Please rsvp bandstra@hope.edu if you plan to attend: I need to get a gauge of interest in case we need to secure a larger room.
Here is the description of the event from the aacu.org website.
Distance education and hybrid courses continue to attract more and more students, and many educators fear that a focus on the practical and professional in these offerings excludes the liberal arts. In fact, some educators and colleges are devoting considerable attention to applying the latest technology to expand liberal arts offerings.
On Thursday, March 17, at 2 p.m. Eastern, Inside Higher Ed presents, “The Liberal Arts Online,” an audio conference featuring Rebecca Davis of the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education. The presentation will cover the best existing models for offering such courses online, the latest technology, a guide to developing an institutional strategy for launching programs, how to gain faculty support, and how to preserve the style of liberal arts instruction in a new format.
Here is the description of the event from the aacu.org website.
Distance education and hybrid courses continue to attract more and more students, and many educators fear that a focus on the practical and professional in these offerings excludes the liberal arts. In fact, some educators and colleges are devoting considerable attention to applying the latest technology to expand liberal arts offerings.
On Thursday, March 17, at 2 p.m. Eastern, Inside Higher Ed presents, “The Liberal Arts Online,” an audio conference featuring Rebecca Davis of the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education. The presentation will cover the best existing models for offering such courses online, the latest technology, a guide to developing an institutional strategy for launching programs, how to gain faculty support, and how to preserve the style of liberal arts instruction in a new format.
A New Culture of Learning: Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant Change
EDUCAUSE is offering a free live web session Monday, March 21 at 1:00PM ET with John Seely Brown, entitled "A New Culture of Learning: Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant Change." Registration is required in order to subscribe to the live feed. You can register using this link.
John Seely Brown is a visiting scholar at the University of Southern California and co-chair of the Deloitte Center for the Edge. For years Brown has been a leading analyst and writer on the subjects of invention, innovation, technology and change. He is the author of many books, including The Social Life of Information (2000), Storytelling in Organizations: Why Storytelling is Transforming 21st Century Organizations and Management (2004), and most recently A New Culture of Learning: Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant Change (2011), which, obviously, will be at the core of this presentation.
His book The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion (2010) is available in a Kindle edition. Kindle has a fascinating service that aggregates the book's passages that Kindle readers of the book have highlighted, and anyone can view these snippets. Check out highlights of the book here and a video summary here.
John Seely Brown is a visiting scholar at the University of Southern California and co-chair of the Deloitte Center for the Edge. For years Brown has been a leading analyst and writer on the subjects of invention, innovation, technology and change. He is the author of many books, including The Social Life of Information (2000), Storytelling in Organizations: Why Storytelling is Transforming 21st Century Organizations and Management (2004), and most recently A New Culture of Learning: Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant Change (2011), which, obviously, will be at the core of this presentation.
His book The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion (2010) is available in a Kindle edition. Kindle has a fascinating service that aggregates the book's passages that Kindle readers of the book have highlighted, and anyone can view these snippets. Check out highlights of the book here and a video summary here.
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