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EDUCAUSE Library Items for Faculty

Making the Most of Tools at Hand: Building Toward Courageous Technology Use

June 1, 2011 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Southeast Regional Conference 2011

This session will share experiences and spark conversation regarding maximizing creative use of existing technology tools in cross-disciplinary faculty development collaborations for skill building…

Faculty Engagement with Educational Technology: An Approach That Works

March 30, 2011 | A session at the NERCOMP Annual Conference 2011

Busy faculty often ignore outreach efforts to incorporate instructional technology into their work. When they do respond, they sometimes enter the conversation with a possible solution that may or …

Transforming the University: Teaching and Learning in Emerging Learning Environments

March 25, 2009 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Midwest Regional Conference 2009

More higher education institutions are embracing opportunities to encourage faculty to teach in emerging learning environments, and faculty are beginning to explore how they might utilize them to e…

Tech- and Teach-able Faculty: Can We Build Them? Yes, We Can!

March 25, 2009 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Midwest Regional Conference 2009

In our sequel appearance to last year's poster presentation, "Preparing Today's Faculty to Meet the Technology Needs of Tomorrow's Students," the Faculty Innovators Program…

Improving Teaching and Learning Through Collaborative Efforts with the Office of the Associate Provost, Schools, and Faculty

June 4, 2008 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Southeast Regional Conference 2008

Using technology to improve teaching and learning is of interest to every faculty member. Faculty have many questions: How do I enhance interaction through visuals and media? How do I build communi…

Improving Teaching and Learning: A Collaborative Effort Involving Teaching and Technology Services and the Center for Teaching Excellence

June 3, 2008 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Southeast Regional Conference 2008

Launched in January 2006, the Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) at the University of South Carolina is located in the heart of campus in the Thomas Cooper Library. Enabling the wise use of new t…

Preparing Today's Faculty to Meet the Technology Needs of Tomorrow's Students

March 18, 2008 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Midwest Regional Conference 2008

Faculty Innovators, a 24-month professional development program in the use of emergent technologies, was designed to meet increasing student skills and expectations for technology integration in hi…

Assessing Student Learning Outcomes with Tablet PCs

March 11, 2008 | A session at the NERCOMP Annual Conference 2008

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…

Instituting an Institute: FITSI Goes National

March 12, 2008 | A session at the NERCOMP Annual Conference 2008

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 se…

Why You Should Use Facebook

January 16, 2008 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference 2008

The phenomenon of social networking software like Facebook has been widely publicized. At UNC-Chapel Hill, over 90 percent of first year students are Facebook users. But is there utility for facult…