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It’s About the Relationship: IT and Academic Affairs Partner to Support Faculty

Craig A. Fowler, Chief Information Officer,Anna McFadden, Director of Academic Engagement and IT Governance Western Carolina University At its core is a teaching and learning center that reports to and receives funding from both divisions. The Center was recently named one of eleven 2010 Innovators by Campus Technology Magazine. Centre offers coaching for faculty and talk […]

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Top-10 Questions to Consider When Implementing Social Media

Perspectives of Different Campuses: Shannon Ritter, Coordinator of Auditions, Interviews, and Admissions, School of Theatre, The Pennsylvania State University, Tanya Joosten,Interim Associate Director, Learning Technology Center, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, AJ Kelton, Director, Emerging Instructional Tech, College of Humanities & Social Sciences, Montclair State University Grr, due to stupid laptop problem I lost all my notes from […]

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Reinventing management for a networked world

Educause 10: Opening keynote - Gary Hamel, LBS My notes from the opening keynote with some of my views in [] - will blog some more thoughts later. Online education will not be inferior to f2f education in the future, as traditionally students don’t get much face time with their professors at the moment. [Yes, online […]

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ELI Seeking Evidence of Impact Project

Gary R. Brown, Director, Office of Assessment and Innovation, Washington State University Malcolm B. Brown, Director of ELI, EDUCAUSE Joanne Dehoney, Director of Strategic Programs, East Carolina University Veronica Diaz, Associate Director, ELI, EDUCAUSE Charles D. Dziuban, Director, Research Initiative for Teaching Effectiveness, University of Central Florida John Fritz, Assistant VP, Instructional Technology & New Media. University of Maryland, Baltimore County Phillip D. Long, Professor, Director Centre […]

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Cognitive Surplus or the Lonely Shallows

Is the Internet Making Us Stupid? W. Gardner Campbell, Director, Academy for Teaching and Learning, Baylor University, Bruce Maas, Chief Information Officer, Wisconsin-Milwaukee Right blogging on the fly in case lose it all again. This is a counterpoint session where two opposing views are argued. They each introduced each other disparagingly eg CIO = Condemn Information Oppressively - how […]

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Learning Environment Research: Institutional Conversations and Data-Driven Decisions

Andrea Lisa Nixon, Linda A. Jorn, University of Minnesota and Carleton College Minnesota Learning environment research project team lead work at Minnesota. Wrote all questions down that wanted to ask. Written up in Fall 2010 Educause quarterly - whole issue is on learning environments. Built a new science building which has 13 interactive classrooms. Had […]

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AISHE day 2

Day 2 Between stasis and chaos: creativity , empathy: Paul Kleiman Palatine, University of Lancaster McWilliam (2007) citation on curriculum design. Allowance to take risks. Example from LIPA of risks taken with the design of new institution and curriculum not seen elsewhere [as former LIPA myself would agree with this wholeheartedly] Chaos and complexity Learning […]

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Long overdue thoughts on HEFCE Online Learning Task Force event

Ho hum been meaning to blog this for aaaaaaaaaaaaggggggggggggggeeeeeeeeeees. Nevermind, better late than never. In June the HEFCE online learning task force held an event at the British Library to get some consultation on their ideas and to feedback to people on their work so far. I have to admit that I did go to […]

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Reflections on day 4 and conference end

Well the conference is now over and it ended well. I decided to theme all my posts with buddha photos, no reason other than I liked them So some more thoughts… Interesting presentation on digital notebooks and their use in encourage creative design. Got me thinking about whether we could use these at City and […]

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What Factors Influence the Development of the T&L Regime of New University Teachers?

Philip Long, Faculty of Education, Anglia Ruskin University, Chelmsford, UK Dearing report (1997) which suggested all lectures should have professional development for teaching. At Anglia Ruskin all new staff must do pg certificate . It is taught over 2 semesters and one afternoon per week. Although all staff are ‘pressed’ to do course, staff satisfaction […]

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