This session is a smorgasbord of information about free, cool technology tools that you can use to get the job of being a student done. The staff of the Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies will offer a rapid-fire overview of tools that help you with presentations, research, writing, web publishing, sharing, mashing-up, creating, and organizing. It is amazing what you can do for FREE!

Come Join DTLT in duPont 310 to learn more about our work with faculty at the University.

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Please join us in the DTLT office duPont 310 for a New Media Consortium Connect webinar discussion with Lynda Weinman, the co-founder of the software teaching and learning company, lynda.com. Lynda's commitment runs deep in the field of learning and she will be sharing her thoughts and ideas about the co-founding of lynda.com, her life and her love of learning. This will be a special opportunity to hear from one of the creative leaders of the online teaching world who has touched many through her company. Lynda, a Web graphics and design veteran, wrote the very first industry book on Web design, Designing Web Graphics, in 1995. She is a prominent educator and the author of dozens of best-selling books. Weinman was a faculty member at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA, in 1989, and has worked as an animator and motion graphics director in the film special effects industry. In addition, Lynda has worked as a consultant for Adobe, Macromedia, and Microsoft, and has conducted workshops at Disney, Microsoft, Adobe, and Macromedia. She has been a keynote speaker, moderator, and lecturer at numerous design, animation, Web design, and computer-graphics conferences. Weinman and her husband Bruce Heavin co-founded lynda.com in 1995.

This fall, campuses will welcome the largest freshman class in the nation’s history. But the journey from freshman year to diploma is not necessarily an easy one. Many students must juggle work, family, and financial responsibilities with coursework. Others will struggle to keep pace with the rigor of college courses. How can we leverage today’s IT tools to smooth the path toward college completion? How can tools like open courseware, analytics, or blended learning be more successful? Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC) is a new effort to identify and scale technology-enabled approaches that dramatically improve college readiness and completion. With funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the initiative will be led by EDUCAUSE, in partnership with the League for Innovation in the Community Colleges, the International Association for K-12 Online Learning, and the Council of Chief State School Officers. NGLC will provide grants, build evidence, and develop an active community committed to addressing these persistent educational challenges. To prepare for the launch of the grant program, EDUCAUSE invites you to participate in a “Back to Campus” series of webinars focusing on the underlying challenges in college readiness and completion and IT’s role as an enabler of change.

This fall, campuses will welcome the largest freshman class in the nation’s history. But the journey from freshman year to diploma is not necessarily an easy one. Many students must juggle work, family, and financial responsibilities with coursework. Others will struggle to keep pace with the rigor of college courses. How can we leverage today’s IT tools to smooth the path toward college completion? How can tools like open courseware, analytics, or blended learning be more successful? Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC) is a new effort to identify and scale technology-enabled approaches that dramatically improve college readiness and completion. With funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the initiative will be led by EDUCAUSE, in partnership with the League for Innovation in the Community Colleges, the International Association for K-12 Online Learning, and the Council of Chief State School Officers. NGLC will provide grants, build evidence, and develop an active community committed to addressing these persistent educational challenges. To prepare for the launch of the grant program, EDUCAUSE invites you to participate in a “Back to Campus” series of webinars focusing on the underlying challenges in college readiness and completion and IT’s role as an enabler of change.

This fall, campuses will welcome the largest freshman class in the nation’s history. But the journey from freshman year to diploma is not necessarily an easy one. Many students must juggle work, family, and financial responsibilities with coursework. Others will struggle to keep pace with the rigor of college courses. How can we leverage today’s IT tools to smooth the path toward college completion? How can tools like open courseware, analytics, or blended learning be more successful? Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC) is a new effort to identify and scale technology-enabled approaches that dramatically improve college readiness and completion. With funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the initiative will be led by EDUCAUSE, in partnership with the League for Innovation in the Community Colleges, the International Association for K-12 Online Learning, and the Council of Chief State School Officers. NGLC will provide grants, build evidence, and develop an active community committed to addressing these persistent educational challenges. To prepare for the launch of the grant program, EDUCAUSE invites you to participate in a “Back to Campus” series of webinars focusing on the underlying challenges in college readiness and completion and IT’s role as an enabler of change.

Please join us in duPont 310 for this ELI webinar presentation by Diana Oblinger, President and CEO of EDUCAUSE Worldwide changes catalyzed by information technology are changing our traditional notions of what the future of higher education will be. The "digital age" offers new opportunities, such as online learning, as well as threats, such as competition from other institutions. Information technology can help address these challenges and opportunities—it also may change how we frame the future. Common themes are emerging worldwide, such as cloud computing, identity management, and open educational resources. The presentation will sketch the emerging landscape and explore the implications for higher education.

The goal of this focus session is to revisit the potential of blended learning instructional models, student learning outcomes, and successful implementation practices. The maturing of online learning practices and engagements has opened new possibilities for curriculum design, including both face-to-face and online learning opportunities. The ability to design a course that uniquely blends face-to-face and distributed interaction allows institutions to address learners’ specific needs and customize the learning environment rather than rely on a “one size fits all” approach. Read more: http://net.educause.edu/eli103 UMW community members interested in participating should contact the Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies (http://home.umwdtlt.org).

The goal of this focus session is to revisit the potential of blended learning instructional models, student learning outcomes, and successful implementation practices. The maturing of online learning practices and engagements has opened new possibilities for curriculum design, including both face-to-face and online learning opportunities. The ability to design a course that uniquely blends face-to-face and distributed interaction allows institutions to address learners’ specific needs and customize the learning environment rather than rely on a “one size fits all” approach. Read more: http://net.educause.edu/eli103 UMW community members interested in participating should contact the Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies (http://home.umwdtlt.org).

ELI’s online seminars offer an opportunity to hear from experts around the world on a specific teaching and learning with technology-related topic. The goal of this seminar is to examine one of the blended learning focus session topics in greater depth. With the help of the ELI community’s input, we’ve selected research and quality assurance of blended learning as the topic for our first online seminar. During this three-hour online event we will take an in-depth, hands-on look at assessment strategies and frameworks for blended learning, both at the course and program levels. Read more: http://net.educause.edu/eli104 UMW community members who are interested in participating should contact the Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies (http://home.umwdtlt.org).

ELI’s online seminars offer an opportunity to hear from experts around the world on a specific teaching and learning with technology-related topic. The goal of this seminar is to examine one of the blended learning focus session topics in greater depth. With the help of the ELI community’s input, we’ve selected research and quality assurance of blended learning as the topic for our first online seminar. During this three-hour online event we will take an in-depth, hands-on look at assessment strategies and frameworks for blended learning, both at the course and program levels. Read more: http://net.educause.edu/eli104 UMW community members who are interested in participating should contact the Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies (http://home.umwdtlt.org).

The 2010 NMC Symposium for the Future, the sixteenth in the NMC’s Series of Virtual Symposia, will explore actual and potential applications of technology that could impact issues of global importance over the next five years and beyond. More information: http://www.nmc.org/2010-future-symposium UMW Community members should contact the Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies (http://home.umwdtlt.org) about participating in this online event.

The 2010 NMC Symposium for the Future, the sixteenth in the NMC’s Series of Virtual Symposia, will explore actual and potential applications of technology that could impact issues of global importance over the next five years and beyond. More information: http://www.nmc.org/2010-future-symposium UMW Community members should contact the Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies (http://home.umwdtlt.org) about participating in this online event.

This session is a smorgasbord of information about free, cool technology tools that you can use to get the job of being a student done. The staff of the Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies will offer a rapid-fire overview of tools that help you with presentations, research, writing, web publishing, sharing, mashing-up, creating, and organizing. It is amazing what you can do for FREE!

This session is a smorgasbord of information about free, cool technology tools that you can use to get the job of being a student done. The staff of the Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies will offer a rapid-fire overview of tools that help you with presentations, research, writing, web publishing, sharing, mashing-up, creating, and organizing. It is amazing what you can do for FREE!

Join us for an informal open house in duPont 310. Meet our staff! Talk about your ideas! Eat light refreshments! Interesting conversation a distinct possibility!

In this, hour-long web seminar, hear about how Brown deployed Google Apps to its 6,000 students and has now decided to extend the service to include faculty and staff as well. Join us in duPont 310 for more information about how these decisions were made, the options considered, difficulties surmounted, and successes to date.

Join UMW's Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies in a conversation about Faculty Academy, an annual conference that figures at the division's keystone faculty development opportunity.

This brown-bag lunch will showcase a smorgasbord of information about free, cool technology tools that you can use to get the job of being a student or professor done. The staff of the Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies will offer a rapid-fire overview of tools that help you with presentations, research, writing, web publishing, sharing, mashing-up, creating, and organizing. It is amazing what you can do for FREE!

These sessions will be held in duPont 310 or the Curriculum Development Lab (North 226) on the Stafford campus from 2:00 to 4:00 on scheduled days. A wiki will be available before each session which people can use to ask questions, suggest topics to discuss/get help on. The format of the actual session will be dictated, primarily, by the attendees and their needs. If several people are interested in a particular topic, we can devote 30 minutes to demonstration and then the rest of the time to development/helping people do something. If there are a few people with different topics of interest, we can break into small groups or work one-on-one.Whenever possible, whatever is developed or discussed at the session will be turned into some kind of “persistent resource” which DTLT will post on the UMW Blogs support site. This might be a quick tutorial, a list of links/resources, a description of an innovative use of the system, etc. Read more about this series at http://home.umwdtlt.org/2010/02/11/special-umw-blogs-series/

These sessions will be held in duPont 310 or the Curriculum Development Lab (North 226) on the Stafford campus from 2:00 to 4:00 on scheduled days. A wiki will be available before each session which people can use to ask questions, suggest topics to discuss/get help on. The format of the actual session will be dictated, primarily, by the attendees and their needs. If several people are interested in a particular topic, we can devote 30 minutes to demonstration and then the rest of the time to development/helping people do something. If there are a few people with different topics of interest, we can break into small groups or work one-on-one.Whenever possible, whatever is developed or discussed at the session will be turned into some kind of “persistent resource” which DTLT will post on the UMW Blogs support site. This might be a quick tutorial, a list of links/resources, a description of an innovative use of the system, etc. Read more about this series at http://home.umwdtlt.org/2010/02/11/special-umw-blogs-series/

These sessions will be held in duPont 310 or the Curriculum Development Lab (North 226) on the Stafford campus from 2:00 to 4:00 on scheduled days. A wiki will be available before each session which people can use to ask questions, suggest topics to discuss/get help on. The format of the actual session will be dictated, primarily, by the attendees and their needs. If several people are interested in a particular topic, we can devote 30 minutes to demonstration and then the rest of the time to development/helping people do something. If there are a few people with different topics of interest, we can break into small groups or work one-on-one.Whenever possible, whatever is developed or discussed at the session will be turned into some kind of “persistent resource” which DTLT will post on the UMW Blogs support site. This might be a quick tutorial, a list of links/resources, a description of an innovative use of the system, etc. Read more about this series at http://home.umwdtlt.org/2010/02/11/special-umw-blogs-series/

These sessions will be held in duPont 310 or the Curriculum Development Lab (North 226) on the Stafford campus from 2:00 to 4:00 on scheduled days. A wiki will be available before each session which people can use to ask questions, suggest topics to discuss/get help on. The format of the actual session will be dictated, primarily, by the attendees and their needs. If several people are interested in a particular topic, we can devote 30 minutes to demonstration and then the rest of the time to development/helping people do something. If there are a few people with different topics of interest, we can break into small groups or work one-on-one.Whenever possible, whatever is developed or discussed at the session will be turned into some kind of “persistent resource” which DTLT will post on the UMW Blogs support site. This might be a quick tutorial, a list of links/resources, a description of an innovative use of the system, etc. Read more about this series at http://home.umwdtlt.org/2010/02/11/special-umw-blogs-series/

These sessions will be held in duPont 310 or the Curriculum Development Lab (North 226) on the Stafford campus from 2:00 to 4:00 on scheduled days. A wiki will be available before each session which people can use to ask questions, suggest topics to discuss/get help on. The format of the actual session will be dictated, primarily, by the attendees and their needs. If several people are interested in a particular topic, we can devote 30 minutes to demonstration and then the rest of the time to development/helping people do something. If there are a few people with different topics of interest, we can break into small groups or work one-on-one.Whenever possible, whatever is developed or discussed at the session will be turned into some kind of “persistent resource” which DTLT will post on the UMW Blogs support site. This might be a quick tutorial, a list of links/resources, a description of an innovative use of the system, etc. Read more about this series at http://home.umwdtlt.org/2010/02/11/special-umw-blogs-series/

These sessions will be held in duPont 310 or the Curriculum Development Lab (North 226) on the Stafford campus from 2:00 to 4:00 on scheduled days. A wiki will be available before each session which people can use to ask questions, suggest topics to discuss/get help on. The format of the actual session will be dictated, primarily, by the attendees and their needs. If several people are interested in a particular topic, we can devote 30 minutes to demonstration and then the rest of the time to development/helping people do something. If there are a few people with different topics of interest, we can break into small groups or work one-on-one.Whenever possible, whatever is developed or discussed at the session will be turned into some kind of “persistent resource” which DTLT will post on the UMW Blogs support site. This might be a quick tutorial, a list of links/resources, a description of an innovative use of the system, etc. Read more about this series at http://home.umwdtlt.org/2010/02/11/special-umw-blogs-series/

These sessions will be held in duPont 310 or the Curriculum Development Lab (North 226) on the Stafford campus from 2:00 to 4:00 on scheduled days. A wiki will be available before each session which people can use to ask questions, suggest topics to discuss/get help on. The format of the actual session will be dictated, primarily, by the attendees and their needs. If several people are interested in a particular topic, we can devote 30 minutes to demonstration and then the rest of the time to development/helping people do something. If there are a few people with different topics of interest, we can break into small groups or work one-on-one.Whenever possible, whatever is developed or discussed at the session will be turned into some kind of “persistent resource” which DTLT will post on the UMW Blogs support site. This might be a quick tutorial, a list of links/resources, a description of an innovative use of the system, etc. Read more about this series at http://home.umwdtlt.org/2010/02/11/special-umw-blogs-series/

These sessions will be held in duPont 310 or the Curriculum Development Lab (North 226) on the Stafford campus from 2:00 to 4:00 on scheduled days. A wiki will be available before each session which people can use to ask questions, suggest topics to discuss/get help on. The format of the actual session will be dictated, primarily, by the attendees and their needs. If several people are interested in a particular topic, we can devote 30 minutes to demonstration and then the rest of the time to development/helping people do something. If there are a few people with different topics of interest, we can break into small groups or work one-on-one.Whenever possible, whatever is developed or discussed at the session will be turned into some kind of “persistent resource” which DTLT will post on the UMW Blogs support site. This might be a quick tutorial, a list of links/resources, a description of an innovative use of the system, etc. Read more about this series at http://home.umwdtlt.org/2010/02/11/special-umw-blogs-series/

During this forum, current users of UMW Blogs will share some of the innovative uses of the system, from outstanding course blogs, to student portfolios, to club Web sites, to “professional domains” created by faculty. UMW Blog users will be invited to sign up to present (in 5 minutes or so) their exemplary site. The purpose of this event will be to spark the imaginations of attendees and inspire them to try something new in UMW Blogs; the subsequent open sessions will provide the one-on-one support and hands-on opportunities to build and develop something new. Read more about this series at http://home.umwdtlt.org/2010/02/11/special-umw-blogs-series/

Presenters: Karla Fisher, College Relations Coordinator, Center for Community College Student Engagement and Paul Arcario, Dean for Academic Affairs, LaGuardia Community College/CUNY Details forthcoming. Read more about the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative at http://www.educause.edu/eli.

Presenter: Diana Oblinger, President and CEO, EDUCAUSE Details forthcoming. Read more about the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative at http://www.educause.edu/eli.

Ruben Puentedura shares his research on mobile iPhone/iPod Tiuc apps for creating content - see http://www.hippasus.com/rrpweblog/archives/000043.html

University of Mary Washington shares their model of faculty development ingrained in their long running annual event, Faculty Academy.

Introduction to newest NMC Corporate Partner

The 2010 NMC Symposium on New Media and Learning, the fifteenth in the NMC’s Series of Virtual Symposia, will explore the impact of new media on teaching, learning, research, and creative inquiry, especially in higher education. Learn more at http://www.nmc.org/2010-nml-symposium .

Join us in duPont 310 on January 11 at 1:00 for this online presentation: Malcolm Brown, EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative director, will moderate this web seminar with Candace Thille. Using intelligent tutoring systems, virtual laboratories, simulations, and frequent opportunities for assessment and feedback, the Open Learning Initiative (OLI) builds open learning environments that support continuous improvement in teaching and learning. One of the most powerful features of web-based learning environments is that we can embed assessment into virtually all instructional activities. As students interact with OLI environments, we collect real-time data of student work. We use this data to create four positive feedback loops—to students, to instructors, to course designers, and to learning science researchers. In this ELI Web Seminar, we will demonstrate how OLI uses the web to deliver online instruction that instantiates course designs based on research and how the learning environments, in turn, support ongoing research. We will also discuss OLnet and the Community College Open Learning Initiative (CC-OLI) and how faculty and colleges across the country can participate. More informaiton: http://net.educause.edu/eliweb101 If you wish to participate in this event from a location other than duPont 310, you can register by visiting http://net.educause.edu/Registration/1024418.

EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative Web Seminar 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Eastern - CAS duPont 310 Larry Michaelsen Professor of Management University of Central Missouri David Ross Boyd Distinguished Professor Emeritus University of Oklahoma CAUTION: Group assignments often do more harm than good. The most common sign of trouble is when students (especially the better ones) feel like they must choose between doing more than their fair share of the work or risk getting a bad grade. When that happens, the real cause usually isn't the students—it's almost always what the teacher is asking them to do. In addition, even if the end product is a good one, a high percentage of students will leave the experience with negative feelings about the value of group work. In this session, you will be introduced to Team-Based Learning, an instructional strategy that essentially eliminates the most common problems with learning groups. It has been used successfully with students ranging from middle school through doctoral seminars in hundreds of disciplines and in classes of up to 400 students.

Join DTLT at the 15th annual Faculty Academy on Teaching and Learning Technologies.

Join DTLT at the 15th annual Faculty Academy on Teaching and Learning Technologies.

This year, UMW has purchased a registration for the online version of the annual EDUCAUSE conference. Starting on Wednesday, November 4th for three days, you can virtually attend a selection of the conference sessions by visiting DTLT in duPont 310. We will have our conference room set up with a live broadcast of the conference. Feel free to drop in for as many sessions as you like! From the EDUCAUSE Site: "The EDUCAUSE Annual Conference is the one event for IT professionals in higher education that consistently delivers insight, thought leadership, and community interaction. No other event offers more value for your travel dollars than the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference. But with travel bans and reduced budgets presenting new challenges for many campuses, EDUCAUSE is offering an exciting new opportunity—EDUCAUSE 2009 Online, where you will have the chance to learn and network with colleagues without leaving your campus."