August 30, 2006 Register now to attend a live web seminar, "Assessing the Efficacy of Technology in Promoting Student Learning: Principles That Anchor Effective Inquiry."
The presenter, Peggy Maki, is a respected expert in assessment for higher education. She was a featured presenter on assessment at UD's General Education Institute in June 2004.
University of Sarajevo School of Economics and Business faculty visit PRESENT
Posted August 29, 2006 As part of a partnership with the University of Delaware’s Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics, the dean and three faculty from the School of Economics and Business at the University of Sarajevo are visiting PRESENT to discuss teaching and technology.
The partnership is supported by a four-year, $10 million U.S. Agency for International Development contract awarded to UD after a highly competitive selection process. A new graduate business school, operated as a joint venture between the two universities, offers a Master of Business Administration (MBA) program. As part of the program, faculty from the University of Sarajevo visit UD’s Newark campus.
Writing Program in-service touches on teaching with technology
Posted August 28, 2006 The Writing Program in the Department of English is offering an in-service program today. One of the topics is teaching with technology—which can take different forms depending upon individual teaching goals. PRESENT staff are on-hand to facilitate discussion of current capabilities and campus resources. The teaching with technology handout for today's session is available in PDF format.
PRESENT staff are available to contribute to departmental programs and meeting agendas focused on teaching with technology. To discuss your departmental needs, e-mail.
Faculty profile: Let the games begin
August 24, 2006 Working with PRESENT staff, faculty members have created interactive, web-based “games” that test a student’s understanding of course material and provide an environment for problem-based learning.
With course objectives that include understanding epidemiology and gaining familiarity with the organisms that cause foodborne disease, Dr. Kali Kniel, Assistant Professor, Department of Animal and Food Sciences, collaborated with PRESENT to interact with her students and reach her educational goals in unique ways.
Penny Rodrick-Williams, supplemental faculty, Entomology and Wildlife Ecology, worked closely with PRESENT staff to develop a wildlife identification game. Her bird identification game presents students with a number of interactive questions regarding various species indigenous to Delaware and the surrounding area.
In the news: All students assigned new UD ID numbers
August 23, 2006
All students now have new UD ID numbers as part of the conversion to UD's new student record system, UDSIS, which will be used exclusively after September 12 when SIS+ will be retired.
Students need to know their new UD IDs before September 13, however, for conducting some University business, such as:
Purchasing books and supplies from the UD Bookstore using financial aid;
August 3, 2006 UD's annual conference for graduate teaching assistants (TAs) is being held Monday-Wednesday, Aug. 21-23, in the Trabant University Center and Gore Hall. The conference is designed to help orient newly appointed TAs to their instructional roles and responsibilities. Senior graduate TA fellows, faculty, and staff from PRESENT and other units across the University lead the conference sessions. The conference is part of an orientation series for new graduate students and is cosponsored by the Office of Graduate Studies, the Graduate Student Senate and the Center for Teaching Effectiveness (CTE).
To register, call (302) 831-2027 by Friday, Aug. 11, or visit the TA conference web site.
Mark your calendar for "Emerging Technologies for Student Engagement"
August 2, 2006 On Friday, September 29, the University of Delaware will host a symposium, "Emerging Technologies for Student Engagement" sponsored by Pearson Allyn & Bacon/Longman, the Department of Psychology, the College of Arts & Sciences, Institute for Transforming Undergraduate Education, and User Services/PRESENT. We are indebted to Tom DiLorenzo for taking the lead on organizing the symposium and to Sarah Ergen, Christine MacKrell, and their colleagues at Pearson Allyn & Bacon/Longman for securing and financing the visits of two keynote presenters, Neil Carlson and Douglas Duncan. A focus of the symposium will be the use of personal response systems, fondly known as 'clickers', for engaging students in lecture settings.
Additional details about the symposium will be announced as they become available.
August 2006 News
Web seminar: Learning assessment with Peggy Maki
As part of a partnership with the University of Delaware’s Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics, the dean and three faculty from the School of Economics and Business at the University of Sarajevo are visiting PRESENT to discuss teaching and technology.