Posted May, 23, 2007
As options for new audio, video, and multimedia technologies mount, selecting the most appropriate tools to enhance learning can feel daunting.
For guidance from a number of international experts, attend the 2007 Summer Faculty Institute. This year’s Institute focuses on matching multimedia tools to teaching and learning goals and resources for getting started using these tools.
Keynote presenter, Richard E. Mayer, professor of Psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), will present “Multimedia Learning.” A multimedia instructional message is a presentation containing words and pictures that is intended to foster learning. Examples include narrated animations, annotated illustrations, interactive simulations and educational games.
Mayer will summarize 10 research-based principles for the design of multimedia instructional messages. For each principle, he will provide examples, summarize the research evidence and relate the principle to a cognitive science model of learning.
Mayer’s current research involves the intersection of cognition, instruction and technology with a special focus on multimedia learning and problem solving. He is the author of Multimedia Learning (2001), e-Learning and the Science of Instruction (with R. Clark, 2003), The Cambridge Handbook of Multimedia Learning (2005) and Learning and Instruction: Second Edition (2008).
The keynote will be held 10 a.m.–noon, Tuesday, June 19, in 127 Memorial Hall. Continental breakfast will be served at 9:30 a.m.
The Institute seeks to further the University goals of assessment and general education and to create awareness of the connection between multimedia and learning.
The Institute is cosponsored by IT-User Services, Center for Teaching Effectiveness, Institute for Transforming Undergraduate Education, Office of Educational Assessment and the University Library.
Registration is free but required for all sessions. Space is limited, so early registration is advised. Register online at [www.udel.edu/present/summer]. All members of the campus community are invited to attend the keynote and general sessions. For more information, visit the Summer Faculty Institute web site.
Posted May, 18, 2007
UD's Exemplary Use of Technology in Teaching contest seeks to identify and reward faculty for incorporating technology into their teaching to enhance their students' learning experience.
This year's three winners, announced May 18, will each receive $500 to use for professional development or to support their efforts with technology in teaching.
Those honored include:
- Dorrie Deluca, assistant professor of accounting and management information systems, for Database Design and Implementation;
- Mark Serva, assistant professor of accounting and management information systems, for Information Technology Applications in Management; and
- Jingyi Yu, assistant professor of computer and information sciences, for Computer Graphics.
Honorable mention goes to Nancy Edwards, instructor in individual and family studies, for Technology and Assistive Technology in Early Childhood Education. She will receive a professional development award of $100.
The projects were evaluated based on criteria set by a panel of judges from various University units. The winners will showcase their award-winning projects at the 2007 Summer Faculty Institute from 10 a.m.-noon, Monday, June 18, in 127 Memorial Hall. Attendance is open to the entire campus community. Registration is required and seats are limited, so register early using the Professional Development Calendar.
Posted May 6, 2007
This three-day interactive workshop held June 4-6 offers mini-presentations, discussions, and time to work on your own syllabus and writing assignments. By workshop’s end, you will be better able to:
- Use student writing to assess critical thinking skills
- Revise and sequence existing assignments in ways that ensure greater student engagement
- Provide students with a range of quick, informal writing-to-learn activities that develop critical thinking and lessen the need for longer assignments
- Implement efficient writing conference techniques and effective peer review strategies to give students timely feedback
- Identify "the least you should know" about grammar to help your students without becoming their editor
- Re-consider and re-conceptualize term papers
- Employ technology to support student writing
- Save time, not waste it, with new techniques for responding to student writing and managing the paper load
Visit the Professional Development Calendar for more information.
Posted May 4, 2007 A new web-based service, UD PO Box, has replaced the class and majors mailing lists. The new service allows faculty and staff to use a web form to send messages to their mailing lists. Students receive messages in their e-mail and can reply to the sender. They cannot post to the PO Box unless the list owner assigns them this privilege.
According to Kate Webster, IT-User Services, “by restricting who can send to the lists, the PO Box eliminates spam and 'Reply All' mail storms.” “Because of the large volume of spam associated with the current mailing lists, the convenience of using e-mail for them is no longer feasible,” Webster said.
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