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Fall 2008 is the first semester UD has offered Sakai to all faculty teaching credit courses. "We had set goals of about 120 faculty using approximately 180 Sakai courses during fall 2008," said Janet de Vry, IT-User Services. "Faculty use has exploded past those targets."

Dartmouth faculty in diverse departments including Government, Art History, Arabic, Writing, Native American Studies and Women Studies were excited to assign video projects and wanted to give students a more active and engaged learning experience. However, the faculty did not have a clear understanding of the processes involved to support such a project or how to integrate this type of assignment into the curriculum. To insure success, we needed to develop a more ambitious, comprehensive and seamless support services between curricular computing, the library's media center, and the peer-tutoring center. This session will illustrate how we've "de-silotized" the pedagogical and technical support and share students' feedback about their experiences.

The University of Delaware's 2009 Winter Faculty Institute--"The Ecosystem of Learning at the University of Delaware"--will be held Tuesday, Jan. 6, in the Rodney Room of the Perkins Student Center.

The official announcement... w00t!

The University of Delaware has released the Sakai learning management system (LMS) to UD faculty.

Lester Ray, a development executive with Apple, hosted the afternoon session of UD's Summer Faculty Institute, during which he addressed the frequent divide between technologically savvy college students and traditional lecture hall teaching practices.

2008 University of Delaware's Summer Faculty Institute keynote recordings.

For presentation on June 2, 2008 at the start of the 2008 Summer Faculty Institute.

A VuVox Collage of the experience of a University of Delaware Faculty in Second Life.

One of the strategic initiatives approved last fall by the Strategic Planning Council, the Academy has goals that include enhancing professional development for faculty, assisting in the formation of graduate students as scholar-teachers and promoting the scholarship of teaching and learning through new areas of research.

Ideas are powerful, especially when they have become beliefs and have been unquestioned for generations. Three in particular may be standing in the way of more faculty using our new learning tools in enlightened ways. Assuming learning is about acquiring content is a distortion of reality. Learning is about learning how to learn. It is a social process: For young people the social process must be tangible, present, and immediate; for more advanced learners, the social context is internalized but still indispensable.

They master a technology that they didn't know they could. And it's very empowering. Their self-efficacy is increased - and their ability to really process what it is an entrepreneur does…

Welcome to your community space for teaching and learning with technology at Brandeis!

Assessing the learner's progress is important. How else can we provide the best feedback or certify that the learner's met a certain level of understanding? That's why we need to ask the right questions. Avoid the following mistakes and you'll create a more effective learning experience.

"Teachers will not take up attractive-sounding ideas, albeit based on extensive research, if these are presented as general principles which leave entirely to them the task of translating them into everyday practice … what they need is a variety of living examples of implementation, by teachers with whom they can identify and from whom they can derive conviction and confidence that they can do better and see concrete examples of what doing better means in practice"

"Basics of Sakai @ UD" won an Award of Excellence in the Printed Instructional Classroom Materials category in the annual Communications Awards competition sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on University and College Computing Services' (ACM SIGUCCS).

Three people from my University of Delaware workshop in June provided links to stories… so i will share them.

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Tips, terminology and points to consider are provided so you can make an informed choice on how to meet your data and voice communication needs.

Examples of wiki etiquette in Higher Ed

This page presents five theories for developing instruction. The five models should be read first as they provide a framework to build upon and are fairly consistent in their approach. The two main differences are the level of detail that they go into and their semantics.