Teaching and Learning Technologies

This week’s topic, The Course Environment, highlights some of the changes to the Blackboard interface. The redesigned interface decreases the number of clicks, adds drag and drop functionality, and the ability to quickly edit the course information.

The Sustainability Faculty Scholars Program is seeking applicants for the 2011 program, to begin at the start of the spring semester. The Sustainability Faculty Scholars Program will identify, support and recognize faculty who are interested in incorporating or enhancing a focus on sustainable principles and practices in their courses, and exploring a range of pedagogies to develop this theme.

Sustainability Faculty Scholars Program applications due

Diversity, learning, and student-faculty interactions - Lunch discussion - 12:15-1:15 - Belk Pavilion 208

Faculty Fellow for Technology applications due

On October 26, 2010, Steven House, Provost and VPAA, and Chris Fulkerson, AVP/CIO, jointly announced a new faculty fellow position to continue advancing the relationship between our faculty and the leadership of Instructional and Campus Technologies. The Faculty Fellow for Technology will liaison with faculty and technology staff in promoting and broadly communicating about new technologies at Elon.

Alan Russell, associate professor of mathematics, published "A Model for Undergraduate Research in Statistics Education" in the July 2010 edition of the International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.

Elon sociology and global studies students used Skype technology on Oct. 20 to hold a 90-minute conversation with students at Dijlah University College in Baghdad, Iraq. The session was the brainchild of Elon sociology professor Tom Arcaro and Ahmed Fadaam, a sculptor/journalist from Baghdad who has visited Elon in the past.

On Oct. 14, Christopher Waters, assistant CIO and director of teaching and learning technologies, and Scott Hildebrand, assistant director of teaching and learning technologies, presented at the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference in Anaheim, Calif.