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University of Massachusetts > Information Technology Council > Scholarship of Teaching and Learning April 5, 2007
Instructional Technology Conference | The Scholarship of Teaching & Learning: Technology & Reflective Practice
April 5, 2007 |Sturbridge Host Hotel
THANK YOU TO RANDY BASS, PRESENTERS, PARTICIPANTS!
MORE TO COME.
Keynote Speaker: Randy Bass, Georgetown University
Professor of English; Executive Director, Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship; Assistant Provost, Teaching and Learning Initiatives
From the mid 1990's until 2000, the Information Technology Council sponsored an annual "UMass Instructional Technology Conference." On April 5, 2007, we shall begin anew. Some issues have not changed: how do we adopt and adapt instructional technology to best meet the institution's commitment to excellence in learning?
With "Web 2.0" technologies affording richer teaching and learning environments, the choices, challenges, and opportunities are even richer. The question, now, isn't whether to adopt particular technologies. It's how better to understand and build on their capability to enhance learning and teaching. This conference will present the best current thinking on what questions to ask, what insights to build on.
Presenters will be UMass faculty and staff who have engaged in adoption and experimentation of newer academic technologies in teaching. They will include, but not be limited to, recipients of the UMass Academic Technology Grants (formerly "Professional Development Grants"). The conference will also offer a workshop session on the nature and practice of scholarship on teaching and learning, as well as opportunities for gathering of special interest groups.
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For more information, contact Mark Schlesinger, Associate VP for Academic Technology:
mschlesinger@umassp.edu
617-287-7102
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