Teaching and Learning Technologies

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.

Assessing Student Work on Blogs and Wikis - 12:30-1:30pm

Elon University Research Seminar on "Critical Transitions: Writing and the Question of Transfer" applications due

New Faculty Meeting - 3:00-5:00pm - Belk Pavilion 208