Registration and CFP Are Open

We’re pleased to announce that the online registration and call for proposal forms for Faculty Academy 2009 are now open!
Registration
We hope you’ll join us at Faculty Academy and register today! The conference is a wonderful opportunity to hear more about what colleagues at UMW are doing with teaching and technology, listen to a stellar line-up [...]

James Boyle

Professor James Boyle will deliver his keynote address Cultural Agoraphobia: What Universities Need to Know About Our Bias Against Openness at 11:00 am on May 13th. Dr. Boyle is William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law at Duke University and founder of the Center for the Study of the Public Domain. He is also the Chairman of the Board of Creative Commons and the co-founder of Science Commons.

Get Ahead of the FA Curve

As Faculty Academy approaches, DTLT would like to invite anyone at UMW (or elsewhere) to join in a reading group of Dr. Boyle’s latest book, “The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind.” We’ll be discussing the book on this Web site virtually as well as trying to arrange a few face-to-face book group [...]

Death of the CMS?

Join us at Faculty Academy for a mock debate between DTLT’s Jim Groom and Director of Distance and Blended Learning, John St. Clair. Jim and John will discuss the future of the course management system on college campuses.
Is the CMS dead? Have we graduated to a new kind of understanding and integration of technology into [...]

Deck Wars Returns!

Join us at Faculty Academy for the second annual Deck Wars competition. What is Deck Wars? Glad you asked!
Deck Wars is a competition in which the presenters deliver a short, impromptu, three-minute presentation based on a deck of PowerPoint slides they have never seen before. Each presenter’s work is judged by the audience for originality, [...]

Cole Camplese

Currently, Mr. Camplese serves as the Director of Education Technology Services at the Pennsylvania State University.

Laura Blankenship

Dr. Blankenship has been working in higher education since the early 1990s and is currently founder and president of Emerging Technologies Consulting.