Plenary Presentation in University Hall Engaging the New Classroom Conversation Cole Camplese (Pennsylvania State University) Sponsored by the Office of the Provost
Lunch Sponsored by the UMW Center for Advancing Teaching and Learning Mock Debate Is the CMS Dead? Jim Groom (DTLT) and John St. Clair (Distance and Blended Learning) Moderator: Tim O’Donnell (English, Linguistics, and Communications)
Faculty Academy Keynote Address in University Hall Cultural Agoraphobia: What Universities Need to Know About Our Bias Against Openness Dr. James Boyle (Duke University Law School) Special thanks to our Keynote Sponsor the UMW Center for Advancing Teaching and Learning.
Break in the Lobby and Atrium
Panel Discussion in B210 Fairytales about Cooking with Monsters & Math: Blogging in the Freshman Seminar Panel Discussion in B122 Digital Resources and Global Studies: Working Projects Presentation Session in B115 Architecture and Place: Contextualizing Buildings Through Virtual Travel Designing and Implementing a Drupal: Can a Biology Geek and a Computer Geek Begin to Think [...]
Conference Welcome Mr. Jerry Slezak, Acting Director, Teaching and Learning Technologies Dr. Nina Mikhalevsky, Acting Provost Dr. Khalil Yazdi, Vice President for Information Technology and Institutional Research and CIO
Lobby and Atrium Registration and Continental Breakfast Please join us for a continental breakfast, coffee, and tea in the atrium and lobby. Stop by the registration desk to pick up your nametag and program, register for a workshop, or sign up to compete in Deck Wars. Sponsored by the Department of Information Technology Breakfast Sponsored [...]
It’s that time of year. Again. Tomorrow will mark day one of yet another Faculty Academy at the University of Mary Washington. Once again, we’ve got a stellar line-up of guest speakers and faculty presenters. This year’s conference planning has been particularly poignant and meaningful for me, and I’m extraordinarly grateful to my colleagues in [...]
The conference will begin at 8:30 on May 13 in the North Building of UMW’s College of Graduate and Professional Studies.
In this presentation, Professor James Boyle will argue that we have a cognitive bias–he calls it cultural agoraphobia–that leads us to underestimate the potential of open networks, open culture and open productive processes. What is the evidence for such a bias? What should a university do about it–from the library to the classroom to the [...]
