We’re pleased to announce that the final program for Faculty Academy 2009 is now available. We have over 30 concurrent presentations scheduled over the course of the two-day event, with faculty representing both campuses and over a dozen disciplines. Over the course of the next day, abstracts for all of the sessions will be available [...]
The call for proposals for Faculty Academy 2009 closed today at 5 p.m. Thank you to everyone who submitted a proposal. We are reviewing them as quickly as possible and putting the schedule together. It will be posted on this site shortly. In the meantime, don’t forget to register! The registration deadline is Friday, May [...]
The division of teaching and learning technologies is pleased to announce plans for the final session at this year’s Faculty Academy. At 3:30 on Wednesday the 14th, we will have a brief conference wrap-up in University Hall. Following these remarks, we will break out into concurrent interactive workshops and presentations. Jim Groom will be leading [...]
In order to further accommodate faculty at UMW who are working on grading final exams and submitting final marks, we have decided to extend the deadline for Faculty Academy proposals and registrations. New Call for Proposals Deadline: May 6, 2009 at 5:00 PM New Registration Deadline: May 8, 2009 at 5:00 PM In addition, you [...]
We’re pleased to announce titles and times for the plenary presentations and workshops by guest presenters Laura Blankenship and Cole Camplese: Wednesday, May 13, 2:00-3:15 Engaging the New Classroom Conversation (Plenary Presentation) Cole Camplese Wednesday, May 13, 3:30-4:45 Creating a Personal Learning Network for Yourself and for Your Students (Interactive Workshop) Laura Blankenship Register Online [...]
We’re pleased to announce that we’ve extended the registration and proposal deadlines for Faculty Academy. Registrations will now be accepted through May 8th. You may submit proposals through May 4th. We had hoped to move these deadlines up a bit this year so that we could provide the conference program earlier than ususal. However, in [...]
We’re pleased to announce that the title and abstract for Dr. Boye’s keynote address are now available. The address, Cultural Agoraphobia: What Universities Need to Know About Our Bias Against Openness, will be held at 11:00 am on May 13th at UMW’s College of Graduate and Professional Studies. You can find out more about Dr. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
