Event Title
Biology & Technology: A Collaborative Approach to Making Learning Better for Students
Location
Dolan School of Business
Start Date
30-5-2014 9:15 AM
End Date
30-5-2014 10:15 AM
Session Type
Interactive Session
Description
It goes without saying that the Internet has provided students with a range of information that was inconceivable 20 years ago, and nowhere is this more true than in the health sciences. Even successful faculty, however, who may be committed to finding ways to bring some of this materials to their students, can be intimidated by the technical difficulties involved on both their end and that of their students. In this session, we will provide an example of how an experienced professor of biology took her already-successful introductory course and, with the assistance of academic computing staff and her textbook publisher’s representative, is creating a more robust, integrated, and compelling learning experience for her students. Led by the Director of Academic Computing, this session will highlight the ways in which well-planned technology can serve a faculty member’s instructional vision, draw together disparate sets of material from a variety of sources, and integrate and present them to students in straightforward way that serves instruction rather than complicating it. And while the session will focus on the specific technical tools at use in this teaching example (Blackboard and WileyPlus), a major theme will be the way this serves as a model for faculty collaborations that can assist in helping instructors engage their students and become “guides on the side.”
Topic Designation
Teaching & Learning, Technology
Presenter Bio(s)
Jay Rozgonyi
Director of Academic Computing
Fairfield University
Christine Earls
Instructor of the Practice
Biology Department
Fairfield University
Biology & Technology: A Collaborative Approach to Making Learning Better for Students
Dolan School of Business
It goes without saying that the Internet has provided students with a range of information that was inconceivable 20 years ago, and nowhere is this more true than in the health sciences. Even successful faculty, however, who may be committed to finding ways to bring some of this materials to their students, can be intimidated by the technical difficulties involved on both their end and that of their students. In this session, we will provide an example of how an experienced professor of biology took her already-successful introductory course and, with the assistance of academic computing staff and her textbook publisher’s representative, is creating a more robust, integrated, and compelling learning experience for her students. Led by the Director of Academic Computing, this session will highlight the ways in which well-planned technology can serve a faculty member’s instructional vision, draw together disparate sets of material from a variety of sources, and integrate and present them to students in straightforward way that serves instruction rather than complicating it. And while the session will focus on the specific technical tools at use in this teaching example (Blackboard and WileyPlus), a major theme will be the way this serves as a model for faculty collaborations that can assist in helping instructors engage their students and become “guides on the side.”