Event Title
Moving the Desktop into the Cloud: Can It Work for Faculty & Students?
Location
DSB, Room 110
Start Date
31-5-2013 10:30 AM
End Date
31-5-2013 11:45 AM
Session Type
Roundtable Discussion
Description
This session will provide participants with the chance to discuss the opportunities and challenges of new cloud-based technologies in the classroom. The presenters will kick off the conversation with a brief review of their own project and then engage the group by posing a series of discussion questions. Our project came about as a direct result of the collaboration between a professor of economics, with years of experience in the classroom, and a director of academic computing, who has spent a career helping faculty to incorporate technology into their teaching. In discussions about students, technology, and the changes we are observing on campus and in our classrooms, we serendipitously arrived at an idea to “test” an old technology approach against a new one and see what we can learn.
Topic Designation
Teaching & Learning, Technology
Presenter Bio(s)
Jay Rozgonyi is the Director of Academic Computing at Fairfield University and an Adjunct Instructor in the Graduate School of Education and Allied Professions.
Kathy Nantz is a Professor of Economics and the former Associate Director of the Center for Academic Excellence at Fairfield University.
Moving the Desktop into the Cloud: Can It Work for Faculty & Students?
DSB, Room 110
This session will provide participants with the chance to discuss the opportunities and challenges of new cloud-based technologies in the classroom. The presenters will kick off the conversation with a brief review of their own project and then engage the group by posing a series of discussion questions. Our project came about as a direct result of the collaboration between a professor of economics, with years of experience in the classroom, and a director of academic computing, who has spent a career helping faculty to incorporate technology into their teaching. In discussions about students, technology, and the changes we are observing on campus and in our classrooms, we serendipitously arrived at an idea to “test” an old technology approach against a new one and see what we can learn.