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NERCOMP EVENT
Collaboration: Empowering Active Learning through the Application of Technology
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In today's business world, the use of virtual meeting places, cross-organizational teams and location/time displaced collaboration is common. In too many classrooms, however, students still learn through individual projects and the passive receipt of information provided from the podium. Additionally, many students consider collaboration in the classroom to mean IMing a friend to see what they are doing after class.
The purpose of this session is to present and share ideas, techniques, and best practices to introduce collaboration as a way for students to: take an active role in their educational process; share ideas and thoughts among their peers, construct new knowledge and learning experiences through collaborative group projects; and align group project methodologies to those used throughout the business, scientific and other "real world" environment.
Workshop Organizer/Host: David Gannon and Enoch Park of Bryant University
Date/Time:
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
9:00am - 3:00pm
Registration begins at 8:00am
Location:
UMASS Amherst
Campus Center
First Floor
Amherst, MA
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Special instructions:
Getting to the Campus Center Parking Garage… From Massachusetts Avenue (after exiting from Route 116) At the second set of lights turn left onto Commonwealth Avenue – Boyden Gymnasium is on the corner of Commonwealth & Massachusetts Avenues. At the next set of lights turn right onto Campus Center Way and proceed up Campus Center Way – The entrance to the Campus Center Parking Garage is at the top of the hill on the right.
Parking is available in the Campus Center Garage, pick up your parking pass at the registration desk and pay $5 when leaving.
Park on the 2nd floor of the parking garage and walk thru the hallway into the Student Center and go down to the first floor.
Pricing:
NERCOMP Members: $89
Non-Members: $214
By clicking on the "Register" button below, you are indicating a commitment to attend and will be held responsible for the registration fee.
Your fee can be refunded if you notify us of a cancellation at least 8 days prior to the event via email to nercomp@nercomp.org.
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Additional Information
Event Schedule:
8:00am - 9:00am Registration & Coffee
9:00am – 9:10am Introduction
9:10am – 10:00am New Technologies, New Opportunities
Speaker: John Aiello, Professor, Department of Psychology, Rutgers - The State University
Description available shortly.
10:00am – 10:15am Break
10:15am – 11:05am Enhancing Collaboration Inside and Outside the Classroom: Blogs, Wikis, and Google Docs
Speaker: Phillip Knutel, Ph.D., Director of Academic Technology, Library, and Research Services, Bentley College
Bentley College has been utilizing collaborative technology for many years, including voice-over-IP for its hybrid online classes since 2000. It now has 13 hybrid online classrooms with webcams, and recently completed a $17M library renovation featuring 19 collaborative study rooms with 42” LCDs, PCs, laptop connections, and an online touchscreen reservation system. The library staff make extensive use of a research support wiki, and blogs, wikis, and Google docs are used in conjunction with Blackboard to foster faculty-student and student-student collaboration. Staff overseeing online classes also use Google docs to enable collaborative support of course administration.
11:10am – 12:00pm Northeastern University's Use of Wimba Collaboration Tools in Distance Learning
Speakers:
Chuck Kilfoye, Associate Director of Distance Learning, Northeastern University
Beth Rochefort, Instructional Designer, Northeastern University
Allison Ruda, Instructional Designer, Northeastern University
Heidi Wilkes, Senior Instructional Designer, Northeastern University
Northeastern University’s distance learning instructional design staff will demonstrate innovative uses for asynchronous and synchronous curriculum-based applications using Wimba Collaboration tools in a variety of programs at Northeastern University. They’ll share experiences using these tools to extend collaboration and interaction in hybrid and online courses and discuss the possibilities for additional uses for these tools.
12:00pm – 1:00pm Lunch (included)
1:00pm – 1:50pm Collaboration at Worcester Polytechnic Institute: Student & Faculty Perspectives
Speaker: Kate (Wrigley) Beverage, Instructional Technology Specialist, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Worcester Polytechnic Institute supports many collaborative technologies including web conferencing, video conferencing, and the Learning Objects building block through Blackboard. This presentation will provide attendees with an overview of collaborative tools being used at WPI and specific examples of use. Student and faculty experiences and perspectives of the technologies will be the focus of the presentation. If time permits, future direction of collaborative technologies at WPI will also be discussed.
1:55pm – 2:45pm Student Collaboration – Examples of Success
Speakers:
David Gannon, Associate Director of Academic Computing and Media Services, Bryant University
Mary Lyons, Professor of Communication, Bryant University
Enoch Park, Instructional Support Specialist, Bryant University
This presentation will give an overview of three successful scenarios of student collaboration at Bryant University. The first highlights the use of Microsoft Groove as a tool for team projects. Specific emphasis will be given to the program’s ease of use and its ability to allow team members to share calendar and task data, provide live communication for voice and data “chats” and to act as a repository for team input and deliverables.
Next we will show the use of desktop video teleconferencing software as a method for disbursed team members to work real-time on a project from remote locations. Students used the tool as the practical channel of communication, while they were working on the topic of interactive media for institutional use.
Finally, we will show how desktop video teleconferencing software can be used by an instructor to hold virtual “office hours” with his class – allowing far more flexibility for team meetings, question and answer sessions and project progress reports than traditional face-to-face meeting scenarios.
2:45pm - 3:00pm Wrap up and End
Speaker:
Allison Ruda
Allison Ruda is an Instructional Designer at Northeastern University. She works with faculty across all disciplines to design, develop, and implement technology-based instructional materials and activities for online and hybrid courses for Northeastern Online. Her work is focused on cultivating best practices in teaching online. Together with colleagues on the instructional design team, Allison develops initiatives and projects that promote quality and innovation in the delivery of online education. This spring, she will teach courses and develop curriculum for the new graduate certificate in distance learning. Allison graduated from Mount Holyoke College with a B.A. in Anthropology and from the Harvard Graduate School of Education with an Ed.M. in Technology in Education.
Speaker:
Beth Rochefort
Beth Rochefort is an instructional designer at Northeastern University. Beth trains faculty to teach online, encourages faculty to embrace best practices in distance learning and explores technology to enhance the teaching and learning experience. Prior to joining Northeastern, she worked as an instructional technologist for Regis College and as a consultant in instructional design and multimedia development for academic and corporate institutions including Harvard Business School and Hewlett Packard. She holds a B.A. in Journalism and Graphic Design from Northeastern University and a M.Ed in Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Speaker:
Chuck Kilfoye
Chuck Kilfoye is the Associate Director of Distance Learning at Northeastern University. Chuck manages the instructional design, faculty training and support, course design and development, and educational technology strategies for Northeastern Online. He is responsible for Northeastern Online's highly successful faculty certification program for online instructors and he is an adjunct faculty member teaching technical communication. Current projects include launching a new graduate certificate in distance learning focused on emerging trends in distance learning.
Speaker:
David Gannon
David Gannon is the Associate Director of Academic Computing and Media Services at Bryant University in Smithfield, RI. In his current position, Mr. Gannon oversees the student laptop program at Bryant and works with the Instructional Support Specialist/Faculty Development Coordinator to maximize the utilization and effectiveness of technology in the classroom.
Mr. Gannon’s educational background includes a B.S. degree in Systematics and Ecology from the University of Kansas and an M.S. in Electrical Systems Engineering from the Naval Postgraduate School.
David has been an adjunct faculty member at Bryant for over fourteen years and has been involved in the area of education for over eighteen years. Research areas of interest include pen-based computer input, workgroup collaboration and knowledge management.
Speaker:
Enoch Park
Enoch Park works as Instructional Support Specialist at Bryant University. He works in the university’s Faculty Development Center providing faculty workshops and consultation on areas of instructional technology and teaching excellence. He also manages Blackboard as System Administrator, language learning solutions on campus, SEDONA faculty information system, and other solutions for teaching and learning.
His recent interest include tablet/ pen based instruction and learning, computer assisted language learning (CALL), IP video conference, and multimedia contents management. Enoch has taught courses in colleges of education and arts and sciences
Speaker:
Heidi Wilkes
Heidi Wilkes is a Sr. Instructional Designer for Northeastern University. She is responsible for training faculty in Northeastern Online standards and best practices for designing and delivering online and hybrid courses. Recent projects include an asynchronous instructor-led online and hybrid faculty training program and specialized content development for streaming video technology. Heidi holds a B.A. from Boston University, an M.B.A. and an Advanced Graduate Business Certificate from Bentley College, a Graduate Certificate in Instructional Technology Design from UMASS Boston, and is currently pursuing a Doctorate in Law and Policy at Northeastern University researching web accessibility issues in distance learning. Heidi also worked as a corporate trainer and technical writer, an eLearning Instructional Designer at New England College of Finance, and served on the faculty at Bay State College where she pioneered the institution's first eLearning initiative and received a "Who's Who Among America's Teachers" Award in 2005.
Speaker:
Jack Aiello
Jack Aiello is a professor of Psychology at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Jack combines an academic career with consulting assignments with a number of major U.S. corporations. An active researcher, Jack has published more than 60 articles and book chapters and has given more than 300 invited addresses at professional meetings and business organizations. In 1992 and 1993 he was a U.S. Navy-ASEE distinguished faculty fellow in the Organizational Systems department of the Navy Personnel and Research Development Center in San Diego. Jack`s work in the areas of leadership, team development, stress and stress management, diversity, culture and communication, gender, feedback, organizational change, and the impact of new technologies in the workplace has been recognized by his election to fellow status in the American Psychological Association. Jack received his Ph.D. in Social and Organizational Psychology from Michigan State University. He also holds a Masters degree in Communications from Queens College and a Bachelor of Business Administration from the City College of New York.
Speaker:
Kate Beverage
Kate Beverage is a Senior Instructional Technology Specialist with the Academic Technology Center at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Kate supports faculty members in the design, development, and delivery of technology-based solutions for the purpose of enhancing teaching and learning. She has supported web conferencing and other collaborative applications at WPI for use in distance learning, offsite project group meetings, committee meetings, and training. Kate holds a B.A. in Instructional Technology from the University of Connecticut and a M.S. in Educational Technology from Boise State University.
Speaker:
Mary Lyons
Mary Lyons is Professor of English and Communication at Bryant University. She received her Bachelor of Science degree from Simmons College in English Education and her Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from the University of Rhode Island, where her concentration was twentieth century American Literature. She teaches many of the writing courses offered in Communication, including Written Communication, Print Journalism, Writing for Publication, Writing for New Media and Video-Mediated Communication. She teaches specialty courses in the English department as well, including Literary Nonfiction and the Image of Business in Literature and Film.
Speaker:
Phillip Knutel
Dr. Phillip Knutel is Director of Academic Technology, Library, and Research Services at Bentley College, where he is also an assistant professor of information design and corporate communication. He recently oversaw a $17M library renovation that has increased gate count 470%. In his 9+ years at Bentley, he has worked extensively with faculty, students, and staff to design and build $40M in academic facilities that integrate collaborative and other technologies into teaching and learning. He holds a BS magna cum laude from Vanderbilt, an EdM from Harvard, and a PhD in higher education administration from Michigan.
Related Media Files:
Enhancing Collaboration Inside and Outside the Classroom Blogs, Wikis, and Google Docs - Google Docs.mht
New Technologies New Opportunities.ppt
Contact Information:
Lisa DiMauro
860-345-2081
ldimauro@nercomp.org
Hotel Information:
Rooms are available at the Campus Center Hotel located right on campus.
Rooms are reserved under Block Number 2023, the rate is $82 per night. The room block will be released on April 28.
Call the hotel directly at: 1-413-549-6000
For additional information go to:
http://www.aux.umass.edu/hotel/
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