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Introduction

Scott E. Siddall, Mellon Program Director

Purposes of this Mellon Program

From the grant proposal itself.....

to provide our faculties opportunity to engage with new technologies in settings that accommodate their diverse approaches to their own learning and experimentation
to explore how we can use technologies that enhance our curricula
to increase their technological literacy and proficiency while collaborating in the exploration and implementation of new pedagogical methods
to attract those who are inexperienced, and even reluctant, to utilize new approaches, as well as to encourage those who are in the lead

Three Program Elements

Goals for the Workshops
Our goals are pedagogical - not technological
Our goals are to inform, to discuss and to assess, but not to force change
Our goals are to enhance learning through collaboration (with technology)

Today our goals are:

to explore many teaching technologies (without investing time to be trained)
to identify promising, new approaches that meet our individual teaching needs
to understand the requirements and risks of these technologies
to meet those who have experience with new approaches
to discuss ideas with our colleagues, to begin to prepare for other collaborative work

Two key points:

There is a minimum investment of faculty time and effort required to make successful use of technology in learning.
Promotion and adoption of new tools for teaching and collaborating cannot outpace our ability to support those tools.