Computers in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

Symposium, April 27, 2007

The UO Libraries hosted a symposium designed to provide faculty members, GTFs, and others with examples of current best practices in the applications of computers in higher education teaching. Goals of the symposium included:

• showcasing a selection of UO faculty who are making effective and novel instructional use of information and communication technology (ICT)
• exploring some possible futures of instructional uses of ICT at the UO

The symposium was sponsored by the Library Center for Educational Technologies, with additional funding from a Preparing Tomorrow\'s Teachers to Teach Using Technology grant from the US Department of Education, and support from the UO Teaching Effectiveness Program and the Office of the Provost.

This page contains a variety of followup information about the symposium and the individual faculty presentations.

General Information

• Symposium final progrram
• Evaluation form
• Streaming media recordings of the sessions
  

Individual Faculty Presentations

• Tim Gleason, Dean of the School of Journalism and Communication and 2006-07 chair, UO Ed Tech Committee
• David Moursund, Education, Uses of Computers in Course Content, Teaching, and Learning
  • powerpoint presentation
  • web site: Dave Moursund
    
  • Attendees received a free book, Moursund's Faculty Member's Guide to Computers in Education.
• Lori Hager, AAA, "E-portfolios are useful to all students"
  • web site: eportfolio.uoregon.edu
• André Chinn, Journalism, "Content management software in the classroom"
• Robin High, Information Services, "21st century statistics: We've never done it that way before!"
  • powerpoint presentation
  • web site:Is the Linear Models Procedure GLM Obsolete?
• Nancy Cheng, AAA, "Tracing ideas with digital sketching"
• powerpoint presentation
• web site: sketching.uoregon.edu
• Mark Horney, Education, "del.icio.us tools for co-constructed web resource lists"
• Tom Bivins, Journalism, "Expanding the online communication environment"
• lunch
• discussion questions
• Patricia McDowell, Geography, "Geospatial tools for learning in the social and natural sciences"
• Greg Bothun, Physics, "The laptop classroom reporting system."
• Jeff Magoto, Yamada Language Center, "Building a national virtual language lab: What's involved?"
• Greg Landweber, Mathematics, "Using the web to teach matrix computations."
• Bill Harbaugh, Economics, "Playing games on Pocket PC's to teach game theory"
• Deborah Exton, Chemistry, "Clickers in large classes"