Faculty Engagement Initiative
What is it?
The Faculty Engagement Initiative was designed to give faculty an opportunity to work with ETS staff to explore emerging technologies that have the potential to impact teaching and learning at Penn State. Throughout the year, new technologies will be selected for further investigation, and a Call for Proposals will be made for a limited number of projects. Once a proposal is accepted, TLT funding, staff time, technology, and facilities will be dedicated to the development and successful implementation of the project.
By combining ideas and innovative spirit with expertise in academic thought, we can work collaboratively to appropriately apply emerging technologies for teaching and learning.
Areas for Engagement
- Course Redesign – We are interested in collaboratively exploring new models to integrate technology into learning environments. We are particularly interested in high enrollment courses or large multi-section opportunities. Our redesign efforts typically look to integrate the technologies we are currently promoting and working to better understand.
- Blogs at Penn State – We are interested in collaboratively exploring novel uses of blogs particularly in the areas of blogs for teaching, personal content management, research, and portfolio creation/management. We also very interested in using the Blogs at Penn State as an eLearning design, development, and delivery platform.
- Social and Collaborative Technologies – We are interested in exploring novel uses of collaborative environments (such as the Google Docs suite) to support teaching, learning, and engagement.
- Social Ratings and Content Aggregation – We are interested in collaboratively exploring how aggregation and social ratings can impact teaching and learning.
- Serious Game and Virtual Worlds – We are interested in collaboratively exploring novel uses of games for teaching and learning purposes. As a component of this, we are interested in working to establish learning environments within virtual worlds.
