Learning & Scholarly Technologies Spark Sessions offer fresh ideas, practical advice, and hands-on assistance to University of Washington faculty and staff who are interested in using information technology for teaching and learning, research and digital scholarship, or distance education. The sessions provide a forum where UW faculty members and national experts share their perspectives and offer strategies and resources to help the campus community better integrate technology into classroom teaching, research projects, online courses, and digital scholarship.
Winter Quarter Sessions
Technologies for Teaching and Learning: What do UW Faculty, TAs, and Students Want, Use, and Need?
Thursday, March 5, 2009
3:00 - 4:30 p.m.
Odegaard Library, Room 220
In order to better understand why and how UW faculty, TAs, and students use current technologies, several campus units have again collaborated on the third triennial institutional survey about learning and scholarly technologies. The 2008 surveys focused especially on how technologies help meet instructional, learning, and research goals.
Janice Fournier and Cara Lane from Learning and Scholarly Technologies will discuss these goals, identify the supports and obstacles to using technology, and suggest how the findings can help UW anticipate future technology needs.
More information on the 2008 surveys on Learning and Scholarly Technologies is available on our research projects page.
Session resources:
Presentation (PPT)
Session Podcast (MP3)
The Role of Information Technologies in Research: Conversations with UW's Research Leaders
Friday, February 20, 2009
1:00 - 2:30 p.m.
Odegaard Library, Room 220
Recently, UW Technology and the eScience Institute collaborated on a project to learn how UW researchers use information technologies to support their work and to anticipate future needs. Clear trends and directions emerged from conversations with more than 100 research leaders.
Join Ed Lazowska and Erik Lundberg from the eScience Institute and Janice Fournier, Tom Lewis, and William Washington from Learning and Scholarly Technologies for a discussion of the findings and recommendations from this "Conversations with the University of Washington's Research Leaders" project.
Session resources:
Final Report (PDF)
Presentation (PPT)
Session Podcast (MP3)
