If your institution is a participating college of NITLE, please contact your campus liaison to discuss your options for participating in these events and make suggestions about the development of new offerings. (The price for participating in our currently available programs is listed below and ranges from one to fourteen program units.) If you are interested in having your participating college host a Workshop-To-Go (WTG), please also talk to your campus liaison. If your institution is not currently a participating college, and you are interested in attending one of our professional development events, please contact Rebecca Davis to express your interest.
For faculty and staff at participating colleges who are interested in the learning management system Sakai and how it might contribute to campus academic programs. (1 program unit. Registration deadline: Friday, June 13, 2008)
For faculty and staff from participating colleges who are interested in a conceptual overview and introduction to the Moodle learning management system. This program will be delivered via multipoint interactive videoconferencing (MIV). (1 program unit. Registration deadline: Friday, June 13, 2008)
For faculty and staff from participating colleges who are interested in an introduction to the DSpace interfaces and the processes for creating collections and communities in a institutional repository. This program will be delivered via multipoint interactive videoconferencing (MIV). (1 program unit. Registration deadline: Friday, June 13, 2008)
For faculty and staff from participating colleges who are interested in further developing their abilities to manage digital content within a DSpace Repository. This program will be delivered via multipoint interactive videoconferencing (MIV). (1 program unit. Registration deadline: Friday, June 20, 2008)
For faculty members at participating colleges--and their academic support partners--who are interested in exploring new approaches to creative expression that enable and encourage the crossing of traditional disciplinary boundaries. Participants will consider how best to take advantage of new possibilities fostered by digital technology and how best to meet the challenges they present. (7 program units. Registration deadline: Friday, August 15, 2008)
For participating colleges interested in implementing the Shibboleth federated identity management technology, and planning for campus policy and process decisions related to adoption and germane to small, independent colleges and universities. Campuses will benefit from sending teams of two from different campus roles, including technologists, CIOs, network directors and other network staff, registrars, librarians, and others involved in managing student and staff identity information. (7 program units. Registration deadline: Friday, August 15, 2008)
For technologists and financial/business officers from participating colleges interested in learning about the Kuali Financial Systems (KFS) software and discussing the future of KFS as a solution for smaller, independent colleges. Campuses will benefit from sending teams of two comprised of one representative of the finance/business office and one IT person. (5 program units. Registration deadline: Friday, August 15, 2008)
For faculty members in the sciences at participating colleges--and their academic support partners--who are interested in using visualization to foster student comprehension of and participation in scientifically rich curricula and in furthering their own understanding of visualization as a component of pedagogy and communication in the sciences. (7 program units. Registration deadline: Friday, August 15, 2008)
For faculty members, instructional technologists, and librarians from participating colleges who are interested in exploring how real-time collaboration technologies—from interactive videoconferencing to social presence tools to virtual worlds such as Second Life—can be used to expand the boundaries of the physical classroom and shape the curriculum. (7 program units. Registration deadline: August 15, 2008)
For faculty members, program administrators, instructional technologists, and other campus professionals from participating colleges who are interested in incorporating service learning and issues of social justice into their curricular and extracurricular programs. Participants will explore how digital technologies from social software to data analysis tools are increasingly being used to support service learning and advance an institutional commitment to issues of social justice, social equality, and the digital divide. (7 program units. Registration deadline: August 15, 2008)
For faculty and staff from participating colleges who use or may use the Sakai learning management system and are interested in discussing current topics about Sakai. Sakai users from participating colleges will lead discussion about a timely and relevant topic with time reserved for discussion of other topics and issues. (1 program unit. Registration deadline: Friday, October 3, 2008)
For faculty and staff from participating colleges who use or may use the Moodle learning management system and are interested in discussing current topics about Moodle. Moodle users from participating colleges will lead discussion about a timely and relevant topic with time reserved for discussion of other topics and issues. (1 program unit. Registration deadline: Friday, October 3, 2008)
For faculty and staff from participating colleges who use or may use DSpace to maintain an institutional repository and are interested in discussing current topics about DSpace. DSpace users from participating colleges will lead discussion about a timely and relevant topic with time reserved for discussion of other topics and issues. (1 program unit. Registration deadline: Friday, October 3, 2008)
For faculty, program administrators, instructional technologists, and librarians from participating colleges who are engaged in developing or implementing curricular or extracurricular programs that provide students with an international perspective on learning. (7 program units. Registration deadline: Friday, August 15, 2008)
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