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Innovations in Teaching and Learning Conference
April 24, 2009 |
University of Maryland, College Park |
Keynote Speakers
The ITL Conference will host two featured speakers this year. The morning (breakfast) keynote address will be provided by Julie Little, Interim Director of the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative. She will be discussing ELI's "Top Teaching and Learning Challenges" project and soliciting additional input into this topic from the faculty and staff who attend the conference in her presentation on "Traversing the HiEd Landscape in Search of New Learning Environments." The luncheon keynote, entitled "Capturing the Visible Evidence of Invisible Learning," will be provided by Randy Bass, Executive Director and Assistant Provost for Teaching and Learning Initiatives and of Georgetown's Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship (CNDLS).
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About Julie Little, Ed.D.
Julie Little has devoted the majority of her professional life exploring and integrating information technologies into teaching, learning and research practices. Her research interests focus on faculty development, facilitating communications and collaboration in distributed learning environments, and designing effective uses of instructional technologies. Dr. Little has most recently acted as Interim Assistant CIO and Executive Director of Educational Technology and the Innovative Technology Center at the University of Tennessee (UT). |
Her teaching experiences include instructional technology, information science, teacher education and mentoring, and online communications at the University of Tennessee and The Sage Colleges, as well as secondary social studies, humanities, and English in North Carolina and the Department of Defense Dependent Schools/Europe. She has also served on the Apple distinguished educator high education leadership team, as well as the distance education advisory board and accreditation committee for the United Arab Emirates Ministry of Higher Education. Her most recent publications include articles in the EDUCAUSE Quarterly August 2008, "Student Input in College Decision Making" and EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative August 2007, "ELI Discovery Tool--Guide to Blogging."
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About Randy Bass
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Randy Bass has been working to integrate new technologies, pedagogy, and
educational change since 1986, and is a nationally recognized leader in the
field. He is the editor and author of numerous publications and has
directed or collaborated on numerous education and technology projects,
including the Visible Knowledge Project and the American Studies Crossroads
Project. He served as the Electronic Resources Editor of the Heath Anthology
of American Literature, and won the 1999 EDUCAUSE medal for outstanding
achievement in technology and undergraduate education. Before founding CNDLS at Georgetown, he served as the chair and founder of the Teaching, Learning, and Technology Roundtable. Dr. Bass is an Associate Professor of English, a member of the American Studies committee, and a Senior Scholar with the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. |
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