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Campus Office address: 4401B Computer/Space Sciences Building
Office phone number: (301) 405-2922
E-mail: eyb@umd.edu |
Ellen is the Director for the Academic Support unit in the Office
of Information Technology. Academic Support provides leadership in the integration
of technology with pedagogy and research to meet the academic mission of the
University. We do this by creating and supporting physical and virtual teaching,
learning and research environments; by assisting those who use these environments
to not only meet their teaching, learning or research goals, but be innovative
in the process; and by fostering relationships with key partners, in formal
and informal settings. Ellen is responsible for leading Academic Support's efforts
in these major areas: Learning Technologies, Instructional Facilities, and Outreach.
The Learning Technologies area provides access to many instructional technologies
for faculty and students. Instructional technologists support faculty who use
the Teaching Theaters and the
Technology Classrooms on campus.
Instructional designers are available to work with faculty on how best to integrate
technology into the teaching/learning process. An instructional web server,
OTAL, was created to address the growing
need for cgi-bin programming by students and faculty, as well as the need for
other class website space. ELMS (powered
by Blackboard Academic Suite) is the OIT supported course management tool for
campus. The University is recognized as a WebCT
Institute. The Institute for Instructional Technology
(IIT) provides faculty with an intensive immersion into new technologies
with an emphasis on how those technologies can be used in the teaching/learning
process. The Innovations in Teaching and Learning Conference provides a forum in which faculty innovators share their experiences
and the tools they have developed in an ongoing effort to integrate technology
into their curricula.
The Instructional Facilities area provides support for the Technology
Classrooms and the Teaching
Theaters on campus. In addition, design services are available for those
planning new or renovated technology-enhanced facilities.
The Outreach area provides the link between between centralized, university-wide
technology services and unique, discipline-specific needs of faculty, administrators,
and others across the university. The Technology Officers serve as a formal
link between the university-wide services of OIT and the college or unit. As
liaisons, TOs keep the lines of communication open. Through improved communication,
OIT receives feedback on existing programs and receives suggestions for new
services that may benefit faculty in multiple colleges and offices. At the same
time, TOs help faculty and others take advantage of the university's state-of-the-art
information technology environment and expertise and services available through
OIT.
Publications and presentations that she has been involved with include:
- Hitting a Moving Target: Meeting Changing Faculty Needs for Online Training.
Paulette Robinson and Ellen Yu Borkowski, University of Maryland, 2002. Presented
at Distance Learning, held in Madison, Wisconsin.
- Creating and Sustaining Online Community. Paulette Robinson and
Ellen Yu Borkowski, University of Maryland, 2002. Workshop presented at Distance
Learning, held in Madison, Wisconsin.
- Creating and Sustaining Online Community: Increasing Your Retention
Rates. Paulette Robinson and Ellen Yu Borkowski, University of Maryland,
2002. Workshop presented at WebCT 4th Annual Conference, held in Boston, Massachussetts.
- Planning a Campus-Wide Implementation of WebCT: The University of Maryland
Experience. Paulette Robinson and Ellen Yu Borkowski, University of Maryland,
2002. Presented at WebCT 4th Annual Conference, held in Boston, Massachussetts.
- Looking Beyond Course Development Tools. Sunil Hazari and Ellen Yu
Borkowski, University of Maryland, 2001. Presented and published at EDUCAUSE
2001 Conference, held in Indianapolis, Indiana.
- Hitting a Moving Target: Meeting Changing Faculty Development Needs.
Ellen Yu Borkowski and Paulette Robinson, University of Maryland, 2000. Presented
at AECT International Conference, held in Denver, Colorado.
- Hitting a Moving Target: Meeting Changing WebCT Faculty Development
Needs. Paulette Robinson and Ellen Yu Borkowski, University of Maryland,
2000. Presented at the Second Annual WebCT International Conference, held
in Athens, Georgia.
- Faculty Development For Web-Based Teaching: Weaving Pedagogy With Skills
Training. Paulette Robinson and Ellen Yu Borkowski, 2000. Web-Based Learning
and Teaching Technologies: Opportunities and Challenges, Anil Aggarwal (ed),
Idea Group Publishing.
- Ramping-Up Courses: Faculty Experiences of Using WebCT in Classes.
Ellen Yu Borkowski, Jo Paoletti, Arthur N. Popper, Paulette Robinson, University
of Maryland, 1999. Presented at From Innovation to Implementation - WebCT
'99, held in Vancouver, Canada.
- Emergent Patterns of Teaching/Learning in Electronic Classrooms.
Ben Shneiderman, Ellen Borkowski, Maryam Alavi, Kent Norman, University of
Maryland, 1999. Presented at the AERA Annual Meeting, Current Applications
of Instructional Theory and Design in Technology session, held in Montreal,
Canada.
- Implementing and Supporting Web-Based Course Management Tools. Paulette
Robinson and Ellen Yu Borkowski, University of Maryland, Norm Friesen, University
of Alberta, Jean Henscheid, Washington State University, 1999. Presented at
the AERA Annual Meeting held in Montreal, Canada.
- Emergent Patterns of Teaching/Learning in Electronic Classrooms by
Ben Shneiderman, Ellen Yu Borkowski, Maryam Alavi, & Kent Norman, 1998. Educational
Technology Research and Development, 46(4), 23-42.
- Maryland ISIS (Interactive System for Image Searching): Implementing
a System to Facilitate Teaching with Digital Images by Ellen Yu Borkowski
and Catherine Hays, 1998. Images Online: Perspectives on the Museum Education
Site Licensing Project, Christie Stephenson and Patricia McClung (eds), Getty
Information Institute.
- Collaborative Software Development: Letting Users Drive the Process
by Ellen Yu Borkowski and Catherine Hays, 1998. Presented as discussion session
at EDUCOM '98 conference in Orlando, Florida.
- Museum Digital Images in the Classroom: The MESL Experience by Christie
Stephenson, Diana Vogelsong, Catherine Hays, Ellen Yu Borkowski, Beth Sandore,
and Howard Besser, 1998. Presented at the ALA Annual Conference in Washington,
D.C.
- Collaborative Software Development: Letting Users Drive the Process
by Ellen Yu Borkowski and Catherine Hays, 1998. Presented at the Regional
User Services Conference '98 in College Park, Maryland.
- Bringing Content Closer to the Student: An Art History Example by
Ellen Yu Borkowski and Sharon Gerstel, 1997. Presented as discussion session
at EDUCOM '97 conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
- Teaching/Learning in the High-tech Classroom: Lessons Learned from Faculty
and Students By Ellen Yu Borkowski, 1997. Presented at Human-Computer
Interaction Lab 14th Annual Symposium & Open House, College Park, Maryland.
- Supporting teaching and learning via the Web: Transforming hardcopy linear
mindsets into Web flexible creative thinking By Ellen Yu Borkowski, David
Henry, Lida Larsen and Deborah Mateik, 1996. Presented at WebNet '96: World
Conference of the Web Society, San Francisco, California.
- Teaching Theaters at the University of Maryland By Ellen Yu Borkowski,
1996. Presented at Transforming Classrooms through Technology Conference,
State College, Pennsylvania.
- Windows of Opportunity By Ben Shneiderman, Maryam Alavi, Kent Norman
and Ellen Yu Borkowski, 1995. November 1995, Communications of the ACM.
- Digital Information: Developing a Working Agreement Between Museums and
Universities By Ellen Yu Borkowski, Don McClelland, Patricia McClung,
and Greg Welsh, 1995. Presented at EDUCOM '95 Conference, Portland, Oregon.
- Building a multimedia infrastructure for faculty development By Ellen
Yu Borkowski, Noel Anderson, William Maki, Val Tareski, and Richard Hanson,
1994. Poster session at ED-MEDIA '94 Conference, Vancouver, Canada.
- Supporting Faculty in a High-Tech Teaching Environment By Ellen Yu
and Walter Gilbert, 1992. Presented at ACM SIGUCCS 1992 Conference, Cleveland,
Ohio.
- A New Multifaceted Approach Applied to the Instruction of the Art and
Science of Experimentation By Chris Borkowski and Ellen Yu, 1989.
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