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Instruction Programs: Trendwatching
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This workshop is about some key trends that inform strategic planning for instruction programs: innovations in teaching and learning, in scholarship, and in our networked digital environment. Participants will get up close in three areas: how to think about the technologies available to you when planning for improvements in your instruction program; how to adapt pedagogies that get us beyond sage on the stage, and ways of engaging with significant conversations on innovation. A lightning round, exploring how participants are framing near-term goals of their instruction programs, will address developments and indicators to monitor for anticipating user needs, key disruptive technologies and their implications, significant changes on campus in teaching and learning, and gaps and challenges we face across institutions.
Workshop Organizer/Host: Karrie Peterson of Brandeis University
Date/Time:
Thursday, April 08, 2010
9:00am - 3:00pm
Registration begins at 8:00am
Location:
Four Points Sheraton Hotel and Conference Center
1125 Boston Providence Turnpike
Norwood, MA
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Pricing:
NERCOMP Members: $130
Non-Members: $255
By clicking on the "Register" button below, you are indicating a commitment to attend and will be held responsible for the registration fee.
Your fee can be refunded if you notify us of a cancellation at least 8 days prior to the event via email to nercomp@nercomp.org.
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Event Schedule:
8:00am – 9:00am Registration and Coffee
9:10am - 9:30am Framing the Day
Speaker: Karrie Peterson, Associate Director for Research & Instruction Library & Technology Services, Brandeis University
Our biggest challenges, where we need to go. Summary of major reports and thought leaders. (Attendees thoughts will be solicited and compiled as part of this presentation).
9:30am – 10:35am Let Your Students Light Up the Room: Ideas to Spark Critical Thinking with Research
Speaker: Ramona Islam, e-Learning & Curricular Design Librarian, Harvard College Library, Harvard University
How can we frame library instruction meaningfully, so that students will leave our classes empowered to conduct research critically and effectively? And how can we reconcile the common challenge of too little teaching time with the call to act as a "guide on the side" (rather than a "sage on the stage")? Working from an inquiry model, we will explore together how librarians can inspire students to power their own learning.
10:35am - 10:50am Break
10:50am – 11:50am Strategies for Selecting Appropriate Technologies for Use in Library Instruction Programs
Speakers:
Angie Locknar, Librarian in the Engineering and Science Libraries, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mark Szarko, Instruction Coordinator for the Humanities Library, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Educational technology such as video, online tutorials, and content management systems, to name but three, offer new opportunities for teaching and learning. Before pursuing any of them, what pedagogical and technological considerations need to be addressed? What partnerships on campus need to be established to investigate and implement these tools? Attendees will examine the answers to these questions in order to devise criteria suitable for their own institutions.
11:50am – 12:00pm Time for Q&A from the Morning
12:00pm – 1:00pm Lunch
1:00pm – 2:00pm Lightning Round
Issues we're addressing/pilots we're initiating/strategies we're adopting this year and next. If the group is too large for a single round, we'll break into groups, with a recorder so information can be shared later via the website.
2:00pm - 2:10pm Break
2:10pm - 2:45pm Thinking About Innovation
A group exercise to help us get out of our boxes, think more entrepreneurially about our programs and issues given how vastly our students and the environment have changed in the last 5 years. May include a lightning round on "the best non-instruction book I've read and used in the last 2 years to enrich my work."
3:00pm Evaluations and End
Speaker:
Angie Locknar
Angie Locknar is a librarian in the Engineering and Science Libraries at MIT. Her recent work interests include video tutorials as a means of information literacy instruction, including incorporating a series of videos into a large freshman Chemistry class at MIT.
Speaker:
Karrie Peterson
Karrie Peterson has been in academic libraries – large and small – since 1999, overseeing operations in government information, data services, GIS and instruction support at different times. At Brandeis, where librarians and instructional technologists are merged into the same service unit, Peterson leads the instructional support program which encompasses traditional library research, multimedia and communication skills, and technological fluencies.
Speaker:
Mark Szarko
Mark Szarko is the Instruction Coordinator for the Humanities Library at MIT. He is an active member of the ACRL Instruction Section, and has co-chaired several committees responsible for identifying trends in instructional technologies for libraries.
Speaker:
Ramona Islam
Ramona Islam, e-learning & curricular design librarian at Harvard College Library, received her MLS from Kent State University and a Master's degree in educational technology from Fairfield University. Ramona serves on the editorial board of College and Research Libraries and her professional writing has appeared in the Journal of Library Administration, College & Research Libraries, the Association of Research Libraries SPEC Kit series, and Urban Library Journal. Ramona has taught traditional and distance learning courses as an adjunct professor in the Graduate School of Education and Allied Professions at Fairfield University.
Related Media Files:
TrendIslam.pdf
Contact Information:
Lisa DiMauro
860-345-2081
ldimauro@nercomp.org
Hotel Information:
Rooms are available at the Sheraton Norwood, the conference location.
To make reservations contact the Sheraton Norwood at 781-769-7900 and request the "NERCOMP Room Block".
The room block for April 8, will be released on March 18, 2010. Standard queen guest rooms are available for $130 per night.
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