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| Posted 08.17.05 |
New Study Will Examine Digital Use at Northeast Liberal Arts
Institutions
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A picture may be a worth a thousands words, but
what is its value in the college classroom, especially if the picture is
digital?
This will be among the issues considered by a new digital image study
spearheaded by Wesleyan University and the Center for Educational
Technology.
The six-month study will examine how digitized images of all sorts are used
by faculty at 34 elite teaching and research institutions. The hope is that
by assessing current practices in the classrooms, methods for more effective
use of these images can be identified and implemented.
"There is also an opportunity to build a community among these institutions
which could lay the groundwork for future collaborations," says Michael Roy,
Wesleyan's director of Academic Computing Services and the study's principal
investigator. "We are always interested in new and better ways we can use
technology to improve teaching and academic inquiry."
Along with Wesleyan, the institutions participating will include Allegheny,
Amherst, Bard, Barnard, Bates, Bennington, Bowdoin, Bryn Mawr, Colby,
Colgate, Connecticut, Dickinson, Franklin and Marshall, Gettysburg,
Hamilton, Haverford, Holy Cross, Lafayette, Middlebury, Mount Holyoke,
Princeton, Sarah Lawrence, Skidmore, Smith, St. Lawrence, Swarthmore,
Trinity, Ursinus, Vassar, Wellesley, Wheaton, Williams and Yale.
The project has engaged David Green of Knowledge Culture to lead the survey
and site visit process. Green's Web site is
http://www.knowledgeculture.com/index.html.
The study is being funded by a grant from the Wesleyan Fund for Innovation
and is co-sponsored by the
Center
for Educational Technology with funds from the Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation. The results will be presented in a one-day workshop, published
and posted on the Academic Commons Web site at
http://www.academiccommons.org. |
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| By
David Pesci, director of Media Relations |
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