NITLE Symposium: Inventing the Future

Symposium Agenda

The 2012 NITLE Symposium is organized around the theme “Inventing the Future: Innovative Models and Practices in Liberal Education.” Focused on the intersection of liberal education, inquiry, and information technology, the Symposium provides a venue to share ideas and information about innovations extensible to other liberal arts campuses, such as new learning resources and models, organizational structures, digital modes of scholarship, and other topics relevant to the future of liberal education.

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Final Schedule

Monday, April 16, 2012
4:00 pm – 6:00 pm On-site Registration Fitzgerald A/B Foyer
  Poster Presentations/Reception Fitzgerald D/E
 
6:00 pm– 9:00 pm Dinner Fitzgerald A/B
 

Keynote Address: Dr. Dan Cohen,
Associate Professor, History and Art History, George Mason University, and Director of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, speaks on “The Community of Scholars

 
 
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
7:30 am – 10:00 am On-site Registration Fitzgerald A/B Foyer
 
8:00 am – 9:00 am Continental Breakfast Fitzgerald A//B
 
9:00 am – 10:30 am Concurrent Session 1A Hemingway Salon 1
  Teaching with Tablets and E-book Readers  
 
  Concurrent Session 1B Hemingway Salon 2
  Developing Pedagogical Approaches and Resources  
 
  Concurrent Session 1C Fitzgerald D
  Granting Collaboration, What’s Next?  
 
  Concurrent Session 1D Fitzgerald E
  Innovation Studio  
 
10:30 am – 10:45 am Break  
 
10:45 am – 12:15 pm Concurrent Session 2A Hemingway Salon 1
  Assessment, Student Engagement & Blended Learning  
 
  Concurrent Session 2B Hemingway Salon 2
  Global Learning  
 
  Concurrent Session 2C Fitzgerald D
  Alt-ac in the Liberal Arts: Hybridity at the Intersection of Teaching and Learning  
 
  Concurrent Session 2D Fitzgerald E
  Local Collections and Liberal Education in History  
 
12:15 pm – 2:00pm Lunch/Birds of a Feather Fitzgerald A/B
 
2:00 pm – 3:30pm Concurrent Session 3A Hemingway Salon 1
  Digital Pedagogy  
 
  Concurrent Session 3B Hemingway Salon 2
  Developing 21st-Century Skills  
 
  Concurrent Session 3C Fitzgerald D
  Collaborations through Open-Access Scholarly Publications on WordPress  
 
  Concurrent Session 3D Fitzgerald E
  Designing from Values: Online Learning in the Liberal Arts Tradition  
 
3:30 – 5:00pm Innovation Marketplace & Fitzgerald A/B
  Closing Reception