April 3 - 5, 2008 ,
6:00 p.m. (Th) - 1:00 p.m. (Sat)
San Francisco, CA
A summit for cross-functional campus teams interested in networking with peers from other participating colleges to learn how others have used NITLE's programs and services to advance their campus's strategic interests and to share their own approaches to the same. Teams should be led by the campus’s liaison to NITLE. (8 program units. Liaisons' deadline: Friday, December 14, 2007)
As a community, participating colleges face similar challenges and opportunities vis-à-vis digital technology. At the same time, institutions must also deal with unique situational needs that inspire a variety of strategic responses. At this summit, participating teams will engage in high-level peer-to-peer sharing with colleagues from other participating colleges, sharing information about the strategic responses and successful tactical approaches they have pursued to strengthen their learning missions with digital technology. By pooling the specific knowledge and experiences of individual institutions in an inter-institutional context, participating teams can identify common concerns and transform them into opportunities for collaboration.
Each team will have the opportunity to share their campus’s accomplishments and successes in a plenary poster session and to discuss lessons learned along the way. Participating teams are encouraged to bring and share posters that describe either specific applications or advances made by faculty members, librarians, or IT staff, or larger institutional efforts under way that address the challenges of residential undergraduate education in the digital age. In particular, teams are encouraged to share posters that directly address how their campuses have used NITLE programs and services to support both institutional goals and missions and the day-to-day efforts of the faculty members, librarians, and IT staff members who make teaching and learning happen on campus.
NITLE staff will be available at the summit to present information and answer questions about our programs and services, including how campuses might best use them to achieve specific strategic institutional goals. Participants will also be able to select from multiple tracks of sessions focused on the interests of liaisons and their teammates. NITLE will assemble a planning group drawn from the community to develop the program. Please stay tuned for more information.
Campuses are encouraged to nominate teams comprised of three participants: the NITLE campus liaison; a member of senior leadership; and a front-line faculty member, librarian, or IT staff member. Campuses should bring at least one poster describing work being done on the campus to further teaching and learning with technology.
The NITLE Summit engaged teams of participants hailing from a variety of campus positions: the NITLE liaison role, senior leadership, and practitioners, including faculty members, librarians, and members of campuses' instructional and information technology staffs.
The Summit agenda is available here (.pdf, 37.86 KB), as are descriptions of the Summit's three concurrent sessions: Session 1 (.pdf, 41.31 KB), Session 2 (.pdf, 31.92 KB), and Session 3 (.pdf, 29.46 KB). An overview of the poster session (.pdf, 78.04 KB) and a more in-depth sampling (.pdf, 2.4 MB) of the more than 50 posters that were on display are also available.
The Summit featured three keynote presentations:
Tom Kazee, Provost, and Jane Love, Interim Assistant Dean for the Center For Teaching and Engaged Learning, Furman University, who presented their experiences with collaboration and the integration of curricular and faculty development and instructional technology into an institution's strategic plans.
Mike Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University presented on "The Crisis of Significance and the Future of Education."
Stephen D. Schutt, President, Lake Forest College closed our Summit with observations on NITLE's role as a facilitator of collaboration.
Interested faculty and staff from participating colleges: To participate in this seminar, please contact your campus liaison. Your campus liaison will select your campus's nominees and send their names to NITLE. Please also indicate the title or topic of your team's poster presentation. Nominees will receive further information from NITLE about the registration process.
For more information about this seminar, please contact Alex Wirth-Cauchon.
For logistical questions, please contact Terri Coahran.