Making Effective Use of Technology in Teaching: Does the Web Help
Students Learn? How Do We Know? Click here for the Power Point Presentation by Scott Simkins

Professor Scott Simkins
Dept of Economics & Transportation/Logistics, Academy for Teaching &
Learning - North Carolina A&T State University

Thursday, October 24 - 4:00-5:30 pm - Buntrock 144

Co-sponsored by The Center for Innovation in the Liberal Arts and Information and Instructional Technologies

The presentation will focus first on how we can make effective use of instructional technology generally: what do we want to accomplish? How can instructional technology tools help us accomplish these goals and objectives? Then we will look at Just-in-Time-Teaching (JiTT) as a specific example to illustrate how we can know whether the technology is helping students learn or not.

Discussion will include how faculty are currently integrating instructional technology into your teaching and about your goals and objectives for doing so, and how technology can be implemented with regard to principles of good practice in undergraduate education.

Scott Simkins has extensive experience - as a user, developer, and researcher - of the Web as a teaching and learning tool. In addition to integrating a variety of both Web-based and classroom-based active-learning techniques into his teaching pedagogy, he developed and maintains a widely used Web site of annotated economics links, ECONlinks(www.ncat.edu/~simkinss/econlinks.html). He also conducts workshops on using the Web to teach economics, and provides innovative, economic-based content for McGraw-Hill Web sites that support their leading economics texts. In addition, Professor Simkins is a regular presenter at regional and national economics conferences on topics of teaching pedagogy, assessment of learning outcomes, active learning, and integration of Web-assisted teaching pedagogy.


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