Teaching with Technology Faculty Development
Programs
2013 Summer Faculty Development Applications
Higher education in the twenty-first century requires that students be
prepared for life in a world where digital technologies shape
communication, culture, politics, economics, science, and virtually every
workplace field that college graduates will enter. For educators, digital
technology has transformed the ability to find and present teaching materials,
and vastly expanded the ways, times, and places in which students can learn.
Bronx Community College is committed to integrating digital technologies
into teaching and learning. OIT is committed to pursuing this goal by
consistently following one guiding principle: good pedagogy and the
improvement of student learning always drive decisions about technology.
Participants in OIT-sponsored faculty development programs follow extended
sequences of structured activity that allow the time for thoughtful, informed
instructional design and careful consideration of how technologies can improve
student learning. All OIT programs emphasize that good use of technology requires
rethinking instruction, revising assignments, and aligning decisions about
technology usage with underlying academic goals. Thanks to Title V grant funding
(see Learning by Design), we are able to
combine the development of technology-integrated pedagogies with targeted upgrades
of the infrastructure capacity of BCC's classrooms and departmental computer
laboratories.
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