Top Teaching & Learning Challenges, 2009

Here are this year's top five teaching and learning challenges, as identified by members of the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI). Please take a look at these and contribute further questions, concerns, and creative solutions.

...the EDUCAUSE teaching and learning community has voted on the, “Top Teaching and Learning Challenges, 2009.” The final list for 2009, ranked by popularity, includes (click on individual Challenges to visit their wiki page):

1. Creating learning environments that promote active learning, critical thinking, collaborative learning, and knowledge creation.
2. Developing 21st-century literacies among students and faculty (information, digital, and visual).
3. Reaching and engaging today's learner.
4. Encouraging faculty adoption and innovation in teaching and learning with IT.
5. Advancing innovation in teaching and learning (with technology) in an era of budget cuts.

The community has spoken. Now it’s time to roll up your sleeves and contribute ideas from your vantage point on campus to build a network of solutions around each challenge. Do you have a reading or a resource to suggest? Would you be willing to interview colleagues on campus providing a snapshot of how your campus is addressing an issue? Would you volunteer your name as a resource for others to contact to learn more about your campus solutions? In the coming weeks, we’ll use individual challenge wikis to begin organizing content under the guidance of volunteer workspace managers.

In the meantime, visit the project homepage to get the background and find your place in the Challenges Ning network. Then, bookmark this wiki to begin adding your voice to the community.

Center for Media & Educational Technologies: New Name, Same Services

We have a couple of re-organizations underway here at the University of Oregon Libraries:

The Center for Media and Educational Technologies (CMET) brings together expertise in classroom technology and video production (from Media Services) with interactive media and web development (from CET:Interactive Media). We are actively recruiting a new director to lead the new department.

Other services formerly associated with the Center for Educational Technologies (consulting and training for instructors, Workshops on Demand, and Blackboard support) are now provided by Scholarly Communications and Instructional Support,

Let me know you have any questions or are interested in learning more about the Director's position.