Greater Expectations for 21st-Century Learning:
Implications of Technology for General Education

An Online Series of Webcasts Presented by the TLT Group with AAC&U

Topics will include:

Inquiry Across the Curriculum, Thursday, March 31, 3pm ET
Brett Eynon, LaGuardia Community College; Allen Gathman, Southeastern Missouri State University
How might simulations, online tools, online data, and research literature create new options for learning skills of inquiry in fields outside the student’s major? Within the major? Is it possible to give students practice in inquiry within their majors, and also in other fields? At an affordable cost?

Learning About Other Cultures, Monday, April 25, 2005, 3pm ET
Kathie Young and Jonathan Wilkenfeld, University of Maryland- College Park
Technology is making it more feasible for large numbers of students to take time to study off-campus, even in other countries. And it's easier to learn vicariously about other cultures, by communicating with people in those cultures and by studying their works online. What are institutions learning from these opportunities? How can faculty deal with some of the problems that can arise as students from one culture encounter people from another culture?

Integrative Learning and Electronic Portfolios, Thursday, May 12, 2005 1PM ET
Brett Eynon, LaGuardia Community College and Sharon Hamilton, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)
Faculty can lay out educational goals for a major and for the student’s general education, and then ask students to upload projects and commentary demonstrating their progress toward those outcomes each term. How do such portfolios open new possibilities for learning? For guiding the evolution of the academic program? What problems are most likely to occur along the way?

Registration is required for each session you plan to view.
For registration information, click on the link in the right-hand menu. For additional information, e-mail Chandi Rajakaruna at rajakaruna@tltgroup.org.