Malcolm Brown, Director of Academic Computing at Dartmouth and I will be presenting a half-day preconference workshop "Innovative Designs for Teaching and Learning" at the Association of American Colleges & Universities conference "Learning and Technology:  Implications for Liberal Education and the Disciplines" in Seattle, Washington on Thursday, April 20, 2006.

The workshop will include a presentation on learning space design, discussion of how pedagogical methods, technology applications, and new types of learning spaces can work in synergy, and activities that will encourage participants to think through how they can improve their own courses (if they are faculty) or provide infrastructure for improvements on campus (if they are administrators) by applying principles learned in the workshop and drawing on examples provided.  Separate registration is required for the workshop.

The full conference runs from April 20-22, and includes many sessions of interest to CNI members, including some on e-portfolios, interactive instructional software, assessment, scientific literacy, classroom response systems, collaborations, and social software.  It looks like an excellent program.

Full details are available at:
http://www.aacu-edu.org/meetings/technology_learning/index.cfm
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Joan K. Lippincott, Ph.D.
Associate Executive Director
Coalition for Networked Information
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