The experience enhanced the faculty member's knowledge and skills in the area of undue tension while performing, and increased his ability to be a more effective teacher in studio courses. The entire faculty in the Nursing Department participated in three days of workshops to learn about recent research on effective teaching and to develop their skills in using strategies that promote participation and active learning in the classroom. By the end of the academic year all faculty had changed significantly their approach to classroom teaching. This tutorial has the potential to contribute to enhanced learning in all classes with a writing component. As a result, an online course to be taught entirely via the Web was created to teach electronic access to and presentation of engineering information.
Students learn about the virtual library in a virtual classroom.
The entire Department of Communication faculty has undertaken an examination of the impact of technology in the discipline and are acquiring the necessary training to acquaint themselves with the Internet and electronic library services. The faculty agreed that every communication class, regardless of content, should have technology goals related to the students' use of technology in addition to writing and speaking goals, and are working together to include instructional technology throughout the curriculum. Sciences Two interactive classrooms will allow faculty across the mathematics, science, and engineering disciplines to collaborate in order to enhance faculty technical skills in using interactive textbooks and programs such as Mathematica. These new skills will be utilized in the classroom and in research. Drawing on departmental expertise, mini-courses on the use of existing software and issues about effective use of interactive classrooms will be made available to faculty across the campus.