IU Community News

Interactive University Wins EDUCAUSE Award:

On Monday, September 10th, EDUCAUSE announced that The UC Berkeley Interactive University Project has won a 2001 EDUCAUSE Award for Exemplary Practices in Information Technology Solutions. These EDUCAUSE awards, given annually since 1995, recognize individuals and teams in higher education information technology communities for initiatives that have solved campus information management challenges with ingenuity, resourcefulness, elegance, and effectiveness.

The award reads, in part: In the late 1990s UC Berkeley addressed a challenge grounded in its institutional mission of public service: how to open up its unique resources and community in support of K-12 teachers, students, and families. The Berkeley solution was the creation of a campus-wide technical and organizational initiative, the Interactive University Project.

This week's Berkeleyan contains an article about the award. For the complete award announcement, and more information about EDUCAUSE, a nonprofit association of more than 1,800 colleges, universities, and education organizations with the mission to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology, follow these links.

Fall Classes Begin: for UC Berkeley and IU Projects

As the 2001/2002 academic year begins and students everywhere return to classes, the IU and its Internet Learning Community Projects will be teaching, facilitating, and supporting in a number of settings--three of the offered courses are for UCB graduates and/or undergraduates, and will be co-taught by UC faculty and IU or ILCP staff. Other offerings from ILCPs include a workshop for teachers, a Saturday seminar series and a lunch series. Here's the line-up and a brief description of the slate for Fall.

EDUCATION 191H: THEORIES AND PRACTICE IN EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY.

Education 191H is a new 4 unit course offered to Education Minors at UC Berkeley this semester. Ed 191H explores the integration of technology into the education system in a three-step process. UCB students will:

Deb McKoy will teach the class and IU Director David Greenbaum will co-facilitate. McKoy received her Ph.D. from Berkeley, and has an extensive background in education and research which will provide this class with the perfect environment for investigating beneficial ways in which technology can be integrated into the high school classroom. Lectures will be supplemented by guest speakers, several of whom are UCB staff who will provide professional insight into the challenges and rewards of technology-based projects in the classroom.

The 191H students have diverse educational backgrounds, ranging from Integrated Biology to American Studies. They will use lab time to create online resources for high school students and teachers at San Franicsco's John O'Connell High. The Berkeley students' projects will create a unique project-based learning environment that will be transferred into the O'Connell classroom. Karin Kusuda, a recent UB Berkeley graduate who has worked for the last year with students at O'Connell, and who designed the 191H website, will be the course lab instructor. The resources created and transferred to O'Connell will give teachers and K-12 students tools to understand how technology can be used as a flexible platform where high school subjects can be linked to surrounding communities, and the world at large. Technology's role in the classroom is only beginning to be understood and applied. Using technology as a resource in project-based learning is one of the fundamental stepping-stones to further our comprehension of its impact on the student learning environment.

Date and Time: Wednesday, 1 - 4 p.m.
Instructor: Deborah McKoy, Ph.D.
(David Greenbaum, IU Director, will be co-facilitating)
Website: http://interactiveu.berkeley.edu:8000/ed191course

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