The Faculty Forum series is something we do about monthly in Academic
Computing Services. We invite faculty members who use technology in
their teaching to come meet with the Information Systems staff
involved in Athena and other academic-computing activity. The goal is
for developers, support people, and managers to have a clear,
up-to-date sense of what faculty are doing and desiring by way of
academic computing for education.
Certainly any CEVAT member is welcome at the sessions (the notice goes
formally to our staff, but has a way of disseminating itself more
broadly). The most recent session concerned Aero/Astro's move from
homemade courseware (Todor, in particular) to instructional
applications based on commercial tools such as Matlab, Maple, and
Xess. Prior sessions (I started the series last year) have looked at
genetics and other biology instruction, writing, Japanese, 6.001, and
so on. We make and keep videotapes of all sessions, as well.
We start pretty promptly at 2, and end at 3:30 even if someone is in
midsentence.
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