Mar 27, 2024 | Uncategorized
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Penn State’s Teaching and Learning with Technology (TLT) is accepting self-nominations through April 18 for the 2024-2026 Teaching and Learning Technologies Faculty Advisory Committee. This committee plays a pivotal role in guiding TLT on integrating technology into teaching and learning at Penn State.
TLT Faculty Advisory Committee members will:
- Engage regularly with other faculty leaders who interact with TLT.
- Guide teaching and learning decisions related to technology at Penn State.
- Recommend topical focus areas for existing programs, events and strategic directions.
- Advocate for teaching, learning, technology and innovation with colleagues and discipline areas.
The committee meets at least three times per semester, with additional meetings as needed. Members are expected to actively participate and communicate regularly with their designated constituency. Additionally, members are expected to interact asynchronously with their advisory committee colleagues to exchange feedback and discuss timely topics.
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Mar 14, 2024 | Uncategorized
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Penn State Teaching and Learning with Technology (TLT) has worked since 2009 alongside 55 diverse Faculty Fellows on projects at the intersection of pedagogy and technology. The window to apply for the next TLT Faculty Fellows cohort is open and proposals will be accepted until Friday, April 19.
Fellows will have two years to develop their projects with TLT. For the 2024-2026 academic years, TLT is seeking faculty proposals for innovative fellows projects centered around one of the following categories:
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Mar 8, 2024 | Uncategorized
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Fifteen Penn State instructors recently worked with Penn State Teaching and Learning with Technology (TLT) to enhance their remote synchronous and similar courses requiring the use of video by harnessing the capabilities of an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered webcam named the Insta360 Link. Its automated features minimize instructors’ time and attention directed to video production quality while also improving students’ learning experience.
Their work was part of the 2023-24 TLT Faculty Engagement Awards program. It paired instructors from eight campuses and three colleges with instructional designers to identify best practices for integrating the technology seamlessly into their teaching to play a pivotal role in enhancing remote synchronous learning experiences. By relying on the webcam’s automated technological features, such as auto-framing and auto-tracking, auto-exposure and lighting adjustment, anti-blurring/auto-focus and gesture-controlled zooming and tracking, the instructors can return their focus fully to the teaching and learning experience.
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Feb 26, 2024 | Uncategorized
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Penn State Teaching and Learning with Technology (TLT) has announced that its virtual Symposium Lite will return on March 28, the week after the in-person TLT Symposium.
The half-day event will feature four 30-minute, prerecorded presentations followed by 15-minute, live facilitated discussions with presenters. The presentations will be a mix of new material and repeated presentations from the TLT Symposium, allowing participants to continue exploring how technology can enhance teaching and learning.
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Feb 13, 2024 | Uncategorized
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Top Hat is partnering with Penn State’s Harrisburg, Altoona and Hazleton campuses to offer a series of workshops Feb. 27–29 designed to enhance faculty’s use of Top Hat.
Top Hat is an engagement platform that has tools educators and institutions can use to deliver interactive and personalized learning.
Each Top Hat On Campus Day will consist of an overview of the most powerful Top Hat features, including discussions and polling, assessment options and customizable content. There also will be faculty speakers discussing their experiences using Top Hat and a book fair to learn about Top Hat’s content capabilities, including open and affordable educational resources.
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