Workshop Materials

From the 9/19/08 workshop

• Power point slides from main speaker, Dr. John Broida, Redesign Scholar from the University of Maine. He presents information on how to do redesign, using a case study from his own course redesign efforts.

• Power point slides from Dr. John Broida on the use of Clickers in classrooms as a means of promoting student participation.

  • For additional questions, please contact Dr. Broida at broida@maine.edu

• Power point slides from Dr. Megan E. Bradley, on behalf of the FSU General Psychology Redesign Team. She presents how and why General Psychology was redesigned, including successful results from the Spring 2008 pilot semester.

  • For additional questions, please contact any member of the General Psychology Redesign Team:

    • Megan E Bradley

    • Bill Southerly

    • Cindy Hay

• Power point slides from our workshop's sponsor (and publisher choice for General Psychology Redesign), Bedford, Freeman & Worth Publishers. "Bedford/St. Martin’s, W.H. Freeman and Worth Publishing Company is a group of publishers that focuses on high quality educational materials in over a dozen general education disciplines. The media rich resources from BFW include Portals and Classes (learning solutions platforms with personalized study plans and the ability to create multi-part assignments), standard ebooks, enhanced and interactive ebooks, online videos, interactive flashcards, video tutorials, and more.”

  • To learn more about Portals or Classes, BFW’s learning solutions platforms, you can read more at http://bfwpub.com/newcatalog.aspx?technology=Portals/Classes

  • If you are interested in having trial access for any of our products or would like to learn about any materials we may have for your class, please feel free to contact us:

    • Paul Coleman pcoleman@bfwpub.com

    • Elyse Courtney ecourtney@bfwpub.com

From the 9/12/08 workshop

• Power point slides from main speaker, Dr. Tristan Denley, from the University of Mississippi. He presents information on the course redesign in math while he was department chair. Information includes research results comparing Hawkes Learning System's program with MyMathLab, with Hawkes showing superior performance. Slides also include how the redesign benefitted his department at the undergraduate and graduate level. A must read for any department chair!

  • For additional questions, please contact Dr. denley at tdenley@olemiss.edu.

• Hawkes Learning Systems sponsored the workshop and Jordan Enzor presented the software program that has many helpful features. For more information about Hawkes, contact Jordan:

  • Jordan Enzor, Technical Sales Consultant

    • Hawkes Learning Systems

    • email: jenzor@hawkeslearning.com

    • ph: 800.426.9538/fax: 843.571.0645

    • cell: 843.412.8397

    • www.hawkeslearning.com

From the 4/11/08 workshop

• Power point slides from main speaker, Carolyn Jarmon of NCAT. NCAT is an independent non-profit organization dedicated to the effective use of information technology to improve student learning outcomes and reduce the cost of higher education.

  • For additional questions, please contact Carolyn at cjarmon@theNCAT.org

• Power point slides from Bill Thomas, on behalf of the workshop's sponsor Houghton-Mifflin (now Cengage), about their faculty support program for course redesign or course enhancement.