e-Teaching Symposium
New Trends in eTeaching

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Event Title: New Trends in eTeaching

Date: Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Time:
11 a.m. - 1 p.m. (brown bag lunch)

Location:
Student Center East, Room 713
750 S. Halsted Street, Chicago, IL 60607

Symposium Overview

Join UIC faculty and staff for a panel presentation highlighting the various hot topics and latest trends shared by the leaders in Online and blended learning at the 13th Sloan-C International Conference on Online Learning . Three UIC members will share their observations from the conference and discuss how this information could be used to advance Online and blended learning at UIC.
 
Following the panel presentation will be a co-presentation exploring Second Life by UIC assistant professor of communication, Jeremy Hunsinger, and Bradley University associate professor of communication, Ed Lamoureux. Professors Hunsinger and Lamoureux will share research findings on Second Life and also enter this virtual world to share effective practices using this technology as an instructional tool. Both presenters will be introduced by UIC Professor of communication, Steve Jones, who will join us remotely from within Second Life as Deka Beck, his Second Life persona.

About the Presenters

Charlotte Briggs arrived at UIC in May of 2007 to serve as the first Director of Curriculum Development for the College of Dentistry . She taught previously in the higher education graduate programs at Loyola University Chicago and the College of William and Mary, and co-directed the Community College Learning and Teaching graduate certificate program for Loyola and the City Colleges of Chicago . She holds a Ph.D. from the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education at the University of Michigan . Her areas of interest are academic/curriculum planning, teaching and learning, educational technology, health sciences education, faculty development, and organizational and administrative behavior in higher education. She has published research articles about continuous program planning, curriculum leadership in postsecondary academic departments, and curriculum collaboration and communities of practice. Her current scholarship focuses on authentic learning and assessment in dental education, and assessment and planning for educational technology resources.

Jeremy Hunsinger, a visiting assistant professor in Communication at UIC, is completing his Ph.D. in Science and Technology in Society at Virginia Tech. He has taught courses centered on digital media and archives, library 2.0, political economy, and internet policy. His research agenda unites theory with critical technical practice in the realms of political economy, ethics and cultures of the internet, learning environments, cyberinfructures, higher education and research. This research centers on the transformations of the modes of production in the information age. At Virginia Tech, he was one of the founders of the Center for Digital Discourse and Culture and a 2006 Scholar Fellow. He attended the Oxford Internet Institutes 2004 Summer Doctoral Programme and was Graduate Fellow of the NSF Workshop on Values in Information Systems Design. He is an Ethics Fellow at the Center for Information Policy Research at the University of Wisconsin , Milwaukee in 2007-2008. He is currently collaborating with researchers around the world on a diverse array of projects including the co-editing the International Handbook of Internet Research (Springer, 2007/8), the Australian Creative Resources Online project and Learning and Research in SecondLife.

Associate Professor Edward Lee Lamoureux (BA, Speech, CSULB, 1975; MA, Speech Communication, Washington St. Univ., 1980; Ph. D., Rhetoric and Communication, 1985) has been at  Bradley University in Peoria , IL , since 1985, where he co-directs the New Media Center housed within the Multimedia Program. Ed teaches Introduction to New Media Theory, Introduction to Multimedia, Issues in New Media Theory (IP Law in MM)  and Field Research in Virtual Worlds (in the Multimedia Program) and Theory and Literature of Rhetoric and Issues and Perspectives in Communication (in the Department of Communication). His research is concerned with rhetoric, intellectual property law, religious communication, and conversation; his creative production includes webmastering and communication training via digital embellishments. Lamoureux served as the editor of the Journal of Communication and Religion (sponsored by the Religious Communication Association) for two, 3 year, terms, 1998-2003, and as Director of the Multimedia Program from January 2003-January 2006. He is married to Cheryl and they have 4 children (Alexander, Samanatha, Kate, Nicole). Lamoureux plays golf and guitar, walk and runs, lifts weights, and paints with watercolors. He is an avid Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim fan.  Ed is Professor Beliveau in Second Life where he teaches field research and performs (guitar and voice) as "The Professor" regularly.

Mary P. Niemiec is Executive Director for External Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). Responsible for online, blended and professional continuing education, Ms. Niemiec directs UIC Online and the efforts of several instructional outreach units that support the 15 academic colleges in their outreach goals. Ms. Niemiec is also leading UIC's campus-wide initiative in blended learning.

Niemiec's most recent professional focus and academic interest has been in public administration, adult education and online learning. She has been the recipient of numerous grants to support initiatives in these areas. Ms. Niemiec has also presented at conferences, seminars and workshops on the topics of non-traditional, online and blended instruction. She is UIC's representative to the Sloan Consortium, University Continuing Education Association, Illinois Virtual Campus, Illinois Council for Continuing Education.  

Additionally, Ms. Niemiec is Vice Chair of the Governing Board of the University Center of Lake County and is the Council of Member Institutions representative for UIC. She also serves on several UIC campus committees including the Blended Learning Steering Committee, UIC Online Oversight Committee, the Senate Committee for Educational Policy (SCEP) and chairs the SCEP External Education Subcommittee.

Contact
For further details regarding this event, please contact Emilie Wagner at External Education at (312) 355-0423 or by e-mail at ebwagner@uic.edu.