Date Started: Sep 1, 2000
Status:In Progress
Project Description
In the year 2000, CDI 4 built on the success of the Mobile Computing Initiative by supporting faculty who proposed to engage in significant and potentially valuable curricular and pedagogical innovation. Many outstanding proposals were received. Three were selected for long-term funding, and two were funded as short-term summer projects. The proposals to receive multi-year funding are described below.
Physics, Math, and Computer Science: This project infuses an innovative, multiple learning style experience into regularly offered physics and math courses. Through the use of multimedia, the project team expects to engage students more fully than through lecturing alone. Multimedia elements will include audio and video streams of physics demonstrations, animations, problem solving with audio reinforcement, Maple exercises, interactive photo quizzes and examples, and online tests. The final product will be offered on CD-ROM and in a "lite" version through Learning Space.
Political Science and Mathematics and Computer Science: The purpose of this grant is to integrate social science content into Statistical Concepts and Methods, a mathematics course required of nearly all social science undergraduate students at Seton Hall University. In most social science departments, the course is prerequisite to Research Methods. The goal of the project is to consistently instruct social science students in social science concepts and the mathematical, statistical, and technological foundations necessary for dealing with social science issues and questions. The project crosses disciplinary boundaries as it advances Seton Hall's commitment to integrating technology into the curriculum.
University Libraries: The faculty of the University Libraries, in conjunction with Freshman Studies and the English and Psychology Departments, are developing a program that will merge information literacy with the teaching of core subject disciplines. After completing a short survey to evaluate their information-seeking strategies, freshman will be trained in information literacy skills and online research skills. Instruction will be delivered through a series of scheduled or core courses that target freshman and sophomore students. It will rely on "point-of-service" instruction and will involve face-to-face instruction along with online tutorials, streaming audio and video modules, and the development of virtual library resources. It is anticipated that the techniques developed through this coursework will carry over into lifelong research skills.
Related Projects & Initiatives:
Curriculum Development Initiative (CDI)
CDI is a granting program geared at academic departments that undertake technology-enabled curriculum development.
