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Center for Technology Enhanced Learning

Technology can be found all around us!
Technology can be found during faculty & student instruction
Technology can be found during faculty and adult learner interaction
Technology can be found in group study situations
Technology can even be used from the comfort of your home!

USM Online's Center for Technology Enhanced Learning (CTEL) supports the efforts of faculty, departments, and programs who want to develop online and blended programs and courses. Faculty can get initial consultation, course development assistance, instructional design, technical help, and support for course delivery at CTEL.

Teaching online can be challenging. You need to find new ways to help your students learn, create community, and to provide a sense of immediacy with students who may never see you in person. Some of the resources CTEL provides include:

News & Events

Posted May 18, 2012
Blackboard will be undergoing maintenance from 5pm on Friday, July 13th until 8am Monday, July 16th to upgrade to service pack 8. Please mark your calendars, as there will be no access to Blackboard during this time. This upgrade brings......
Posted February 17, 2012
The USM Faculty Technology Ambassadors invite you to the spring "Eye on Technology" Showcase. Join us for this excellent opportunity to learn what faculty, students, staff and researchers are doing with technology
Posted September 21, 2011
We have created a new listserv for those who teach online, will be teaching online, their chairs, deans, and anyone else interested in online courses.

Director of Online Teaching and Learning Search

Review the resume and cover letter for each of the candidates for the Director of Online Teaching and Learning Search.

Online Discussion -- Call for Papers

USM Communications Professor, Leanard Shedletsky is editing a feature on Online Course Discussions for Academic Exchange Quarterly. He has issued a Call for Papers. Here is the information:

Academic Exchange Quarterly
Winter 2012 Volume 16, Issue 4
Expanded issue up to 400+ pages.
Articles on various topics plus the following special sections.
Online Course Discussion
Feature Editor: Leonard Shedletsky, Professor
University of Southern Maine

Focus:
How can we help the teacher to understand online discussion—what variables are operating? What motives and attitudes are in play? What should the facilitator know and do to aid discussion in teaching online? What works and what doesn’t? What facilitates discussion online, what encourages collaborative meaning-making, what encourages productive, supportive, engaged discussion, and what fosters critical thinking.

Who May Submit: Teachers at all levels, graduate students, researchers.
Please identify your submission with the keyword: ONLINE-7
Submission deadline: August 1, 2012
Submission Procedure: http://rapidintellect.com/AEQweb/rufen1.htm

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