Anthology Features Chapter on Video Annotations
Jonah Bossewitch, CCNMTL lead technical architect, and Michael Preston, former CCNMTL senior educational technologist, co-authored a chapter entitled, Teaching and Learning with Video Annotations, for the recently released anthology, Learning Through Digital Media: Experiments in Technology and Pedagogy. Their chapter recapitulates the history of multimedia annotation projects at CCNMTL, focusing especially on the pedagogies and learning outcomes that have motivated CCNMTL's work over the years. The authors discuss curricular activities which have stimulated the development of our VITAL and MediaThread multimedia analysis environments.
Learning Through Digital Media was edited by New School Professor Trebor Scholz in preparation for the upcoming Mobility Shifts: An International Future of Learning Summit. The peer-reviewed book contains a series of practical applications of digital media to formal and informal learning situations, with a focus on teaching techniques across a range of services and tools. The “ambition of this collection is to discover how to use digital media for learning on campus and off. It offers a rich selection of methodologies, social practices, and hands-on assignments by leading educators who acknowledge the opportunities created by the confluence of mobile technologies, the World Wide Web, film, video games, TV, comics, and software while also acknowledging recurring challenges.”
Learning Through Digital Media was published in March 2011 by the Institute of Distributed Creativity under a creative-commons license (CC-BY) and is available in a variety of formats, including hardcopy, PDF, ebook, and web-based. Both the anthology and the summit were sponsored by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
Brownfield Action Featured in Science Education and Civic Engagement Journal
February 23, 2011. The Science Education and Civic Engagement International Journal published an article on the CCNMTL-developed simulation, Brownfield Action, in its Winter 2011 issue. Created in partnership with Barnard Professor of Science Peter Bower, Brownfield Action is an interactive simulation that combines scientific expertise, constructivist educational philosophy, and multimedia to advance the teaching of environmental science. In the simulation, students are presented with maps, documents, videos, and an extensive network of scientific data to conduct environmental site assessment investigations and work collaboratively to explore and solve problems in environmental forensics. Brownfield Action is a central component of Barnard's introductory environmental science course and is also used at nine additional colleges, universities, and high schools.
"Brownfield Action: An Inquiry Based Multimedia Simulation for Teaching and Learning Environmental Science," was authored by Professor Bower, CCNMTL Executive Director Frank Moretti, and CCNMTL Associate Director Ryan Kelsey. The article provides testimony of instructors using the Brownfield Action Simulation in their courses, as well as an independent professional evaluation that demonstrates how Brownfield Action has significantly increased student understanding and learning across a wide spectrum of uses.
Visit the Science Education and Civic Engagement International Journal online to read the full article.
Register for the University Seminar, Triangle Initiative Interventions in HIV Prevention and Treatment: A Progress Report
January 31, 2011. Join us at the next University Seminar on New Media Teaching and Learning, "Triangle Initiative Interventions in HIV Prevention and Treatment: A Progress Report," on February 3, 2011, from 3:30 - 5:00pm in Butler Library.
In this seminar, Dr. Robert Remien of the HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies Dr. Louisa Gilbert of the Columbia School of Social Work's Social Intervention Group will share how they are implementing custom-developed, multimedia-powered interventions to support HIV treatment adherence and safer-sex behaviors both here in New York and in developing countries.
Increasingly, health practitioners are using technology-enabled interventions to promote positive life changes. During the past two years Dr. Remien and CCNMTL have been funded by the National Institute of Health to develop and pilot Masivukeni ("Let's Wake Up!" in Xhosa), an HIV treatment adherence intervention for lay counselors and patients in South Africa. Dr. Gilbert and CCNMTL partnered on the development and testing of a multimedia version of the WORTH intervention, an HIV prevention intervention designed for drug-involved women who are on probation or parole or enrolled in an alternative-to-incarceration program. Dr. Gilbert is the co-investigator on Multimedia WORTH, which is funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse and under the direction of principal investigator Dr. Nabila El-Bassel of SIG. Masivukeni and Multimedia Worth are projects developed in the Triangle Initiative, CCNMTL's strategic effort to create digital tools and capacities that serve the intersecting interests of education, research, and the larger community.
Thursday, February 3, 2011
3:30PM - 5:00PM
523 Butler Library
Phone: (212) 854-9058
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Register for the University Seminar: Transforming Dental Practice with New Media Tools
November 24, 2010. Join us at the next University Seminar on New Media Teaching and Learning on December 2, 2010 from 3:00 - 4:30pm in Butler Library. In the University Seminar, "Transforming Dental Practice with New Media," two professors from the division of Community Health at Columbia's College of Dental Medicine will share how they are implementing custom-developed, educational multimedia tools to enhance dental practices in the classroom and in the field. Dr. Burton Edelstein DDS MPH, professor of clinical dentistry and clinical health policy and management, will demonstrate MySmileBuddy, a mobile application designed to prevent severe childhood tooth decay. Dr. David Albert DDS MPH, associate professor of clinical dentistry section of social and behavioral sciences, will discuss how multimedia learning modules developed in partnership with CCNMTL are enriching tobacco cessation education at Columbia.
Transforming Dental Practice with New Media Tools Thursday, December 2, 2010
3:00PM - 4:30PM
523 Butler Library
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University Seminar on March 26 - A Framework for New Learning with Randy Bass of Georgetown University
March 20, 2009. CCNMTL launches its 2009 University Seminar on New Media Teaching and Learning series this month with a discussion on student learning and faculty development in technology-enhanced environments. Randy Bass, Assistant Provost for Teaching and Learning Initiatives at Georgetown University and executive director of the Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship will present on more than six years of research through the Visible Knowledge Project. This project has engaged 70 faculty members on 21 campuses to explore the impact of technology on learning, primarily in the humanities. Collectively, the findings suggest a portrait of student learning that includes dimensions of knowledge and intellectual development that have been traditionally undervalued if not invisible in higher education.
Bass, who is also an associate professor in the Department of English at Georgetown, has been working at the intersection of new media technologies and the scholarship of teaching and learning since the late 1980s. Most recently, he edited, along with collaborator Bret Eynon, a synthesis and digital volume of case studies on learning and new media, published through the online journal, Academic Commons.
University Seminar: A Framework for New Learning: Findings from the Visible Knowledge Project
Thursday, March 26th, 4pm
523 Butler Library
CCNMTL Celebrates a Decade of Innovation at Columbia University
March 3, 2009. This month the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL) is celebrating its 10th anniversary. Under the leadership of co-founders Frank Moretti and Maurice Matiz, the Center opened its doors 10 years ago to promote the purposeful use of new media and technology in education. Since then, the Center has worked with over 4,000 faculty and instructors representing each school at Columbia University to develop over 200 educational projects and initiatives.
“When recalling the last ten years, I am most grateful for our tremendous faculty partnerships,” said Maurice Matiz, CCNMTL vice executive director, “and I am amazed by the achievements of our dedicated staff, whose work has affected positive change in Columbia University’s classrooms.”
Faculty and school partnerships continue to be a hallmark of the Center’s work. In December 2000, an additional office was opened with the College of Dental Medicine and Dr. John Zimmerman to serve faculty on Columbia University’s Medical Campus. The establishment of this office led to the development of many rewarding projects with CUMC faculty including the Heart Simulator, Virtual Techniques in Dentistry, and a number of simulations around public health issues.
CCNMTL has been integral to the adoption and support of critical teaching and learning platforms at Columbia University including CourseWorks, Columbia Wikispaces, and Columbia on iTunes U. CourseWorks, launched in 2001, offered instructors a new, online space for course materials and collaboration. Additionally, the CU Analyzer project, also released in 2001, exemplified early analysis and synthesis tools, which are critical for encouraging student learning.
In 2002, CCNMTL pioneered a design research methodology for project development that integrates the exploration and development of digital technologies with pedagogical theory and practice; all of the Center’s projects follow the iterative cycle of research, development, and assessment defined by this methodology.
“From the outset, we have been a learning organization that fosters and uses build-to-learn principles,” said Frank Moretti, CCNMTL executive director, “this philosophy has allowed us to assume a leadership role in the conversations around education and technology.” The Center has leveraged its leadership role on campus to host four New Media in Education conferences highlighting faculty partnerships, classroom innovations, and new tools for instructors.
Over the past decade, CCNMTL has received over $10 million in grant funding and has helped faculty partners obtain much more in project funding. Recent grants have supported many of the Center’s Strategic Initiatives, which are paving the way toward the next decade of innovation. Read more about CCNMTL's 10th anniversary at http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/10th.
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Download the press release (PDF)
Visit CCNMTL's Special 10th Anniversary Website
Design Research Site Improved
December 8, 2008. The Design Research section of the CCNMTL website has been updated to include a more comprehensive set of published papers and conference presentations. It also has a new section called "Cases" that highlights the different stages that take place during the Design Research process.
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Innovation in the CUMC Classroom hosted by CCNMTL
April 18, 2008. CCNMTL will host "Innovation in the CUMC Classroom" on Tuesday, April 22, 2008 at the Armory Track and Field Center. Columbia University health sciences teaching faculty are invited to attend. Come discover new ways to enhance teaching with innovative digital tools.
During this event, CUMC faculty will demonstrate how they have implemented tools--including video, digital simulations, and virtual microscopy--in their classrooms. In addition, CCNMTL educational technologists and directors will be on hand to speak about the free support and resources available to CUMC teaching faculty. Breakfast and lunch will be held during the respective sessions.
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
Breakfast Session: 7:30 am - 10:00 am
Lunch Session: 11:00 am - 1:30 pm
The Armory 216 Ft. Washington Avenue (at 168th Street)
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Attend CCNMTL Symposium at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting
March 13, 2008. On Wednesday, March 26, CCNMTL will host a symposium entitled "Video as a Manipulative: An Innovative System to Transform University Courses in Psychology and Education" at the AERA annual meeting in New York City. The event’s topic is centered on a web-based video analysis system developed by CCNMTL called Video Interactions in Teaching and Learning (VITAL). During the symposium, four papers will be presented on the use of VITAL:
- The use of video in teaching psychology and education: Theory and a case study (Herb Ginsburg, Ann Cami, Eram Schlegel - Teachers College)
- Adapting pedagogy to a web-based video analysis system (Joon Lee, Priscilla Hambrick-Dixon - Hunter College)
- The development of critical thinking skills using a web-based video analysis system (Michael Preston - CCNMTL)
- Evaluating students' cognitive outcomes in a web-based video analysis system (Cornelia Brunner - EDC)
To attend this event or to learn more about it, please visit http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/vital/nsf/vital_symposium_at_aera_2008.html. To learn more about the VITAL project, please visit http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/vital/nsf/. For questions, please email us at ccnmtl@columbia.edu.
VITAL as "Teacher 2.0" at EduStat 2007
June 8, 2007. Frank Moretti and Michael Preston presented VITAL as a Web 2.0 application for teacher development at EduStat Summit 2007, a conference sponsored by SchoolNet and Teachers College. The session was attended mostly by public school district administrators, who responded with enthusiasm. The presentation was followed by a lively discussion about the use of video to improve classroom practice through observation, reflection, and feedback from supervisors and peers.
The official conference blog included a post on the presentation.
VITAL 3.0 at EduStat Summit 2007
University Seminar: "Design Research Interventions"
December 10, 2004. Design Research has grown in importance since it was first conceptualized in the early '90s, but it has not yet been adopted for research in instructional technology in higher education to any great extent. Many researchers continue to conduct studies that principally seek to determine the effectiveness of the delivery medium, rather than the instructional strategies and tasks.
At the University Seminar for New Media Teaching and Learning on Thursday, December 9, Dr. Tom Reeves of the University of Georgia explored the various incentives for conducting research on the impact of computing and other technologies in higher education, examined the social relevance of that research, and recommended design research as a particularly appropriate approach to socially responsible inquiry. He described the characteristics of design research, together with an argument for the more widespread adoption of this approach to enhance the quality and usefulness of research in computers and other technologies in education.
University Seminar: Design Research Interventions
Evaluation Reports Released
October 15, 2004. A number of new assessment reports have been released, including evaluation summaries of VITAL and Library Compass. The newly-released reports include internal and external evaluations from 2001 through 2004. The reports cover a range of disciplines and types of technological interventions. CCNMTL is commited to evaluating our past projects in an effort to develop a uniform set of best practices, which will guide us in future projects.
A full listing of published reports can be found at the Design Research site.
CCNMTL Presents at 2003 Educause Conference in Anaheim
November 17, 2003. Peter Sommer, director of education, represented the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL) in Track 3 of the 2003 Educause Conference in Anaheim, California. Sommer presented a paper titled "Building to Learn: A New Paradigm for Design Research and Assessment." Educause is a national conference in education technology and one of the best attended in the field.
To view abstract and associated web pages please see links below.
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