The Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning offers a wide range of free services to University academic groups that wish to improve the effectiveness of their courses. The goals of these services are to provide access to tools and resources, to help develop fluency with information technology and educational strategies, and to serve as a catalyst for innovation with technology-assisted teaching and learning techniques within departments, institutes, and schools.
Managing Courses
Departments and schools can use CourseWorks to disseminate information and content to students. For example, a department can choose to include lab information in the appropriate course Web sites, or a course director can seed each section of a class with a standardized syllabus.
To get started with some of the possibilities, administrators should familiarize themselves with CourseWorks by reviewing the online and printed documentation. In addition, Educational Technologists are available to meet with departmental or school representatives to plan strategies for using the administrative, educational and assessment features within the course management system.
Departmental administrators can also request special administrative privileges for CourseWorks that allow them to post content to course sites.
Introduction to CourseWorksPresentations and Workshops
Departments or schools that want to raise awareness of educational technologies and strategies can request a presentation or a workshop. The range of options includes anything from short introductory sessions that outline the Center's services to detailed hands-on workshops on a variety of topics. Introductory presentations can easily be adapted to fit in an existing faculty or group meeting in order to ease scheduling concerns.
