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Academic Technology Trends Webinar Series
Sponsored by GoingOn
Save the Webinar Date! Presenter | Tuesday, September 18th, 11:00 AM PDT |
Director
Faculty Center for Excellence
in Teaching and Technology
National University
With so much attention focused on online learning, the potential of social technologies to transform faculty communications and collaboration has often been overlooked. But today, many institutions are beginning to recognize the power of creating a common online space where faculty can connect, share ideas, develop multi-disciplinary curriculum, and discover opportunities for collaborative work. For school administration, Faculty Commons offer a dramatically better way to manage communications, replacing antiquated portals, list-serves, and “institutional SPAM”.
As recently stated in CUNY’s Faculty Commons Quarterly, “[the Commons model] assumes a definition of faculty professional development as something done by faculty, not something done to them.”
In this 45 minute webinar, we will explore varying models of deploying an institution-wide Faculty Commons by examining the approaches of CUNY Faculty Commons, National University’s Faculty Network, and consumer offerings such as Academia.Edu.
In addition, Dr. Colin Malaire of National University will present a brief case study highlighting the vision, challenges, and benefits of deploying the National University Faculty Network.
Takeaways of this session:
- Understand the basic design & features of today’s Faculty Commons
- Examine the various uses, benefits and resource savings of a commons-based approach
- Learn how to avoid common challenges and pitfalls of implementation and adoption
- Gain a better understanding of how a Faculty Commons fits within your broader technology landscape, as well as different deployment and integration models