The NITLE ModelRebecca Davis (Associate Director, NITLE Programs)Bret Olsen (Instructional Technologist)

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Introduce Yourselves

NITLE is a community-based, non-profit initiative

• Mission: to advance liberal education in the digital age

• Focus: undergraduate-centered colleges, universities, and other organizations that share the mission

• Goals: strategic, effective adoption of digital technologies; innovation in institutional and individual practices.

NITLE Programs & Services

• NITLE Information Services– Provides managed technology services for

institutions

• NITLE Network– Builds community between peers– Offers collaboration support services

• NITLE Institute– Provides professional development for faculty

& staff

NITLE Information Services:DSpace• Digital repository services

– Quick set up– Includes back-end application and

server support– No need to buy hardware or train staff

for back-end support roles.

• Related professional development offerings

• Peer community

Examples of Campus DSpace Use

• Kalamazoo College, – College Archives,

http://dspace.nitle.org/handle/10090/25

• Whittier College– Course Reserves,

http://dspace.nitle.org/handle/10090/4596

• Franklin & Marshall College– Museum of Art Collection,

http://dspace.nitle.org/handle/10090/720 – Visual Resources Collection,

http://dspace.nitle.org/handle/10090/631

Pennsylvania Folk Art Collection • “This collection presents highlights

of The Phillips Museum of Art’s exceptional permanent collection of Pennsylvania Folk Art, as well as several fine examples of 18th century portrait painting. . . . made possible through the generous support of an institutional digital initiatives grant.”

NITLE Network

• Peer communities allow campuses to share expertise and experience.

• Connect in a variety of ways.– Face to face– Email lists– Monthly Online events– Twitter

What’s your favorite communication mode?

NITLE-IT

• For those who are charged by their institutions with supporting or advancing pedagogical uses of technology on campus. Participants exchange ideas, provide peer support, and share information on a regular basis.

• NITLE-it@lists.nitle.org • Special Topics for Instructional Technologists

(monthly)• Instructional Technology Leaders Meeting• Online Conference for instructional technologists• Community discussion on ways to deal with

economic downturn

NITLE Chinese Community• Conferences: Technology-Assisted

Approaches to Teaching Chinese (November 2007)

• Chinese discussion list and Moodle space• Leads to cross-campus collaboration, e.g.,

three faculty from University of Puget Sound, DePauw University, and Amherst College in joint panel presentation at 2009 CLTA

• Chinese Studies Seminar group, June 2009

Professional Development• Conferences

– Bring faculty and staff together around ways technology is impacting the community

– Face to Face: First Year Seminars: Integrating Technology, June 2009

– Online: Mapping for Sustainability, April 2009

Monthly Online Series

• Special Topics in Digital Teaching– Digital Storytelling– Teaching with Digital Games– Grassroots Video– Teaching with Blogs

• Special Topics: Teaching Tools for the Global Age– Video-Conferencing for Global

Education

Workshops to Go

• Face to face• Online

– 3 live meetings• Highly interactive

– Asynchronous work– 10 participants

• Ongoing access to materials

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Current Topics for Online Delivery

• Digital Repositories: Using DSpace • Emerging Technologies and the Liberal Arts

Campus • Manakin: Developing Interfaces and

Interactivity for DSpace • Social Software for Education: Collaborative

Learning and Research Practices • Teaching with Learning Management

Systems: Moodle, Sakai • Virtual Collaboration • Web-Based Video-Conferencing • Web 2.0 Storytelling

Workshops to Go Catalog

• Introduction to Digital Teaching• Emergent Forms of Digital Teaching• Tools for Digital Teaching

– Images– Audio– Visualization and Analysis Tools– Video– Multimedia Presentation and Publishing– Learning Management– Information Management

Emergent Forms of Digital

Teaching • Podcasting for the Liberal Arts Classroom• Virtual Collaboration• Social Software for Education: Collaborative

Learning and Research Practices• Multimedia Narrative: Communicating with Stories• Gaming and Teaching: Virtual Environments for

Liberal Education• Pedagogical Implications of Wireless and Mobile

Technologies• Web-Based Video-Conferencing: Teaching, Learning,

and Collaborating• Project Management and the Liberal Arts Campus• Web 2.0 Storytelling• Grassroots Video

Information Management• Digital Repositories: Using DSpace• Handling Information Overload• Manakin: Developing Interfaces and

Interactivity for DSpace• Digitization Strategies,

Technologies, and Practices