UNCP Campus Technology Update

with Bob Orr, UNCP Associate Vice Chancellor for Information Resources and Chief Information Officer

Hybrid Courses: Sustainability, Pedagogy, and Change with Dr. Kenneth Mentor

Hybrid courses include a carefully planned blend of traditional classroom instruction and online learning activities. This presentation will focus on the benefits of hybrid models that combine the best of both styles of instruction and show how educators are expanding learning opportunities beyond the boundaries of the traditional classroom.

Here are some points to consider:

* Some will resist change, relying on contact hours, definition of faculty/student roles, and other structural issues. However, broader social, economic, and environmental realities have increased the attractiveness of hybrid models to the point where we can no longer ignore the benefits of this trend.

* Hybrid models can significantly alter our work and the institutions in which we serve.

* Broader social, economic, and environmental realities have increased the attractiveness of hybrid models.

* A 50/50 hybrid could allow a doubling of campus enrollment without additional campus construction.

* Students will consume fewer resources as they learn in their homes and communities -while experiencing the benefits of engaging in web-based learning environments.

The Institutional Repository Committee of the Livermore Library: Anne Coleman, Michael Alewine, Anthony Holderied, and June Power present:

Docking your Scholarship: NC DOCKS program and an orientation to BraveDocks, which is UNCP's new digital institutional repository.

http://www.uncp.edu/library/ir/index.html

BraveDocks is not just another static online archive, but rather it is an active resource that links faculty and student scholarship to the world via Internet search engines such as Google Scholar.

This presentation will highlight the importance of institutional repositories in relation to scholarly communication, resource standards and formats, copyright considerations, initial setup process, and also a guided tour of the resource's functionality.

Nathan Phillippi, Department of Geology
Special thanks to Martin Farley, Chair, Geology & Geography

GIS: A way to understand how data changes from place to place

If the things you study or teach change from place to place, you could find Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software useful.

Nearly everything changes across the landscape: people; their businesses, income, and health; ecology, and even chemistry.

GIS hooks a database to a mapping system so you can make maps of geographically changing information.  This presentation introduces ArcGIS, a standard GIS package now available campuswide. With it, you can create maps to allow people to interpret and manipulate data.  This includes showing how one data type connects to others (e.g., census data, crime, and neighborhoods).  This software is used by businesses to determine where prospective customers might be. It is used by governments to link the streets and water departments so roads are paved after new water pipes are installed, not before. And it is used by academics for all kinds of scholarly investigations.

Click here to view the presentation.

External links from the presentation:

NC Geographic Information Clearinghouse
source for (usually) free data for download; see particularly the link to NCGIS Data Resources following URL. www.cgia.state.nc.us

ESRI ArcExplorer (the free to all download for querying GIS databases) www.esri.com/software/arcexplorer/about/overview.html

ESRI's "Getting started with GIS" online training
http://training.esri.com/acb2000/showdetl.cfm?DID=6&Product_ID=915

UNCP Campus Technology Update Triple Play!

Bob Orr: Associate Vice Chancellor for Information Resources and Chief Information Officer

Cindy Saylor: Assistant Chief Information Officer for Educational Technologies and Client Services

Tom Jackson: Associate Chief Information Officer and Chief Technology Officer