Exploring New
Approaches for Learning through
Partnerships
Roadmap to the talk
The academy is about….
A balancing act
Change: friend or foe?
Pressure to change
Change is not new - rate of
change is
Changes in learning to come?
New questions, new audiences
But should we use technology?
Why not technology?
These are NOT binary
choices!
Bottom Line?
Faculty and staff
perspectives
Information resources
perspective
Information resources staff
responsibilities
Faculty Perspective
From where do our teaching
habits come?
Faculty responsibility: quality of learning
Time…too little time
One approach
Partner to share efforts,
resources
Traditional relationships
Traditional relationships
Changing relationships
Changing relationships
Changing relationships
Changing relationships
Students need a
“new information literacy”
Who teaches this
“new information literacy?”
New relationships
New relationships
Partnerships are about….
Partnerships require….
Address “why” before “how”
Kenyon case
study
web-based class projects
Characteristics of the web
that facilitate learning
Learning Goals
Web-based class projects
Our challenges....
The Denison-Kenyon Mellon
Program
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