Conference Session

Professional Development from a Distance

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Deborah L. Helman, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Ryan J. Kershner, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Diana Wheeler, MA-LIS, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Amy L. Kindschi, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Steven M. Cramer, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Sandra Shaw Courter, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Moira Lafayette, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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Continuing Professional Development

learning (TEL) initiativewithin the CoE. Wendt Commons’ TLS team identified specific goals and outcomes in theareas of faculty engagement, knowledge transfer, and improving the quality of teaching andlearning services in the CoE, namely: ● Increase faculty engagement by providing valued and high quality services ● Facilitate knowledge transfer of best practices and support peer to peer interaction ● Support application of sound pedagogical practices informed by engineering education research ● Foster a community of practice around exceptional and innovative approaches to teaching and learning by helping faculty to build connections, both internally and externally ● Adopt evidence-based quality measures to guide course design

Conference Session

Innovative Adult and Technology Enhanced Programs

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gale Tenen Spak, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Peter Schmitt, Schmitt & Associates, LLC; Cesar Bandera, Cell Podium LLC

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Continuing Professional Development

designed so as not to burden the sender with formatconversion; instead conversions happen automatically into these formats.Cell Podium’s success to date in using their m-outreach tool for this kind of population is thesubject of research done already in akin populations, such as nursing, in which different m-learning tools are deployed. That research concludes, “Use of mobile technology in the healthcare field is growing at a fast rate because of the nature of the work health care workers perform.They are on the move most of the time and need to access information for just-in-timeapplication. Hence, the use of mobile technology to work from anywhere and access informationat any time is important for this group.”20However, what about other kinds of

Conference Session

Innovative Adult and Technology Enhanced Programs

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Suzanne M. Kresta, University of Alberta; Uttandaraman Sundararaj, University of Calgary; John A. Nychka, University of Alberta

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Continuing Professional Development

- neers of Alberta, and the Medal of Distinction for Engineering Education from the Canadian Council of Professional Engineers. Dr. Sundararaj’s main research interests are in polymer blend and nanocomposite structure generation in twin-screw extruders, and modeling of polymer processes. In 2003, he received the prestigious Polymer Processing Society’s Morand Lambla Award for research in polymer processing and in 2006, he received the Humboldt Research Fellowship (Germany). He has won three best paper awards and has given over twenty (20) plenary and keynote presentations at major conferences. His interests outside work include basketball, gardening and chess.John A. Nychka, University of Alberta John was an assistant