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Purdue preparing teachers for a post-pandemic world where online learning remains prevalent A new online teacher professional development program underway at Purdue will train teachers how to better engage and support students who are learning online. (Julia Cameron/Pexels) One of these days, the spread of COVID-19 will be corralled, but a Purdue program to train teachers how to better engage and support students online is likely to keep spreading. That’s the intent of a new online teacher professional development program underway at Purdue, funded by a $1.5 million grant from the In...

magazine in 2015.] That shift is an emphatic departure from artificial intelligence (AI), the premise of which is that “the world is full of massive amounts of data, and the way we have to consume that data in order for our brains to handle it is to summarize it.” Rather than understand millions of points of information, AI ensures that “we really only have to deal with a couple.” But the problem, Colella says, is that “every time that we aggregate data, we make it easier for us to understand what that information is and more difficult to understand the nuance underneath the inform...

ALL ABOUT CONNECTION The winning entry in this year’s INA competition — StorySky, an app to connect grandparents and children — reflected the contest's focus on technology to help overcome the isolation imposed by the COVID pandemic. Ed Tech TC’s student EdTech showcase yields tools for overcoming social distance When first-year students David Zikovitz (Instructional Technology & Media), Ying-Chen Lin (Instructional Technology & Media), Mulan Fu (Design & Development of Digital Games) and Marina Lemee (Computing in Education) teamed up to enter Teachers College’s 2020 EdTech Innova...

Elon provided COVID-19 testing as faculty and staff return after the winter break in Alumni Gym. The following update from the Ready & Resilient Committee sent to faculty and staff focuses on the increased testing that will begin next week for students, faculty and staff as well as information about volunteering to assist with testing. Share: Share this page on Twitter Share this page on LinkedIn Email this page to a friend Print this page Dear colleagues, Thank you for participating in and volunteering to facilitate arrival testing. Below are updates regarding ar...

Share: Share this page on Twitter Share this page on LinkedIn Email this page to a friend Print this page When the Elon Commitment 10-year strategic plan was produced in 2010 it envisioned a possible expansion of Carol Grotnes Belk Library that would include a relationship-rich center for student support. It would be a one-stop location for students to receive academic advising, peer tutoring, writing help, library research support or learning assistance. Joan Ruelle, dean of Belk Library, helped in developing the idea and thought of it as a learning commons. Fast ...