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Advanced Technology in Higher Education
(Brief Records)


Leading Centers for Research, Development, and Service


UC Berkeley, Multimedia Research Center

  • Website: http://www.bmrc.berkeley.edu/

  • Description: "an interdisciplinary group of artists, educators, professionals, and scientists who are experimenting with interactive multimedia technology in professional practice, scholarship, and education."

    Longer record


Center for Innovative Learning Technologies (CILT)

  • Website: http://www.cilt.org/

  • Description: "The Center for Innovative Learning Technologies (CILT) is a distributed center designed to serve as a national resource for stimulating research on innovative, technology-enabled solutions to critical problems in K-14 learning. Our approach is to foster and conduct collaborative research and development in areas that we believe promise significant advances in learning." The Center provides training opportunities for postdocs, sponsors conferences, colloquia and other conversations about educational technology, and publishes research. "Seed grants in the amount of $6,000-$15,000 are available to initiate cross-institutional collaboration in areas important to the learning technology field." The Center sponsors "CILT Knowledge Network, a database environment that provides access to a broad range of people, projects, pedagogies, and other resources central to the learning technology field." Founding institutions are SRI International , The Concord Consortium, UC Berkeley, and Vanderbilt.

    Longer record


Columbia University, Center for New Media Teaching and Learning

  • Website: http://www.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/about/index.html

  • Description: A service, support, and training center that promotes faculty use of educational technology for teaching and research, the creation of new learning environments for students, and collaboration across disciplines to transform the university and contribute to strategic planning. "The Center tries to be exactly that, a center of Columbia's on campus activity in the new media and education domain. To this end we actively work with AcIS as a bridge between the technology infrastructure and the changing educational needs of the faculty and students. We collaborate closely with the University libraries that also have generously provided us with space in Butler Library. We offer workshops and forums on topical subjects for the entire University community."

    Longer record


Georgetown University, Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship (CANDLES)

  • Website: http://www.georgetown.edu/main/provost/candles/

  • Description: "a new initiative at Georgetown focused on teaching, learning, technology, and research.... at the center of Georgetown's efforts to integrate the best of its educational traditions with the tools, resources, and the opportunities of new learning environments in the 21st century. Through an innovative focus on teaching and learning, knowledge, values, and new technologies, the Center serves Georgetown in three ways: through transformations in learning, redefinitions of intellectual work and service, and institutional renewal." CANDLES aims to support the integration of pedagogy, content, and technology.

  • Longer record


Georgia Tech, EduTech Institute

  • Website: http://www.cc.gatech.edu/edutech/about/about.html

  • Description: "a multi-disciplinary research organization committed to enhancing science, math and design education through innovative uses of technology. Our development efforts are aimed at creating environments for learning, both embodied and virtual, that reflect our knowledge of cognition behind learning, complex problem solving and understanding. While our two target populations are undergraduate engineering students and middle school science and math students, we are also committed to finding ways to facilitate life-long learning and learning across distances for all populations. In general terms, we strive in our research to bridge the gap between experimental studies of learning and education and implementation in the messiness of real classrooms and other learning contexts." Active collaborators with the Graphics, Visualization and Usability Center (GVU) at Georgia Tech

    Longer record


University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Center for Computer-Based Instructional Technology (CCBIT)

  • Website: http://ccbit.cs.umass.edu/ccbit/

  • Description: "a campus service organization to support the development and deployment of instructional technology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. CCBIT builds collaborations between Computer Science researchers and faculty from other campus educational departments as well as researchers at the University's Medical School. The Center uses tools and expertise developed in a decade of technology research to serve University departments as well as the state's K-12 schools.

  • Longer record


MIT, Center for Advanced Education Services (CAES)

  • Website: http://www-caes.mit.edu/

  • Description: "CAES is the main MIT facility for support of, and research in, technology-facilitated education. To the community beyond our campus, CAES is the main source of MIT continuing professional education, often via distance learning."

    Longer record


MIT, I-Campus

  • Website: http://www.swiss.ai.mit.edu/projects/i-campus/. See also http://web.mit.edu/alliance/

  • Description: "I-Campus is a collaborative initiative of MIT and Microsoft Research to conduct research and create new technologies that will set the pace for university education in the next five to ten years. The project aims at fostering excellence in technology-enhanced education, through producing materials that adhere to open standards, with results and source code which can be widely published and disseminated."

    Longer record


Northwestern University, The Institute for the Learning Sciences

  • Website: http://www.ils.nwu.edu/

  • Description: "an interdisciplinary research and development lab dedicated to applying principles of cognitive science, computer science, artificial intelligence, and educational theory to improving the way people learn.... ILS develops cutting edge educational software for use by learners of all ages in schools, museums, in the workplace, and at home. In addition to the applications intended to be used directly by learners, we develop underlying technology, including reusable educational simulation engines, tools for authoring learning environments, and tools for building large, highly-structured multimedia knowledge bases." Instructional program offers MA and PhD in Learning Sciences.

    Longer record


The Pennsylvania State University, Schreyer Institute for Innovation in Learning

  • Website: http://www.inov8.engr.psu.edu/

  • Description: "The Schreyer Institute is a laboratory for the creation of new classroom environments, new instructional designs, and new motivations to inquire. We promote and support high-risk ventures in learning and teaching by providing learning opportunities, support services, and access to resources, such as new assessment tools and instructional design services."

    Longer record


Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Center for Academic Transformation


Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, The Lois J. and Harlan E. Anderson Center for Innovation in Undergraduate Education

  • Website: http://www.ciue.rpi.edu/

  • Description: "The Anderson Center provides support for faculty involvement in the renewal of undergraduate learning via a series of workshops on studio teaching methods, the design, creation and delivery of multimedia materials, and the instructional uses of the World Wide Web. Center staff are available for consulting on the integration of computing and multimedia into the classroom and work closely with the Idea Consultants to help faculty create effective interactive learning modules for their courses. The Anderson Center continues to host a variety of national meetings and workshops on educational technology and curriculum innovation such as the Corporate Workshops on Multimedia and Training and the International Center for Multimedia Education (ICME) Multimedia in Education Conference."

    Longer record


Stanford Learning Lab

  • Website: http://sll.stanford.edu/

  • Description: "The Stanford Learning Lab is a collaborative venture to improve student learning and to promote creativity in education through the introduction of pedagogically informed learning technology. Using methods and technical services that directly support student learning activity-such as note-taking, discussion, composition and the creation of knowledge artifacts, we strive to capture student learning experience and store and retrieve it in a fashion that promotes re-use and discourages "disposable learning" (just enough for the exam). Our approach is an iterative balance of theory, experimental methods and technology deployment. These are applied in core academic curricula, corporate training and continuing education. Though based at Stanford University, and firmly committed to the bettering of education at this university, the Lab will extend its efforts and interests without regard to geographical or cultural distance, entering into creative partnerships with educational, industrial, corporate, and research groups throughout the world." Collaborates with Swedish Learning Lab.

    Longer record


SRI, Center for Technology in Learning

  • Website: http://www.sri.com/policy/ctl/

  • Description: "By the early 1990s, it became very clear that technology was to play an increasingly important role in the education of children, youth, and adults. The issues of how to effectively use technologies to support learning were considered to be so important that the Center for Technology in Learning (CTL) was established at SRI. The Center was established within SRI's Policy Division, where it is closely allied with ongoing education and health research programs." (SRI is a consulting and R and D company.)

    Longer record


Vanderbilt, The Learning Technology Center

  • Website: http://peabody.vanderbilt.edu/ctrs/ltc/default.html

  • Description: "a research center at Vanderbilt University´s Peabody College of Education.... Current members are working on a variety of projects in the areas of mathematics, science, social studies, literacy, and engineering technology in K-12, postsecondary, and professional development settings."

    Longer record


Research Centers Focused on Educational Technology


Cornell, Human-Computer Interaction Group

  • Website:http://www.hci.cornell.edu

  • Description: "an interdisciplinary research team investigating social, communication and design issues surrounding the use of computers at school, work and play. Using an iterative, user-centered design approach, HCI Group members and research partners are building and evaluating networked, multimedia environments that support involvement, experimentation, exploration, and collaboration." HCI offers courses in interactive media design (see, for instance, http://www.hci.cornell.edu/439/).

    Longer record


University of Georgia, Learning and Performance Support Laboratory

  • Website: http://lpsl.coe.uga.edu/default.html

  • Description: "conducts research and development projects exploring how computational and communication technologies can be used to enhance learning and performance support environments."

    Longer record


Georgia Tech, Graphics, Visualization and Usability Center (GVU)

  • Website: http://www.gvu.gatech.edu/gvu/

  • Description: "The Graphics, Visualization & Usability (GVU) Center at Georgia Tech has assumed a leadership position not only in the development of new technologies in graphics, visualization and usability, but also in making these innovations meaningful for the average person and easy to use. Finding better ways to communicate information between people and between computers and people is key, and we believe that computer graphics, information visualization, and ease of usability are the essential building blocks to turning our vision into reality. We have assembled a team of experts in computer technology-the 'people technologies' of the mind, eyes and motor channels; and applications-who have found a common ground at GVU. Our Center includes 70 teaching and research faculty, and more than 160 graduate students from such diverse areas as architecture, computing, engineering, multimedia rhetoric, multimedia technology, psychology and usability testing. "

    Longer record


University of Michigan, Center for Highly Interactive Computing in Education

  • Website: http://hi-ce.eecs.umich.edu/hiceoffice/index.html

  • Description: "develops learner-centered technology and curriculum that addresses major needs of schools today--enabling all students to learn and enabling students and teachers to engage in serious intellectual inquiry around authentic, meaningful, motivating, mindful-learning experiences."

    Longer record


University of North Texas, Texas Center for Educational Technology

  • Website: http://www.tcet.unt.edu/

  • Description: "The Texas Center for Educational Technology stands as one piece of an impressive infrastructure created by the Texas Education Agency to bring the benefits of technology to Texas students and educators. Created by legislative statute in June, 1990, TCET's focus is technology research, development, and evaluation. TCET's organizational structure is uniquely collaborative. TCET board membership brings together public school educators, faculty from colleges of education, and representatives from technology vendors. Together they formulate TCET's annual research, development, and evaluation agenda."

    Longer record


University of Southern California, Center for Advanced Research in Technology for Education (CARTE)

  • Website: http://www.isi.edu/isd/carte/

  • Description: Part of the Information Sciences Institute, CARTE develops, evaluates, and disseminates new technologies for education. The Center focuses upon pedagogical agents and intelligent assistants.

    Longer record


Centers Focused on Innovations in Pedagogy

Acadia Institute for Teaching and Technology


  • Website: http://aitt.acadiau.ca/

  • Description: The Acadia Institute for Teaching and Technology (AITT) provides training and support to faculty members employing educational technology, as well as opportunities to student designers. AITT stands out for two reasons: First, it provides opportunities for students not only to develop their skills, but to demonstrate them publicly through their instructional design portfolios. Second, Acadia's mobile-computing environment fuels innovation.

    Longer record


Carnegie Mellon University, Center for Innovation in Learning

  • Website:http://cil.andrew.cmu.edu/

  • Description: "CIL's mission is to improve undergraduate education at Carnegie Mellon and in so doing to advance the field of instructional science. CIL focuses on the development of innovative and effective curricula. This complements other campus organizations that focus on the improvement of faculty teaching, improvement of students' learning skills, and implementation of technology in the classroom. At a national level, CIL is nearly unique in its emphasis on interdisciplinary educational research and development for college education. The Ph.D. program in Instructional Science trains young researchers to contribute to the advancement of this applied field."

    Longer record


Penn State, The Royer Center for Learning and Academic Technologies

  • Website: http://www.clat.psu.edu/index.html

  • Description: An institute serving all 18 Penn State campuses that seeks to make learning at these locations "highly interactive and student-centered." To this end, instructional development specialists provide support at each campus by conducting workshops and providing one-on-one assistance.

    Longer record


Humanities Computing Centers


See Humanities computing units and institutional resources for an extensive listing of humanities computing programs and research.

UC Berkeley, Humanities & Technology Project

  • Website: http://ishi.lib.berkeley.edu/Humanities/

  • Description: supports "the integration of World Wide Web and Internet applications into humanities teaching and research. The Project provides a one-stop, technologically "smart" venue where humanities graduate students and faculty can share knowledge and collaborate in developing new Internet applications." Now defunct, apparently because of a lack of funding.

    Longer record


Brown University, Scholarly Technology Group

  • Website: http://www.stg.brown.edu/

  • Description: "The Brown University Scholarly Technology Group (STG) supports the development and use of advanced information technology in academic research, teaching, and scholarly communication. STG pursues this mission by exploring new technologies and practices, developing specialized tools and techniques, and providing consulting and project management services to academic projects."

    Longer record


Johns Hopkins University, Digital Knowledge Center

  • Website: http://dkc.mse.jhu.edu/

  • Description: "conducts research and provides expertise to facilitate the development and creation of digital curricular, instructional and informational resources which further instruction, research and scholarship both on and off campus."

    Longer record


University of Maryland, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH)

  • Website: http://www.mith.umd.edu/splash.html

  • Description: "With collaboration at the heart of its vision, MITH (the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities) at the University of Maryland is a community of scholars, interdisciplinary institute, and electronic space devoted to exploring ways in which new technologies can be used in university research, teaching, and community outreach... Exploring the profound effects of the new materialities presented by digital culture, MITH serves the university and community with technical resources and a broad array of programs: summer institutes for secondary, elementary, and postsecondary teachers; resident fellowships for university faculty; networked associate fellowships for faculty, graduate student, and community activist projects from around the world; colloquia; polyseminars; conferences (regional and international); curriculum development; and dynamic mentoring."

    Longer record


Stanford Humanities Lab

  • Website: http://www.stanford.edu/group/shl/

  • Description: "Intellectual start-up" that will support innovative projects in the humanities. The SHL provides funding to pilot projects that are "collaborative in nature, drawing together teams of senior faculty, advanced undergraduates and postdocs, as well as museum curators and individuals from area cultural centers and industries." The end result is not specified; for example, it could be a performance, a website, a course, a book, an exhibition, or a book. In the first phase, the SHL provide between $20,000 and $50,000 to 3-8 during 2000-2001 and 2001-2002; in the second phase, foundations will fund between four and eight projects per year.

    Longer record


University of Virginia, Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH)

  • Website: http://www.iath.virginia.edu

  • Description: One of the leading centers for humanities computing, IATH grants fellowships to faculty members who are developing scholarly electronic resources. To develop their projects, faculty members receive technical and managerial support from IATH's staff, as well as office space, access to high-end equipment and software, a budget, assistance from student workers, and server space.

    Longer record


Centers Focused on Consulting and Training


Wake Forest, International Center for Computer Enhanced Learning (ICCEL)

  • Website: http://iccel.wfu.edu/index.html

  • Description: ICCEL hosts conferences and presentations on topics ranging from "Affordable Models of Ubiquitous Computing" to "Teaching History with Technology." It also provides training in the pedagogical purposes of technology and in using particular applications. Faculty associated with ICCEL offer customized consulting services for colleges and universities all over the world, advising them on best practices, collaboration, and interactive learning. (Note: According to a recent article in Wake Forest Magazine [April 2000], ICCEL "has reduced its staff and narrowed its focus," now centering on "its successful conferencing and consulting work with colleges and schools").

    Longer record


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