Putting Emerging Technologies to the Test — from CampusTechnology.com by Bridget McCrea
Hope College, a liberal arts institution in Michigan, isn’t afraid to put technology in the classroom and to get faculty involved in the process
To encourage innovation and participation among its faculty, Hope College established its own “Instructional Technology Innovation Fund (emphasis DSC)” in 1999, with the goal of enticing instructors to propose ideas and to get them funded. “Faculty members make a public presentation about their ideas before they can get the financing for them,” said Ludwig. “This has turned out to be an incubator for dozens of exciting, individual faculty projects.”
One of those projects garnered attention from the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE), which, according to the FIPSE Web site, “supports and disseminates innovative reform projects that promise to be models for improving the quality of postsecondary education and increasing student access.”