{"id":1218,"date":"2010-02-10T14:08:06","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T19:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=1218"},"modified":"2010-02-10T14:13:57","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T19:13:57","slug":"putting-emerging-technologies-to-the-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2010\/02\/10\/putting-emerging-technologies-to-the-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Putting Emerging Technologies to the Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a title=\"Hope College\" href=\"http:\/\/campustechnology.com\/articles\/2010\/02\/10\/putting-emerging-technologies-to-the-test.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Putting Emerging  Technologies to the Test<\/a> <\/strong>&#8212; from CampusTechnology.com by Bridget  McCrea<br \/>\nHope College, a liberal  arts institution in Michigan, isn&#8217;t afraid to put technology in the classroom  and to get faculty involved in the process<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">To encourage innovation and participation among its faculty, Hope College  established its own &#8220;<strong>Instructional Technology Innovation Fund <\/strong><em>(emphasis DSC)<\/em>&#8221; in 1999, with the  goal of enticing instructors to propose ideas and to get them funded. &#8220;Faculty  members make a public presentation about their ideas before they can get the  financing for them,&#8221; said Ludwig. &#8220;This has turned out to be an incubator for  dozens of exciting, individual faculty projects.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">One of those projects garnered attention from the<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ed.gov\/FIPSE\" target=\"_blank\">Fund for the Improvement of  Postsecondary Education<\/a><\/strong> (FIPSE), which, according to the FIPSE Web site,  &#8220;supports and disseminates innovative reform projects that promise to be models  for improving the quality of postsecondary education and increasing student  access.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Putting Emerging Technologies to the Test &#8212; from CampusTechnology.com by Bridget McCrea Hope College, a liberal arts institution in Michigan, isn&#8217;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 &#8220;Instructional Technology Innovation Fund (emphasis DSC)&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[115,32,210,71,211],"tags":[56,677],"class_list":["post-1218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colleges","category-education-technology","category-emerging-technologies","category-faculty-staff","category-funding-grants","tag-educational-technology","tag-emerging-technologies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1218"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1220,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218\/revisions\/1220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}