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(Nearly) Free and (Really) Educational Programming for Your Cable TV Channel
Monday, 1:15 - 2:15 p.m.
KUC 314

Learn how to provide community educational television programming for a low cost.  Participants will learn about software to make life easier and how to inform the community the service is available.  Hints included are how to negotiate for a channel and what the operation of one involves.  Even though equipment may be mentioned, this will not be an engineering session.
Liz Johnson , Middle Tennessee State University

 

Technological Pathways to Advancing a Diversity Agenda
Tuesday, 9:50 - 10:50
KUC 314

Central Michigan University (CMU) and the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff (UAPB) are significantly different institutions.  One is predominantly white and the other is historically and predominantly black.  One is in the Midwest, and the other is in the South.  However, both share important problems with homogenous student populations.  Both institutions have limited ability to prepare their students for our racially and ethnically diverse society.  Through a joint effort between the schools, they have developed and offer classes that combine team teaching with several new educational technologies, interactive TV, and the Internet.  This session will highlight several courses offered in the joint project.  Shared video clips and student/faculty discussions about topics ranging from the civil rights movement, race, gender and diversity issues will be presented.
David W. Williams Central Michigan University
Qumare A. Morehead, Mansour Mortazavib, Ebo Tei, Bettye Williams, and Bert L. Wyatt University of Arkansas, Pine Bluff

 

Ownership of Course Materials as a Tool in Faculty Recruitment
Tuesday, 11:30 a.m. - Noon
KUC 322

As higher education institutions move to distance learning enabled by technologies such as video conferencing and the Internet, the ownership of course materials raises as an issue.  Who owns these materials, the school or the individual?  This presentation examines different views on ownership and relates it to broader intellectual property and faculty issues.  The presentation concludes by proposing how schools can use the ownership issue in recruiting faculty.
William Rayburn and Roscoe Shain
Austin Peay State University