| FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 11, 2000 | |
| Contact: | Christine Y. Fitzpatrick (317) 278-1818 cfitzpat@iupui.edu |
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Indianapolis, INDIANA — Seven faculty projects have been selected for the first round of awards totalling more than $90,000 from Indiana University's Ameritech Fellows Program, the University announced today. These innovative projects apply information technology to teaching and learning through initiatives such as intelligent tutoring systems, Web textbooks, and interactive computer programs, for disciplines ranging from radiology and health science education, to ethnomusicology and e-commerce.
The announcement was made at an IU faculty symposium, "New Times, New Technology, New Scholarship: Evolving Faculty Rewards," to an audience of more than 200 faculty convened via video on the Bloomington and Indianapolis campuses.
Faculty receiving awards include the following:
Daniel R. Brady, "A Modular Approach to Health Science Education," Oral Biology (School of Dentistry) IUPUI;
John Kremer and Soren Svanum, "Development of an Interactive Computer Program: Applying Psychology to Life," Psychology (School of Science) IUPUI;
Portia Maultsby, "Multicultural Multimedia on the Web: From Spirituals to Hip-Hop, the Music and Culture of Black America," Folklore and Ethnomusicology (College of Arts and Sciences) IU Bloomington;
Ali Reza Montazemi, "Intelligent Tutoring System in Support of Mastery Learning," Business and Economics (Division of Business and Economics) IU South Bend;
Howard Rosenbaum, "Teaching and Learning Electronic Commerce in a Virtual Economy," Library and Information Science (School of Library and Information Science) IU Bloomington;
Catherine A. Shea, "Electronic Enhancement of Supervision Project," Special Education (Division of Education) IU Southeast.
Critical to the Ameritech Fellows Program is the role these faculty will serve across the University as mentors for their colleagues. "These faculty will help perpetuate an environment for innovation across the University," said Garland C. Elmore, Associate Vice President for Teaching and Learning Information Technologies at IU. Fellows will contribute to the development of a teaching and learning "Knowledge Base," based on IU's award-winning KB, to be available to all IU faculty and the higher education community at large, for dissemination, research, and examples of best practice.
Elmore said that IU and Ameritech announced the establishment of the five-year, $1,000,000 program in November 1999 at an IU faculty conference, "Teaching and Learning with Information Technology." In response to a request for proposals issued in December, more than 50 proposals were submitted by faculty on IU campuses. He indicated that the University anticipates supporting as many as 60 projects through the duration of the Ameritech Fellows Program. The next award cycle will begin with a call for proposals to be released next November, Elmore said.
More information about the Ameritech Fellows Program at IU is available at:
Posted 11 April 2000
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