Thursday, August 18, 2011

Many thanks to the more than 100 participants at the Blastoff held Tuesday. All of the sessions proved to be popular and the feedback on the evaluations has been very useful as we look to complete the programming for the 2011-12 Academic Year. If you did not return your evaluation form, you can send it in now to CT+LE at P.O. Box 10302. We were able to capture three of the sessions on video and will have those available very soon. As we mentioned in the session that introduced the Faculty Learning Communities program, we will be sending out a survey via email next week. We are asking you to review the FLC that have been proposed so far and to select three that you think you would like to join. Once we gather the responses and tally the votes, we will hold a FLC Expo on August 31 at CT+LE in 621 and 622 Mary and John Gray Library (MJGL). We are currently accepting proposals for FLC and would be happy to talk with you about the opportunity to facilitate or co-facilitate a FLC. Some of the most positive comments we have received about Blastoff sessions have been directed at the ACES Fellows presentations. Dr. Jeremy Shelton and Cecil Johnson, ACES Fellow Alums, shared their experiences about their course redesign projects. Cohort 3 continues to prepare for their own journey as Fellows and the ideas we have seen for their course redesign are absolutely astounding. Our students are in for some cutting edge teaching and learning if they have enrolled in one of the ACES Fellows classes. The LU journaling project continues to gather steam. We had a good number of folks who signed up to participate at the Blastoff session. We will be holding more information sessions very soon as well as scheduling discussion meetings. The Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making (JCEDM), an official publication of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, is currently soliciting for research articles. JCEDM examines how people engage in cognitive work in real-world settings and how that work can be supported through the design of technologies, operating concepts and operating procedures, decision-making strategies, teams and organizations, and training protocols. Thus, the journal publishes rigorous approaches to the observation, modeling, analysis, and design of complex work domains in which human expertise is paramount and multiple aspects of the work environment may drive performance.

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