Leslie Jarmon Awarded Major UT System Grant for Innovative Teaching in Second Life
DIIA Faculty Development Specialist Leslie Jarmon received a grant from the Transforming Undergraduate Education program to support a University of Texas System innovative teaching initiative based in Second Life. Dr. Jarmon leads the nation’s first system-wide program to stimulate creative approaches to instruction, increase student access and success, and manage or reduce instructional costs.
The program will “use the virtual world environment to cultivate working communities of learning and discovery transcending the complex, interdisciplinary UT System, empowering students to become innovators and thought leaders throughout Texas, the U.S., and the world,” according to this week’s DIIA spotlight article by Michael Barrett.
The Chronicle of Higher Education picked up on the project here, and Dr. Jarmon was featured in a UT-Austin OnCampus accolade here.
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October 4th, 2009 at 11:53 am
Wonderful news. Congratulations to Leslie and the entire DIIA team! We’ll all benefit mightily from this work.
October 26th, 2009 at 9:20 pm
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