http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1793/7566 http://minds.wisconsin.edu:80/retrieve/7465 http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1793/7566 http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1793/11627 Enhancing Teaching and Learning Using GIS Technology Throughout UW System Campuses Bajjali, William Three broad-based activities will be implemented in order to improve the abilities of UW instructors to teach and provide relevant instructional activities using GIS technology. At least 48 faculty/staff from twelve disciplines of UW System will be involved in this project, with a potential of improving dozens of different classes that will affect over a thousand students. The objectives are to provide general and intermediate-level GIS knowledge and skills to UW instructors so that they can create exercises or laboratories in their own class environments. Create a user group of UW instructors as well as Wisconsin-based GIS professionals that can aid UW personnel in their GIS instructional problems and objectives. Provide curricula assistance to novice and intermediate GIS users within the UW-System who are developing new courses and programs. http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1793/7570 Arts Management D2L Course Development Project Rosewall, Ellen Matthews, Megan Wilhelm, Tiffany McKenna, Gerard Karp, Debra The original description of our project from our proposal is as follows: The Wisconsin Arts Management Education Partnership requests funding for the development of a D2L course in arts management, with content modules and supplementary materials which could be adapted by all of us for use in our distinct situations. … Our goal is to create a dynamic resource which uses existing materials and unique content in an efficient way, is easily updatable and adaptable, and allows for interaction between students on the various campuses http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1793/7568 Development And Sharing Of Digital Granules For Business, Technology and Bioinformatics Curricula Chalasani, Suresh Baldwin, Dirk Sounderpandian, Jayavel Madan, Manohar Programs in Business Administration, Information Systems, and Bioinformatics have some common topics that are taught in a variety of courses. Though the individual courses may vary significantly, topics such as project management and systems development have certain core contents that are quite similar, if not the same. Lacking a common place to go to for such contents, instructors create their own teaching materials leading to duplication and inefficiency. Often such materials are created from instructor’s resources found in standard textbooks. But such materials tend to be specific to one discipline. In addition, such materials rarely introduce students to project-based learning, a fundamental requirement for effective learning. No digital granules for common topics in the aforementioned disciplines are readily available. We propose to create, disseminate and reuse digital contents for certain common topics we have identified across the disciplines and also across UW campuses. For example, our digital granules on project management will be used in the Systems Analysis and Design and Operations Management courses at UW-Parkside, UW-Eau Claire and UW-Whitewater campuses. They will be made available to any other UW campus that wants to use them. Similarly, our digital granules on database systems will be used in Database Management Systems course (MIS discipline) as well as Introduction to Bioinformatics course (Computational Biology discipline) at UW-Parkside, and at any other campus that wants to use them. This project will involve the following collaborative efforts: (1) collaborative teaching efforts between Information Systems area and the Computational Biology area at UW-Parkside, (2) Collaborative teaching effort between Business departments at UW-Parkside and UW-Eau Claire, and (3) Collaborative teaching effort between Business departments at UW-Parkside and UW-Whitewater.