About ECIT

ECIT is an instructional technology center focusing on teaching and learning for all members of the Emory University community. ECIT offers a range of services, equipment, instructional expertise and development programs tailored to meet the unique needs of each particular teacher, researcher, and student.

Location and Operation

Emory's Center for Interactive Teaching (ECIT) - Woodruff Library Room 217
Phone - (404) 727-6886
Contact - ecit@emory.edu

Spring 2008 Hours

Monday - Thursday: 8:30am -6:00pm
Friday: 8:30am -5:00pm

Summer 2008 Hours (April 29 - August 29)

Monday - Friday: 9:00am -5:00pm

MAY 12: 9:00am - noon (close early for commencement)

Mission & Goals:

• Provide expertise and consultation for courseware development where teachers have access to technological and pedagogical resources to guide student inquiry, enhance reflective practice, and enable greater understanding of knowledge.
• • Increase Emory faculty, researcher, and student awareness of the possibilities afforded by advanced technology in teaching, learning, and research
• • Assist Emory faculty and researchers in the development and testing of technologically enhanced teaching methodologies and materials
• • Support the planning, creation and completion of digital academic assignments as part of learning

Methodology

ECIT's resources and scope have grown since its inception in early 1997. Currently, the Center's tool set includes: web site authoring, digital audio and video editing, virtual collaboration, on-line testing, student tracking and videoconferencing and teleconferencing. These technologies combined with support from ECIT's staff experienced in both technology and teaching, has proven to be one of the keys to success.

ECIT strives to select the "appropriate instructional technology" relevant to the specific teaching and learning objectives. Applying technology for the "wiz-bang" reaction is never recommended. Application of technology should complement the learning objective, never obscure the goals. You will be asked "what do you want to achieve?" before any discussion of the appropriate instructional technology is begun.

Accomplishments

1999 - EDUCAUSE presentation (Long Beach, CA) "ECIT - Successfully Blending Pedagogy and Technology"
2001- ED-MEDIA presentation (Tampere, Finland) "Creating a Campus Center for Teachers - Teaching with Technology"
2002 - Membership in New Media Consortium
2003 - Commendation from Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS)
2003 - EDUCAUSE South East Region presentation (Atlanta, GA) "Digital Assignments - What Faculty Say and What Students Hear"
2003 - New Media Centers Summer Conference (Blacksburg, VA) panel on accessibility in web design
2004 - Blackboard Users Conference presentation (San Diego, CA) "Using Blackboad to Flip Teaching Upside Down"

Initiatives

• Graduate student program on instructional technology and pedagogy
• Developing wed accessibility and usability standards in online instruction
• Instructional technology and problem based learning (PBL)
• Game theory and online content development
• Personal response systems (PRS) and instruction
• Building facilities to support collaboration and next generation teaching and learning
• Sustainable Wikis for teaching
• Podcasts as asynchronous support for teaching