Emory's Center for Interactive Teaching

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

Fall 2009 Hours

Monday - Thursday: 8:30 am - 7 pm
Friday: 8:30 - 5 pm

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.

ECIT strives to:

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 works with those who teach to select the appropriate instructional technology relevant to their 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.

Staff

Wayne Morse
Director, Emory's Center for Interactive Teaching
wayne.morse@emory.edu
404.727.6708

Chris Fearrington
Coordinator, Emory's Center for Interactive Teaching
chris.fearrington@emory.edu
404.727.5322

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) within report
2003 - EDUCAUSE Southeast Regional Conference presentation (Atlanta, GA) "Digital Assignments - What Faculty Say and What Students Hear"
2003 - New Media Consortium Summer Conference panel on accessibility in web design (Blacksburg, VA)
2004 - Blackboard Users Conference presentation (San Diego, CA) "Using Blackboad to Flip Teaching Upside Down"
2008 - American Library Association Midwinter Meeting panel presentation (Philadelphia, PA) "Supporting Faculty's Use Of Instructional Technology Within Teaching and Research - Communication Across Organizations"
2008 - Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education - SITE International Conference presentation (Las Vegas, NV) "How to Build a Community of Instructional Technology Empowered Graduate Student Teachers"
2009 - EDUCAUSE Southeast Regional Conference paper presentation (Atlanta, GA) "Empowering a Culture of Learning and Innovation in Graduate Students"

Initiatives