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Sarah C Hutton

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Get Your Game On @ The Library: Collaboration Between The Learning Commons And Office Of Information Technologies, Sarah Hutton, Abigale Baines, Iris Chelaru May 2013

Get Your Game On @ The Library: Collaboration Between The Learning Commons And Office Of Information Technologies, Sarah Hutton, Abigale Baines, Iris Chelaru

Sarah C Hutton

Get Your Game On @ the Library is an event series collaboration between the Learning Commons and the Office of Information Technologies geared to increase student comfort and familiarity with library spaces and staff, and build community across campus groups and departments through tabletop, board, card, and video games. This session will look a the planning, workflow and implementation of the series, with multimedia examples and video testimonials.


Learner Support Starts With Working Together: Creating Collaborative Relationships On A Large University Campus, Sarah Hutton, Fred Zinn, Mei-Yau Shih May 2013

Learner Support Starts With Working Together: Creating Collaborative Relationships On A Large University Campus, Sarah Hutton, Fred Zinn, Mei-Yau Shih

Sarah C Hutton

No abstract provided.


Supporting The 21st Century Learner: Building A Mutlimedia Production Center, Sarah Hutton Nov 2012

Supporting The 21st Century Learner: Building A Mutlimedia Production Center, Sarah Hutton

Sarah C Hutton

No abstract provided.


[Manuscript | Japanese] Supporting The 21st Century Learners: Building The Multimedia Production Center At The University Of Massachusetts Amherst, Sarah Hutton Oct 2012

[Manuscript | Japanese] Supporting The 21st Century Learners: Building The Multimedia Production Center At The University Of Massachusetts Amherst, Sarah Hutton

Sarah C Hutton

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[Manuscript | English] Supporting The 21 St Century Learner: Building The Multimedia Production Center At The University Of Massachusetts Amherst, Sarah Hutton Oct 2012

[Manuscript | English] Supporting The 21 St Century Learner: Building The Multimedia Production Center At The University Of Massachusetts Amherst, Sarah Hutton

Sarah C Hutton

At the University of Massachusetts Amherst, instructors are increasingly utilizing active,group, and participatory teaching methods and are offering students opportunities to opt into more creative assignments requiring the use of advanced technologies in support of multimedia projects. Traditionally, video projects would be expected from discourses such as Film Studies, Journalism and Communications students; the insurgence of this type of multimedia project has come to subjects from Anthropology to History, and the incoming required Freshman Writing course now has a built-in unit which specifically invites writing and research in a variety of technological media outside of the traditional research paper. The …


Open Educational Resources As Learning Materials: Prospects And Strategies For University Libraries, Marilyn Billings, Sarah Hutton, Gerald (Jay) Schafer, Charles Schweik, Matthew Sheridan Aug 2012

Open Educational Resources As Learning Materials: Prospects And Strategies For University Libraries, Marilyn Billings, Sarah Hutton, Gerald (Jay) Schafer, Charles Schweik, Matthew Sheridan

Sarah C Hutton

No abstract provided.


Umass-Amherst Open Education Initative: A Grant Incentive Program For Faculty To Create Free Textbooks, Matthew Sheridan, Sarah Hutton, Charles Schweik May 2012

Umass-Amherst Open Education Initative: A Grant Incentive Program For Faculty To Create Free Textbooks, Matthew Sheridan, Sarah Hutton, Charles Schweik

Sarah C Hutton

To combat the rising cost of textbooks, the University Libraries and Provost funded ten $1,000 grants for faculty who would replace their current textbook with one that would be openly accessible and free. The end result of this program will see nearly 700 students affected by these new textbooks for a recurring savings of over $72,000. In this session the challenges and opportunities of using open educational resources and library materials to replace traditional print textbooks will be discussed from a faculty point of view, as well as this program’s impact on the student learning experience. Librarians will also have …


Proactively Supporting Active Learning For The 21st Century Learner: Collaborative And Team Based Student Spaces In The Learning Commons, Sarah Hutton, Robert Davis May 2012

Proactively Supporting Active Learning For The 21st Century Learner: Collaborative And Team Based Student Spaces In The Learning Commons, Sarah Hutton, Robert Davis

Sarah C Hutton

No abstract provided.