Advances in Teaching & Learning Regional Conference:
Digital scholarship is reducing need for
paper-based textbooks and journal
| WHAT: | The number of print journals in the Texas Medical Center library is on the way down and the number of electronic publishing formats is on the way up. Health science teachers and their students are turning to podcasts, open access journals and wikis for the latest information. The days of health science students lugging around paper-based textbooks and journals appear to be on the decline. Regional researchers in the digital scholarship movement are gathering for the Advances in Teaching & Learning Regional Conference. |
| WHEN: | Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008, 8:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. |
| WHERE: | The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Prevention Building, 1155 Pressler Street, Eighth Floor Conference Room. |
| WHY: | The conference provides a venue for faculty members to showcase research and innovations in teaching, learning and technology, and it is hosted by The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. |
| WHO: | Curtis Bonk, Ph.D., professor of instructional systems technology in the School of Education at Indiana University, will deliver the keynote address titled “Time Not Wasted: Digital Scholarship in Web 2.0”
Adol Esquivel, M.D., graduate research assistant at The University of Texas School of Health Information Sciences at Houston, will deliver a presentation titled “The Scholarship Side of Podcasting.” Irmgard Willcockson, Ph.D., UT School of Health Information Sciences at Houston, and Jennifer Texada and Kathyrn Peek, Ph.D., both with the UT M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, will present a poster titled “A Wiki to Develop Interdisciplinary Cases.” |
Parking for the media is available. Call 713.500.3030 to reserve a spot in advance.
About the UT School of Health Information Sciences at Houston:
The School of Health Information Sciences is the first and only school in the country devoted exclusively to Certificate, Masters and Ph.D. Programs in Health Informatics. It is recognized nationally and internationally for innovative, interdisciplinary approaches to research and education. The School provides educational and research opportunities in Informatics to healthcare professionals, biomedical scientists and computer scientists in interdisciplinary teams. The UT School of Health Information Sciences was founded in 1997 and is one of six schools in The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.