Librarians and faculty celebrate CTLT opening

Teaching Center Opens

Andrea Bartelstein, Odegaard Undergraduate Library

The UWired Center for Teaching, Learning and Technology (CTLT) opened on the second floor of the Odegaard Undergraduate Library (OUGL) during Spring Quarter 1996. An outgrowth of the Provost's initiative on teaching and technology, the Center offers a range of workshops and consultation services for faculty. Faculty, librarians and teaching assistants are learning how to put their course materials on the World Wide Web, are looking for digital images to incorporate into classroom presentations, and are consulting with CTLT staff to develop new courses or redesign existing ones with substantial emphasis on electronic communication or networked information resources.

Robert Stevick, English, has been using the CTLT to prepare supplementary material for English 512 and 513, introductory Old English courses. In the late 1960s, computers were first used for the study of Old English. Now editions are coming `online,' says Stevick. "Computer use entered the study of Old English language and literature as a tool of low-level research-simple searching, sorting and counting, and has very recently moved into being the medium of much fundamental research and teaching. It is these changes, beginning in the present decade, that call for introduction of a UWired kind of component into the teaching of this venerable and very lively subject."