The moves include 麻豆映画传媒鈥檚 national-model DirectConnect to 麻豆映画传媒 program and 麻豆映画传媒 Global, which among other responsibilities, manages international student recruitment, English language programs for students and the community, and international partnerships in education, research and business.

Other aspects of the realignment involve units that impact online student services, faculty training and development, and continuing education for working professionals.

鈥淎t 麻豆映画传媒, we strive for constant improvement,鈥� Johnson says. 鈥淭hese changes allow us to continue our focus on student success and the student experience.鈥�

The reorganization by the Division of Academic Affairs will unfold throughout September with the following units and offices:

• DirectConnect to 麻豆映画传媒 and the 麻豆映画传媒 Connect Centers move to the Division of Student Learning and Academic Success, reporting to Theodorea Regina Berry, vice provost of Student Learning and Academic Success and dean of the College of Undergraduate Studies;
• 麻豆映画传媒 Global moves to the Office of the Provost, reporting to Tim Letzring, senior associate provost for Academic Affairs;
• 麻豆映画传媒 Online Connect Center and 麻豆映画传媒 Continuing Education move to the Division of Digital Learning, reporting to Tom Cavanagh, vice provost for Digital Learning;
• Office of Instructional Resources Classroom Support, Engineering, Programming and Project Management teams move to 麻豆映画传媒 Information Technology, reporting to Michael Sink, interim vice president and CIO.

The transitions for DirectConnect to 麻豆映画传媒, the 麻豆映画传媒 Connect Centers and 麻豆映画传媒 Global coincide with the Oct. 1 retirement of Jeff Jones, vice provost for 麻豆映画传媒 Connect and 麻豆映画传媒 Global. Johnson praised Jones for his impactful work during his seven years at 麻豆映画传媒 and for his suggestions and insights regarding the overall realignment.

鈥淭he possibilities for this reimagining are exciting,鈥� Johnson said. 鈥淎s we move forward, success relies on the creativity and collaboration of our staff, faculty and partners.鈥�

麻豆映画传媒 and the other Future Learning Collaborative members are working with Sony designers and researchers to develop classroom technologies and enable more effective teaching methods, with the goal of creating a more immersive learning experience for students.

鈥溌槎褂郴� is excited to be a part of the collaborative, which provides an opportunity for universities to guide tech companies towards more effective and usable solutions for classrooms,鈥� says Don Merritt, director of 麻豆映画传媒鈥檚 Office of Instructional Resources. 鈥溌槎褂郴� faculty have already had one opportunity to give feedback on technology solutions Sony is researching, and we look forward to more classroom-based feedback opportunities as the collaborative moves forward.鈥�

The collaborative 鈥� a cross-section of public, private, two- and four-year institutions 鈥� has been meeting in working sessions, focus groups and technology demonstrations facilitated by Entangled Studios. In each meeting, members shared ideas, asked questions, and participated in candid discussions about teaching and learning technologies and pedagogical strategies. In the coming months, the collaborative will begin sharing its findings with the broader higher-education community.

This initiative is part of Sony鈥檚 commitment to provide creative products and solutions that directly support the mission of higher-education institutions. The company鈥檚 work with colleges and universities ranges from manufacturing products for classrooms and presentations, developing virtual and augmented-reality activations for admissions, leading the design and system integration of new campus facilities, and other services.

鈥淥ur top priority is improving every aspect of instruction, which necessitates exploring the most effective uses of technology in the classroom,鈥� says Edward Gomes, senior associate dean at Duke University and a charter member of the collaborative. 鈥淏y working closely with Sony and our colleagues, we鈥檝e created an environment that addresses our common challenges, encourages honest feedback about the development of classroom technologies, and enables educators and administrators to come together and share best practices that will shape the future of higher education.鈥�

The members of the collaborative are:

鈥淭he work of the collaborative is rooted in Sony鈥檚 fundamental philosophy of designing with purpose and developing technology that reflects the experiences 鈥� and challenges 鈥� of practitioners across a range of fields,鈥� says Satoshi Kanemura, head of B2B of America, Sony Electronics. 鈥淗igher education鈥檚 mission and complexity present a unique opportunity for our team. Having the support of institutions through their investment of time, and their willingness to share perspectives, enables us to develop solutions that are both actionable and relevant.鈥�

The conference for the annual Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory [organizers pronounce the HASTAC acronym as “haystack”] will be hosted in Orlando for the first time by 麻豆映画传媒 and the Florida Digital Humanities Consortium. The 10-year-old conference previously was held at Duke University, UCLA, University of Illinois, York University in Toronto, the Ministry of Culture in Lima, Peru, and elsewhere around the world.

鈥淭his conference is a venue where digital humanists from across the world and across disciplines come together to share their research, their pedagogical methods, and their experiences. This sharing of knowledge in both the practical and the theoretical allows us to broaden our own world,鈥� said Amy Giroux, managing director for the conference and a 麻豆映画传媒 computer research specialist at the university鈥檚 Center for Humanities and Digital Research.

This year鈥檚 conference theme, 鈥淭he Possible Worlds of Digital Humanities,鈥� highlights new opportunities for digital humanities and allows attendees from the more than 400 member organizations an opportunity to discuss and explore new research and creative work. The program will include scholars from around the globe interested in topics such as the humanities across disciplines, gaming, social media, archives, and other fields. There will be roundtables, demonstrations, maker sessions, workshops, media art projects, and other sessions.

鈥淗aving the HASTAC annual conference at 麻豆映画传媒 allows us to see the superb work being done in the digital humanities around the world, and to show off what we鈥檙e doing here at 麻豆映画传媒 to help interpret our meaningful world using digital tools,鈥� said philosophy Professor Bruce Janz, conference director and co-director of 麻豆映画传媒鈥檚 Center for Humanities and Digital Research. 鈥淗ASTAC has always focused on the ways education and society have changed and must adapt in the Information Age, and this fits into the forward-looking and socially conscious orientation of programs at 麻豆映画传媒 such as Texts and Technology, Digital Media, and Digital History.鈥�

One of the conference sessions asks: What can other disciplines learn from Digital Humanities and what can Digital Humanities learn from other disciplines?

鈥淭his particular panel is made up of a group of scholars who work both in traditional academia and also on the cutting edge of innovative digital spaces,鈥� Giroux said. 鈥淭hey hope to foster a good discussion on how digital humanities practitioners can grow within institutions which may not be as interested in supporting digital humanities work and how the current institutional level research infrastructure may need to be modified to allow digital humanities research to flourish.鈥�

Many digital humanities projects draw from a number of disciplines including history, anthropology, computer science, data science, digital media, traditional media, and other fields.

For example, Giroux said, one project her team will present at HASTAC is ELLE, the EndLess Learner, a second-language learning video game in which her colleagues from the Office of Instructional Resources (Don Merritt), the Games Research Lab (Emily Johnson), and modern languages (Sandra Sousa and Gergana Vitanova) teamed up with a group of computer science undergraduate students to create a database-driven learning game.

鈥淚t is this type of inter/multi-disciplinary project that allows the digital humanities to emerge from many different fields,鈥� she said. 鈥淭he five of us will be doing a roundtable discussion on the project and the undergraduate students will be displaying the 2-D and 3-D versions of the project.鈥�

Other 麻豆映画传媒 students will showcase their research and work in front of the international audience and will serve as moderators at many of the conference sessions. HASTAC also has a scholars fellowship program, whose digital-age members blog, host online forums, develop new projects and organize events. 麻豆映画传媒鈥檚 three HASTAC scholars 鈥� Nicholas DeArmas, Jennifer Roth Miller and David Morton from the Texts & Technology doctoral program 鈥� will host a professionalization workshop for conference attendees.

Some of the conference speakers are: Purdom Lindblad, assistant director of Innovation and Learning at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities; Tressie McMillan Cottom, assistant professor of sociology at Virginia Commonwealth University; T-Kay Sangwand, librarian for UCLA鈥檚 Digital Library Program, and Cathy N. Davidson, distinguished professor of English and director of the Futures Initiative and HASTAC @ CUNY at the Graduate Center, City University of New York.

Tours for registered attendees also are scheduled for the Orange County Regional History Center, the Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College, and the Wells鈥橞uilt Museum of African American History and Culture.

The conference will be presented at several venues around campus and is open to everyone. Advance registration is encouraged, but registration also can be done at the door at Classroom Building I. For the schedule and registration, visit .

The program, which includes online tutoring and supplemental instruction, began 聽in the spring and is run through a web-conferencing software called Adobe Connect, which allows students to communicate with the instructor and each other via chat or microphone, review course content using an interactive whiteboard, and share notes and handouts electronically.

SARC director Rebecca Piety said the programs are geared towards those students who are unable to attend face-to-face sessions because of their class schedule or because they are not on campus. The center also provides online academic-success workshops to military-veteran students and their dependents.

So far the program offers 10 courses, including General Biology I, Organic Chemistry I, Principles of Microeconomics, and Statistical Methods, and 聽138 students have joined the online sessions. 聽SARC will expand the number of courses linked with the peer-assisted learning program in the fall.

Piety hopes to expand these programs in the regional campuses. This spring, peer-assisted learning was offered to the Sanford-Lake Mary campus for Statistical Methods in Psychology, and SARC is working with the regional campuses to determine other courses to incorporate. The center is recording online sessions so that students may view them for reference at a later time; these recordings will soon be available on the SARC website.

The online programs were developed by SARC staff members in collaboration with the Office of Instructional Resources, Student Development and Enrollment Services Information Technology, Veterans Academic Resource Center, and Center for Distributive Learning.

SARC also recently added videotaping and conferencing equipment, netbooks, three interactive whiteboards and other equipment. 聽The center is developing a new website to host additional online modules that will use interactive games and activities to help students understand concepts in various disciplines.

The Peer-Assisted Learning Program is available to students this summer. For more information on what SARC has to offer, visit .