Invited Papers

Luz P. Mangurian
Professor Emerita, Towson University

Learning, Emotion and their Application for Teaching
Friday, March 30, 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
This presentation will provide faculty with an overview of neurosciences and pedagogical research on learning examined with an evolutionary perspective.  The importance of emotion in facilitating learning will also be discussed in the context of pedagogical research in cooperative learning.  Practical teaching approaches will be recommended to increase student learning.

As the Director of The Center for Faculty Excellence at Towson University, Dr. Mangurian organized several conferences on teaching/learning for college and university faculty, given numerous teaching/learning workshops and formed five faculty learning communities to support student learning.  She now gives workshops and presentations about teaching/learning and serves as a reviewer for the Journal of Excellence in College Teaching and the Journal of Microbiology Education.  Dr. Mangurian, a Professor of Biology, obtained her B.S. in biology from the University of Pittsburgh, her M.S. in biology from The American University, and her Ph.D. in biology from The George Washington University.  Her post-doctoral work was done in the Anatomy Department of The George Washington University Medical School, where she is now an Adjunct Associate Research Professor.  She was also an Affiliate Professor of the Women Studies Program, the Center for Science and Mathematics Education and the founding director of the Women in Science program at Towson University.  Her publications include numerous articles and peer-reviewed presentations in anatomy, neuroendocrinology, science pedagogy, and two Spanish-language textbooks on human anatomy.  She has taught Human Anatomy and Physiology, Histology, Vertebrate Embryology, Molecular Mechanisms of Development, Biology of Women and, Using Information Effectively in Science, a course she designed was adapted by all departments throughout Towson University.

Tracy Mitrano
Director of IT Policy and of Computer Policy and Law Program, Cornell University

From Soup to Nuts: Copyright, Electronic Surveillance and Social Networking Technologies?
Saturday, March 31, 4:30 - 5:30 p.m.
This session will survey a number of current issues of interest to academic and research libraries such as developments in the digital copyright arena, the present and future of social networking technologies from the law and policy perspective, and an update on electronic surveillance five years since the passage of the USA-Patriot Act, a security-privacy perspective.

Tracy Mitrano is the director of IT Policy and Computer Policy and Law Programs for the Office of Information Technologies at Cornell. Elected to the EDUCAUSE Board in 2006, she will take her seat as its Treasurer in January 2007. Mitrano is a 2002 graduate of the Frye Institute, and since then a member of its faculty, chair of Internet 2 InCommon Steering Committee and from 2004-2006 the co-chair of the Internet 2/EDUCAUSE Security Task Force, Law and Policy Team.  A member of the 2005 EDUCAUSE Program Committee, Mitrano is also faculty of the EDUCAUSE Leadership Institute and co-facilitator of the Seminars on Academic Computing. In 2003, the University of Iowa named her the Ada Stoflet Lecturer. In spring 2005, Mitrano taught an Internet Law class for the MiNE Program at the Universite Cattolica in Piacenza, Italy. At Cornell, Mitrano is an adjunct assistant professor in the Information Science Program where she teaches Information Science 515, "Culture, Law and Politics of the Internet."

David Silver
Assistant Professor of Media Studies, University of San Francisco

Digital Media, Learning, and Libraries: Web 2.0, Learning 2.0, and Libraries 2.0
Friday, March 30, 4:30 - 5:30 p.m.
Let’s be clear about it: The term Web 2.0 is, first and foremost, a marketing gimmick.  Its purpose is to create a sense of new, foster a buzz about new media, and generate new investment.  So far, it’s working.  At the same time, for those of us with access to recent developments on the web, it is difficult to deny that something new is indeed afloat.  New social software coupled with new social interactions seem to be generating new forms of collective intelligence.  Although these forms manifest in different ways, they most often share an important similarity: They encourage users to contribute – to add and annotate, as well as to read and reflect – to the collective intelligence.  With help from sites like theworldisnotflat.com, dosomethingamazing.com, intellipedia, and librarything, this talk seeks to open discussions around the intersections among social software, student learning, and academic libraries.

David Silver is an assistant professor of media studies and the director of the Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies at the University of San Francisco. He is also the co-director of The September Project.

Sanford Ungar
Goucher College

Education Without Boundaries: The Goucher Experiment
Saturday, March 31, 10:30 - 11:30 a.m.
Goucher College, in Baltimore, is implementing its strategic plan with two important initiatives: a requirement that all undergraduates study abroad in order to graduate, and the construction of an Athenaeum at the heart of campus that will include a new state-of-the-art library. Such efforts raise significant challenges for Goucher's (and other colleges') librarians and managers of technology, including: how better to help prepare students for study abroad and to support them while overseas; how to deal effectively with new frontiers in international information literacy; how to support faculty in their efforts to work with students who may be more technologically advanced than they are; and how to balance physical and technological resources in a new library so that they will keep up with developments in research techniques over the next twenty or thirty years. The presentation will allow ample time for questions and comments on these and related issues.

Sanford J. Ungar joined Goucher College as its tenth president in July 2001.  A respected international journalist and educator, he previously served as the director of Voice of America and as dean of the School of Communication at American University.   His extensive experience at news organizations worldwide includes editorial positions at Foreign Policy, The Washington Post, and The Atlantic, and he was an award-winning National Public Radio host.