About Cultivating Change

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Cultivating Change in the Academy: 50+ Stories from the Digital Frontlines at the University of Minnesota in 2012 is an eBook designed to stimulate discussion about what’s possible as well as generate new vision and academic technology direction. It serves as a means for faculty, instructors, students, and staff to learn about the innovative, imaginative, creative, collaborative, and dynamic academic technology work underway across the University of Minnesota in 2012.

Cultivating Change in the Academy: 50+ Stories from the Digital Frontlines at the University of Minnesota in 2012 can be read directly on this site. You can get started with the Editors’ Introduction and Epilogue. Individual chapters are navigable from the Table of Contents and by Chapter Abstracts (organized by author).  The collection can also be browsed across four thematic sections: Changing Pedagogies, Creating Solutions, Providing Direction, Extending Reach. Please consider leaving a comment or sharing an interesting chapter with the world using the links just below each post.

The eBook can also be downloaded from the University of Minnesota Digital Conservancy as a PDF or in native formats for Ipad, Nook, Kindle, and other e-Readers.

Changing Pedagogies

While all chapters throughout this eBook are about cultivating change through the innovative use of technology, those in this first section focus on the use of academic technology to transform pedagogy. Contributors address aspects of pedagogy that have seldom (if ever) fully been addressed, moving decidedly beyond memorization to explicit attention on problem solving and interactive coaching.