On August 29 and 30, HUIT Academic Technology offered its inaugural Digital Teaching Seminar, a two-day interactive event dedicated to providing a hands-on introduction to technologies and technological approaches that are becoming more commonly used in both teaching and research. Attendees in this first iteration included faculty and 2016-17 Digital Teaching Fellows (DiTFs), participants in a program dedicated to the thoughtful integration of technology...

At this series of interactive talks, Digital Teaching Fellows from the past year of courses discuss their work and share what they learned. As a follow-up, we present a second day of in-depth workshops, diving in to several digital methodologies applicable to a classroom setting. Coffee and lunch will be provided on both days.... Read more about 2016 Digital Teaching Fellows Workshop, May 5-6, 2016

The fall 2011 course, United States in the World 32: The World’s Religions in Multicultural America, explored the dynamic religious landscape of the United States with a special focus on Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, and Sikh traditions in the most recent period of post-1965 immigration. Students in this course examined the negotiations among civic, constitutional, ethical, and theological issues through the lens of specific cases and controversies.

The goal for educational technology was to bring the “sites of encounter” at the heart of the case studies to life. ATG staff produced...

With the aid of visualization tools such as Gapminder and custom data sets, students examined the distribution of severe health crises around the world and, in particular, the prevalence of HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa.