penn libraries: supporting innovations in teaching and learning
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Penn Libraries
Carton Rogers Vice Provost and Director of Libraries Kimberly Eke Director of Teaching, Research & Learning Services
Suppor&ng Innova&ve Teaching & Learning
Our unstated mission:
“Explore new partnerships; seek out new forms of informaAon; to boldly go where no research library has gone before.” 2
Our actual mission
• Empower teaching and research • Enrich learning • Enable innovaAon • Ensure the availability and preservaAon of informaAon
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Trajectory of our recent efforts in support of teaching and learning
2002: Managing courseware: Blackboard 2006: CreaAon of the Weigle InformaAon Commons 2012: EducaAon Commons in the Weiss Pavilion 2013: Kislak Center for Special CollecAons, Rare
Books and Manuscripts 2014: CollaboraAve Classroom
and migraAng courseware to Canvas
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The Penn Libraries’ Teaching and Learning Team
• Dr. Anu Vedantham Director of the Weigle InformaAon Commons
• Catrice BarreY Bass Family Teaching and Learning Fellow Ph.D Candidate in GSE
• Dr. Kimberly Eke Director of Teaching, Research and Learning Services
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Weigle Information Commons provides innovative programming and spaces for faculty and students.
The Vitale Media Lab I provides the digital tools and on-‐site support that students and faculty need to produce rich media content.
The Vitale Media Lab II fosters communiAes engaged in digital humaniAes research using library materials and leading-‐edge tools.
The Education Commons offers innovative services, spaces, and programming for teaching and learning.
The Libraries’ Collaborative Classroom is a living lab for innovaAve pedagogies. A full-‐Ame educator supports new pracAces and research in this space.
Canvas is Penn’s digital learning pla^orm for online, blended, and face-‐to-‐face instrucAon. It provides 24x7 access to course materials, tests & grades.