A growing number of faculty at Adelphi are incorporating Web applications and technology devices to enhance their traditional classroom courses. Those instructors feel it provides a new channel for students to learn course material, gain quick feedback, and collaborate on projects.
"Technology is an adaptor between the personality of the professor and the expectations of the students," says David Parkin, Professor of Chemistry. "It opens a dialogue; freshmen especially tend to be more reserved."
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There were no classes on Election Day, November 6, but about 70 professors came to the Garden City campus to learn how to enhance their courses during this Faculty Day event sponsored by the Office of the Provost, the OITR, and the Faculty Center for Professional Excellence.
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If you’re a student grinding through the semester’s workload, faculty preparing coursework and grading assignments, or staff trying to meet your deadlines, the last thing on your mind is probably your computer system’s safety. Well, you could be losing a lot of that hard work (not to mention your personal information) unless you take some simple precautions.
When students bring their computers from home or faculty and staff connect with their personal computers to the network, "they are exposing Adelphi's system [and each other] to everything on their computer," says Fred Hicks, Associate Director of Network Systems. "It’s like the Wild West out there," he offers as an analogy.
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