Yale Bulletin and Calendar

May 19, 2000

Volume 28, Number 32

Historian wins award for his
creative use of technology

The Information Technology Services (ITS) Instructional Innovation Grants Committee has awarded the first McCredie Grant for Teaching Excellence in a Technology-Enhanced Course to Thomas Arnold, assistant professor of history.

The award recognizes Arnold's leadership in the creative uses of technology in the teaching of history. "He has made very effective use of web technologies to provide coherent access to fascinating primary source materials, and this has greatly enriched the students' scholarship of the period under study," says Edward Kairiss, director of the Instructional Computing Group, Academic Media & Technology, ITS.

"In the website for his course, History 325 Mediterranean Boundaries," continues Kairiss, "he combines over 2,000 pages of primary course materials with an extensive digital image collection to create an engaging visual context for the subject and facilitate the lucid understanding of a diverse and broad set of issues. His nominators have commented on the popularity of the course and noted the enthusiastic comments from students on how seamlessly the technology integrates with the intellectual content of the course." The website for Arnold's course can be viewed at http://classes.yale.edu/hist325b.

Honorable mentions were also awarded to Kathryn Alexander, assistant professor of music composition and theory; Iain Dawson, research affiliate in the Department of Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology; and Anthony Niesz, lecturer in the Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures.

The McCredie Grant honors instructors in Yale College who demonstrate effective teaching and learning through the integration of digital technologies into their curricula. Digital technologies include websites, digital materials and electronic communication environments, among others. Such instructional technologies should enhance existing materials and teaching methods; encourage contact among students, teaching assistants and instructors; increase accessibility to materials; or enhance the learning of course concepts, for example via simulations.

The $5,000 grant, based on nominations received from Yale College students and faculty, will be awarded annually through the academic year 2004. Recipients may use the grant at their discretion to further develop, refine and strengthen technology-enhanced teaching and learning within Yale College.

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