About the Instructional Technologies component

"More than I can list:

1. The infinite potential of 'Moodle' as an interactive teaching/learning tool.

2. Its adaptability (i.e. responsiveness) to almost any classroom/studio setting, any discipline.

3. That it accommodates (and ups) our aspirations to 'interactive' teaching. Moodle helps us breach the faculty/student divide by helping us help the students to become active participants in the learning process". - Mellon 2007 participant

 About the Information Literacy component

"It gave me the time to explore all the relevant information that will help the students in their research assignment. This included databases websites, how to assemble a list of all of this and other useful links." - Mellon 2007 participant

 About the Syllabus Design component

"Externalize/formalize logic of teaching that course namely by linking my teaching objectives with learning outcome and assessment." - Mellon 2007 participant

“We are all convinced that this is an extremely useful integrative experience.” - Dr. Waddah Nasr - Associate Provost

"The fact that the participants were from various disciplines was an important aspect, we got objective feedback and constructive criticism from colleagues who had different experiences in teaching." - Mellon 2007 participant

“The whole Mellon [experience] has been a framework for us to share reflections on our teaching, on approaches, on priorities, on tools, on many many issues, and through those modules, we have established a professional relationship with each other.” - Mellon 2007 participant - Plant Sciences

“I was really happy to learn how many resources we have in the library and in the Academic Computing Center.” - Mellon 2007 participant - Chemistry

“I feel now that if I teach [my students] how to find information… it gives me great confidence that I can be flexible with my teaching strategies, because there is a great infrastructure available at the university for that.” - Mellon 2007 participant - Environmental Health

“Basically, [the seminar] was an eye opener that there are library resources, which we didn’t know existed, that there is an e-Learning facility, which is really helpful for our teaching, and that there are great people to help us use these resources in our courses.” - Mellon 2007 participant - Nutrition and Food & Science

“The skills learned are transferrable skills so I can work on all my other courses and modify them.” - Mellon 2007 participant - Environmental Health

“This Mellon Seminar is not about changing who you are or your philosophy of teaching or your method of teaching.  This is about giving you resources that because you know they exist, you are going to use. You are going to use them the way you like, to the amount you like, at the pace you like.  It is not replacing the faculty [members] in any way; the faculty is still the most important part of the course. But faculty [members] are more enabled, they now have the knowledge about the library to use it and to guide the students in using it, they know about Moodle, to use Quizzes, Assignments, Movies, and finally they now know how to build a great syllabus to start off their courses…”  - Mellon 2007 participant - School of Nursing

Watch a Video (23 min.) with Feedback of the Participants
Mellon 2007 Video - size: 37.5 MB;   type: .flv (Macromedia Flash Video)