ITeach Plenary Address: "Capturing the Visible Evidence of Invisible Learning"

Randall Bass, Ph.D., will deliver the plenary address at ITeach 2008 on January 10. Bass is the Executive Director of the Center for New Designs in Learning & Scholarship and Assistant Provost for Teaching and Learning Initiatives at Georgetown University. The title of his address is “Capturing the Visible Evidence of Invisible Learning.”

An authority on the use of new technologies in teaching the humanities, Bass is also an associate professor of English. He founded the Center for New Designs in Learning & Scholarship (CNDLS, pronounced “Candles”), which fosters best practices in teaching and learning by providing resources and support for faculty and graduate students at Georgetown. Bass’s teaching and research interests include nineteenth-century American literature and American cultural studies, American documentary, and representations of violence and social crisis.

Bass directs the American Studies Crossroads Project and the Visible Knowledge Project (VKP), which explores the impact of technology on learning in the humanities. He is the supervising editor of Engines of Inquiry: A Practical Guide to Using Technology in Teaching American Studies and the editor of Electronic Resources for the Heath Anthology of American Literature, 3rd. ed. Bass has served as a Senior Scholar with the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and, in 1999, he won an EDUCAUSE award for outstanding achievement in information technology and undergraduate education.

The plenary address will set the stage for a day of engaging sessions at ITeach 2008. For more information and to learn how to register, see“ITeach 2008: Student Learning, Teaching, and Technology.”