DLAAB Faculty Colloquium Announcement

NJEDge.Net announces the April 12, 2002 Faculty Colloquium. This event has been re-scheduled from its original program date of February 8.

Topic:	From e-Business and Economics to Athletics and Chorus! Curricular Infusion: A Closer Look
Overview	Our two panelists in this session will showcase outstanding examples of integration of web-based technology into e-Business and economics courses. However, this event will be highly appropriate and very interesting for faculty working in all disciplines, as well as librarians, IT staff, and academic administrators. In addition to highlighting our presenters' technology-rich courses, this session will demonstrate web-based technology currently in use in co- and extra-curricular activities, including athletics and chorus!
Date	April 12, 2002
Time:	2:00 - 4:00 PM
Locations:	The Faculty Colloquium will be presented via Interactive Television at the following sites: Fairleigh Dickinson University Teaneck-Hackensack campus Directions  Maps ITV Room is Dickinson Hall, Room 1132, located on the Hackensack side of the Teaneck-Hackensack campus. Parking: Open parking is easily accessible and close to Dickinson Hall. The College of St. Elizabeth in Morristown Directions ITV Room is on the lower level of the Mahoney Library. Parking: Open parking is easily accessible and close to Mahoney Library. Middlesex County College in Edison Directions ITV Room is Instructional Resourse Center, IRC 117 on the Edison campus. Parking:Visitors to MCC for the DLAAB meetings should report to the Gateway Cent er on the Main Entrance (2600 Woodbridge Ave) to obtain a Visitor Parking Permit . Then they may park only in Lots 1 between yellow or white lines or in Lot 3 wh ich is the nearest to the Instructional Resources Center ( IRC 117 ) where the V RG meetings are held. Burlington County College in Mt. Laurel Directions ITV Room is in the Tech 303 at the Mt. Laurel campus. Parking: Parking is available at the TEC. Fairleigh Dickinson University, Florham-Madison Directions  Maps ITV room, which is in the Dreyfuss Building, Room 214. Parking: Please park in the Visitors' Parking lot. and as receive only sites at NJIT in Newark Directions Room #1403 in the GITC Building
Panelists	Professor John Keating of Stevens Institute of Technology and Professor Hamideh Ramjerdi of the College of St. Elizabeth
Registration:	Free to faculty, administrators, and staff of New Jersey educational institutions.

To Register Online:
http://www.njedge.net/activities/regform-dlaab-04122002.html

About our Panelists:

Dr John Keating is Associate Professor in the Wesley J. Howe School of Technology Management at Stevens Institute of Technology and Program Director, eBusiness and eTechnology. Dr. Keating brings a wide range and long history of experience to the field. His first website at Bell Laboratories (now the Murray Hill headquarters of Lucent Technologies) was developed even before Netscape released a commercial product. He was responsible for identifying and transferring advanced technologies to the AT&T business units and ventures. Upon retirement from AT&T, Dr. Keating's Internet start-up company developed a product line that was selected by a panel led by Bill Gates as the best clinical application in healthcare in the 1997 Microsoft-Health Users Group and also won the MS-HUG healthcare award in 1998. Currently, Dr. Keating is pursuing research into database driven web applications and web personalization, including improving children's reading by personalizing web-based stories for children. He will showcase his course "Information Technology and Communications: Introduction to eBusiness" and will also discuss co- and extra-curricular applications of web-based technology at Stevens.

Professor Hamideh Ramjerdi is adjunct professor at the College of St. Elizabeth, teaching both online and conventional economics courses. Professor Ramjerdi, a consultant in both the private and government sectors, is an A.B.D. economist with areas of specialization in public finance and mathematical economics at Washington State University. Her coauthored paper titled "The Intellectual Property Rights: Law of the People's Republic of China," was published in the North Carolina Journal of International Law and Commercial Regulation. "People's Republic of China: Marketization Through Systems of Law" was published in Academy of Marketing Sciences. Professor Ramjerdi has also taught graduate and undergraduate economics and statistics courses at Seton Hall University and Brooklyn College. Professor Ramjerdi will focus on her economics course, which integrates multimedia, graphical analysis, formulas, and problem solving on the Web.

About the Faculty Colloquium Series:

The Faculty Colloquium Series is sponsored by NJEDge.Net's Distance Learning Academic Advisory Board (DLAAB.) The Colloquia are designed as informal sessions where faculty, administrators, and staff from higher education institutions and from the K-12 sector can come together with experts in the field of distance learning and educational technology to share ideas and information. Each colloquium will feature a guest speaker or panel of presenters, as well as the opportunity to engage in discussion with colleagues from across the state. Participation is free to faculty, administrators, and staff of New Jersey educational institutions. Each colloquium is conducted simultaneously at four or more sites via interactive television (ITV). Web-based delivery is also planned for future sessions.

Upcoming events:

March 8:	Exemplary Collaborative Projects: Higher Ed and K-12 - Featuring CIESE, the Center for Improved Engineering and Science Education at Stevens Institute of Technology
April 12:	From e-Business and Economics to Athletics and Chorus! Curricular Infusion: A Closer Look (re-scheduled from February 8)
Date in May TBA:	Topic TBA