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Emerging Technologies

Emerging Technologies

CIT has services to support small project development and technology explorations.

  • Do you have a teaching challenge that technology could address?

  • Do you have a small instructional multimedia project? Do you need to develop web-based course materials such as tutorials, podcasts, recorded lectures, audio or video materials ?

  • Would you like to explore emerging technologies for teaching?

  • Have an idea for an instructional technology pilot?

Requests for consultations, questions about any of the technologies listed below, or other ideas and questions can be emailed to: atc_support@cornell.edu.

Recently Researched Technologies

Technologies that we have recently researched or that we are in the process of reviewing include:

  • E-portfolio tools. E-portfolios are an electronic collection of a person's work, made available for viewing by multiple audiences. While no one tool meets everyone's e-portfolio needs, we have identified some tools that are appropriate for specific purposes, and have worked with faculty to implement them:
  • Peer Review and/or Peer Assessment
    • With Peer Review, students review other students' work, providing comments and other markup. In addition to providing feedback to the student whose work is being reviewed, peer review can improve the reviewer's work by allowing them to see what other students are producing. Turnitin provides an excellent peer review tool, PeerMark, that distributes the incoming assignments to other students in the class, and allows the reviewers to answer the free-response and scaled questions posed by the instructor. It also allows them to either insert canned comments or write free-form comments.
    • Peer Assessment involves having students grade each others' work, and can be used in large classes to reduce the grading load for the instructor. With the Blackboard Self and Peer Assessment tool, the instructor provides a set of questions and question values; incoming assignments are distributed to other students in the class, who respond to the instructor questions. The resulting grades are aggregated and posted to the Blackboard Grade Center.

  • Rubrics. Rubrics provide a structure for grading that not only allows an instructor to grade more objectively, but when provided to the students when the assignment is given, allows the student to submit better work. Both Turnitin and Blackboard (beginning in January 2012) provide rubric tools that can be used by the instructor during the grading process.

  • Mobile technologies. We are currently evaluating different mobile applications and platforms for teaching and learning uses.

  • Learning Analytics. We are currently evaluating various learning analytic tools for use at Cornell.


For more information about emerging technologies, please visit the Innovation in Teaching Blog!