SUS Faculty Hallmark Guides: Technology Fluency and Information Literacy


Linda Smelser
Instructional Support Specialist
Non UMUC
Published: May-June 2011

Category: » Online-pedagogy » Teaching-strategies

A team of academic directors from the School of Undergraduate Studies (SUS), known as Hallmark Leads, compiled a list of eight hallmarks that have been embedded as benchmarks in SEGUE, the recent undergraduate curriculum redesign project. The team has designed a series of Hallmark Guides to provide SUS faculty with an understanding of the importance and purpose of each hallmark in the classroom. The Hallmark Guides provide resources, tips, techniques, and sample assignments that assist faculty with teaching core competencies. By reviewing the Hallmark Guides, faculty can take an active part in integrating the eight hallmarks into the curriculum through instruction, assignments, and assessments. Various Hallmark Guides are being featured in different editions of the DE Oracle @ UMUC throughout the year.

The Hallmark Guides featured in this edition are:

Please review the SUS hallmark article for more details and history. 

About the Author(s)

Linda is an instructional designer in the Center for Support of Instruction and an adjunct faculty for SUS. She also teaches faculty development workshops for the Center for Teaching and Learning. Linda understands the needs of adult learners from both first-hand experience and in her previous role as a UMUC academic advisor. She started her college career as a working single mother and eleven years later received her master's degree in instructional systems development from UMBC. Along with her academic advising experience, Linda brings her expertise in the areas of quality customer support, corporate training, technical writing and instructional design to CSI. Linda appreciates working in a true learning community and developing solutions that meet the needs of a diverse clientele.

In her spare time, Linda enjoys reading, yoga, mountain biking, dancing, and traveling to California and Philadelphia to visit her children and grandchildren.

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