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Educational Research & Development

Educational Technology

Educational technology enhances and energizes a liberal arts education by exposing faculty and students to new tools and ideas so that they can explore and develop unique learning environments for Bowdoin. The Educational Research & Development (ERD) group brings Bowdoin College faculty together with staff trained in new educational and information technologies.

The Role of ER&D

ERD staff partner with faculty to explore, facilitate, design, develop, assess, and evaluate technology-related projects that receive internal and/or external grant support and that open up opportunities to collaborate with other institutions. ERD is an incubator for faculty initiatives and serves as consultants, designers, and programmers for new ideas in research and technology-rich curricular development. Several of these projects have already won international recognition for the College and attracted funding from sources as diverse as the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Science Foundation.

Staff

Robert Denton Web Designer 725-3934
Tina FinneranEducational Systems Consultant 725-3897
David Francis Web Programmer [web page] 725-3933
Steve Gruverman Java Programmer 725-3590
Larry Hughes Systems Architect & Programmer 798-4137
David N. Israel Academic Communications Consultant 725-3139
Adam Lord Software Programmer/Designer 725-3390
Jennifer Snow Educational Research Consultant 725-3707
Kevin Travers Multimedia Designer 725-3943

Funding

ER&D staff and Bowdoin faculty have received assistance in the development of many of the projects listed here. We would like to recognize the following for their support:

  • The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
  • The Davis Foundation
  • The Freeman Foundation
  • The Henry Luce Foundation
  • John A. Gibbons '64
  • The National Science Foundation
  • The U.S. Department of Education's Fund for the Improvement of Post Secondary Education