From a presentation to Penn's University Council on 3/25/15. See text: http://www.upenn.edu/almanac/volumes/v61/n28/council-coverage-march-25.html

1. Penn
Libraries
Carton
Rogers
Vice
Provost
and
Director
of
Libraries
Kimberly
Eke
Director
of
Teaching,
Research
&
Learning
Services
Suppor&ng
Innova&ve
Teaching
&
Learning

2. Our
unstated
mission:
“Explore
new
partnerships;
seek
out
new
forms
of
informaAon;
to
boldly
go
where
no
research
library
has
gone
before.”
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3. Our
actual
mission
• Empower
teaching
and
research
• Enrich
learning
• Enable
innovaAon
• Ensure
the
availability
and
preservaAon
of
informaAon
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4. Trajectory
of
our
recent
efforts
in
support
of
teaching
and
learning
2002:
Managing
courseware:
Blackboard
2006:
CreaAon
of
the
Weigle
InformaAon
Commons
2012:
EducaAon
Commons
in
the
Weiss
Pavilion
2013:
Kislak
Center
for
Special
CollecAons,
Rare
Books
and
Manuscripts
2014:
CollaboraAve
Classroom
and
migraAng
courseware
to
Canvas
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5. The
Penn
Libraries’
Teaching
and
Learning
Team
• Dr.
Anu
Vedantham
Director
of
the
Weigle
InformaAon
Commons
• Catrice
BarreY
Bass
Family
Teaching
and
Learning
Fellow
Ph.D
Candidate
in
GSE
• Dr.
Kimberly
Eke
Director
of
Teaching,
Research
and
Learning
Services
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6. Weigle Information
Commons provides
innovative programming and
spaces for faculty and
students.

7. The
Vitale Media Lab I provides
the
digital
tools
and
on-­‐site
support
that
students
and
faculty
need
to
produce
rich
media
content.

8. The
Vitale Media Lab II fosters
communiAes
engaged
in
digital
humaniAes
research
using
library
materials
and
leading-­‐edge
tools.

9. The Education Commons
offers innovative
services, spaces, and
programming for
teaching and learning.

10. The
Libraries’
Collaborative Classroom is
a
living
lab
for
innovaAve
pedagogies.
A
full-­‐Ame
educator
supports
new
pracAces
and
research
in
this
space.

11. Canvas
is
Penn’s
digital
learning
pla^orm
for
online,
blended,
and
face-­‐to-­‐face
instrucAon.
It
provides
24x7
access
to
course
materials,
tests
&
grades.