The Anderson Center
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The Lois J. and Harlan E. Anderson Center for Innovation in Undergraduate Education was founded in 1989 and supported by major donations from the Andersons, the Hewlett Packard Foundation, the David Darrin Estate and the George M. Low Memorial Fund. The Anderson Center is dedicated to improving undergraduate education through the deployment of new pedagogical methods and innovative uses of technology. Since its inception, the Anderson Center has served as an incubator for curriculum reform by supporting faculty involvement in educational computing, developing new techniques and facilities for interactive learning, and sponsoring cutting edge research on the assessment of learning outcomes. The Center works with leaders throughout higher education, K-12, and industry to develop scaleable, economical methods of improving both the accessibility and effectiveness of education in the United States.

The Anderson Center provides support for faculty involvement in the renewal of undergraduate learning via a series of workshops on studio teaching methods, the design, creation and delivery of multimedia materials, and the instructional uses of the World Wide Web. Center staff are available for consulting on the integration of computing and multimedia into the classroom and help faculty create effective interactive learning modules for their courses.

Current projects emphasize:

1. Creating a more connected learning environment in which students have online access to all class materials and resources regardless of time or place.
2. Research leading to a more precise understanding of the cognitive and learning outcomes of studio teaching, especially team-based learning and transfer of conceptual and problem solving to novel environments.
3. The scaling of interactive learning from local desktop to global classroom.

For Additional Information

The Anderson Center
for Innovation In Undergraduate Education
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
CIUE 3119 CII
110 8th Street
Troy, New York 12180 USA
Telephone: 518.276.4831

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The Lois J. & Harlan E. Anderson Center
for Innovation in Undergraduate Education
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
CIUE 3119 CII
110 8th Street
Troy, NY 12180-3590
518.276.4831
518.276.4852 (fax)
http://ciue.rpi.edu