LCIRT News

LCIRT’S Summer Institute 2008 course schedule is available online at: http://www.landmark.edu/institute/courses_and_workshops/summer_institute.html

LCIRT Staff has been non-stop presenting around the world. See where we have been and where we are going.

The Advancing Reading in Vermont Education (ARIVE) project, funded by the Vermont Department of Education, is entering its third year.

Department of Education's Demonstration Projects to Ensure Students with Disabilities Receive a Quality Higher Education (Demo Disabilities) grant program is in its second year. Through the grant over 10 Online Best Practices Modules have been developed for our partner community colleges.

STARS Alliance Student Leadership Corps heads into year two.

Mini Grants for Landmark College Faculty and Staff are in progress and still available.

Universal Usability Lab continues to aid in LCIRT research.

World Usability Day New England, 2007 (http://www.dartmouth.edu/~wud/)

For the third consecutive year, Dartmouth College and Landmark College jointly organized World Usability Day New England (WUDNE). A sold-out event, the theme for the day was "universal usability to enhance learning,effectiveness, and understanding across people of all abilities." Keynote speaker was speaker: Ben Shneiderman, 'father' of the field of Human-Computer Interaction.

LCIRT is awarded a National Science Foundation grant – Universal Design for Algebra

The purpose of the grant is: "to study on-line learning resources that support algebra students in order to determine which features prevent struggling students from benefiting from the learning resources; to redesign the learning resources and make them accessible to struggling students; and to test the effectiveness of the redesigned learning resources."  In addition to Landmark College, LCIRT (Landmark College Institute for Research and Training) has three partners where this research is occurring:  Suffolk Community College on Long Island, New York; Holyoke Community College in Holyoke, Massachusetts; and Berkshire Community College in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.

LCIRT’S Summer Institute 2007

LCIRT's Summer Institute 2007 hosted on the Landmark campus was a success with Educators from all over the world came to Putney to participate in the wide variety of workshops offered in the LCIRT Summer Institute. This summer’s courses included Coaching I, Coaching II, Teaching Writing, Teaching Reading and Study Skills, Technology Solutions, Teaching Math, Effective Instruction, and two Wilson Reading Workshops.

Learn more about LCIRT Summer Institute 2008

Consulting in the Kingdom of Saudia Arabia

Prince Sultan University (PSU) in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, has retained Landmark College to assist in the conceptualization, design, and implementation of an Academic Assistance Unit (AAU) for students with learning disabilities. Steve Fadden, Director of LCIRT, and Kelly Fadden, Director of Grants and Sponsored Projects, traveled to Riyadh to conduct an organizational assessment at PSU.

Expanding Horizons: 2007 Institute on Learning Disabilities

A stellar team from LCIRT and Landmark College were the primary presenters at the first annual Expanding Horizons: 2007 Institute on Learning Disabilities conference sponsored by the Lone Star College System (formally North Harris Montgomery Community College District  in Houston, Texas.  The conference represented a successful collaboration between NHMCCD (a partner on our Demo Disabilities grant), the Association on Higher Education and Disability (AHEAD), and LCIRT.

Dr Christian Jernstedt visits Landmark, co-sponsored by LCIRT and the Southeast Vermont Community Learning Collaborative.

Dr. Christian Jernstedt, Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Dartmouth College provided a provocative and informative full day presentation on The Neurological and Cognitive Foundations of Learning for Landmark faculty, staff and community.