A Catalyst for Collaboration: Supporting Technology in Teaching through Partnerships

Presentation at Expedition 2000: Charting Your Future, A Conference for Organizations, Departments, and Individuals, Sponsored by UW Training and Development
by Scott Macklin
May 12, 2000

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UWired created the web-based Catalyst initiative to support innovation in teaching through technology. To scale beyond early and second wave adopters, Catalyst has developed a new strategy centered on collaborative partnerships with campus teaching practitioners--learning, technology, and teaching research centers, libraries, and departments--to disseminate innovative uses of technology in teaching through the Catalyst website.

The Catalyst initiative has dramatically extended UWired's reach without requiring significant new resources. Catalyst has helped position the University of Washington to take advantage of the educational opportunities afforded by dramatic changes in information technology. The concept was simple: provide examples, promote good teaching practices, build technology skills, and make technology easy for teachers to use.