361° Awards

DePauw's 361° has received several national awards and recognition, including:

The 2003 EDUCAUSE Award for Systemic Progress in Teaching and Learning. The EDUCAUSE Award is the most significant honor given to a college or university for the use of technology to transform and enhance teaching and learning, and had never before been presented to a non-research, non-doctoral university.

The New Media Consortium (NMC) named DePauw a New Media Center for its 361° initiatives in spring 2003.

DePauw was named as one of America's Most Connected Campuses in a study published by Forbes magazine and compiled by The Princeton Review.

The article "The 361° Model for Transforming Teaching and Learning with Technology" was awarded the 2005 EDUCAUSE Quarterly "Contribution of the Year Award." Authored by Dennis A. Trinkle, former chief information officer at DePauw, it describes DePauw's award-winning technology initiatives.

The 361° Web site and promotional video (produced by students) received national awards recognizing them as the best of their kind in the United States at the ACM-SIGUCCS Fall 2004 Conference.

DePauw's Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Center was selected as one of only four centers in the nation selected by in the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE) in its study of effective GIS support models in liberal arts institutions. NITLE staff visited DePauw during spring 2007 to investigate the University's facilities and support for GIS, and interview GIS, FITS and library staff, faculty, and students who support and/or use GIS.

The Information Technology Associates Program (ITAP) program was highlighted among the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiatives "Innovations & Implementations as an exemplary practice in teaching and learning in fall 2005.

Professor Dave Berque, chair of computer science and Tenzer Family University Professor of Instructional Technology was awarded the 2007 Mira Techpoint Award for "Education Contribution in Technology," for his efforts to create the software, DyKnow Vision, a pen-based technology that is now being used in classrooms around the country.

Librarians Brooke Cox, Carline Gilson, and Jessica Bozeman were awarded an "InfoTubey Award" at the 2008 Computers in Libraries conference. InfoTubey awards are presented by Information Today to recognize excellence in library-related productions which are posted on YouTube. Click here to see the DePauw branch libraries videos on YouTube.

DePauw was selected as one of 40 two- and four-year colleges and universities nationwide to receive the 2007 Hewlett Packard Technology for Teaching grant. The HP grants provided Tablet PCs designed to transform and improve learning in the classroom through innovative uses of technology. As a result, 30 faculty members piloted the use of Tablet PCs to support their teaching during academic year 2007-2008. Based on the positive response from these faculty members, DePauw now offers a Tablet PC as an option for faculty members when they are due for a computer upgrade.

DePauw faculty members and instructional technologists have been invited to lead numerous NITLE Web-based video conferences. Recent and upcoming events include “Using GIS for Teaching and Research in History,” led by Beth Wilkerson, GIS specialist (October 2007),“Teaching with Digital Games,” by Harry Brown, assistant professor of English (November 2008), “Branding Yourself Online: Identity Management and Social Media,” by Veronica Pejril, coordinator of the music instructional technology center (November 2008), and “Tablet PCs In and Outside the Classroom: What Difference Do They Make,” by Michael Gough, instructional technologist (February 2009).