[403] Technology, Teaching Go Together At MTSU's Library

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 6, 2010EDITORIAL CONTACT: Gina Logue, 615-898-5081

TECHNOLOGY, TEACHING GO TOGETHER AT MTSU’S LIBRARY Learning, Teaching and Innovative Technologies Center to Have New Home

(MURFREESBORO) – To better serve the faculty, the Learning, Teaching and Innovative Technologies Center (LTITC) at MTSU will move into the James E. Walker Library over the summer in anticipation of a busy fall 2010 semester.
The LTITC connects professors with the latest instructional methods, including technologies, which can make the classroom experience more enlightening, as well as the expertise to use that technology most effectively.
“We’re excited about the transition because it puts the LTITC in the academic center of the university,” says Faye Johnson, Assistant to the Executive Vice President and Provost for Special Initiatives. “It will become the centralized location for learning about teaching.” Johnson says the newly relocated center will provide plenty of room for the center’s many resources, including workshops, learning sessions and other professional development activities designed to improve the quality of instruction. In addition to its convenient access to the other learning centers in the library, the center will lend itself to both small and large groups and will offer a lounge area for informal discussions.
The center had been located in Room 106 of Peck Hall. It was moved to Room 214 of the Telecommunications Building to make way for the Confucius Institute.
There is no exact timetable for completion of the project. However, a minor doorway modification is the only work necessary other than the transportation of furniture.
In its new location, the LTITC will maintain its regular hours, which are 8:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Monday-Friday.
For more information, contact Kristen Keene at 615-898-5376 or kkeene@mtsu.edu.


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With three Nobel Prize winners among its alumni and former faculty, Middle Tennessee State University confers master’s degrees in 10 areas, the Specialist in Education degree, the Doctor of Arts degree and the Doctor of Philosophy degree. MTSU is ranked among the top 100 public universities in the nation in the Forbes “America’s Best Colleges” 2009 survey.