The Visible Knowledge Project (VKP) was a five-year project from 2000-2005 aimed at improving the quality of college and university teaching through a focus on both student learning and faculty development in technology-enhanced environments. With more than 70 faculty on 21 campuses engaged in the scholarship of teaching, VKP was among the most significant research projects in the country on technology and learning, and the largest in the humanities, social sciences, and interdisciplinary culture fields and the Department of American Studies was proud to be a participating campus.
The VKP places questions about the integration of technology within a broad context of faculty inquiry into student learning and innovative practice. Too commonly the approach in higher education to technology and teaching separates discussions of technology from pedagogy, isolates pedagogy from disciplinary practices and methods, and overall, fails to approach innovation as a matter of ongoing intellectual and practical inquiry. In such conditions, technology integration likely will proceed along the path of least resistance, stressing productivity and efficiency over quality and learning, with only isolated pockets of innovation.
For more information, please visit the Visible Knowledge Project Official Website.
