IUPUI’s Keith Anliker receives statewide award for teaching with technology on campus

INDIANAPOLIS - 04.24.2006

Keith Anliker, director of laboratory and curriculum support for the Department of Chemistry at IUPUI, was recognized last week for teaching with technology on campus.

The recognition was held April 21 during the annual All Partners Conference sponsored by the Indiana Higher Education Telecommunication System (IHETS) at the University of Indianapolis. The award was established by the Indiana Partnership for Statewide Education (IPSE), a service of IHETS.

Anliker has incorporated technology into his classroom since 1991. An advocate of using technology to enhance learning, he helped create an online laboratory manual for an elementary chemistry course using Spartan software to assist students with visualizing molecular geometry and understanding bond angles.

In 2003, he began building weekly Web-based and online assignments into his courses as a tool for measuring how well students grasped lecture material. He is currently usig Macromedia’s Captivate to create short Web-based videos to model problem-solving strategies. With this software and a tablet PC, Anliker has created audio tracks accessible by students via the Web. In addition, these movies deliver syllabus details, administrative information, and other important notes outside the normal class period.

Because of positive student feedback and his leadership in promoting effective uses of technology for teaching, Anliker has received several awards for teaching innovation. He has presented his work at numerous national professional conferences.

The IPSE Awards for Innovation and Leadership were established in 2002 to recognize Indiana’s faculty and instructional support staff who exhibit extraordinary innovation and leadership in the utilization of technology to enhance teaching and learning.

For more information, visit www.ihets.org.

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