Glenn Caffery
Current Activities:
Instructor, Computing: Foundations to Frontiers
Co-facilitator trainee, Five Colleges Intergroup DIalogue Initiative
Chief advisor and former Chair, UMass Information Technology Program
Member of Provost's Learning Commons Committee
Member of Provost's Committee on Community Service Learning
Resource Economics Experimental Economics Program
Recent Awards:
2008 Outstanding Teaching Award, College of NRE
Chancellor's Citation, 2006
Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society Meritorious Acheivement Award, 2005
Recent Activities
What’s IT All About: Service Learning and Social Justice to Make IT Matter in a Large Class. Presentation at Developing a Good Heart in STEM: The First Summit on Incorporating Social Justice and Service-Learning into the STEM Curriculum. Ithaca, NY (June 11-12, 2009)
Faculty Mentor, Lilly Teaching Fellows Program, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2008-09
Community Service Learning Faculty Fellow, 2008-09
Boston Globe story on use of photo rosters. (Sept. 12, 2008, Pg. 1)
"Motivations and Reflections: Service Learning in a Large and Required Course." A presentation at the New England Faculty Development Consortium Spring Conference, 2008.
"Instructional Technology With a Human Face." A poster presentation at the UMass Instructional Technology Conference, "The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Making IT Matter." Meritorious Poster Presentation award, 2008
"Case Study: Tools for Formative Assessment." A presentation to the General Education Fellows, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2008
"Journaling with SPARK." A presentation to the SPARK Communities of Practice, UMass Amherst. [Updated for General Education Fellowships resources page.] 2008
Co-PI, Statewide Information Technology Across the Curriculum Project, $55,000. 2005-06
Community Service Learning Fellow, Implentation Grant, AY2005/6
Co-PI, Information Technology Capstone Course, $23,000. 2005-06
Caffery, Glenn, Ken Watts, and W. Richards Adrion. "Assessing Supplemental Courseware in an IT Fluency Course." 35th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, 2005.
Co-PI, Davis Education Foundation Large Course Redesign Project, Phase II, $295,000. 2004-05
Co-PI, Commonwealth Information Technology Initiative, Phase 2, $1,000,000. 2004-05
Community Service Learning Fellow, Unit Planning Grant, AY2004/2005
Provost's Instructional Technology Task Force member. 2003-04
