March 28, 2024

Kayler, Meadows & Owens Present Research

Tim Owens holds a product of a 3D printer in UMW's Makerspace.

Tim Owens holds a product of a 3D printer in UMW’s Makerspace.

Director of the Center of Teaching Excellence and Innovation Mary Kayler, Instructional Technology Specialist in the Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies Tim Owens and Professor in the College of Education George Meadows will present their research study “Inspiring Maker Culture through Collaboration, Persistence, and Failure” at the peer-reviewed Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (SITE) on Thursday, March 28 in New Orleans. The study examines the first freshmen seminar in UMW’s ThinkLab. The paper will be housed in EdITLib, the Digital Library for Education and Information Technology designed to facilitate learning, discovery and innovation by connecting scholarly research on Educational Technology/E-Learning with learning opportunities.

About Brynn Boyer

Brynn Boyer is assistant director of media and public relations and a 2010 graduate of UMW.