Alliance for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning

College of Extended Learning

CURRENT PROJECTS/INITIATIVES

Program: Learning Technology
Contact: Dr. David Rutledge, Project Coordinator
Phone: 646-2226
E-mail: rutledge@nmsu.edu

The outreach and research interests are in developing partnerships/teams of STEM content experts, digital multimedia designers/programmers, and K-20 teachers interested in designing and implementing innovative curriculum and learning objects focused on the improvement of learning for all students. The pilot project is currently in the works, in this area with several public school classroom teachers to design, test, research technology-enhanced lessons in mathematics, science, bilingual education, social studies, and technology. Web-based learning objects will also be developed in the near future.

Program : Mobile Rural Science Lab
Contact: Maria Haaland-Borchert
Phone: 522-9240
Email:mhaaland@psl.nmsu.edu

The Mobile Rural Science Lab provides middle school students scientific and mathematical concepts through a curriculum involving helium balloons. A new NASA grant will provide a mobile lab that will reach rural, southern NM students and teachers.

Program: RETA
Contact: Susie Bussman, Project Coordinator
Melody Munson-McGee, Project Coordinator
Phone: 646-1650
E-mail: suceppib@nmsu.edu
E-mail: melodym@nmsu.edu
Website: reta.nmsu.edu

RETA (Regional Educational Technology Assistance) Through the US Department of Education’s Technology Innovation Challenge Grant, the Regional Educational Technology Assistance program is serving the professional development needs of New Mexico’s K-12 teachers. RETA brings technology curriculum integration to school sites around the state. In its three-year history, RETA has served teachers in nearly all of New Mexico’s 89 school districts. RETA’s mission is to develop the human and technological infrastructure necessary for learning environments that cultivate students who are ready for school and workplace challenges in an information-driven society, able to make thoughtful use of technological tools to access information and to construct meaning, develop new knowledge, and effectively and efficiently communicate understanding.