EPP Training
Welcome EPP Faculty! This web page is designed to provide you with the information about EPP Faculty services. EPP offers a wide variety of resources and training opportunities for our faculty- ranging from teaching resources to current publications, and important forms you need for your course. The goal of this training is to help faculty and staff determine the appropriateness of new technologies and to become competent in using them. The majority of these resources are located inside the Faculty Intranet. The Faculty Intranet provides news and important documentation (such as teaching resources, instructional technology, library information, class roster information, etc) for faculty members.
We will be adding new information and services to this section of our website, so check back often!
Training Resources
Faculty Training covers a wide variety of topics and is meant to help faculty with instruction, classroom management, and understand the technology and its best-practice uses in courses. Training is offered in various modalities including face-to-face courses, online, teleconferencing, and individual appointments.
Current training offerings are viewable on the Training Calendar at www.epp.jhu.edu/trainingcalendar.
For specific information about how to receive assistance with resources please view our Tech Support page.
Faculty Intranet
The Faculty Intranet provides news and important documentation (such as how to order textbooks, parking information, library information, class roster information, etc) for faculty members. The Faculty Intranet also provides an interface for creating and managing Course Homepages. To log in to the Faculty Intranet, you will need your JHED ID and password. If you do not have a JHED ID, have forgotten your JHED ID or password, or would like more information about JHED, please see our JHED Instructional Guide or call HITS at 410.516.HELP (4357). APL Staff should contact the APL Online Education Center to obtain JHED Information at 443.778.6510.
Log onto the Faculty Intranet at www.epp.jhu.edu/faculty.
Faculty Development
Faculty Information Sessions (January and August)
At Applied Physics Lab and at Montgomery County Campus. Meet your site support staff, hear the latest EPP updates, attend mini-sessions, receive teaching tips.
Guest Expert Workshop for Instructors (February)
In 2009, the outside guest expert workshop will be given by Dr. Richard Felder, Professor emeritus of Chemical Engineering at North Carolina State University.
Rich Felder has written extensively on engineering education and given numerous highly acclaimed workshops for engineering professors.
Annual Faculty Meeting (March)
The Annual Faculty Meeting includes a number of sessions on topics relevant to instruction, classroom management, classroom technology, etc.
Introduction to Teaching at EPP (May, October/November)
Workshop for new and nearly-new instructors. Jump-start your experience with EPP with a crash course introducing you to the EPP setting, teaching tips, policies & procedures, answers to FAQs.
Instructional Technology Resources
Course Homepages
Course Homepages are intended to deliver information about your course that doesn't change significantly from term to term. Your Course Homepage includes a list of topics to be covered, the official course description as it appears in the course catalog, and much more. It is important to offer our students more information about our courses than what is available in the course descriptions to help them decide during registration. Course Homepages are created dynamically using information that the instructor enters into a web based form through the Faculty Intranet. Once created, the homepages are accessible from EPP's official web site.
WebCT
WebCT is a web-driven courseware package that provides an environment to organize your online course materials. It also gives you access to a number of course tools and to course and student management utilities so that you don't have to create them from scratch or cobble together different pieces of software for each feature. Using WebCT, all the different parts of a course website or fully online course have a consistent look and feel. This is less confusing for the students and to learn how to use to its fullest potential. WebCT also provides a level of security, because students are required to log into their course using their JHED ID and password. People who aren’t registered for your course can't see the course pages. This helps you satisfy privacy and copyright issues.
Adobe Connect
JHU has licensed a piece of software to serve as a companion to WebCT called Adobe Connect. It serves as a more full featured alternative to WebCT's built in synchronous communication tools, Chat and Whiteboard. Adobe Connect has a much more advanced whiteboard, text chat capability, full duplex audio using voice over the internet, and two-way streaming video capabilities. Sessions may be recorded so that you can view all the content and interactions later if you can't make the session. It is an excellent tool for office hours, student meeting space for group projects, and occasional guest lectures.
Course Websites
Course websites are intended to house information that is specific to a particular term, including syllabus and topics covered, but also announcements, deadlines or calendar information, class notes, example problems, assignments, test scores, etc. The instructor may wish to restrict all or a portion of this site to just the currently registered students. Instructors are completely responsible for the development and maintenance of these course websites and must have or acquire some web development skills in order to do so.
APL Staff
There are some subtle differences in resources for APL staff who also teach for EPP. For more information please contact the APL Education Center at 443.778.6510 (Faculty Only.).