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Randy Bass
Georgetown University
Randy Bass is Assistant Provost
for Teaching and Learning Initiatives at Georgetown
University, and Executive Director of Georgetown's Center
for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship (CNDLS), a
campus-wide center supporting faculty work in new learning
and research environments. He has been working with a number
of pedagogy and technology projects since 1986, including
serving as Director of the American Studies Crossroads
Project, an international project on technology and
education sponsored by the American Studies Association, and
the Visible Knowledge Project, a five-year scholarship of
teaching and learning project involving 70 faculty on 21
university and college campuses.
He is also a Consulting Scholar
for the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching,
where he served, in 1998-99, as a Pew Scholar and Carnegie
Fellow. In 1999, he won the Educause Medal for outstanding
achievement in technology and undergraduate education.
Bass is Associate Professor of
English and a member of the American Studies Committee at
Georgetown University. He is the author of _Border Texts:
Cultural Readings for Contemporary Writers_ (Houghton
Mifflin, 1998); the supervising editor _Engines of Inquiry:
A Practical Guide to Teaching and Technology in the American
Studies Classroom_; and co-editor of _Intentional Media:
Reflections on Technology and Learning in the Culture and
History Classroom_ (forthcoming, July 1999).
Current projects include a
volume of essays and findings from the Visible Knowledge
Project, entitled, _The Difference that Inquiry Makes_,
co-edited with Bret Eynon; and _Visions and Collisions:
Essays on Learning, Teaching, and Culture in Higher
Education_.
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