Category: Educational Technology News

Posted September 5, 2019

JMU 3SPACE serves students and faculty from all departments and colleges at the university, offering 3D printing access and training to people of all experience levels. Our goal is to help JMU faculty and staff incorporate desktop digital fabrication into […]

Posted September 2, 2019

This year, Classroom Technology Services, a department in JMU Libraries, installed new classroom technology in many buildings across campus: Classroom Technology Services also supported the installation of eight new teaching spaces in the Wilson Hall renovation. To request immediate help with […]

Posted May 22, 2019

The last few weeks of the Spring 2019 semester delivered several celebrations of projects led by JMU students relating to local Harrisonburg and Shenandoah Valley history. The Libraries assisted with key components to four of them. On April 24, 2019, […]

Posted May 22, 2019

On April 29, at the Nineteenth Annual Shenandoah Valley Technology Council Awards Gala, several individuals from JMU Libraries and their project partners were recognized with the JMU College of Integrated Science and Engineering’s Innovation in Community Impact Award for their work […]

Posted April 17, 2019

A new collection of prohibition-related records will soon be on the Exploring Rockingham’s Past web site. This web site is an ongoing, collaborative, scholarly project to digitize, describe, organize, and publish collections from the Rockingham Circuit Courthouse’s substantial archival materials, which go […]

Posted March 26, 2019

The JMU Integrative Design Technology Fellowship is a professional development program for faculty to learn about the design and implementation of curriculum to teach in the JMU 3SPACE 3D Printing Classroom.  This Fellowship is a partnership between JMU Libraries, JMU […]

Posted March 26, 2019

Drs. Emily York and Shannon Conley, faculty within Integrated Science and Technology, in collaboration with Eric Stauffer, Director of Instructional Design and Technology within JMU Libraries, received a $4,000.00 College of Integrated Science and Engineering (CISE) Faculty Development Grant. This […]

Posted March 15, 2019

Dr. Christie Liu from JMU Libraries and Dr. Elizabeth Johnson from Geology and Environmental Science were awarded a Course Redesign Grant in the amount of $16,145.00 through Virtual Library of Virginia (VIVA). The VIVA Course Redesign Grant’s goal is to make textbook and course […]

Posted February 6, 2019

A featured story in the Richmond Times-Dispatch on January 20, 2019, titled “Virginia has a dark history of lynching. Efforts are underway to bring it to light,” mentions an important project created by James Madison University’s Gianluca De Fazio working closely with […]

Posted April 11, 2018

Gianluca De Fazio, assistant professor in the Department of Justice Studies at James Madison University and Kevin Hegg, Director of Digital Projects in JMU Libraries, with assistance from others, have created a digital research project/resource on the history of lynchings in Virginia from 1877 […]