ITFaculty Partnerships for Change

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IT-Faculty Partnerships for Change

• Janet de Vry
• University of Delaware

March 22, 2004
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Synergy for change

• Trust of individual faculty members
• Strategic Alliances
• Access to support
• Staffing
• Instructions
• Training
• Consulting
• Trouble shooting

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Building relationships

• Responsiveness
• Communication
• Learning principles first
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• Trust

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Paths to Faculty
Departments
Support
Faculty
Units
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Paths to Faculty
Departments
Faculty
Support
Units
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WebCT Use at UD

• 4 years of steady growth

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Consortium Study

• Main goal determine whether or not web use
  changes the way faculty member teaches in the
  classroom

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Conclusions

• Faculty who are not exposed to pedagogy use
  technology for "efficiencies"
• Faculty who understand pedagogy are more apt to
  use technology for change

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How do infuse faculty culture with pedagogical
principles?

• Require consultations
• Require training
• Partner with other units on campus
• Projects

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Forming strategic alliances

• Identify
• groups that faculty value
• groups that have administrative support
• what IT can bring to the equation
• propose joint efforts

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Partnerships

• Institute for Transforming Undergraduate
  Education (ITUE)
• General Education Initiative
• Task Force on Written and Oral Communications

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What is Problem Based Learning?

• PBL is a learning approach that
• challenges students to learn to learn,
• working cooperatively in groups
• to seek solutions to real world problems

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General Education Goals and Grants

• quantitative reasoning
• the use of information technology
• oral and written communication
• service-based learning

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Task Force on Written and Oral Communication

• Assess current status of written and oral
  communication skills
• Recommending strategies for improving these
  skills
• Assessing effectiveness of changes

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Instructional Grants
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Learning transformation
Faculty
Publicity
Grant
Project
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Problem-based Learning unit
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General Education Initiative
Projects
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Small grant project individual faculty member

• Problem time to share projects
• Solution Online books in WebCT presentation tool
  
• Saving space and time in a large lecture class.

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Larger grant PsychologyLearning Motivation

• Revitalizing the Keller method, self mastery of
  textbook material
• Hypothesis computer technology can overcome
  problems that led to its decline
• Course Changes
• On demand (on line tests)
• Replace lecture with small groups
• Replace term paper with focused labs
• Technologysecure testing center

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Secure testing center
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Faculty profiles
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Showcasing Faculty Work Jan 04 Faculty Institute
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Faculty Feedback

• I truly enjoyed all the presentations. It was
  extremely beneficial to see how some of the
  technology you hear about on campus is actually
  being used in the classroom.
• I had some wonderful discussions over lunch and
  got some good ideas, and some, that would
  actually lead to completely changing the format
  of my course.

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Moving forward on your campus

• Identify ways to build faculty trust
• Identify and approach potential partners on your
  campus
• Identify what your unit can do to assist partners
• Identify strategies for infusing your entire
  campus with learning principles

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Resources
at The University of Delaware

• PRESENT, UDs Teaching, Learning, and Technology
  Center, www.udel.edu/present
• Grant Program
• http//www.udel.edu/present/grant/
• UDs General Education Initiative
• http//www.udel.edu/ugs/gened/
• Institute for Transforming Undergraduate
  Education
• http//www.udel.edu/inst/