Title: ITFaculty Partnerships for Change
1IT-Faculty Partnerships for Change
- Janet de Vry
- University of Delaware
March 22, 2004
2Synergy for change
- Trust of individual faculty members
- Strategic Alliances
- Access to support
- Staffing
- Instructions
- Training
- Consulting
- Trouble shooting
3Building relationships
- Responsiveness
- Communication
- Learning principles first
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- Trust
4Paths to Faculty
Departments
Support
Faculty
Units
5Paths to Faculty
Departments
Faculty
Support
Units
6WebCT Use at UD
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9Consortium Study
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- Main goal determine whether or not web use
changes the way faculty member teaches in the
classroom
10Conclusions
- Faculty who are not exposed to pedagogy use
technology for "efficiencies" - Faculty who understand pedagogy are more apt to
use technology for change
11How do infuse faculty culture with pedagogical
principles?
- Require consultations
- Require training
- Partner with other units on campus
- Projects
12Forming strategic alliances
- Identify
- groups that faculty value
- groups that have administrative support
- what IT can bring to the equation
- propose joint efforts
13Partnerships
- Institute for Transforming Undergraduate
Education (ITUE) - General Education Initiative
- Task Force on Written and Oral Communications
14What 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
15General Education Goals and Grants
- quantitative reasoning
- the use of information technology
- oral and written communication
- service-based learning
16Task 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
17Instructional Grants
18Learning transformation
Faculty
Publicity
Grant
Project
19Problem-based Learning unit
20General Education Initiative
Projects
21Small 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.
22Larger 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
23Secure testing center
24Faculty profiles
25Showcasing Faculty Work Jan 04 Faculty Institute
26Faculty 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.
27Moving 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
28Resources
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/
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