ITILT

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ITILT
Marilyn Butler Rick Machemer Farrokh
Mamaghani Jim Seward

• Faculty Perspective
• Whats Here?
• Whats needed?

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Vision
Develop/employ an IT/IL strategy that ensures
students will

• maximize their educational experiences by
  employing appropriate IT/IL techniques
• fully meet or surpass the expectations of
  employers, graduate schools, and professional
  schools.

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Whats the lay of the land?
Where would we like to head?
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Current (successes!)

• Expansion of instructional labs
• More ITEC rooms
• High speed Internet access
• Personal e-mail and Web-hosting
• Online full-text databases

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Current - 2 (successes!)

• Training (limited but available)
• Computers outside Kearney labs
• Updating of hardware on regular basis
  (including equipment unique to particular
  discipline or major)

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Current - 3 (successes!)

• Courses designed specifically to use IT/IL
• Revamping of courses to deliberately use IT/IL
• Satellite links
• (Relative) Receptiveness to faculty needs

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Issue

• How are the efforts of faculty who spend
  considerable time and energy infusing IT/IL into
  courses, to be recognized/rewarded?

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Other Picky Points

• Is IT/IL to be mandated?
• If mandated, time for change-over?
• Common instruction or expected as part of
  each course?
• Way(s) to assess entering student (and the
  graduating student for competency)

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Other Picky Points -2

• What constitutes basic literacy in T or IL?
• How is updating (of faculty) to take place?
• Who is going to take ownership of doing this
  and overseeing its further development?
• What is faculty competency and how is it to be
  fostered/renewed/updated?

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Future
Desired State

• Hope to have?
• Hope to be able to use?

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Desired (surprises and fun!)

• Labs with state-of-the-art technology (some
  areas mandatory others nice)
• More funds for software purchases
• Funds for experimental software for use here
• Laptops when appropriate and needed

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Desired - 2 (surprises and fun!)

• Advanced training courses for faculty
• On-going introductory courses for students
  (throughout semester)
• Technical support that fills need
• Basic literacy in certain applications for all
  students other is discipline/major specific

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Desired - 3 (surprises and fun!)

• State-of-the-art hardware comes to (some)
  faculty before going into labs
• OIT able to recommend ways to fill faculty
  needs and obtain software to try
• Cross discipline understanding of importance
  of IT and IL

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Desired - 4 (surprises and fun!)

• BlackBoard use becomes transparent
• Webmaster to oversee design and do some of
  creative work
• On-going formalized needs assessment to
  anticipate needs and how to fulfill them
• Computer lab for graduate students

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Desired - 5 (surprises and fun!)

• Computer use becomes second nature
• Basics of Office well known and effectively
  used in all appropriate courses
• Web used for more than fun and games
• Extensive/pervasive database use
• Textbooks on line/ electronic courses

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How do we do it?

• Good Question

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Do it - 2

• Just get going
• Something is better than doing little or nothing

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• Lets Go!!!