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Supporting Faculty Change New Visions, Roles, and
Questions
Mount Royal College Educational Technology
Award Programs
Presentation to The Sixth Annual TLT Group
Summer Institute July 16, 2000
Norm Vaughan Mount Royal College
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Overview

• This presentation will
• Provide an overview of Mount Royal College and
  the Academic Development Centre
• Provide a case study of a technology integration
  program at Mount Royal College
• Facilitate a discussion around the issues of
  faculty technology integration programs,
  specifically
• examples of programs currently being used in
  post-secondary institutions

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City of Calgary

• Population 840,000, projected to reach 1 million
  by 2008
• Canadas 5th largest urban centre
• Large head office centre
• 58 adult population have post-secondary
  education
• 31 of adult population currently enrolled in
  some form of advanced education or training

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Mount Royal College Context

• Four year undergraduate college
• Comprehensive credit program base 11,000 credit
  students
• Large credit-free operation 48,000 registrations
  in continuing education, language institute,
  international education and Conservatory of Music
  operations
• 80 of credit students from local area

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MRC Students and Faculty

• Students
• 11,000 total credit students 56 FT 6300 FTE
• Mean age 22 (FT) 26 (PT)
• 62 female
• Avg. Courseload 3.9 (FT) 1.5 (PT)
• Faculty
• 225 FT credit 353 PT credit

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Programming

• On-site Credit
• 20 two-year diploma programs
• 14 four-year Applied Degree programs
• collaborative Bachelor of Arts degree program
  with Athabasca University
• university transfer
• 13 certificate programs

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Programming

• Distance Education
• Advanced Studies in Critical Care Nursing
• Advanced Studies in Mental Health
• Gerontology
• Maternal Infant Child Healthcare
• Forensics Health Studies
• Telecommunications
• Personal Fitness Trainer
• Funeral Services Director

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Technology Integration Plan

• Vision to become a leader in enhancing the
  learning process through the effective
  integration of digital technologies.
• Create a culture of transformation
• Ensure the necessary resources are available
• Enhance the learning process by increasing access
  and quality

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Classroom Plus?
The thoughtful application of learning
technologies to augment, enhance and extend
face-to-face instruction.
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..fostering teaching excellence and innovation
in support of student learning.
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Academic Development Centre
Ed Tech Training
Media Productions
Distributed Learning
On the web at www.mtroyal.ab.ca/adc
fostering teaching excellence and innovation
Instructional Design
START Program
Curriculum Development
Faculty Development
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Supporting Technology Integration in Teaching and
Learning
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Learning Technology Integration Program
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START Program
Student Technicians and Resource Tutors
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Computer Skills Training

• Applications
• MS Office Suite
• Lotus Notes
• HTML editors
• Photoshop
• Blackboards CourseInfo
• Formats
• Group Workshops (20/month)
• Drop-in Support (9am-2pm daily)

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Kahanoff Curriculum-Technology Awards Program
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Blackboards CourseInfo

• Proof-of-concept Fall 99 (23 faculty, 850
  students)
• Over 150,000 hits Fall 99
• Approved as institutional standard, December 99
• Approximately 50 instructors using at present
• Approximately 90 course-sites in development

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Teaching with Technology Discussion Series
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PanCanadian Educational Technology Awards Program
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Overall Program Objective

• ...to provide directed opportunities for faculty
  to learn how to integrate learning technologies
  into their teaching practice. The program has
  three major components
• Project Shadow faculty participating in
  educational technology projects and activities
• Project Mentor faculty serving as mentors for
  educational technology projects and initiatives
• Get Connected The Summer Institute faculty
  attending an intensive summer workshop

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Project Shadow Objectives

• To provide new technology users with
  opportunities to be exposed to various activities
  which relate to educational technology
  development and use.
• 3 awards per semester
• Faculty apply for an award
• Faculty receive 3 hours of release time
  (equivalent to one course) for a semester to
• Shadow educational technology projects by
• attending production meetings
• assisting team leaders with project related tasks
• involvement in workshops and user groups

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Project Shadow Outcomes

• Faculty gain a better understanding of how
  educational technology can be used to support
  their teaching practices
• Expectation that upon completion of the semester
  the faculty member will generate a funding
  proposal to develop her or his own educational
  technology project.
• Winter 1998 - 3 faculty awards
• Fall 1998 - 3 faculty awards
• Winter 1999 - 5 faculty awards
• Fall 1999 - 2 faculty awards
• Winter 2000 - 3 faculty awards

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Project Shadow Participant

• Avril Torrence English department
• Winter Semester 2000

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Project Mentor Objectives

• This program first identifies the skills,
  experience, and knowledge needed to support
  selected educational technology projects and
  initiatives within the College.
• It then provides release time for faculty
  members who have technology expertise and
  experience to assist project development teams or
  to facilitate faculty user groups.
• 3 awards per semester
• Faculty are nominated for an award
• Faculty receive 3 hours of release
• time (equivalent to one course)

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Project Mentor Outcomes

• This program provides faculty with
• recognition within the College
• valuable opportunities to use and expand their
  own educational technology knowledge base
• Winter 1998 - 2 faculty awards
• Fall 1998 - 2 faculty awards
• Winter 1999 - 1 faculty award
• Fall 1999 - 2 faculty awards
• Winter 2000 - 3 faculty awards

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Project Mentor Participant

• Bruce Ravelli Sociology
• Winter 2000

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Summer Institute Objectives

• ...providing faculty with the opportunity to
• Learn about the pedagogical implications and the
  relationship between curriculum and educational
  technology.
• Learn how to prepare and format content for
  integration into a technology-based educational
  tool.
• Build and pilot, a technology-based courseware
  project.
• Have rich and meaningful dialogue with
• faculty peers from other post-secondary
• environments about issues related to
• educational technology.

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Summer Institute Outcomes

• Internal faculty awards cover the cost of tuition
  to the Institute and a cash award upon completion
  of a project pilot with students in the fall
  semester.
• Summer Institute 1998 - 17 external and 12
  internal participants
• Summer Institute 1999 - 19 external and 10
  internal participants
• Summer Institute 2000 - 21 external and 10
  internal

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Summer Institute Participant

• Chad LondonPhys. Ed. and Leisure Services
• Created a web based assessment module to support
  sport administration students on external
  practicums
• developed an internal proposal
• to create a completely web
• based course structure to
• support the practicum students
• internal proposal accepted and
• the course was developed over
• the 1999 to 2000 school year

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PanCanadian Educational Technology Summer
Institute
June 18-22, 2001
www.mtroyal.ab.ca/summer_institute/
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Overall Program Outcomes

• Diffusion
• 61 faculty have participated over the course of
  5 semesters
• Alumni within all faculties and departments
• Overcoming Challenges to Technology Integration
  in Teaching and Learning
• Time
• Access to expertise
• Incentive, recognition and reward
• Catalyst for re-thinking approaches to teaching
  and for faculty renewal

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Questions, Comments, Discussion
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Questions, Comments, Discussion
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ADC - Information

• Academic Development Centre
• http//www.mtroyal.ab.ca/adc

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• Technology is the campfire around which we will
  tell our stories.
• Laurie Anderson

Contact Information Norm Vaughan -
nvaughan_at_mtroyal.ab.ca