Instructional Technology

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Instructional Technology

• Enhancing Education

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The world we live in

• Internet use doubles every 100 days.

• Radio was in existence 38 years before
• 50 million people tuned in TV took
• 13 years to reach that benchmark.
• The Emerging Digital Economy, US Commerce Dept.

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The world we live in

• Sixteen years after the first PC kit
• came out, 50 million people
• were using one.

• Once it was opened to the general
• public, the Internet crossed that line
• in four years.
• The Emerging Digital Economy, US Commerce Dept.

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The world we live in

• Information technology has already
• begun to create demand for highly skilled
• Workers.

• Countries that have an insufficient supply of
• skilled workers will see high-skilled,
  high-paying
• jobs migrate to countries that can supply the
• needed talent.
• The Emerging Digital Economy, US Commerce Dept.

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The world we live in

• The private sector and governments must
• work together to create new human resources
• policies that better prepare students and
• workers to meet the challenges of the
• emerging digital economy.
• The Emerging Digital Economy, US Commerce Dept.

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How do we use technology to enhance teaching and
learning?
We have a duty to our students to use technology
to enhance teaching and research. We have a duty
to ensure that all of our students have an
appropriate familiarity with the technology that
is so rapidly remaking the world.
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How do we use technology to enhance teaching and
learning?
By using technology to enhance teaching
and learning, we improve our core function as a
University, and give our students the skills
they need to function effectively in the world
of work.
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Characteristics of good teaching

• Instructors are well prepared.
• Instructors excite and motivate students
• Instructors communicate effectively
• with their students.
• Instructors bring latest information to
• students

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Characteristics of successful learning

• Students gain and retain knowledge of the content
  of the course.
• Students develop critical thinking skills.
• Students integrate knowledge within and across
  disciplines.
• Students develop the ability to work in a team to
  solve a problem.

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Using technology to enhance education
The use of modern instructional technologies
enhances teaching, and learning, by promoting
all of these characteristics.
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Enhances how we teach

• New instructional tools
• Require that instructors are
• well-organized and adaptable.

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Enhances how we teach

• New instructional tools
• Require that instructors are well organized and
  adaptable.
• Bring text, sounds and images to enrich and
  enliven the classroom.

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Enhances how we teach

• New instructional tools
• Require that instructors are well organized and
  adaptable.
• Bring text, sounds and images to enrich and
  enliven the classroom.
• Improve communications between instructor and
  student.

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Enhances how we teach

• New instructional tools
• Require that instructors are well organized
• and adaptable.
• Bring text, sounds and images to enrich
• and enliven the classroom.
• Improve communications between
• instructor and student.
• Bring up-to-date content into classroom or
• lab. http//www.dismal.com

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Further enhancements

• More content available outside the
• classroom, asynchronously.

• More interaction in the classroom.

• Increased use of research methods in
• undergraduate courses.

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Enhancements to learning

• New instructional tools
• Assist in the delivery of content knowledge
• to students.
• Availability of electronic data resources
• and the web

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Enhancements to learning

• New instructional tools
• Improve retention
• Increased interaction improves retention
• Empower students who find communication
• in traditional lecture to be intimidating.

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Enhancements to learning

• New instructional tools
• Improve the development of critical
• thinking skills.
• Students engage content in a mode suited to
  their preferred learning style.

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Enhancements to learning

• New instructional tools
• Improve students integration of knowledge
• within and across disciplines.
• Research projects can become part of the standard
  course
• Students can bring ideas to some stage of
  completion, integrating knowledge more
  effectively.

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Enhancements to learning

• New instructional tools
• Improve and encourage teamwork
• and problem-solving.
• Email and WWW applications enable
• group activities, even in large courses
• Conferencing and chat facilities
• promote discussion

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Enhancing Education
It is incumbent upon the faculties of research
universities to think carefully and
systematically not only about how to make the
most effective use of existing technologies but
also how to create new ones that will enhance
their own teaching and that of their colleagues.
Reinventing Undergraduate Education A
Blueprint for Americas Research Universities.
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Enhancing Education
The best teachers and researchers should be
thinking about how to design courses in which
technology enriches teaching rather than
substitutes for it. Reinventing Undergraduate
Education A Blueprint for Americas Research
Universities.
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Enhancing Education
At Rutgers, we have been doing just what the
Carnegie Commission suggests. We have a
number of initiatives in place that enhance and
improve teaching with technology.
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Enhancing Education

• Instructional Technology Initiative
• Year of the Network
• Advisory Committee on Instructional Computing
• Mellon Foundation Cost Effective Uses of
• Technology in Teaching Grant

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Enhancing Education
Instructional Technology Initiative Funds large
grants to departments or schools to transform
courses or curricula Year of the Network
Promotes development of new instructional
technologies and diffuses them throughout the
University.
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Enhancing Education
Advisory Committee on Instructional Computing
Funds public use machines, networking, student
access to email and web, and departmental
computer teaching laboratories. Mellon
Foundation Cost Effective Uses of Technology in
Teaching Three year grant to study cost
effectiveness of Instructional Technology
Initiative projects.