Welcome Educational Mission

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WelcomeEducational Mission
Presidents Council Retreat

• Dr. Bert C. Bach, Provost
• Dr. Ronald D. Franks, Vice President

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Session Overview

• Explore ETSUs educational mission and its
  implications
• Experience how instructional technology supports
  our mission
• Examine ways you can help

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Student Response System

• Response card instructions
• Random button selection may change the channel of
  the response card
• ITGC approved the Turning Point Student Response
  System as the campus standard

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Which President passed the following campus rule
No female student will be permitted to attend
any public dance.

• Sherrod
• Stanton
• Gilbreath
• Culp

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• Engages students in class
• Gauges student comprehension
• Provides immediate feedback
• Tracks attendance
• Tracks student progress

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Item 1
What percentage loved and what percentagehated
college?

• 40 and 60
• 62 and 38
• 82 and 17
• 93 and 7

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How many self-identified as nerds?

• 4 (17)
• 8 (33)
• 10 (42)
• 16 (67)

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What percentage were high gpa/honor students
versus average students versus barely got by?

• 85 - 11 - 4
• 73 - 13 - 4
• 60 - 32 - 8
• 42 - 48 - 10

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How many said they partied much too hearty at
some point in their college experience?

• 12 (52)
• 7 (30)
• 4 (17)
• 1 (4)

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How many demonstrated/rioted/occupied the
administration building?

• 12 (52)
• 9 (39)
• 6 (26)
• 0 (0)

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How many worked to pay for their education?

• 6 (26)
• 9 (39)
• 12 (52)
• 18 (78)

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Item 2

• Name a book or film you encountered during
  college that changed you profoundly and explain
  why it affected you so strongly.
• No specific response - 4
• Two films Jules et Jim (1961) and Brother Sun,
  Sister Moon (1973)

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Item 2 - Books

• After Many a Summer Dies the Swan, Huxley
• Mans Search for Meaning, Frankl
• Brothers Karamazov, Dostoyevsky
• Works of James Dicky
• Higher Cortical Functions in Man, Luria
• The Mind of the South, Cash
• Catch-22, Heller
• Magic Mountain, Mann
• Bhagavad-Gita
• The Republic, Plato
• The Prince, Machiavelli
• Essays of E.B. White
• Rules for Radicals, Alensky
• Organic chemistry textbook

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Which of the following best summarizes the
majority of explanations for why the book/film
had a profound effect on the respondent?

• Helped me make my career choice
• Provided useful information and skills
• Introduced me to good literature
• Enlarged my perspective in a particular area

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Item 3

• Name one thing you learned in college (facts,
  ideas, concepts, skills whatever) that you
  still use on a regular basis

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Individual responses were grouped by category.
Which of the following categories had the fewest
responses?

• Life Lessons, Attitudes, and Values
• Self- and Group-Management Skills
• Basic Skills
• Specific Content/Skills of Discipline/Profession
• Higher Order Skills and Concepts

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Which two categories were tied for the highest
number of responses?

• Life Lessons, Attitudes, and Values
• Self- and Group-Management Skills
• Basic Skills
• Specific Content/Skills of Discipline/Profession
• Higher Order Skills and Concepts

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Item 4

• Name one thing you learned in college (facts,
  ideas, concepts, skills whatever) that you have
  never used.

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Out of 22 responses, how many were either a
specific course/subject or specific content from
a discipline/profession?

• 18 (82)
• 14 (64)
• 8 (36)
• 2 (9)

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Item 5

• Describe the most advanced piece of
  technologythat you owned in college. Do you
  still have it?
• Calculator 5
• Typewriter 5
• Slide rule 4
• Eight track tape player/reel-to-reel tape
  recorder 3
• Stereo 2
• Television 1
• Radio 1
• Glasses 1
• Erasable bond typing paper - 1

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How many people (out of 23 responses) still have
that old thing?

• 12 (52)
• 8 (35)
• 4 (17)
• 0 (0)

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No one listed Louie, Louie.
Item 6
Name a favorite song (title and artist) from
college?

• True
• False

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Which of the following artists/groups was NOT
listed?

• Roberta Flack
• Simon Garfunkel
• Bob Dylan
• Elvis
• Tony Bennett
• Moody Blues
• Robert Palmer
• Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young
• U2
• Three Dog Night

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Which, in Norma MacRaes opinion, is among the
worst songs ever written?

• Gentle on My Mind, John Hartford
• Anything by John Denver
• Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves, Cher
• All of the above

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Exploring our Mission

• What Is ETSUs Educational Mission?

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Who are our students?
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What do we know about teaching and learning?

• Thematic analysis of survey items 7 - 10

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Item 7

• Think of a superb college professor you had.
  What made the person a great teacher?
• Personal Characteristics, Attitudes,
  Interpersonal Behaviors (23)
• Teaching Behaviors or Skills (17)
• Subject/Content Knowledge (4)

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Item 8

• Think of a terrible college professor you had.
  What made that person such a poor teacher?
• Personal Characteristics, Attitudes,
  Interpersonal Behaviors (20)
• Teaching Behaviors or Skills (20)
• Subject/Content Knowledge (3)

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Item 9

• In your opinion, what does ETSU do well in
  promoting student learning?
• Environment for Learning (12)
• Teaching-Related (7)
• Student-Related (6)
• Specific projects, services, etc. (5)

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Item 10

• What do we need to do better to promote student
  learning?
• Teaching-Related (16)
• More Supportive Environment (7)
• Better Qualified Teachers (6)

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Break

• Session resumes at 1000

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Value of Instructional Technology
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Patient Simulator
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Shared Content

• ETSU Shared content repository
• Link to Shared content (download to desktop)
• Anatomy and Physiology portal

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Blogs and Wikis

• http//etsubbs.etsu.edu
• http//www.etsu.edu/wiki

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Voiceboards and Discussions

• http//blackboard.etsu.edu

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Podcasting and Streaming

• Streaming video and audio
• Example
• Podcasting
• http//www.etsu.edu/podcasting
• On-site podcast demonstration

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Select the podcast introductory image

• Fall
• Sign
• Carillon

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Select the podcast content image

• Seated
• Portrait
• Standing

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Select Music

• Country
• Jazz
• Rock/Blues

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• Begin recording

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Podcast Questions

• A surgeon is performing an appendectomy using
  the Da Vinci robotic surgical device. The
  surgeon is seated 2.5 meters from the patient.
  The lag time between movements of the

surgeons hands and the movement of the surgical
instrument by the robotic arm is
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• 22 milliseconds
• http//www.intuitivesurgical.com/index.aspx

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• What is the current land speed record for data
  transfer over fiber optic cable?

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• 14 terabits per second (or 140 high definition
  movies per second)
• http//arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061002-7878
  .html

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• The latest super computer used by the Blue Brain
  Project for 3D visualization of the firing
  relationships between simulated neural
  connections is

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• The Altix 3000
• http//bluebrainproject.epfl.ch/BlueEyes.htm

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• Publish podcast file

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What can YOU do?

• To support our students

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Wrap up

• How can we move the agenda forward?