Teaching, Learning and Culture at HBCUs

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Teaching, Learning and Culture at HBCUs

• NILL
• San Diego, California
• January

Dr. Joyce Williams-Green Associate Provost for
Information Resources / CIO Winston-Salem State
University
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What is Culture?

• The lens through which
• we view the world.

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CultureSir. E. B. Taylor (1871)

• that complex whole which includes knowledge,
  belief, art, morals,law,custom,and any other
  capabilities and habits acquired by man as a
  member of society

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Banks (1994)

• Cultures are dynamic, complex and changing.
• Cultures are systems, they must be viewed as
  wholes, not as discrete and isolated parts

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Historically Black Colleges and Universities
(HBCUs)

• 116 Nationally
• Most in South East
• AN-MSIs
• Technology Status
• NAFEO Infrastructure Study
• Cencus Reports
• Campus Computing Project

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Cultural Nuances at HBCUs
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Institutional

• Evolving networks
• Limited staff
• Increasing computer access
• More diverse socioeconomic status of students
• Evolving access to software and upgrades
• Traditionally African American

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Microculture

• Oral traditions
• Communities e.g. it takes a village
• Ethos (We/they)
• smaller cultures that make up the national
  shared macroculture

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HBCU Student in the Knowledge Age

• Older
• With Children
• Working
• Limited Access
• Largely African American
• Larger Percent of white students

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Teaching and Learning for the Knowledge Economy

• and
• HBCU Students

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Instructional Applications and Culture

• Cultural Cognitiveness Aware of and think about
  HBCU microculture as unique and distinct from
  other cultures
• Dr. Bells Class
• Community Knowledge Centers (CKCs)
• On-Line Courses and WSSU-TRI
• Designed to meet need of Knowledge Age HBCU
  Student
• PDA Project
• Designed to compensate for institutional cultural
  nuances and meet needs of knowledge age student
• Center for Innovative Teaching Technology,
  Learning and Evaluation (CITTLE)
• Implemented to support changing roles of faculty
  in teaching and learning

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Dr. Bells Work

• Cultural Competence
• Parental Involvement
• Southern Poverty Law

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Cultural Competence
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Parental Involvement
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Southern Poverty Law Center
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Community Knowledge Centers(CKC)
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On-line Courses

• Problem Based/Constructivist Approach
• More activities that require person-to-person
  interaction
• More visual and oral presentations

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Blackboard Welcome
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Blackboard Course List
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Blackboard Course Catalog
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WSSU-TRI

• Computer and PDA Requirement for freshman, new,
  transfers, distance education students, and
  graduate students.

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Remote Access
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PDA Article in Black Issues in Higher
Education link to article
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Tools That Provide Access

• PDAs
• Remote Access Tools
• Off-Site Instruction and Access Sources

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PDA Pilot Project

• - PDA Pilot Page
• - Call for Proposals
• Proposal
• Bell Berry Hafar - Herring
• Evaluation
• Student Agreement
• iPAQ

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Center for Innovative Teaching, Technology,
Learning and Evaluation (CITTLE)
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References

• DuBois, W.E.B. The Souls of Black Folk.
  ChicagoA.C. McClurg Co. 1903.
  http//etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/Du
  bSoul.html
• Williams-Green, J. F. , Holmes, G. A. and
  Sherman, T. M.(1997-98) Culture As ADecision
  Variable in Instructional Design.. Journal of
  Instructional Development. V. 26, 1, p. 3-18.

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Dr. Joyce Williams-Green

• Winston-Salem State University
• Wmsgreenj_at_wssu.edu
• [phone]

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• HSIs