Academic Technology Update

Chair Retreat Aug 24 2009

Emerging Themes

The 2008-2013 Strategic Plan identifies three emerging themes:

1. Mission – “We strive to preserve and enhance an atmosphere in which scholarly research, imaginative methodology, global awareness and an enthusiastic quest for truth serve as the basis of a vital teaching-learning process and the development of lifelong learning.”

2. Engagement – “We are committed to expanding the role of Information Technology in helping to reshape how students learn, how faculty members teach and how information is stored, accessed and transmitted.”

3. Global – “We will provide learning that synchronously spans distance and asynchronously offers more course and program variety online.”

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Faculty Input

• Academic Planning Committee Report• Faculty Survey• Results• One-on-One

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Academic Planning Committee

• Student Technology • Software Training • Obsolescence of Student Hardware

• Student Engagement• IT-Faculty Disconnect• Faculty Audience for Workshops• Faculty Resistance to Technology

• Global Education• Remote Support • Open Source Technology

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Survey 2009

• Participation – 208 Responses

• Covered the following 5 areas: – Learning– Support– Use of Technology– Barriers– New Topics

List of questions and summary can be found in the chair retreat group on St Johns Central

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Learning

Most Helpful FT PTExperimenting on your own 84% 82%Talking with colleagues 77% 67%Face-to-face technology courses

66% 64%

Internet Searches 63% 62%Consulting with IT 61% 71%

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Use of technology

Figure 1. Top 5 Technologies Used in the Classroom

0 20 40 60 80 100

Podcasting

Web 2.0 Tools (e.g. Wiki,Blogs)

Blackboard/Web CT

St. John's Central

Power Point

Part-time

Full-time

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Barriers

• Time required to learn about technology 32%

• Network/Internet connection problems 24%

• Time required to use technology in class23%

• Lack of current hardware 23%

• Lack of current software 20%

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Topics of interest

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• Digital video or audio editing software (Podcasting) 65%• Publishing tools (e.g. Adobe Acrobat) 60%• Image editing software (e.g. Photoshop) 56%• Web conferencing software (e.g. MS Live Messenger) 55%

Figure 2. Top 5 Academic Technology Topics Currently Available

0 20 40 60 80 100

Electronic presentations (e.g. PowerPoint)

Online collaboration tools (e.g. blogs)

Course management tools( e.g. Blackboard/WebCT)

Colleague's uses of academic technology

Pedagogy of technology-enhanced learning

Part-time

Full-time

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Portable Professor

• More in-line with Class schedule• Customized workshops for your department• Evening and Weekend workshops on request• 4 Audio/Video Podcast edit stations added

Contact Technology Learning Center - X6402

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Email

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Faculty Using Gateway

How are they using:

• Blog Posts to receive feedback from their students

• Wikis are used for group student projects

• Participation tracking

• Homework

What they like:

• Wikis and Blogs are easy for students to understand

• Wikis and Blogs allows students to express themselves in complete thoughts

• Introverted students that don’t like raising their hands, can express themselves in writing

• More Storage Space

• Good Central Place

• Homework Submission is easy to use

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E-Blog

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Live@edu

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Live Messenger

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Spaces

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Office Live

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Skydrive

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Live@edu

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Available in 9 languages and multiple interfaces:

English (ESL), Latin America Spanish, Castilian Spanish, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Chinese, Japanese, and Arabic

2,000+ hours of content per language Frequent use of speech recognition, video, and learner interaction 37 different types of learner activities

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See The Demos

• Live@Edu• Tell Me More• Gateway• Portable Professor• Office 2007

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