Building Effective IT Partnerships for Transformative Faculty Education at the University of Delaware

1. IT-Faculty Partnerships for Change Janet de Vry University of Delaware March 22, 2004

2. Synergy for change • Trust of individual faculty members • Strategic Alliances • Access to support • Staffing • Instructions • Training • Consulting • Trouble shooting

3. Building relationships Responsiveness Communication + Learning principles first ----------------------------------- Trust

4. Paths to Faculty Departments Support Faculty Units

5. Paths to Faculty Departments Faculty Support Units

6. WebCT Use at UD 4 years of steady growth

9. Consortium Study Main goal: determine whether or not web use changes the way faculty member teaches in the classroom

10. Conclusions • Faculty who are not exposed to pedagogy use technology for "efficiencies" • Faculty who understand pedagogy are more apt to use technology for change

11. How do infuse faculty culture with pedagogical principles? • Require consultations • Require training • Partner with other units on campus • Projects

12. Forming strategic alliances Identify: • groups that faculty value • groups that have administrative support • what IT can bring to the equation • propose joint efforts

13. Partnerships • Institute for Transforming Undergraduate Education (ITUE) • General Education Initiative • Task Force on Written and Oral Communications

14. What is Problem Based Learning? PBL is a learning approach that challenges students to “learn to learn,” working cooperatively in groups to seek solutions to real world problems

15. General Education Goals and Grants • quantitative reasoning • the use of information technology • oral and written communication • service-based learning

16. Task Force on Written and Oral Communication • Assess current status of written and oral communication skills • Recommending strategies for improving these skills • Assessing effectiveness of changes

17. Instructional Grants

18. Learning transformation Faculty Publicity Grant Project

19. Faculty Publicity Grant Project Problem-based Learning unit

20. Faculty Publicity Grant General Education Initiative Projects

21. Small grant project: individual faculty member • Problem: time to share projects • Solution: Online books in WebCT presentation tool • Saving space and time in a large lecture class.

22. Larger grant: Psychology—Learning & Motivation • Revitalizing the “Keller method,” self mastery of textbook material • Hypothesis: computer technology can overcome problems that led to its decline • Course Changes • On demand (on line tests) • Replace lecture with small groups • Replace term paper with focused labs • Technology—secure testing center

23. Secure testing center

24. Faculty profiles

25. Showcasing Faculty Work: Jan 04 Faculty Institute

26. Faculty Feedback • “I truly enjoyed all the presentations. It was extremely beneficial to see how some of the technology you hear about on campus is actually being used in the classroom.” • “I had some wonderful discussions over lunch and got some good ideas, and some, that would actually lead to completely changing the format of my course.”

27. Moving forward on your campus • Identify ways to build faculty trust • Identify and approach potential partners on your campus • Identify what your unit can do to assist partners • Identify strategies for infusing your entire campus with learning principles

28. Resources at The University of Delaware • PRESENT, UD’s Teaching, Learning, and Technology Center, www.udel.edu/present • Grant Program http://www.udel.edu/present/grant/ • UD’s General Education Initiative http://www.udel.edu/ugs/gened/ • Institute for Transforming Undergraduate Education http://www.udel.edu/inst/