Panel: Tech-enabled T&L and the Big-G

1. Panel: Tech-enabled T&L and the Big-G Bo Wandschneider, CIO, Queen's Glenn Hollinger, Dir. Client Services, Saskatchewan Mario Lebar, Dir. Enterprise Systems, Manitoba RestianiAndriati, Mgr Digital Media Projects Office, Ryerson Andrea Chappell, Dir. Instructional Tech and Media Services, Waterloo

2. Abstract • How are universities setting tech-enabled learning directions and making decisions for near, far horizon? • Potential big shifts (even tsunamis) in online learning space. Keeping up difficult, let alone setting course. • MOOCs, badging/credentialing, tablet/BYOD devices, gamification, learning analytics, ubiquitous social media, info consumers becoming providers, publishers’ offerings, open content and courses, scaling innovations, etc. • Our well-understood and participatory governance structures for setting tech-enabled T&L directions are closely aligned with university and IT directions. No?

3. Queen’s Bo Wandschneider, CIO • Set stage within big picture of IT governance • Queen's recently set up Teaching and Learning Advisory Committee (one of 3 advisory committees that Bo looks to for IT directions)

4. Saskatchewan Glenn Hollinger, Director of Client Services, ICT • Moving from "organically grown" stewardship for tech-enabled teaching and learning • More deliberate and planned approach • Participants in new model

5. Current State Organizational Units • Electronic Media Access and Production • ICT • Center for Continuing and Distributed Education • GMTLC and University Learning Center • College Teaching and Learning Centers Committees • Teaching Learning and Academic Resources • Learning Technologies Governance • Distributed Learning Governance • ICT Planning and Priorities • TACOBEL

6. Information Systems Stewardship

7. Educational Systems Steering Committee • Vice-Provost, Teaching and Learning • Chief Information Officer and AVP ICT • Two Deans (To be rotated every two years) • Associate Vice-President Student Affairs • Two Faculty members • Student Representative • Dean of Libraries • ICT Director Client Services (Non-voting) • ICT Director Applications(Non-voting) • ICT Project Portfolio Office representative(Non-voting)

8. Manitoba Mario Lebar, Director of Enterprise Systems in IST • Manitoba re-vitalized their Senate Committee on Academic Computing in April 2013 • Chair is Director of Center for Teaching and Learning • Broad membership includes faculty, administration and students • Forum for addressing enterprise-wide IT issues related to T&L • Recommendations and advice flow to Senate, President’s Advisory Council on IT and Innovation, CIO

9. Ryerson RestianiAndriati, Manager of Digital Media Projects Office, in CCS • 1.5 years ago Ryerson undertook process to set e-learning strategies • Advisory Committee on Academic Computing (ACAC) works as a consulting body alongside strategy process • Advisory to Provost & Vice Provost, Academic, and Vice President, Admin & Finance • Computing and tech issues, how they affect faculty, and vice versa

10. ACAC Provost & Vice President, Academic Vice President, Administration & Finance Advisory Committee on Academic Computing

11. Members

12. Role and Mandate

13. Waterloo Andrea Chappell, Director of Instructional Tech & Media Services in IST • No overarching strategic tech-enabled T&L committee • T&L support groups collaborate to plan and evolve • Goals/objectives from 2013 Waterloo strategic plan spurred renewed direction-setting activities • “Going green" – re-using existing committees for input to planned directions (Learning Environment Ops, Undergrad Ops, Grad Ops) • Is this sufficient for governance/stewardship?

14. Who “owns” Tech-enabled T&L directions? • Pedagogy should drive technology • True, but sometimes technologies arrive and reverse the direction • Main areas of support and evolution: • Pedagogy and instructional design • Course material development • Application support and development • Technical infrastructure

15. Tech-enabled T&L areas

16. Tech-enabled T&L areas

17. Have: Learning Environment Ops Reports significant items to top-level University IT committee (UCIST) • IT (Instructional tech group in IT) • Centre for Extended Learning (fully online courses) • Centre for Teaching Excellence (pedagogy support for campus courses) • Library • (And, connection to bookstore)

18. Re-using: Undergrad Ops Committee Operational matters (e.g., scheduling, calendar); at times, advisory capacity to Senate Undergrad Council  • Chair: Assoc. VP Academic • 6 Faculties • University Colleges rep • Registrar (4) • Centre for Extended Learning (fully online course) • Student Success • Accessibility • Co-op and Career Ed

19. IT: University Committee on Information Systems and Technology Top level IT strategy committee. Undergoing a Terms of Reference and membership review • Chair: CIO • 6 Faculty Associate Dean of Computing or other rep • Assoc. Provost, Students • Library • Co-op and Career Ed • AVP Academic • 2 IT reps (Instructional Tech, Client Services) • Special Advisory to Provost

20. Your questions? • Discussion re: “pedagogy should drive technology” but often IT is lead, where change is happening most quickly. • How to engage students? Student advisory groups, student IT experience groups, where students set agenda for what to work on; also, focus groups. • (Likely more, but no notes!)