© 2005 gina navoa svarovsky preparing future faculty to teach effectively with technology alan wolf...

© 2005 gina navoa svarovsky

preparing future faculty to teach effectively with technology

alan wolf & gina svarovskyuniversity of wisconsin-madison


overview

teaching with technology course, spring 2004

• introduction to CIRTL• design and development of the course• implementation• evaluation• open discussion - if you were to help us design

the course on teaching with technology what would you teach tomorrow’s professoriate?


overview

video from greg moses

eTeach Presentation(must use IE on Windows)http://ats.doit.wisc.edu/alan/Moses_Talk/top.html

View the video or slides(Quicktime)http://ats.doit.wisc.edu/alan/moses.mov

Greg’s Slideshttp://ats.doit.wisc.edu/alan/Moses_Talk/

Slides/Educause2005.ppt


developing the course

team composition

greg gina



team composition

greg

jake

gina

alan



team composition

greg

jake

mike

gina

kitch

alan



team composition

greg

jake

mike

gina

kitchpatricia

chere

alan

mary



course learning objectives

students will be able to:• critically describe basic instructional

technologies;• demonstrate the ability to make appropriate

technological and instructional selections aligned with identified learning objectives and diverse student audiences;

• describe ways of conducting course evaluation and collecting assessment and evaluation data



topics covered

five sections:• teaching and learning basics• overview of technologies, case studies, best

practices• evaluation of technology and student

assessment• distance education, eLearning standards,

universal design• design projects



course website

• built on Desire2Learn• used to house course readings and activities,

discussion boards, and survey instruments


implementation

design projects

• this was our big experiment• scope, topic, implementation strategy and

evaluation plans were intentionally vague to all students to be creative

• milestones began in earnest halfway through the course


evaluation of 1st iteration

data collection

• pre- and post-course surveys• reflection papers• design projects

• data were analyzed to see if:– students met learning objectives– students were satisfied with experience



While there are multiple examples of beneficial use of technology in changing learning environments for the better… it seems a bit dangerous to me technology/computers are implemented to take over the assessment of student learning. One has to be careful that the technique/technology used for assessment does not put constraints on the nature of the learning environment. I see that technology/computers could be used to enable frequent, voluntary and fun self-assessments (e.g. on-line tests and quizzes), and thus give the students quick feedback allowing them to focus on deficiencies.

Student comments



design project results

• highly variable output from students– Some students developed proposals and prototypes– Others implemented and tested projects

• factors that may have affected outcome:– context for implementation (did they have a course

or audience to try it out on)– technology chosen for project (some students did

not yet have the expertise for the technology they wished to use)



A great idea and a very valuable addition to the skill-set of any future professors/instructors. The variety of issues and technologies covered helped give a broad perspective to use of technology in teaching. The first part of the class [on teaching principles] was also essential to the introduction of technology into best practices. Also, team-teach approach allowed for lots of expertise and variety of activities. Also, discovering links to various web resources was great.

Student comments



student recommendations

• better name for course• class sessions were rushed at times• overview of technology came rather late• design projects were started too late



bottom line

• met our primary learning objectives– evaluation of student work demonstrated their

understanding and ability to apply concepts of the course

• student satisfaction was high• room for improvement driven by both

instructors and students


2nd iteration

changes

• new team members• new name (focus on effective uses)

– “Effective Teaching with Technology”

• longer time (2 hrs vs. 90 minutes)• “technology fair” for first class (held 4th week in 1st

iteration)• clarifying/repositioning design projects

with frequent milestones• new content - “clickers” and visualization/simulation

sessions


2nd iteration

team composition

greg

jake

mike

gina

kitchpatricia

chere

alan

mary


2nd iteration

team composition

greg

jake

mike

gina

kitch

alan

barb


2nd iteration

team composition

greg

jake

mike

gina

kitchtim

stuart

alan

barb


2nd iteration

Video of Kitch Barnicle and Mike Litzkow Video of Kitch Barnicle and Mike Litzkow discussing their class on universal designdiscussing their class on universal designand the team based approach of the courseand the team based approach of the course

https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/alanwolf/web/EMW05.html


2nd iteration

Barb Ingham, Assoc. Professor (Food Science), Barb Ingham, Assoc. Professor (Food Science), describing her role in 2nd iteration of the coursedescribing her role in 2nd iteration of the courseand Brad Sleeth ,Ph.D. student, discussing his and Brad Sleeth ,Ph.D. student, discussing his impression of the course and its value.impression of the course and its value.

https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/alanwolf/web/EMW05.html


open discussion

size of institution

geographical location

1. What types of technology/skills would be helpful at your institutions?

2. If you were to help up design the course what would you teach tomorrow’s professoriate?


resources

alan wolfinstructional technology consultant

university of wisconsin-madison

gina svarovsky researcher and graduate student

dept. of ed psychology, university of wisconsin-madison

CIRTL website http://cirtl.wceruw.org/

Delta Program website http://www.delta.wisc.edu


Links mentioned in the talk

West Point Bridge Builderhttp://bridgecontest.usma.edu/eTeach virtual lecture softwarehttp://eteach.engr.wisc.edu/newEteach/home.htmlEngage Projecthttp://engage.doit.wisc.edu/National STEM digital Librarieshttp://nsdl.orgMERLOThttp://www.merlot.org

Some of the example technologies and sources of learning resources presented in the course.

http://bridgecontest.usma.edu/







http://eteach.engr.wisc.edu/newEteach/home.html

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Documents

course slide

course evaluation

course course website

technology course

course topics

course readings

evaluation data slide

madison slide