Developing Faculty to Use Technology : Programs and Strategies to Enhance Teaching

by Editor: David G. Brown (International Center for Computer-Enhanced Learning, Wake Forest Univ.)

• ISBN13: 9781882982622
• ISBN10: 1882982622
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-08-01
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Summary

Developing faculty to use technology is a continuing art. This book chronicles how a wide range of universities successfully implemented faculty development programs to help faculty better use technology in their teaching. It offers an abundance of practical, proven information on how to integrate technology into teaching and learning activities.Readers interested in implementing or improving their own faculty development program will be guided by detailed descriptions of successful faculty development programs, their effectiveness, lessons learned, and possible variations of the programs that may be useful in other settings. Featured topics include The ethics of teaching in an online environment Communication across institutional boundaries Tips on communicating effectively with faculty Supporting faculty in the use of technology Creating a faculty instructional technology support facility Learning spaces Funding instructional technologies projects An agenda for a successful faculty workshop Using assessment to improve teacher education Measuring the impact of technology-based teaching on learningWritten for the architects of faculty development programs-directors of teaching and learning centers, chief information officers, information technology personnel, department chairs, deans, provosts, pedagogical consultants and course designers, members of faculty committees, and individual faculty members-this book will help readers become better able to craft a customized faculty development program that will enhance faculty potential to use technology in the classroom.

Author Biography

David G. Brown, a vice president at Wake Forest University, is a professor of economics and the dean of the International Center for Computer-Enhanced learning. He has served as president of Transylvania University, chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Asheville, provost at three universities (Wake Forest, Miami of Ohio, and Drake), and chaired several national groups including the American Association for Higher Education, Higher Education Colloquium, the American Council on Education’s Council of Chief Academic Officers, and the national Association of State Universities and Land-Grant College’s Academic Council. He is editor-in-chief of the gallery of Courses Taught With Technology and a member of EDUCAUSE’s teaching and learning committee. He founded the North Carolina Center for Creative Retirement, the Annual Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, and the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges.
A Wake Forest provost, Dr. brown chaired the committee that bought ubiquitous laptop computing to the university. He has keynoted several conferences in the United States and at the EDUCAUSE Australasia, 2001 in Brisbane, the International Conference on Improving Learning and teaching in Johannesburg, and the NACU Conference in San Juan. In addition to several hundred presentations and papers, his books include Ubiquitous Computer (2003), Using Technology in Learner-Centered Education (2002), Teaching with Technology (2000), Interactive Learning (2000), Always in Touch (1999), Electronically Enhanced Education (1999), Leadership Roles of Chief Academic Officers (1984) Leadership Vitality (1979), and The Mobile Professor (1967).
An active use of technology in his own classroom, he has been recognized as an “inspirational teacher of undergraduates” by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His classes have been featured on the front page of the New York Times, as a special on British Broadcasting Worldwide Network, as well as in The Chronicle of Higher Education, USA Today, and Business Week. Trained at Denison and Princeton Universities, his most recent course has focused upon “The Economist’ Way of thinking About College Basketball.” Dr. Brown has consulted with more than 300 colleges and university regarding their use of technology in the classroom and administratively.
Dr. Brown’s wife if 45 years, Lin Brown, is a gerontologist and community volunteer. Both children are married. Alison lives in Chicago (River Forest) and Dirk lives in Bone, North Carolina.

Table of Contents

About the Editor	v
About the Contributors	vii
Preface	xxvii
Part I: Philosophy
Philosophy: Faculty as Eager Adopters	2	(2)
David G. Brown
Philosophy of Faculty Development at Virginia Tech	4	(2)
Anne H. Moore
J. Thomas Head
Program Philosophy: Keeping Sight of What's Important	6	(3)
Thomas C. Laughner
Toward a Philosophy of Online Education	9	(3)
Douglas F. Johnson
Fitting Workshops to Faculty Mores	12	(3)
David G. Brown
Faculty Development in the Large Research University	15	(5)
Joanne M. Nicoll
Diane J. Davis
Philosophy: Agile Technology Support	20	(7)
Jay Harriman
Michele Estes
The Ethics of Teaching in an Online Environment	27	(5)
Douglas F. Johnson
Motivating Faculty: Five Strategies	32	(5)
William Frawley
Part II: Communication
Communication Across Institutional Boundaries	37	(4)
Diane J. Davis
Robert F. Pack
Cross-Campus Collaboration: Everybody Wins	41	(3)
Elizabeth A. Evans
Kathleen Thomas
Tips on Communicating Effectively With Faculty	44	(3)
Sara J. Exum
Building a Community Across Campus: The Distance Education Interest Group	47	(3)
Sherry Clouser Clark
Participatory Communication Planning and Implementation	50	(4)
Christine Y. Fitzpatrick
Communication Tools to Support Faculty Use of WebCT	54	(5)
Douglas F. Johnson
The Listserv as a Communication Tool: Keeping Blackboard Users Talking	59	(3)
Rosalind Tedford
Showcasing Faculty Work: A Joint Effort	62	(3)
Janet R. de Vry
When Popular Software Goes Away: Helping Faculty Transition to New Products	65	(6)
Jennifer Meta Robinson
Coordination and Collaboration in Faculty Support	71	(4)
Terry M. Wildman
The Virginia Tech Cyberschool and the Online Master of Arts in Political Science	75	(4)
Timothy W. Luke
Part III: Staffing and Support Strategies
Support of Technology-Enhanced Classrooms at the University of Georgia	79	(4)
Steven A. Gamble
Supporting Faculty With a Web-Development Team	83	(7)
Anne L. Allen
Instructional Design for Courses That Use Web-Based Components	90	(6)
Carol DeArment
Support From Students	96	(3)
Nancy Crouch
Supporting Faculty Adoption of Technology With an Academically Focused Technology Resource	99	(4)
Robert Vidrine
Supporting Faculty in the Use of Technology	103	(5)
Ed Schwartz
Shannon C. Phillips
Responding to the Individual, Reaching the Mainstream: A Hybrid Approach to Faculty Support	108	(6)
Janet R. de Vry
Successful Strategies for Faculty Sessions	114	(6)
Cordah Robinson Pearce
Untangling the Web of Services: The Resources Web Site	120	(3)
Chris Clark
The Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How of Providing Quality College-Level Support for Faculty	123	(6)
Rick Peterson
Building Online Support for Blackboard	129	(3)
Suzanne Cadwell
Lori A. Mathis
Creating a Faculty Instructional Technology Support Facility	132	(8)
Nick Laudato
Restiani Andriati
Preserving and Promoting the Scholarship of Teaching: The Teaching Academy Web Site Project	140	(4)
Shannon O. Wilder
Faculty Development Incentive at the University of Florida	144	(4)
Terry Morrow
Part IV: Teaching Environments
Classroom Technology: Becoming a ``Common Utility'' for Teaching	148	(2)
Dennis Williams
Learning Spaces at the University of Notre Dame	150	(3)
Thomas C. Laughner
Environment: Evolving Toward Simplicity	153	(3)
Mark McCallister
Wireless Laptop Computers in a Problem-Based Learning Classroom	156	(4)
Araya Debessay
Paul Hyde
Changing the Way We Teach With Classroom Annotations	160	(7)
Nick Laudato
Michael Arenth
Creative High-Tech/Low-Tech Teaching in an Integrated Teaching Environment	167	(7)
Carol Burch-Brown
Ann Kilkelly
Part V: Model Programs
The Faculty Development Institute	174	(5)
John F. Moore
J. Thomas Head
Special Programs: Grants for Course Redesign	179	(5)
Leila Lyons
Janet R. de Vry
Better, Cheaper, Slower: Evolution of an Instructional Technology Development Program	184	(5)
Bob Henshaw
Lori A. Mathis
Funding Instructional Technologies Projects	189	(5)
Kathryn B. Propst
Cordah Robinson Pearce
The Learning Technologies Grants Program	194	(3)
William K. Jackson
Development Grant Program: Advanced and Emerging Technologies in Instructional Contexts	197	(6)
William Frawley
Supporting Faculty Development With WebCT Workshops, Seminars, Consultation, and Online Materials	203	(6)
Margaret S. Anderson
The WebCT Seminar	209	(3)
Chris Clark
Agenda for a Successful Faculty Workshop	212	(3)
David G. Brown
Innovative Faculty Development Programs at IUPUI's Center for Teaching and Learning	215	(4)
Elizabeth Rubens
Teaching Assistants: Teaching Competencies of Future Faculty Through Technology	219	(5)
Kathleen S. Smith
The Governor's Teaching Fellows Program Serving Faculty in the State of Georgia	224	(4)
Patricia Kalivoda
William K. Jackson
Report From the Trenches: Faculty Development Through a Successful Grassroots Campaign	228	(5)
George H. Watson
Training and Support for Web-Enhanced Instruction	233	(7)
Nick Laudato
Restiani Andriati
Daniel Wilson
Using PBL in a WebCT Faculty Development Session	240	(5)
Erin F. Sicuranza
Valerie P. Hans
Karen M. Kral
George H. Watson
Creating Time and Desire in an Annual Program of Faculty Fellowships	245	(7)
George H. Watson
Faculty Development Strategies for a Multidisciplinary Faculty in Health and Rehabilitation	252	(11)
Ellen R. Cohn
Diane J. Davis
Joanne M. Nicoll
Carol Baker
Flying Without Wires: How a Political Science Class Used a Set of Technologies	263	(4)
Andrew Lang
Information Technology in Agricultural Extension Programs	267	(5)
Fedro S. Zazueta
Howard W. Beck
Jiannong Xin
The Development of E-Teachers for E-Learning	272	(3)
Judy L. Robinson
Part VI: Assessment of Student Programs
Meeting Online Assessment Needs Through Electronic Portfolios	275	(4)
Barbara B. Lockee
D. Michael Moore
John K. Burton
Assessing Instructional Uses of Online Synchronous Messaging in a Hybrid Course	279	(6)
Carol DeArment
The Math Emporium: The Changing Academy or Changing the Academy?	285	(3)
Michael Williams
Using Assessment to Improve Teacher Education	288	(2)
Susan P. Giancola
The Joy of Distance Learning: Recipes for Success (With Apologies to Irma S. Rombauer et al.)	290	(8)
David Potenziani
Part VII: Assessing the Effect of Technology on Learning
Using Benchmarking to Measure the Impact of Web-Based Courses in Nursing	298	(5)
Diane Billings
A Case for Authentic Assessment: Nutrition and Dietetics Internship Program	303	(5)
Erin F. Sicuranza
Ann Rucinski
Assessment: Measuring the Impact of Technology-Based Teaching on Learning	308	(3)
Ross A. Griffith
Formative Evaluation Through Online Focus Groups	311	(3)
Barbara A. Frey
Susan W. Alman
Assessment as the Lever	314	(2)
Kevin Barry
Student Perceptions on the Value of PowerPoint	316	(3)
Barbara A. Frey
Daria C. Kirby
Index	319