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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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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
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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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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