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FAMLEARNS ProjectSteering Committee Meeting

September 22, 2008

12:30 – 1:30 PM

113 Tucker Hall

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The FAMU Multimedia Learning Resource

Management System (FAMLEARNS) for STEM

Instructional Enhancement

2007-2010

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AGENDA

Project Team Steering Committee Charter Project Overview Technology Demonstration Year 1 Progress/Executive Summary Plans for Year 2 Challenges & Opportunities Photo Session

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Cross Disciplinary Project Team Dr. Edward L. Jones, CIS

Ms. Christy Chatmon, CIS

Mr. Chris Nowicki, CIS

Dr. Desmond Stephens, Math

Dr. Carl Moore, Mechanical Engineering

Mr. Douglas McDonald, CIS (admin)

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Steering Committee Charter

Purpose: Guide the evolution of FAMLEARNS as an institutional resource.

Procedure: Annual progress report of project status, accomplishments, assessment, and proposed directions for the next year.

Advocacy: Recommend migration of FAMLEARNS towards institution-wide adoption and integration with institutional educational technology.

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Project Overview – Driving Problems High failure rates in formative STEM courses

Biology CIS Math Engineering

Low technology adoption rates by faculty

Potential to impact 5000 students!

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Project Overview - Proposed Solution Captured Learning Resources (CLRs)

Visuals (e.g., PowerPoint) integrated with audio CLRs accessible via Blackboard, iTunes U

On-the-fly authoring & faculty innovation No special studio set-up Whole lectures, special topics, tutoring

Infrastructure for producing/publishing CLRs Automated capture, publishing (indexing) Help desk and support services for faculty

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FAMLEARNS Funding Summary US Dept of Education Minority Science &

Engineering Improvement Program (Project

P120A070081)

$460K over 3 years: 10/1/2007 – 9/30/2010

2-3 course buyouts per year

1-2-2 graduate students funded;

3-2-3 undergraduate students funded

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FAMLEARNS DEMONSTRATIONChris Nowicki

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Year 1 Progress / Executive SummaryDesmond Stephens Acquired FAMLEARNS technology

Developed initial software infrastructure –

automated upload to Blackboard

Conducted small scale usability studies

Created and trained Help Desk

Other

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Plans for Year 2Christy Chatmon

Deploy FAMLEARNS in STEM departments

CIS, Math, ME, Biology, Chemistry

Host FAMLEARNS session at 2009 Faculty

Planning Conference for non-STEM

Provide infrastructure and support services

Conduct project impact evaluation

Host FAMLEARNS on institutional networks

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Challenges & OpportunitiesCarl Moore Evaluation

Challenge or Opportunity Asking and responding to tough questions Guarantees continuous improvement over time

Questions we want answered Who is using FAMLEARNS and how do they use it? Is FAMLEARNS appropriately designed? Are effects being realized (productivity, motivation, etc)?

Where will we get our answers Web access, interviews & surveys, help desk feedback

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Challenges & OpportunitiesCarl Moore Promotion

Reaching FAMLEARNS customers Prior success (measured through evaluation) helps Early acceptance by key educators and students

Investigators are core STEM course faculty Building word of mouth support among students

Multimedia Marketing FAMLEARNS posters FAMLEARNS advertisement videos Other avenues?

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QA & DiscussionEd Jones

Project website – http://www.cis.famu.edu/~famlearns