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MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY
PROPOSAL FOR PUBLIC HISTORY RESIDENCY
Teaching Residency for Potential Archival Distance Education Program at MTSUMurfreesboro, TN
In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for theDoctor of Philosophy Degree in
Public History
SUBMITTED TO
Dissertation Committee-Dr. Lisa Pruitt, ChairDr. Ellen GarrisonDr. Brenden Martin
Dr. Lynn NelsonDr. Dianna Rust
SUBMITTED BYAlbert C. Whittenberg
August 18, 2010
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The overall goal/plan for this residency is to explore distance education
possibilities for the Public History program and specifically the Archives option. Currently,
the Archives program/option at MTSU is also part of the Archival Education Collaborative
(AEC). The AEC is a unique partnership of five universities (MTSU, Auburn University,
Indiana University, Louisiana State University and the University of Wisconsin at
Milwaukee) pooling their resources to provide classes through distance education delivered
by video conference transmitted over Internet 2. As part of the residency, I will serve as the
AEC liaison for MTSU during the 2010/2011 academic year. This will include ongoing
correspondence such as through the AEC email distribution list or scheduled meetings such
as the one to Baton Rouge on October 8th
through 10th
. For each AEC meeting/conference, I
will submit a written report to Dr. Rebecca Conard, chair of the Public History Committee
and Director of the Public History Program. I also plan on giving a 10 minute oral report on
the October conference to the Public History Committee at its November 5th
meeting. Dr.
Ellen Garrison will also provide advisory assistance with this role due to her extensive years
of experience with AEC and the SAEC (the original program before AEC that consisted of
only four southeastern schools).
As one of my first responsibilities, I will teach the AEC Fall 2010 course, HIST
6620 (Seminar in Archival Management: History of Archives and Recordkeeping). This
course was converted into a hybrid online course in 2008 with a grant awarded to Dr.
Garrison, and I was fortunate to be one of her first students in the course after the conversion.
Using a survey given that semester plus my personal experience, I will update the courses
online components (along with input from Dr. Garrison on what did and did not work when
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she taught it). I will use the experience from this course in the fall (plus over 15 years of
work in distance education) to then update HIST 6615 (Essentials of Archival Management)
to an online hybrid model for Spring 2011. I should be able to solely teach this course in the
spring unless a doctoral student signs up for it which would then require Dr. Garrison to team
teach it with me. It is hoped that the hands on or practical application portion of this
course can be handled through Saturday sessions at the Rutherford County Archives while
the rest of the course can be done either through online sessions in the Desire2Learn course
management system or the new video conferencing classroom being created in the History
department.
Assisting me will be my residency mentor and an authority on distance learning,
Dr. Dianna Z. Rust. There is her official bio from MTSU:
Dianna Z. Rust earned her Bachelors and Masters degree in Mass Communicationfrom Middle Tennessee State University and earned her Ed.D. from Tennessee State
University. Her dissertation research was titled Examining Interaction in Online Coursesin Relation to Student Performance and Course Retention. She recently co-authored an
article, Evolution of a Peer Review/Evaluation Program for Online Course Development,that was accepted for publication in To Improve the Academy, Vol. 29. She has presented
on distance learning topics at state, regional and national conferences.
She has directed the Academic Outreach and Distance Learning Department at MTSUsince 1998. Currently she is the Associate Dean for the Continuing Education and
Distance Learning. She has instructed online courses for the Regents Online DegreeProgram including ORCO 3240 Introduction to Organizational Communications and
PRST 6310 Leadership in Organizations.
Rust is a member of the Association for Continuing Higher Education, TennesseeAlliance for Continuing Higher Education and MTSUs Learning, Teaching, and
Innovative Technologies Center advisory board. She serves as the chair of the MTSUDistance Learning Committee. She has attended numerous training sessions and
conferences on utilizing technology in teaching and learning as well as training in onlinecourse management systems.
Both HIST 6620 and 6615s online components will be made available to Dr. Rust as well as me
meeting with her to discuss my overall plans during this year as well as my dissertation research.
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Dr. Rust will also serve on the dissertation committee.
Besides acting as liaison for AEC and the two classes taught, I will also serve on
the Ad Hoc Distance Education Committee currently being chaired by Dr. David Rowe in the
History Department. This committee is investigating moving several of the graduate courses
onto to a hybrid online model as well as upgrading the current conference/seminar classroom in
Peck Hall to allow online video and audio (this will be the room used by me for the Spring 6615
course). I have already attended the first initial meetings of this committee and will provide
assistance with technology training and support. Since several of the History faculty will be
investigating moving their courses to this model. I should be able to provide departmental
Desire2Learn training as well as using the new technology in the room.
In summary, my residency will consist of four main tasks:
1. Serving as liaison for the Archival Education Collaborative,2. Updating and team teaching HIST 6620 with Dr. Ellen Garrison in Fall 2010,
3. Converting HIST 6615 to a hybrid online model and teaching it in Spring 2011, and4. Serving on the History departments Ad Hoc Distance Education Committee while
providing both Desire2Learn and classroom technology training.
These should provide a number of key benefits for me as well as assisting in my dissertation
research. Teaching both courses will give me valuable classroom teaching experience while also
introducing me to the complexities of adapting a course to an online hybrid environment.
Working with Dr. Rust and the Distance Education Committee will enable me to understand
fully the difficulties of moving a program to the online arena and provide valuable insight on
possible questions for his dissertation on the feasibilities on an online public history or
specifically an archival program. Serving as liaison will also allow me to work with faculty from
several universities as well as helping understand better the administrative duties of a program
like the AEC. By the end of Spring 2011 semester, I hope to have gained valuable experience,
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completed a professional portfolio and taken strong steps towards my dissertation research.