Instructional Technology

Agenda Looking Back – 2013-14 NITLE Consultant Overview Looking Forward – 2014-15 Upcoming Sessions

Celebrate 2013-14 Training Schedule Based Around Themes Developed a 5-Year Campus Instructional Technology Plan (CITP) Met with departments to discuss needs NITLE consultant Started ad-hoc Instructional Technology Planning Group Met With Alums Resource Page CIC Consortium Cargill Grant Distance Learning Orientation Development & Pilot Quality Assurance Online Courses

National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE)

March 2014 Participants

• President• 7 Cabinet Members• 23 Faculty• 22 Staff• 12 Students

Faculty Experience Technological skills, comfort, and interest vary widely

across faculty & students Range of student technological backgrounds hinders

use of technology in the curriculum My.Wartburg LMS – mediocre at best – awkward –

missing features Leanness of academic information available to

support advising students Classroom technology – satisfactory

Faculty Experience Cont. Time-poor -shortage of time available to learn to use technology

• Need more support staff to provide training and advice• Response time for technical trouble shooting is longer than a class period allows

Students have more advanced personal technologies than faculty causing a difference in experience

Faculty are able to integrate technology into teaching but may not be to the extent desired

• Faculty expect the responsibility and labor burden of using technology as a tool• Need more support staff to provide training and advice• Response time for technical trouble shooting is longer than a class period allows

Students have more advanced personal technologies than faculty causing a difference in experience

Faculty are able to integrate technology into teaching but may not be to the extent desired

• Faculty expect the responsibility and labor burden of using technology as a tool

Looking Forward Survey – Fall 2014 Implement and Revise CITP for 2015-20 Assess Progress Professional Development Move toward Department Technology Plans Technology Conference Cargill Grant ELITE Technology Fleet Vogel Library

SessionsWednesday - Science Center 1021:30-2:00 NITLE Overview 2:10-2:50 ELITE Program and Benefits for you3:00-3:30 Instructional Technology Preliminary Training Schedule

Thursday- Science Center 1023:00-3:45 New features in my.wartburg