2000 February Focus Session

Transforming Teaching with Technology: Faculty Engagement and Support
February 14, 2000
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington

Proceedings

Meeting Purpose

The first of a series of NLII Focus Sessions will be held in Seattle on February 14, 2000, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. This session is cosponsored by the NLII and the University of Washington and will be held on the University of Washington campus. The session is open to all EDUCAUSE members. This working session will concentrate on faculty engagement and development as it relates to using technology to transform teaching and learning. Expected attendees include:

Faculty leaders from institutions wanting to transform teaching and learning through the use of information technology and desiring to know about the support infrastructures necessary to do so.
Mid-level staff who support faculty in carrying out their teaching tasks and who want to understand the faculty perspective, culture, and best practices in providing this support. Possible attendees include technical support personnel, curriculum development staff, learning/teaching resources center personnel, media center staff, and librarians.
Directors and managers for teaching/learning resource centers and other units that provide technical support, curriculum development, media support, and library support to faculty who want to transform teaching and learning through the use of information technology.

Questions We Will Tackle

How should faculty support efforts be developed, structured, organized, maintained, and coordinated in ways that:
- best support faculty and align with (or build) faculty teaching cultures;
- leverage typically limited campus resources for faculty development; and
- diffuse innovations in teaching with technology?
What are the experiences that motivate faculty members to use technology to improve their teaching and student learning? What are the conditions that could lead to such experiences? What are the resources necessary to create those conditions?
What are the experiences that enable a faculty support staff member to be effective? What are the conditions that could lead to such experiences? What are the resources necessary to create those conditions?
What effects do institutional culture, history, values, and environment have on the conditions described above? What are effective strategies for mitigating or leveraging these effects, to create the desired conditions?

Meeting Outcome

The goal of the focus session is to produce recommendations for new practices in the support of faculty in their use of technology and new forms of engagement with faculty in the discourse surrounding teaching and learning.

To make this working session as productive as possible, there are some pre-session assignments that attendees are asked to complete BEFORE they arrive at the conference:

Read the first draft of the Best Practices document (which will be completed and available on the NLII Web site by February 4, 2000).
Through preconference research, identify and collect information (about the institution, URL, and program/project) for at least one institution that seems to have an effective faculty engagement and support program, and
Draft a paragraph about what works/what doesn't work at your own institution, with regard to programs, projects, and practices that are intended to provide faculty support and development in the use of technology in instruction.

ELI ELI Events ELI Events Calendar		2000 February Focus Session Transforming Teaching with Technology: Faculty Engagement and Support February 14, 2000 University of Washington Seattle, Washington Proceedings Plenary Sessions Best Practices in Faculty Engagement and Support Meeting Purpose The first of a series of NLII Focus Sessions will be held in Seattle on February 14, 2000, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. This session is cosponsored by the NLII and the University of Washington and will be held on the University of Washington campus. The session is open to all EDUCAUSE members. This working session will concentrate on faculty engagement and development as it relates to using technology to transform teaching and learning. Expected attendees include: Faculty leaders from institutions wanting to transform teaching and learning through the use of information technology and desiring to know about the support infrastructures necessary to do so. Mid-level staff who support faculty in carrying out their teaching tasks and who want to understand the faculty perspective, culture, and best practices in providing this support. Possible attendees include technical support personnel, curriculum development staff, learning/teaching resources center personnel, media center staff, and librarians. Directors and managers for teaching/learning resource centers and other units that provide technical support, curriculum development, media support, and library support to faculty who want to transform teaching and learning through the use of information technology. Questions We Will Tackle How should faculty support efforts be developed, structured, organized, maintained, and coordinated in ways that: best support faculty and align with (or build) faculty teaching cultures; leverage typically limited campus resources for faculty development; and diffuse innovations in teaching with technology? What are the experiences that motivate faculty members to use technology to improve their teaching and student learning? What are the conditions that could lead to such experiences? What are the resources necessary to create those conditions? What are the experiences that enable a faculty support staff member to be effective? What are the conditions that could lead to such experiences? What are the resources necessary to create those conditions? What effects do institutional culture, history, values, and environment have on the conditions described above? What are effective strategies for mitigating or leveraging these effects, to create the desired conditions? Meeting Outcome The goal of the focus session is to produce recommendations for new practices in the support of faculty in their use of technology and new forms of engagement with faculty in the discourse surrounding teaching and learning. To make this working session as productive as possible, there are some pre-session assignments that attendees are asked to complete BEFORE they arrive at the conference: Read the first draft of the Best Practices document (which will be completed and available on the NLII Web site by February 4, 2000). Through preconference research, identify and collect information (about the institution, URL, and program/project) for at least one institution that seems to have an effective faculty engagement and support program, and Draft a paragraph about what works/what doesn't work at your own institution, with regard to programs, projects, and practices that are intended to provide faculty support and development in the use of technology in instruction.
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