Creating a faculty support model to increase faculty adoption of technology Drew Daniels Ed Evans Paul Fisher Ruth Maschino Bo Zigner Instructional Technology.

Creating a faculty support model to increase faculty adoption of technology

Drew DanielsEd Evans

Paul FisherRuth Maschino

Bo Zigner

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Team Blowfish

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Fugu University: Institutional Setting

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•Small Private College in coastal New England with 5,000 students.

•Highly selective, largely residential, 90% of the students coming from out of state.

•Level 1 research institution •500 faculty (400 on tenure track) experienced, internationally known.

•Extensive IT Infrastructure, including network resources with room for growth

•Currently in the middle of a capital campaign

Instructional Support Center

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Largely reactive unit reporting to the President through the CIO

Director

Instruction Designer ProgrammerInstructionalTechnologist

Admin. Assistant

Current State

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Faculty/Adminstrative Committee administered Gap Analysis Assessment to campus community

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The Challenge

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• Our ability to be successful in empowering faculty members is highly dependent upon:– the technology faculty are using– the desire of faculty to use technology– the desire of students– support from upper administration

Student Preferences

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Diffusion of Innovation

E.M. Rogers (1995)

Innovators Risk-aversives

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Give a man a fish and you’ll feed him for a day

Teach a man to fish and you’ll feed him for a lifetime.

Support Models for Faculty

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• Fish For Them: the instructional development unit does all the work in consultation with the faculty member.

• Teach Them to Fish: train the faculty, empower them to innovate on their own (continuously)

Pros• Faculty get 1-on-1 staff

support• Good option for complex

technology• Good option for faculty

new to technology• Quality control• Minimal faculty time

needed• Students get what they

want

Pros• Sustainable and

scalable solution for course development

• Good for faculty that are more self-reliant

• Faculty empowerment• Students get what they

want

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Cons• Not a scalable or

sustainable solution• Frustrates those

who want to fish for themselves

• Shallow use of technology

Cons• Requires standards

and choices• Requires

development of user documentation

• Investment of time• Meeting the variety

of faculty learning styles

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Professor Peter Puffer

• Tenured-full professor in the hard sciences

• Internally renowned, Level 1 researcher

• Currently has 10 million in grants

• TA’s do all the work• Secretary prints out email

each day for him to read• Has been Acting Dean,

Acting Provost but never got the job

Professor Gayle Sashimi

• New tenured track faculty in History

• Just developed online, interactive game on the Underground Railroad

• Has to work hard for funding but is a rising star in her field

• She completed all of her own work occasionally consulting with IT

• Is very much high touch with her students electronically and is well aware of the role of technology in the lives of today’s student

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Cook it wrong and it’s poison

Cook it right and it’s a delicacy.

The 2 Year Plan

FY2006 Objectives:

Expand staff and resources Add 2 instructional designersAdd 1 graphic designer Add 1 videographer Add 1 trainerDevelop Student Program

Faculty Development Plan & Incentives Recruit Early AdoptersRelease time for development/consultationInternal Granting InitiativesWorkshops

Increase Services to FacultyCourse Shell development Blackboard training Multimedia development Multimedia training

Assessment (end of year)Services: Focus Groups w/students and facultyTechnology Use: Administer Survey Tool

FY2007 Objectives:

Analyze Assessment Results and Adjust Course

Recruit Faculty Peer Consultants

Continue Faculty Development Plan & Incentives(target different faculty)

Release timeStipendsWorkshopsBest Practices

Increase Depth of UseMore Interactive Learning Objects Case Based LearningOnline Course Development

AssessmentAdminister Survey to campus community

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Goal: Double faculty adoption of technology

Assessment Questions

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Have we doubled the adoption of desired technology?How many faculty are using Blackboard?How many faculty have incorporated multimedia? How effective are the uses of these technologies?Have we met student expectations?

Target audience: students, faculty and instructional support staffFocus groups to develop survey Administer survey 2nd half of winter semester Work to adjust services for fall term

Effectiveness of faculty development

Budget Requests

Requested Budget Increase: $648,200Personnel: $418,750 to $931,200

Operating: $81,250 to $217,000

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Presidents may dream visions and vice presidents may design plans, and deans

and department heads may try to implement them, but without the support of

faculty members, nothing will change – Tony Bates, Director of Distance Education, University of British Columbia

We ask that you join our vision!