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Connie K. Varnhagen Department of Psychology varn@ualberta

Putting It All Together: An Instructor’s Perspective on Designing, Developing, Implementing, and Evaluating Instructional Technology. Connie K. Varnhagen Department of Psychology varn@ualberta.ca. Enhancing Teaching and Learning?. Needs Assessment and Analysis

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Connie K. Varnhagen Department of Psychology varn@ualberta

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  1. Putting It All Together:An Instructor’s Perspective on Designing, Developing, Implementing, and Evaluating Instructional Technology Connie K. Varnhagen Department of Psychology varn@ualberta.ca

  2. Enhancing Teaching and Learning? • Needs Assessment and Analysis • Finding and/or Developing Content • Implementation • Evaluation Guide to Distributed Learning

  3. Enhancing Teaching and Learningor An All Consuming Endeavor? Guide to Distributed Learning The Doomsday Machine

  4. Needs Assessment and Analysis • Pressure to use new technologies • Administration • Students • Research results “C’mon, c’mon -- it’s either one or the other.”

  5. Pressure from Administration By the Year 2005... The university of Alberta will incorporate a learner-centred instructional model which integrates multi-media and technology-based delivery methods with traditional classroom instruction to serve students who are locally, regionally, nationally and globally based. This model will feature a variety of opportunities for lifelong learning. Report of the senate task force on technology and learning, September, 1995 (http://www.ualberta.Ca/~senate/exec_summary.Html)

  6. Pressure From Students • What do students want? • Lecture notes • Course schedule • Syllabus • Practice quizzes • Study guide • E-mail to instructor • Less important • Interactive modules, links, discussion, e-mail to students

  7. Research on Teaching and Learning • Well prepared lectures are associated with better lecture notes • Simulations and demonstration lead to better comprehension of the associated concepts than verbal and/or pictorial descriptions • Online course components don’t hurt and can help

  8. Finding and/or Developing Content • MUST align pedagogical goals with functions of the technology • e.g., overheads are immediately updateable and allow for spontaneity • Search for content before developing content • Repositories • Text book publishers • Teaching journals • Web • Colleagues

  9. Developing Content • Get help • Pedagogical • Technological • Evaluation and Instructional Design • Grossly overestimate the time it will take to develop content • Develop a research component

  10. Implementation • Be prepared for anything • Technology • Personal response • Be open with the class • Rationalize innovation • Request feedback • Humor helps • Be firm with implementation strategy

  11. Evaluation • Need for formative as well as summative evaluation • Student course evaluations • Faculty Evaluation Committee

  12. Formative and Summative Evaluation • Consult with Evaluation Group • Get ethics approval • Mid-course evaluation(s) • Focus group feedback • Summative questions along with (or after) course evaluation • Consider peer consultation

  13. Student Course Evaluations • Innovation associated with lower than normal course evaluations • Prepare students for the innovation • Rationale • Reinforcement • Be gracious under fire • Develop multifaceted course evaluation procedures with Chair

  14. Faculty Evaluation Committee • Must have Chair support • Good idea to have tenure as well • Follow through on research component of any development project • Prepare a dossier with specific emphasis on innovation • Don’t overemphasize your innovation

  15. Continued Innovation • Once an innovator, always an innovator • Share your experiences • With colleagues • At University presentations • At teaching conferences • Through publications

  16. Great Resources • ATL Guide to Distributed Learning • http://www.atl.ualberta.ca/dleweb/ • Web Guides and Tutorials • http://www.expressnews.ualberta.ca/ualberta/L2.cfm?c=1&s=72 • WebCT • http://www.ualberta.ca/WEBCT/ • University Teaching Services • http://www.ualberta.ca/~uts/

  17. Some Database Repositories • CAREO http://careo.ucalgary.ca • Merlot http://www.merlot.org/Home.po • LearnAlberta http://www.learnalberta.ca/ • Departmental Resources • BioDITRL http://database.sunsite.ualberta.ca/pls/biod1/ditrl.home • ITRL http://www.psych.ualberta.ca/~ITL/

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