Today

1. Faculty Support & DevelopmentTLT Group SymposiumWhat Worked, What Didn’t Work, What’s NextSteve Gilbert, Steve Ehrmann, Bonnie Mullinix, Sally Gilbert, … and YouSpecial Guest 8/5/2008: Phyllis Dawkins, JCSU

2. Today • Context – Past & hope for symposium • 4 Questions: Past-Good, Past-Bad, Next, Favorite • Summary of responses from 2 FridayLive! Sessions & online survey • Phyllis Worthy Dawkins, JCSU • Faculty helping each other • Tom Creed • Other Compassionate Pioneers, Acts of Compassionate Pioneering • Survey – Steve Ehrmann • Close – What’s coming next? Milt Cox, Peter Felten, Randy Bass, Ray Purdom, … WHAT DO YOU WANT TO GET, GIVE?

3. Tom Creed • www.ntlf.com/images/tlc.jpg

4. Context Past & Hope for Symposium • How we got to BHWs • Context: Apply the following view to improving faculty development and faculty support • Getting from the Mythical Past to the Chimerical Future • Living in the real present • Small, useful steps • Sharing improvements rather than diffusing innovations • Collecting and applying useful info

5. Some Topics, Themes, Issues We’re Already Considering (1) We’ll return to this list later! See Google Doc • Faculty as ResourceLeaders and Compassionate Pioneers(ing) • Small Steps (includes LTAs, BHWs) • Small Groups (variation on “viral dissemination”) • Rationales Convincing arguments • Case Studies or Scenarios

6. Some Topics, Themes, Issues We’re Already Considering (2)We’ll return to this list later! See Google Doc • Constructive Responses to DiversityAmong Students and Faculty • Individual Independent Usage • Engaging Words, Styles • Inter- & Intra-institutional Collaboration • Evaluation/Research on Impact, Tradeoffs Among Strategies • Hybrid and Online Options • Caring: The 8th Principle?

7. For more info, suggestions • gilbert@tltgroup.org • See Google Doc: <http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ah77rqpdrwgj_339d7svgrg6>or http://tinyurl.com/TLTG-FacDev

8. “Faculty/Professional Development/Support”Activities and Resources to Help Improve Teaching and Learning (with Technology) Most colleges and universities provide a variety of activities and resources to help faculty members improve teaching and learning with technology.  "Faculty Development" is a term used widely in the United States that includes the full set of these activities and resources offered at a single college or university (and is not limited to services involving technology). We use “Faculty Development” and “Faculty Support” and recognize that these are not synonyms and that terminology matters.

9. How we do Faculty Dev/SupportStrategies, Activities, & Approaches FOR REFERENCE ONLY – used 7/25/08On this poll – options based on what we learned 7/11/2008 - “check” all of the following activities, resources, approaches, or strategies that are offered at your institution for faculty support/development – at least once per year: Institute or “boot camp”: group work (sometimes with individual projects) lasting many days Workshops – entirely face-to-face; ½- 2 days Workshops – entirely face-to-face; 1-3 hours Short sessions – entirely face-to-face; less than 1 hour Support staff with disciplinary expertise who work mostly or only with departments in similar field Consultations (one-on-one, classroom visits, etc.) Online support (guided demonstrations, online orientations, courses, chat rooms, etc.) Faculty Learning Communities/Working Groups Mini-grants for individuals Idea updates – Newsletters, emails, podcasts, RSS feeds Other (please enter your additional categories in the chat room)

10. Valuable – Last 5 Years During the past five years, what are some faculty support activities and resources provided by your own institution that were especially useful, valuable?  Why? [Please do not exclude activities or resources that you provided yourself!]

11. Valuable – Overview of what we said 7/11 & 7/25 • Events that highlight faculty (and student)/ Teaching & Learning accomplishments, expertise, innovations, experience • Targeted faculty events (aimed at specific categories of faculty or at specific topics) Faculty learning communities • One-on-one consultation/support • Mini-grants • Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) • Low-Threshold Activities/Applications & Brief Workshops [from TLTG] • Other - POD Innovations, certificate programs, responsiveness, “going to them,” inviting all, trying everything, etc.

12. Ask Phyllis Dawkins and others: What Else Works? What else has worked well during the past 5 years? What else do these examples make you think of?

13. Disappointing, Unwanted, or MissingFaculty Support Activities & Resources - Last 5 Years During the past five years, what are some faculty support activities and resources provided by your own institution that you would identify as instructive disappointments?  Why? 

14. What you said 7/11 & 25/2008 was Disappointing, Unwanted, or Missing • Training not implemented • Poor Attendance at events/offerings • Backlash against technology(challenges of online teaching, perceived as too difficult/complex, too many demands – technology comes last) • No policy/support procedures in place for online teaching • Too Many Demands/Oversaturation] • Other • Underutilized Resources • Lost personnel - not replaced • Tenure is still based on research • “Classroom discipline problems" that technology doesn't address

15. Ask Phyllis Dawkins and others: What else has been disappointing? What else have you found to be disappointing, unwanted or missing during the last 5 years?

16. What Should We Do Next?Faculty Support Activities & Resources in the Next 2-5 Years During the next two to five years, what services and resources should your institution provide?  Continuations? Improvements? New? Why?

17. What you said July 11 & 25, 2008 We Should Do Next • Identify strategies for increasing attendance/participation in faculty development activities/programs • Keep pedagogy central and in the forefront • SoTL (also at community college level)  • Other • Promoting follow-through/adoption of TL best practice/innovations - turning interest into practice/adoption • Cataloging and annotating LTA web 2.0 tools for T&L • Institutional policy, resources and support for faculty to teach online/integrate technology

18. Ask Phyllis Dawkins and others: What else should be done next? What else should be done next at your own institution? What else should be done next more widely? Where? How?

19. Compassionate PioneersCompassionate Pioneering • http://www.tltgroup.org/CompassionatePioneering.htm • Compassionate Pioneers are those who not only reach beyond their own limits and lead the way in developing or trying new options, but who also encourage and help their colleagues to take the same path.  Perhaps only a few of us can be “Compassionate Pioneers,” but most of us can engage occasionally in acts of “Compassionate Pioneering” – and we should do so as often as we can.  

20. Compassionate Pioneer Interview Questions 1.  Who are one or two people you can easily identify as obvious "Compassionate Pioneers"?  2.  Who are one or two less obvious ("unsung heroes") who occasionally act like Compassionate Pioneers? 3.  What are one or two exemplary activities of "Compassionate Pioneering" done by unsung heroes? 

21. “Compassionate Pioneer” vs. “Compassionate Pioneering”[OPTIONAL] • Why does/doesn’t this distinction matter? • What, if anything, be a useful difference between “Compassionate Pioneer” vs. “Compassionate Pioneering”

22. Tom Creed • www.ntlf.com/images/tlc.jpg

23. Tom Creed • Susan Kahn, Director, Institutional Effectiveness at IUPUI [Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis], skahn@iupui.edu in an email message August 1, 2008: • 'PowerPoint—No!  Cyberspace—Yes!' in NTLF (National Teaching and Learning Forum see http://www.ntlf.com) and his chapter on 'Extending the Classroom Walls Electronically' in New Paradigms for College Teaching, W. E. Campbell & K.A. Smith, eds. (Interaction Book Company, 1997) are two pieces that articulate his concept like Course management Systems – before CMSs became common

24. Tom Creed (2) "One of Tom’s ideas was uncannily similar to something that’s now called 'Just-in-Time Teaching,' which has garnered several major NSF grants here at IUPUI.  It was a TechnoCAT whereby students e-mailed Tom an answer to a question about course reading or material shortly before the class met, enabling him to get a read on what students understood well about the day’s material and what they were struggling with.  He then adjusted his plans for the class session accordingly.   [NOTE:  A "TechnoCAT" is a use of technology to enhance and extend the Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs) developed by Patricia Cross and Tom Angelo.  The term "TechnoCAT" was originated by Devorah Lieberman and Tom Creed.  For more, see "Technology applied to classroom assessment" http://www.ntlf.com/html/sf/vc75.htm. ]

25. Tom Creed (3) • "One of Tom’s last published articles  [1999] was a hilarious discussion of the frustrations of being an early adopter." • NOTE FROM STEVE GILBERT:  See "Confessions of an Early Adopter" in NTLF, March 1999, Vol. 8, No. 3 <http://www.ntlf.com/html/pi/9903/techped.htm>.   Still painfully funny almost 10 years later is Creed's 'The Early Adopter Personality Type Indicator Test' which you can find at <http://www.ntlf.com/html/sf/vc84.htm>.  This is perhaps even more painful and funnier now because so little of it needs to be changed to reflect what has happened with information technology in the last ten years!

26. Compassionate Pioneer(ing) Survey • Compassionate Pioneering is one element of how faculty can learn to improve teaching and learning with technology • Other elements: Faculty development programs, publishers, professional conferences, …. • Survey: How well is the “colleagues helping colleagues” element working? • Steve Ehrmann

27. Continuing Conversations – Next? TLT Group’s Online Symposium on Faculty Development and SupportTuesdays 1-2pm ET August 12, 19 & Sept 9, 2008; Milt Cox, Peter Felten, Ray Purdom, Randy Bass, … Registration – free to TLT Group Individual Members (anyone affiliated with a TLT Group Subscriber Institution is eligible for a free Individual Membership) WHAT DO YOU WANT TO GET, GIVE?Prepare to ask a question or Prepare to make a request, make a recommendation, make an offer, or make a commitment. Continuing Thread of Friday Live! Sessions (e.g. focus often on Faculty Development/Support, guided by what we have been learning in July & August, 2008)

28. Some Topics, Themes, Issues We’re Already Considering (1) • Faculty as ResourceLeaders and Compassionate Pioneers(ing) • Small Steps (includes LTAs, BHWs) • Small Groups (variation on “viral dissemination”) • Rationales Convincing arguments • Case Studies or Scenarios

29. Some Topics, Themes, Issues We’re Already Considering (2) • Constructive Responses to DiversityAmong Students and Faculty • Individual Independent Usage • Engaging Words, Styles • Inter- & Intra-institutional Collaboration • Evaluation/Research on Impact, Tradeoffs Among Strategies • Hybrid and Online Options • CaringThe 8th Principle?

30. What Else Next?Who Else Next? • Topics, Themes or Issues we should address? • Whom would you like to have as a guest presenter? [Include yourself!] • Future FridayLive! - Fridays 2pm ET • Online SymposiumTuesday 1-2pm ET August 12, 19 & Sept 9, 2008

31. For more info, suggestions • gilbert@tltgroup.org • See Google Doc: http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ah77rqpdrwgj_339d7svgrg6 or http://tinyurl.com/TLTG-FacDev

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