Faculty connections across AMICAL
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Faculty connections across AMICAL
Jeff GimaAMICAL Director
American University of Paris
2010-2012 AMICAL videoconferencing studies
Deans’ perspectives:• 12/16 could identify faculty interested in
workshops on collaboration• How can AMICAL support collaboration?– Guidelines, tutorials, sample courses– Information sharing & networking
Initial forms of AMICAL support for collaborative teaching
• broadened implementation of high-definition videoconferencing
• AMICAL-AUC Workshop on Collaborative Learning Technologies
Questions about faculty connections across the AMICAL consortium
1. Have you ever collaborated on a teaching and learning project with a faculty member at any of these institutions [refer to list]?
Responses:• Relatively few• Mixture of informal exchanges and formal
course collaborations
Challenges
• Unaware/unfamiliar with AMICAL
• Technical challenges
Challenges
Time“I don’t see why, as an adjunct, I should spend more time than I do on something that’s neither acknowledged or conducive to an improvement in my position”
Questions about faculty connections across the AMICAL consortium
2. Let’s say you could participate in an online community of faculty members from AMICAL institutions. What might the online community help you do?3. AMICAL is creating an online resource center for faculty collaboration. How could you use this?4. …if you didn’t have to worry about money, technology or distance? Main benefit for students?5. What kind of support do you think you would need?
Expected benefits
• Broadened experience/perspectives for students
2011 Deans' survey: educational benefits of videoconferencing
[reduce travel costs]
connecting students with experts
globalizing students' view of problems
accessing inaccessible places
increased student collaborative activity
broadened diffusion of student work
increased student motivation
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
Agree ("4")Strongly Agree ("5")
Questions about faculty connections across the AMICAL consortium
2. Let’s say you could participate in an online community of faculty members from AMICAL institutions. What might the online community help you do?3. AMICAL is creating an online resource center for faculty collaboration. How could you use this?4. …if you didn’t have to worry about money, technology or distance? Main benefit for students?5. What kind of support do you think you would need?
Find people
Connect students
Meet colleagues…
…face to face
Ideas for supporting faculty collaboration
• Better use of AMICALconnect• Develop a more robust platform• Explore projects for connecting students• Face to face workshops• Admin/technical/logistical support for
collaborations