ITAC Briefing

Academic Support

January 2002

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University Strategic Plan Organizational Structure Teaching and Learning Support Research Support Classroom Technology Technology Training Outreach Collaborations Recognition “In the Works” Challenges

Overview

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Relationship to University Strategic Plan

INITIATIVE ONE: Continue to elevate the quality of undergraduate education in order to provide all students an enriched and challenging educational experience.

3. Systematically integrate the use of information technology into our instructional programs, so that all faculty and students can fully exploit new technology as an essential tool in teaching and learning.

Expand training and support services to help faculty with curricular redesign, educationally sound pedagogical practices, and the development and deployment of information technology based courseware.

Bring all students to a level of information technology proficiency appropriate to their disciplinary needs. Establish information technology fluency and information literacy requirements for all undergraduates.

Strongly encourage all students to have access to a networked personal computer, and require computer ownership for students in selected disciplines.

Bring every classroom up to an established minimum standard for information technology capability and create special purpose information technology enhanced classrooms and laboratories as required.

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Academic Support Organization

Ellen BorkowskiDirector

Teaching and Learning SupportPaulette Robinson

Classroom Technology SupportSue Clabaugh

Research SupportChip Denman

Technology Training ServicesDeb Mateik

OutreachAcademic Technology Coordinators

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Teaching and Learning Support

People Instructional Designers - help faculty with curricular redesign and

provide access to educationally sound pedagogical practices Instructional Technologists - enable faculty to use both online

technologies and classroom technologies Online Resources

Caprina - Innovative access to large collections of high-quality digitized images for educational purposes

OTAL Web Server - Instructional web server for support of instructional or research work.

Media Server - Streaming media web server for support of instructional or research work.

WebIQ - Supports collaboration and consensus building. With this tool you can have your students or participants brainstorm ideas, comment on them, and rate, rank and/or vote on them.

Paulette Robinson

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Teaching and Learning Support

Online Resources WebChat - A multimedia asynchronous chat tool that allows students to

include pictures, sound, or video with their comments. Links to other web sites can also be embedded in their comments.

Hypernews - Cross between the hypermedia of the WWW and Usenet News. Readers can browse through the messages written by other people and reply to those messages. A forum (also called a base article) holds a tree of these messages, displayed as an indented outline that shows how the messages are related (i.e. all replies to a message are listed under it and indented).

WebCT@Maryland - Integrated online course environment for providing access to static course content (syllabi, schedules, announcements, lecture notes) and interactive tools (discussion groups, live chats, online assessments).

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Research Support

Stat Lab A joint venture between the Statistics Program in the Mathematics

Department and OIT Provides extensive expertise in statistical consulting and data analysis Assists in the uses of mainframe and microcomputer statistical

software, such as SAS, SPSS and S-plus. Assists faculty, graduate students, and other consultees in designing

research protocols, formulating statistical models, choosing the appropriate methodology, analyzing data, and interpreting the results

Chip Denman

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Research Support

Visualization and Presentation Lab (VPL) Provides leadership in visualization and computer graphics technology,

in partnership with the university research community Actively pursues joint projects and grant proposals with researchers to

develop visualization tools for their particular requirements. Support and training opportunities for selected high-end visualization,

animation, and 3D design software packages, and for video production. Works with educators on and off campus to incorporate visualization

and presentation techniques into the teaching of specific disciplines. It further supports educators designing and teaching courses in visualization, scientific computing, video production, and color graphic publishing.

Chip Denman

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Classroom Technology

Technology Classrooms 54 Technology Classrooms Equipped to make it easier for faculty to use technology in their classes.

Located throughout the campus From 25 to 506 seats

Support Daily operations

Staffed Classroom Technology Office in Plant Sciences Maintenance of equipment in existing classrooms

Instructional Facilities Design Work with departments to design classrooms, training rooms, distance

learning rooms, computer labs, and other educational facilities Help users determine needs, developing and reviewing specifications and

design documents, and oversee installation of technology Ongoing maintenance for departmental facilities

Sue Clabaugh

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Classroom Technology

Classroom Technology Pilot Project Collaboration between ARHU, BSOS, MATH, Office of Information

Technology, Operations and Maintenance, Scheduling Office Developed and supported by the Teaching Facilities Committee Create a system for the maintenance and support of University of

Maryland College Park lecture halls and general-purpose classrooms Classrooms supported by Pilot Project

14 lecture halls 16 classrooms in Tydings 7 classrooms in Art-Soc 30 classrooms in Math

Teaching Facilities Committtee Minimum IT Standards committee

Sue Clabaugh

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Classroom Technology

Teaching Theaters Transform the teaching/learning process, changing it from its traditional

unidirectional information flow to a more collaborative venture AT&T Teaching Theater

Opened Fall 1991 20 Pentium-based stations, 40 students

IBM-TQ Teaching Theater Opened Fall 1993 20 Pentium-based stations, 40 students

OIT Teaching Theater Opened Fall 1997 24 Macintosh stations, 48 students

Plant Sciences Teaching Theater Opened Fall 2000 36 Pentium-based stations, 36 students

Paulette Robinson

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Classroom Technology

Faculty Technology Center 30 seat Pentium-based computer training facility

Instructional WAM Labs Configured for training 3 - 20 seat training facility and student WAM lab Windows, Macintosh and Unix operating systems

Paulette Robinson

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Technology Training Services

Institute for Instructional Technology Co-sponsored by OIT and Center for Teaching Excellence Provides skills training and peer mentoring to faculty wishing to explore

the ways in which technology can be integrated into their course curricula

Provides hands-on, interactive training, instructional design guidance, product development advice, and pedagogical discussion and debate

1815 enrollees since inception (Summer 1995)Current fiscal year: 310

Deb Mateik

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Technology Training Services

Peer Training Instructors are computer-experienced students trained by OIT Non-credit classes for new and experienced personal computer and

network users Features a slate of 19 different courses Academic Discipline support - Math

Mathematica - introduction and intermediate MATLAB - introduction and intermediate

11,282 enrollees since Summer 1995Current fiscal year: 458

Deb Mateik

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Technology Training Services

Short Courses Non-credit computer training classes for the College Park

administrative, instructional, and research communities Combination of vendor-led training and OIT staff-led training Subject offerings range from introductory through advanced coverage

of popular applications like the Microsoft Office Suite, Adobe Photoshop, HTML, FileMaker Pro, Dreamweaver, Corporate Time and more; operating systems; statistics; and applications that are unique to academic and administrative computing at the University of Maryland

1339 enrollees last fiscal yearCurrent fiscal year: 395

Deb Mateik

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Technology Training Services

Web Designer & Developer Provides skills training and mentored workshops in the design,

development, and maintenance of web sites to College Park faculty, staff and students

185 trained since inception (January 1999)Current fiscal year: 20

Deb Mateik

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Outreach

Academic Technology Coordinators (formerly known as CCAs) Academically-focused CCAs Work directly with faculty and others to promote academic use of

information technologies in the colleges Colleges & Schools: AGNR, ARCH, ARHU, BMGT, BSOS, CLIS,

EDUC, HLHP, ICONS Project*, JOUR, LFSC, PUAF Technology-focused CCAs: ENGR, CMPS

Technology Associates* Provide technical services in other academic-support units on campus

*Not funded by OIT

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Collaborations

Center for Teaching Excellence Institute for Instructional Technology UM Innovation in Teaching with Technology Award Teaching with Technology Conference

Office of Continuing and Extended Education E-learning program

Masters of Life Sciences Masters of Ethnomusicology

Tek.Xam provide a means to assess problem-solving skills within the information

technology environment, particularly for college students in the liberal arts Train-the-Trainer program

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Collaborations

ARHU/Libraries Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH)

AGNR/LFSC Undergraduate Technology Apprenticeship Program (UTAP) - targets

sophomores and juniors with a "B" average or better to receive two credits while being trained to support faculty within their collegial disciplines with the integration of technology into instruction

College Park Scholars Undergraduate Research Day Working with students to enhance presentations Generating poster presentations

NFSC Dietetic Internship

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Collaborations

MATH Stat Lab

BSOS/ARHU/MATH Classroom Technology Pilot Project

Shady Grove Classroom technology support Instructional facilities design for Shady Grove III

R. H. Smith School of Business Classroom technology support

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Collaborations

Institutional Member of Campus Assessment Working Group (CAWG) “Technology Fluency” Working Group

Academic affiliations Honors course Honors Advisory Council CLIS course

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Recognition

Teaching with Technology Conference Annual spring conference College Park faculty share their experiences, research, and the tools

they have developed with campus and other invited peers

UM Innovation in Teaching with Technology Award Co-sponsored by OIT and the Office of Undergraduate Studies Award seeks to recognize innovative uses of technology in the

teaching/learning process at the University of Maryland Past awardees (both individuals and teams) came from a variety of

disciplines and addressed very different areas and constituencies

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“In the works”

Teaching and Learning Advisory Committee Chaired by Jim Greenberg, Center for Teaching Excellence Still identifying membership across the University

Research Advisory Committee Discussions with John Townshend, Geography Collaborate with NTS in providing support to the research community

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“In the works”

Teaching and Learning Technology Center Hornbake Library shared space with Non-Print Media, Digital Library

Project, and Electronic Text and Imaging Center (ETIC) Faculty development center which will house higher end equipment for

creating digital course materials Staffed by instructional designers and Academic Technology

Coordinators Access for both faculty and students Access Grid production room

Multi-channel videoconferencing via Internet2

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Challenges

Campus support for Technology Classrooms Number of Technology Classrooms continues to increase with each

new building, but resources to support those rooms do not By Fall 02: 18 additional Technology Classrooms will be online Support requires 1 technician per 10 rooms Life cycle and operational costs are inadequate Example:Computer Science Instructional Center (CSIC)

Meeting the needs of the research community Defining where OIT can help