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Virtually Anywhere
Sharing Effective Practices for Innovation in Liberal Education
Nancy Millichap and Rebecca DavisNational Institute for Technology in Liberal
Education (NITLE)
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NITLE
• An initiative working with 128 liberal arts colleges and universities, as well as with partner organizations and consortia
• Helping liberal arts colleges explore and implement digital technologies
• Concerned with the integration of technology into teaching and learning
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NITLE Network
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Plan for This Session …
In a discussion of videoconferences that faculty have used to share their teaching innovations …
• We’ll show two clips from a session• We’ll share their impact as faculty
development• We’ll invite discussion of such
sharing on your campuses• We’ll pull you back together for a
final discussion
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The Problem? A Vicious Circle …
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One Solution: Sharing Classroom Innovations Digitally• At NITLE colleges, faculty lead short
interactive videoconferences over the Internet on their pedagogical practices
• Brief (60 to 90 minute) presentations reach faculty in their offices
• 22 such programs over past 2 academic years, in several series
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Experience a Virtual Event
• Highlights, Notes, Tags, & Comments: Teaching Critical Reading of the Internet with Diigo
• Social Bookmarking & Website Annotation
• Gabriela Torres, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Wheaton College
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Why Faculty Lead
• Gain recognition, exposure for pedagogical innovation without expense, time commitment of conference attendance
• Discuss innovations with interested peers (campus colleagues may not share the specific interest)
• Develop connections with other early adopters – eventual goal is to forward inter-institutional collaboration
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Why Participants Take Part• Opportunity to gain fresh ideas
without leaving campus• Opportunity to engage in discussion
with peers from other campuses who share an interest in the innovation/technology being considered
• Easy to fit into busy professional life
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Professional Development Preferences
Evaluations of these programs, recent surveys of faculty, observations by academic support staff suggest that
• faculty today care about specific affordances of technology, not technology in general
• faculty learn most readily from other faculty
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Response to these programs• Topics are rated highly
– Mean, 4.38; median, 5
• Time is the scarcest resource: faculty want immediately useful information directly available to them
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Representative Topics
• Teaching with Blogs• History Engine: Tools for Promoting
Collaborative Education and Research among Students
• Imagining the Unseeable: Molecular Visualization with UCSF Chimera
• Technology and Less Commonly Taught Languages
• Digital Identities: Maintenance, Boundaries and Ethics for Students and Faculty
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Responses to Technology
• Ease of use of technology– Mean, median responses were both 4 of
possible 5• Likelihood of attending future
videoconference programsNo Yes
Maybe
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MIV Sessions as Campus Resources• Are webcams scary? Not so much …• Some groups participate as
faculty/campus “brown bags”• Recordings, whiteboards available
after the program for review, sharing
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Discussion: Sharing Innovation
• Innovative Practices on your campus• Small groups of 4-6 each• Take 10-15 minutes to discuss your
question• Share results with the full group
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Questions, follow-up?
• NITLE – www.nitle.org
• Nancy Millichap – [email protected]
• Rebecca Frost Davis – [email protected]