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Modules and Related
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Creating an ARQ Program at Your Institution l
Mailing List
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materials are for use only by institutions that subscribe to
The TLT Group, to participants in TLT Group workshops that
feature this particular material, and
to invited guests. The TLT Group is a non-profit whose
existence is made possible by subscription and registration
fees. if you or your institution are not yet among
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we invite you to
join us, use these materials, help us
continue to improve them, and, through your subscription,
help us develop new materials! If you have
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materials, please ask us (info @ tltgroup.org).
Goals
The goal of the ARQ program is to help faculty members
learn new ways to collect feedback from their students in order
to improve teaching and learning activities in their courses.
Feedback like this is invaluable for at least two reasons:
a) to help instructors improve teaching and learning 'on the
fly,' and b) to engage students by showing them that they
can help improve learning, for themselves and for the whole
course. Many ARQ modules focus on
teaching/learning activities that are supported with
computers. For example,
- If you routinely lecture using PowerPoint slides,
use an anonymous survey to ask your students whether lecture slides
usually click ahead too quickly,
too slowly, or at about the right pace. For more on the ARQ
module on feedback for faculty presentations,
click here.
- A more sophisticated
set of Flashlight questions can help the faculty learn about barriers
that have been preventing some students from participating
effectively in online discussions. For more on this ARQ
module, click here.
ARQ modules are so brief that workshops can be inserted
as agenda items in departmental faculty meetings, or made
the topic of a series of brownbag lunches, or provide
content for a series of brief online workshops. Institutions
could also offer a series of ARQ modules, one after another,
in conventional institutes and workshops.
Many of ARQ modules help faculty learn how to use
Flashlight survey questions and tools; if your faculty would
prefer to use other technologies to ask students questions
anonymously, you can adapt Flashlight questions.
Creating an ARQ Program at Your Institution
ARQ workshops will usually usually led by local facilitators,
e.g., staff from an assessment program, a teaching center,
the library, information technology, distance learning, or
other administrative units, or by faculty colleagues. The
TLT Group offers periodic online training for these
facilitators. The materials and training are free for
TLT Group
subscribing institutions.
Click here to see a list of ARQ
modules, current, under development, and projected.
To learn about institutional subscriptions and who currently
subscribes, click here.
Program Evaluation: As Mr. Spock on Star Trek might
say, 'It would be illogical' for us to offer a program such
as ARQ without also suggesting how you evaluate the impact
of your use of ARQ materials. For some initial thoughts, click here.
Preparing ARQ facilitators: In October 2007, The TLT Group
began offering online workshops to train people
at subscribing institutions who are interested in leading
local ARQ workshops (and perhaps contributing materials to
ARQ). These online 'train the trainer' sessions are free.
We'll pick a module, use it, and then spend some time
critiquing it and discussing how to use it and how it can be
improved. Participants will also discuss how the ARQ program
itself could be improved. To see when the next ARQ workshops
will be, click here,
and/or sign up for the
Flashlight mailing list. If your institution is a
Network member, and you'd like us to create training just
for you, online and/or on campus, please e-mail info @
tltgroup.org.
"Brief Hybrid Workshops"
ARQ is part of The TLT Group's
Brief Hybrid Workshop Program.
Our aim is to create forms of faculty support that are
accessible, easy and quick to offer, and that in turn help
faculty learn how to improve teaching and learning in small,
low risk, rewarding steps. If you're interested in
developing your own 'brief hybrid workshops' like those in
ARQ, watch for online workshops and regional workshops on
this topic, or contact our office to organize such a
workshop in your area.
The Five Minute Workshop program
is just one element of TLT Group services that help
subscribing institutions
engage larger numbers of
busy faculty in improving teaching and learning with
technology.
Flashlight Mailing List
The first ARQ modules are ready for pilot test by
interested subscriber institutions, and we're looking for
collaborators to work with us in developing more. If
you're interested in taking a look, in being put on the
Flashlight
mailing list (for notification of new modules and online
workshops), or asking questions about ARQ, please e-mail
Steve Ehrmann, Director of the Flashlight Program (ehrmann
at tltgroup.org). Or, if you already get e-mailed
announcements from The TLT Group, go to the bottom of one of
them, click "update profile," and add "Flashlight" to your
list of e-mails.
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