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FridayLive! Session Goals
Learn more about TLT Roundtables in general and the NCSU
version in particular.
Describe benefits & obstacles to TLT Roundtable collaboration .
Learn how to modify TLT Roundtables to better meet new/local
needs
Enable more institutions to have TLT Roundtable equivalents
Influence without Authority
Can’t keep up: Everyone already overloaded
Can’t keep up: Too many powerful, educationally attractive
resources, tools being developed too fast, too de-centrally
Faculty member "Why can’t I use in my courses the tools I use
online with my friends and relatives?"
Influence without Authority
Web 2.0 - profusion of options that are attractive to faculty
and students but NOT under the control of the university!"
College, university, system no longer owns or fully controls
some of the most interesting educational venues: Web, virtual
worlds, …
Way outside "In Loco Parentis!"
TLT Roundtable Revival!
2:05PM
CONTEXT –
TLT Roundtables began 1994
In the comments that follow, I'm using "TLTR" to refer to ANY
organization at a college or university that has these
characteristics (also see:
http://www.tltgroup.org/Collab/TLTR/guidelines.htm)
· Meet regularly (sometimes in subgroups, sometimes as a whole)
· Composed of a diverse set of members
· Advisory to Chief Academic Officer and others on professional
development, policy, budget and matters related to improving
teaching and learning with technology
· Help move information, from outside into the institution and
across the institution's many boundaries, helping the
institution notice and act on problems and opportunities more
quickly, effectively, and collaboratively.
TLT Roundtable.
We'll be talking about the sustained 8-year success of the
Teaching, Learning, and Technology Roundtable at North Carolina
State University.
Questions for Everyone
Start with Henry & Sarah:
Do you see value in engaging a wider range of stakeholders in
influential campus discussions about educational uses of
information technology resources?
For what kinds of issues is a TLTR really helpful?
For what kinds of issues is a TLTR really unlikely to be
helpful?
What conditions have changed in the past few years that
require different functions, roles, composition of a TLTR?
Faculty workload? Perceptions that learning how to use new
technology for teaching, learning will take a lot of time and
effort - and may not be either successful or appreciated?
Do you already have a TLT Roundtable?
Roundtables are organizations that share the above
characteristics, but they often have other names.
Not sure if your institution has the equivalent of a TLT
Roundtable?
Ask yourself whether it has a single formal or informal body
that includes representatives from the faculty, library,
academic support services, administration, etc. that performs
the functions described above.
If not, your institution may be ready for a TLT Roundtable!
Call it whatever works best!
Does your institution current have a TLTR?
TLTRs Especially (Un)Helpful with…?
For what kinds of issues is a TLTR really helpful?
For what kinds of issues is a TLTR really unlikely to be
helpful?
Changing Conditions vis a vis TLTRs?
What conditions have changed in the past few years that
require different functions, roles, composition of a TLTR?
Faculty workload?
Perceptions that learning how to use new technology for
teaching, learning will take a lot of time and effort - and may
not be either successful or appreciated?
TLTR Leadership
What kinds of people are especially well-suited to lead,
co-lead TLTRs?
How to EXTEND the role/influence of a TLTRs.
How to diversity and expand the membership even further.
How to engage more people from more constituent groups more
actively in these important and influential conversations?
Who are you?
Faculty, administrators, students, staff , etc.?
Put a check mark in the box that best represents
the discipline you teach or work.
Whom would you most like to add to your own conversations?
Who is most obviously missing from your own conversations?
Adapting NCSU TLTR Model
What elements of the NCSU TLTR model could work especially
well for your own institution?
What wouldn’t?
What factors at your own institution make it easier/harder to
launch and sustain an effective TLTR?
Important Strategies, "Arrangements," People?
To achieve and sustain a successful TLTR, what strategies are
especially important?
What arrangements are important? What kinds of support,
resources are especially important?
People from which roles/offices/depts?
How Can TLTR Help NOW?
How can a TLTR help an institution take educational advantage
of the growing student use of Web 2.0 and smart cell phones
and…..?
Faculty use of Web 2.0 etc.?
How many use "clickers" at your institution?
With what advantages and perils?
More….
www.tltgroup.org/OLI/20070420FL-TLTR-NCSU.htm
http://www.ncsu.edu/tltr/
Recommendations & Next Steps (cont.)
Find local leader/moderator/facilitators to develop, use,
assess, and improve more 5 minute hybrid workshops.
Develop plans, instruments to collect and use useful
feedback.
Develop guidelines.
What do you need?
What will you offer?
INTERACTION - OPTION FOR ASKING YOUR OWN
QUESTIONS, MAKING SUGGESTIONS
Offer a
comment to this TLT-SWG blog posting:
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