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TLTR Home Page
Teaching, Learning, and Technology Roundtables
(TLTRs) came about because technology use has become part of the fabric
of any modern educational institution. Therefore no traditional
hierarchical structure can adequately deal with the problems and
opportunities raised by technology; some kind of cross-cutting,
pragmatically organized structure is needed to complement the
institution's normal structure. TLTRs specialize in issues that transcend the scope of any single office or department and
spotting issues that would otherwise fall through the cracks
of the existing organizational structure. They typically
advise the chief academic officer, the chief information officer, and
others. (In fact TLTRs usually thrive, or shrivel, depending on how
actively their advice is sought and heard.)
Here are some decisions
and programs that often benefit from the involvement and advice
of a TLT Roundtable:
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Support service crisis and how to deal
with it. This is an archetypal example of a TLTR
issue because at most institutions, there are units
scattered across the organizational chart that provide some
sort of support or training for technology use, all
(usually) with inadequate budgets and (often) with little
coordination.
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Planning an Information Literacy
Program (here the challenge is to bring faculty, the
library and Information Technology services together)
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Considering major changes in learning spaces
for the institution, on campus and online.
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Reviewing budget requests from across the
institution that deal with educational uses of technology
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Deciding to what extent and in what ways
distance or online education can support or extend the educational
mission
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Deciding whether or not to require all
students to purchase laptop computers -- why, how, when,
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Developing and guiding internal grants to
support faculty efforts to introduce new uses of
information technology into their courses
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Develop assessment programs that
encourage and support the use of data to spot
needs, analyze benefits, solve problems, reduce stress,
and control costs of using technology to improve teaching
and learning
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Advising the CAO on budget requests,
policy decisions, and
program plans
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Course Management System issues
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Relation of IT support, faculty
development, library, and distance learning in the general
sphere of improvement of teaching
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Phone:
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