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Guidelines for a Local
TLTR
Teaching, Learning,
and Technology Roundtable
To achieve the best in teaching and learning
through more effective use of information technology while controlling costs, a college or
university needs continuing communication, cooperation, and collaboration among
representatives of a wide range of faculty and academic support services to facilitate
better planning, decision making, and support for faculty and students. Exchanging candid
information among and within institutions helps develop more realistic goals, measurable
against more realistic benchmarks. Consequently, each campus TLT Roundtable should have
these 6 characteristics (adapted to reflect local circumstances --
especially local politics and culture):
| Two Categories of
Faculty Represented |
Central to each TLT Roundtable is the
active representation of faculty members who have already begun to use information
technology in their teaching; and equally active representation of faculty members, who
have NOT yet begun to use information technology in their teaching. (Preferably, including
faculty leaders from both groups.) Faculty representation might also include
tenured/un-tenured, and full/part-time. |
| Four+ Services Organizations Represented |
Active representation of key
service/support organizations within the institution. (Minimum 4: library,
computing/video/telecommunications, bookstore, teaching’ learning center or faculty
development group - if there is one.) It is also desirable to include representatives from
other relevant campus service organizations (e.g. Student affairs, facilities management,
disabilities, development) and from other relevant administrative divisions, or faculty
governance organization - everyone who can help understand current trends and support
future efforts to improve teaching and learning via information technology. |
| Chief Academic
Officer Engaged |
Active engagement of the Chief
Academic Officer. (Possible, but not necessarily, chairing the group; on some campuses it
may be more practical to have a close colleague represent the CAO some of the time.) |
| Student Views
Available |
Through student representatives (or
other means more appropriate for the institution) the needs, interests, and capabilities
of undergraduates and graduate students are available to TLTR participants. |
| Inter-
institutional Information Exchange & TLTR Coordinator |
Identification of a coordinator for
the campus TLT Roundtable who will be responsible for communicating with the TLT Group and
other campus Roundtables. Commitment to exchanging relevant information with other
campuses, industry representatives, funding agencies; especially through participation in
annual TLT Group events, the TLT Group World Wide Web site and online discussions,
regional activities, and collaborative inter-institutional projects. |
| Long -
Term Institutional Commitment |
Issues related to
teaching. Learning, and information technology will not disappear or be "solved"
in a short time. Consequently, the anticipated lifespan for each local TLT Roundtable is
several years. (Even though the TLTR Program seeks to help each local TLT Roundtable
achieve some specific objectives within its first year of operation.)
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