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Stephen C.
Ehrmann was one of the founders of The Teaching Learning
and Technology Group. For over thirty years he has been working
on three related issues:
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how best to use technology
to improve education --for what kinds of improvement can
technologies be most helpful?
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studying how to use evidence
to guide and accelerate improvement in learning while
reducing stress and cost (e.g., scholarship of teaching
and learning; program evaluation)
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faculty development and
support strategies that can most efficiently spread
those techniques.
Since 1993, Steve Ehrmann directed the
award-winning Flashlight
Program on assessment and evaluation. Flashlight's
tools, training, consulting and external evaluations help
educators guide their own uses of technology, on- and
off-campus. Dr. Ehrmann's work on Flashlight has recently
focused on developing research strategies employing matrix
surveys.
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Dr. Ehrmann is also well-known
in the field of distance education and online learning, dating back to his years
of funding innovative research and materials in this field
when he served as a program officer with the Annenberg/CPB
Projects at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
(1985-96).
From 1978-85, he
served as a program officer with
The Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education
(FIPSE) (1978-85) and as Director of Educational Research
and Assistance at The
Evergreen State College. (1975-77)
Dr. Ehrmann has spoken all over
the world on hundreds of campuses, and at dozens of
conferences on the uses and abuses of technology for
improving education and on how to gather evidence to improve
the outcomes of educational uses of technology. As a
consultant, he helps design program evaluations and helps
institutions develop strategies for improving teaching and
learning with technology in programs and institution-wide.
Steve Ehrmann has written or helped to write four books and
over thirty articles in this field, on subjects as varied as
the economics of courseware and the future of liberal
learning.
His Ph.D. is in management and
higher education from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, from which he also received bachelor's degrees
in aerospace engineering and in urban studies. He lives in
Silver Spring, Maryland, with his wife Leslie.
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Matrix surveys - explanation and examples (2009)
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"Applying
Matrix Surveys to Online Learning" (PDF of
submission for Proceedings of 25th Wisconsin
Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning)
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"A Call for 'Training Wheels' for SoTL Novices," in
The
International Commons, II:1, Newsletter of the
International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching
and Learning.
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"Factors Affecting the Adoption of
Faculty-Developed Academic Software: A Study of Five
iCampus Projects", 2006.
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Flashlight
Evaluation Handbook (see, for example, the
Flashlight Approach and "Promising
Topics for Dissertations and Grant-funded Research")
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"Future of the Learning Space: Breaking Out of the Box,"
(with Phil Long) EDUCAUSE Review, 2005
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"Beyond
Computer Literacy: Implications of Technology for the
Shape of a College Education'" Liberal
Education, Fall 2004 and
companion web
site.
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Physical and Virtual
Learning Spaces: Planning and Evaluation (web site)
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“Increasing
the Value of Your Course Management System: Five
Assessment Strategies” Syllabus Magazine,
2003
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Flashlight
Cost Analysis Handbook (ed. with John Milam),
2003.
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"Improving
the Outcomes of Higher Education: Learning From Past
Mistakes," EDUCAUSE Review, 2002.
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"Finding
a Great Evaluative Question: The Divining Rod of Emotion,"
Assessment Update, 2000.
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"Access
and/or Quality: Redefining Choices in the Third
Revolution" Educom Review, 1999
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"What
Outcomes Assessment Misses" American Association for
Higher Education, 1999
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How
(not) to Evaluate a Grant-Funded Project (adapted
from a talk to staff and project directors of the
National Endowment for the Humanities).
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"Implementing
the Seven Principles, Technology as Lever" (with
Arthur Chickering), AAHE Bulletin, 1996
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"Asking
the Right Questions: What Does Research Tell Us About
Technology and Higher Learning?" in Change. The
Magazine of Higher Learning,1995
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"The
Bad Option and the Good Option," (later republished
as "New Technology, Old Trap", EDUCOM Review,
1995.
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Valuable Viable
Software in Education: Case Studies and Analysis,
(with Paul Morris et. al.), McGraw-Hill, 1994.
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Academic Adaptation: Historical Study of a Civil
Engineering Department in a Research-Oriented
University, 1978.
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