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A Few of the Ways in Which The TLT Group Helps Colleges and
Universities |
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Examples of how
The TLT Group Can Help You Meet the Need |
| We all need to learn to
gather and use evidence in order to improve practice and
outcomes: scholarship of teaching and learning,
assessment, formative evaluation... It's important to
improve learning, to get the most out of our IT investments,
and to meet demands of accreditors. |
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| Course improvement and
professional development - more cost-effective strategies
needed in order to improve and maintain all courses, help
all interested faculty and staff members. It should be
hybrid (face-to-face and online complementing one another)
and lifelong. |
- "Low threshold" ideas and materials for faculty:
support mainstream incremental improvement with teaching
ideas that can be broadcast to your faculty, as a
complement to workshops and one-on-one support.
See, for example, our '7
principles' resources and the 'LTA
of the Week.'
- Online Institute workshops on themes of emerging
interest (e.g., information literacy; blogs, wikis and
other forms of digital writing)
- Virtual TLT Center and/or TLT
Roundtable (close
coordination among existing units) to coordinate and
publicize support options. The TLT Group can point out
examples, facilitate meetings, and provide evaluation
support. Start with The Collaborative Change Workbook
(a subscriber benefit also available separately); consulting
also available.
- STA Programs:
More, better-trained student
technology assistants. The TLT Group can provide model
policies, assessment tools, and/or an on-site consultant to
help you create or enlarge your program
- Helping faculty assess their own
teaching: Help faculty and staff gather the data they
need to improve outcomes and reduce some of the stress of
innovative teaching (see Flashlight below)
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| Institutional leaders need balanced advice about budgets, planning and policies
affecting teaching and learning with technology. People need
to be working together and sharing information, but instead
we have conflict, duplication of effort, gaps in our
services... |
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information; pressure to use new technologies and minimal
guidance; thoughtful faculty, staff and administrators
seek access to a balanced and experienced perspective and to
like-minded others. |
- Organize a
Teaching, Learning, and Technology Roundtable
- Develop a
balanced portfolio of TLT strategies that reinforce one
another - a strategy for improving teaching and learning
with technology.
- Attend
FridayLive!, our free weekly exploration of Clothing
the Emperor (acknowledgement and exploration of
difficult discussions- reducing hype) topics,
stakeholders dialogues and QuickTakes (demonstrations
and discussions about tools and their uses).
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Online Institute workshops on themes of emerging
interest (e.g., information literacy; blogs, wikis and
other forms of digital writing).
- Subscribe to
TLT-SWG,
Steve Gilbert's long running 'Listserv".
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More information about
TLT Group subscriptions
and consulting |
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