Visions

Visions, Strategies, and Planning

The Big Picture of Improving Teaching and Learning

The TLT Group is well-known for putting teaching and learning first. The resources below can help your institution consider the "why" and "how" of improving education with technology. The TLT Group also offers training and consulting in these areas. Please join us in thanking our subscribing institutions for supporting the development of these resources.

Where should we be going (resources about potential goals, costs, and risks)
How can we work together to get there? (resources on organizational options)
Issue-specific planning aids (smart classrooms, course management systems, portals...)

I. Where should we go? (resources about potential goals, costs, and risks)

	Visions for using technology to improve or transform education
	"Why Bother?" Helping answer the most basic question of all,
	Distance Education and Distributed Learning
	A Portfolio of Strategies for Collaborative Change, Priorities, Planning, Implementation:
	Cost-Effective Strategies. Strategies for improving education with technology that are especially careful in their use of budgets and people's time.
	Education, Technology, and the Human Spirit
	Assessing your institution's capacity to use technology to improve teaching and learning: a TLT Group service. Our team will work with you to describe current strengths and needs.

II. How can we work together to get there? (resources on organizational options)

	Teaching, Learning, and Technology Roundtables Providing better advice for leaders; speeding communication across the institution.
	Building Community and Connections Online and On-Campus. A TLT Group service

III. Issue-specific planning aids

	Planning physical, online, and hybrid learning facilities
	Getting More Value From Your Course Management System (e.g., Angel, Blackboard, Chef...WebCT)
	Planning and implementing e-portfolios. (subscriber version - requires standard TLT Group user name and password. If you don't already have it, ask your institutional contact.) Public version
	Campus portals - choosing them, using them.
	Transformative assessment (Self-assessment on readiness to use assessment to improve teaching and learning with technology). Register for free, and then choose the "transformative assessment" branch.
	Improving teacher education with technology. Steve Ehrmann has contributed expert commentary to this searchable database of videos on technology use in schools and teacher education programs.
	Student Technology Assistant Programs. Institutions can combine improvements in support with curricular improvement (service learning) by educating students in how to help faculty, staff and other students with technology.

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