Design Effective Faculty Development Programs Workshop California State Polytechnic University, Pomona March 13, 1999 Facilitator: Dr. Susan Kullmann Puz

This workshop examines successful support programs that facilitate faculty use of technology to enhance teaching, learning, and professional development.

This web site provides links to online information about the foundation for faculty instructional technology support at Cal Poly Pomona: Chickering and Gamson's "Seven Principles of Good Practice in Higher Education," as they apply to using technology as a "lever" for facilitating teaching and learning. Links to web sites for two intensive summer institutes illustrate the evolution of one important component of IT support at Cal Poly Pomona. Current active technology faculty development sites are the Faculty Computing Support web site and the IT_Fits (Faculty In-Office Technology Support) program.

Technology to Enhance Teaching and Learning

• Summary of The Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education

Good practice in undergraduate education:

1. Encourages contact between students and faculty.
2. Develops reciprocity and cooperation among students.
3. Encourages active learning.
4. Gives prompt feedback.
5. Emphasizes time on task.
6. Communicates high expectations.
7. Respects diverse talents and ways of learning.

• Implementing the Seven Principles: Technology as Lever
• University of Delaware: MUG Meeting Web Links, February 19, 1999
• How Can Instructional Technology Improve Teaching and Learning?

Cal Poly Pomona Programs

• Faculty Computing Support web site: (http://www.csupomona.edu/~faculty_center/lab)
  • Instructional Technology and Academic Computing
  • Campus Planning for Information and Communications Technology
• IT_Fits (In-Office Technology Support) Program web site: http://www.csupomona.edu/~faculty_center/it_fits
• Three intensive summer workshops + faculty mentoring program: SWIM97: Summer Web Institutes and Mentoring: One two-week Introductory Web Page Design (focus: preparation for 1 course web site) and two Intermediate one-week intensive workshops (CGI and Java)
• Three discipline-based two-week intensive introductory summer web page design workshops ((focus: preparation for 1 course web site) + modified faculty mentoring program: SWIM98

Useful Online Resources

Technology Program Policy/General Online Resources & Publications

• Educause Home Page: nonprofit consortium of higher education institutions that focuses on the management and use of computational, network, and information resources in support of higher education's missions of scholarship, instruction, service, and administration.
• Educational Technologies: from the Virtual Library, with links and a searchable database.
• Yahoo! Education/Instructional Technology Page.
• InTRO: Instructional Technology Research Online: Papers, hand-outs, bibliographies, electronic media, and other materials available online; awards/links.
• SyllabusWeb: Information on technologies used to enhance education, including a Higher Ed. web site of the week and highlights from Syllabus Magazine.
• Champlain Valley Union High School's1995 Technology Plan.

Assessing Technology and Information Competence

• Western Carolina U.'s Online Tutorials for Technology Competency
• Information Competence Planning in the CSU and at Cal Poly Pomona

Evaluating Technology Programs

• Cal Poly Pomona Assessment & Action Plans
  • Training Outcomes
  • Support Outcomes
• Annenberg/CPB Projects: Learner Online: Research and Evaluation - Flashlight: Tools, Methods, Strategies of Evaluation. Also see The Flashlight Project: Spotting an Elephant in the Dark. The Flashlight Project is developing a constellation of survey items, interview questions, cost analysis methods, and other resources that educational institutions can use to study and steer their own uses of technology. For evaluation tool examples, see AAHE's Educational Strategies.

Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or comments.
-- Susan Kullmann Puz, skpuz@csupomona.edu

Updated March 12, 1999