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ITAC Briefing
Academic Support
January 2002
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University Strategic Plan Organizational Structure Teaching and Learning Support Research Support Classroom Technology Technology Training Outreach Collaborations Recognition “In the Works” Challenges
Overview
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Relationship to University Strategic Plan
INITIATIVE ONE: Continue to elevate the quality of undergraduate education in order to provide all students an enriched and challenging educational experience.
3. Systematically integrate the use of information technology into our instructional programs, so that all faculty and students can fully exploit new technology as an essential tool in teaching and learning.
Expand training and support services to help faculty with curricular redesign, educationally sound pedagogical practices, and the development and deployment of information technology based courseware.
Bring all students to a level of information technology proficiency appropriate to their disciplinary needs. Establish information technology fluency and information literacy requirements for all undergraduates.
Strongly encourage all students to have access to a networked personal computer, and require computer ownership for students in selected disciplines.
Bring every classroom up to an established minimum standard for information technology capability and create special purpose information technology enhanced classrooms and laboratories as required.
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Academic Support Organization
Ellen BorkowskiDirector
Teaching and Learning SupportPaulette Robinson
Classroom Technology SupportSue Clabaugh
Research SupportChip Denman
Technology Training ServicesDeb Mateik
OutreachAcademic Technology Coordinators
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Teaching and Learning Support
People Instructional Designers - help faculty with curricular redesign and
provide access to educationally sound pedagogical practices Instructional Technologists - enable faculty to use both online
technologies and classroom technologies Online Resources
Caprina - Innovative access to large collections of high-quality digitized images for educational purposes
OTAL Web Server - Instructional web server for support of instructional or research work.
Media Server - Streaming media web server for support of instructional or research work.
WebIQ - Supports collaboration and consensus building. With this tool you can have your students or participants brainstorm ideas, comment on them, and rate, rank and/or vote on them.
Paulette Robinson
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Teaching and Learning Support
Online Resources WebChat - A multimedia asynchronous chat tool that allows students to
include pictures, sound, or video with their comments. Links to other web sites can also be embedded in their comments.
Hypernews - Cross between the hypermedia of the WWW and Usenet News. Readers can browse through the messages written by other people and reply to those messages. A forum (also called a base article) holds a tree of these messages, displayed as an indented outline that shows how the messages are related (i.e. all replies to a message are listed under it and indented).
WebCT@Maryland - Integrated online course environment for providing access to static course content (syllabi, schedules, announcements, lecture notes) and interactive tools (discussion groups, live chats, online assessments).
Paulette Robinson
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WebCT Student Seats
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WebCT Course Sections
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Research Support
Stat Lab A joint venture between the Statistics Program in the Mathematics
Department and OIT Provides extensive expertise in statistical consulting and data analysis Assists in the uses of mainframe and microcomputer statistical
software, such as SAS, SPSS and S-plus. Assists faculty, graduate students, and other consultees in designing
research protocols, formulating statistical models, choosing the appropriate methodology, analyzing data, and interpreting the results
Chip Denman
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Research Support
Visualization and Presentation Lab (VPL) Provides leadership in visualization and computer graphics technology,
in partnership with the university research community Actively pursues joint projects and grant proposals with researchers to
develop visualization tools for their particular requirements. Support and training opportunities for selected high-end visualization,
animation, and 3D design software packages, and for video production. Works with educators on and off campus to incorporate visualization
and presentation techniques into the teaching of specific disciplines. It further supports educators designing and teaching courses in visualization, scientific computing, video production, and color graphic publishing.
Chip Denman
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Classroom Technology
Technology Classrooms 54 Technology Classrooms Equipped to make it easier for faculty to use technology in their classes.
Located throughout the campus From 25 to 506 seats
Support Daily operations
Staffed Classroom Technology Office in Plant Sciences Maintenance of equipment in existing classrooms
Instructional Facilities Design Work with departments to design classrooms, training rooms, distance
learning rooms, computer labs, and other educational facilities Help users determine needs, developing and reviewing specifications and
design documents, and oversee installation of technology Ongoing maintenance for departmental facilities
Sue Clabaugh
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Classroom Technology
Classroom Technology Pilot Project Collaboration between ARHU, BSOS, MATH, Office of Information
Technology, Operations and Maintenance, Scheduling Office Developed and supported by the Teaching Facilities Committee Create a system for the maintenance and support of University of
Maryland College Park lecture halls and general-purpose classrooms Classrooms supported by Pilot Project
14 lecture halls 16 classrooms in Tydings 7 classrooms in Art-Soc 30 classrooms in Math
Teaching Facilities Committtee Minimum IT Standards committee
Sue Clabaugh
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Classroom Technology
Teaching Theaters Transform the teaching/learning process, changing it from its traditional
unidirectional information flow to a more collaborative venture AT&T Teaching Theater
Opened Fall 1991 20 Pentium-based stations, 40 students
IBM-TQ Teaching Theater Opened Fall 1993 20 Pentium-based stations, 40 students
OIT Teaching Theater Opened Fall 1997 24 Macintosh stations, 48 students
Plant Sciences Teaching Theater Opened Fall 2000 36 Pentium-based stations, 36 students
Paulette Robinson
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Classroom Technology
Faculty Technology Center 30 seat Pentium-based computer training facility
Instructional WAM Labs Configured for training 3 - 20 seat training facility and student WAM lab Windows, Macintosh and Unix operating systems
Paulette Robinson
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Technology Training Services
Institute for Instructional Technology Co-sponsored by OIT and Center for Teaching Excellence Provides skills training and peer mentoring to faculty wishing to explore
the ways in which technology can be integrated into their course curricula
Provides hands-on, interactive training, instructional design guidance, product development advice, and pedagogical discussion and debate
1815 enrollees since inception (Summer 1995)Current fiscal year: 310
Deb Mateik
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Technology Training Services
Peer Training Instructors are computer-experienced students trained by OIT Non-credit classes for new and experienced personal computer and
network users Features a slate of 19 different courses Academic Discipline support - Math
Mathematica - introduction and intermediate MATLAB - introduction and intermediate
11,282 enrollees since Summer 1995Current fiscal year: 458
Deb Mateik
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Technology Training Services
Short Courses Non-credit computer training classes for the College Park
administrative, instructional, and research communities Combination of vendor-led training and OIT staff-led training Subject offerings range from introductory through advanced coverage
of popular applications like the Microsoft Office Suite, Adobe Photoshop, HTML, FileMaker Pro, Dreamweaver, Corporate Time and more; operating systems; statistics; and applications that are unique to academic and administrative computing at the University of Maryland
1339 enrollees last fiscal yearCurrent fiscal year: 395
Deb Mateik
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Technology Training Services
Web Designer & Developer Provides skills training and mentored workshops in the design,
development, and maintenance of web sites to College Park faculty, staff and students
185 trained since inception (January 1999)Current fiscal year: 20
Deb Mateik
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Outreach
Academic Technology Coordinators (formerly known as CCAs) Academically-focused CCAs Work directly with faculty and others to promote academic use of
information technologies in the colleges Colleges & Schools: AGNR, ARCH, ARHU, BMGT, BSOS, CLIS,
EDUC, HLHP, ICONS Project*, JOUR, LFSC, PUAF Technology-focused CCAs: ENGR, CMPS
Technology Associates* Provide technical services in other academic-support units on campus
*Not funded by OIT
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Collaborations
Center for Teaching Excellence Institute for Instructional Technology UM Innovation in Teaching with Technology Award Teaching with Technology Conference
Office of Continuing and Extended Education E-learning program
Masters of Life Sciences Masters of Ethnomusicology
Tek.Xam provide a means to assess problem-solving skills within the information
technology environment, particularly for college students in the liberal arts Train-the-Trainer program
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Collaborations
ARHU/Libraries Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH)
AGNR/LFSC Undergraduate Technology Apprenticeship Program (UTAP) - targets
sophomores and juniors with a "B" average or better to receive two credits while being trained to support faculty within their collegial disciplines with the integration of technology into instruction
College Park Scholars Undergraduate Research Day Working with students to enhance presentations Generating poster presentations
NFSC Dietetic Internship
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Collaborations
MATH Stat Lab
BSOS/ARHU/MATH Classroom Technology Pilot Project
Shady Grove Classroom technology support Instructional facilities design for Shady Grove III
R. H. Smith School of Business Classroom technology support
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Collaborations
Institutional Member of Campus Assessment Working Group (CAWG) “Technology Fluency” Working Group
Academic affiliations Honors course Honors Advisory Council CLIS course
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Recognition
Teaching with Technology Conference Annual spring conference College Park faculty share their experiences, research, and the tools
they have developed with campus and other invited peers
UM Innovation in Teaching with Technology Award Co-sponsored by OIT and the Office of Undergraduate Studies Award seeks to recognize innovative uses of technology in the
teaching/learning process at the University of Maryland Past awardees (both individuals and teams) came from a variety of
disciplines and addressed very different areas and constituencies
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“In the works”
Teaching and Learning Advisory Committee Chaired by Jim Greenberg, Center for Teaching Excellence Still identifying membership across the University
Research Advisory Committee Discussions with John Townshend, Geography Collaborate with NTS in providing support to the research community
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“In the works”
Teaching and Learning Technology Center Hornbake Library shared space with Non-Print Media, Digital Library
Project, and Electronic Text and Imaging Center (ETIC) Faculty development center which will house higher end equipment for
creating digital course materials Staffed by instructional designers and Academic Technology
Coordinators Access for both faculty and students Access Grid production room
Multi-channel videoconferencing via Internet2
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Challenges
Campus support for Technology Classrooms Number of Technology Classrooms continues to increase with each
new building, but resources to support those rooms do not By Fall 02: 18 additional Technology Classrooms will be online Support requires 1 technician per 10 rooms Life cycle and operational costs are inadequate Example:Computer Science Instructional Center (CSIC)
Meeting the needs of the research community Defining where OIT can help