Thursday, April 14, 2011

Fulfilling the Institutional Mission: Best practices for training faculty

Charles Rigdon, U of Missouri-Columbia
Dr. Andrew Wright, U of Louisville


  • Mizzou:  Launched Tegrity Summer 2009.  Available via Blackboard Spring of 2010
  • 150 instructors using Tegrity currently
  • 8,000 recordings, 360,000 views
  • Keys to success
    • Keep training brief
    • Focus on early adopters
    • Provide necessary tools - cameras, mics, digital writing tabs, tablet PCs, etc.
    • Hand-holding may be necessary
    • Be available for quick response
    • Seek feedback about users' experiences after they start using it
  • Pedagogical Focus
    • Student recordings - practice presentations
    • Provide a 'model course' with a variety of recording examples to show instructors how Tegrity can be used
    • Panel discussions with faculty who are using it and how

  • U of Louisville - Soft launched Tegrity Summer 2008
  • Campus-wide deployment via Bb
  • Decentralized support
    • Central IT supports servers
    • Unit IT staff support end users
  • Marketed to faculty (newsletters, presentations)
  • Usage time increasing
  • Keys to success
    • Raise awareness
      • Student survey data positive
      • Include personal vignettes by students to show faculty
  • Pedagogical Focus
    • Group faculty training
    • Link to and demo specific use cases
    • Reinforce active learning strategies to avoid decline in class attendance. Passive teaching style might reduce attendance with Tegrity recordings available
    • Remind faculty that they are in control of their class (esp. in regard to class attendance)
    • New learning paradigm
    • Tegrity enhances critical thinking, promotes congnitive elaboration (modeling think-aloud-problem solving)
    • Voice Tracker array microphones used to capture entire audio spectrum
    • Providing feedback on accuracy of note taking
    • Supplemental recordings: problem sets, hot-to demos
    • Use Sympodium for annotations, diagrams
    • Student recordings
    • Record grading of projects, papers to provide to students
    • Remind faculty of Tegrity settings
    • Advance training available for faculty
  • Important take-aways
    • Documenting/publishing use cases
      • Highlight users and vignettes as motivators
    • Train the trainer sessions for Help Desk/IT
    • Equipment availability - loaners of mics, Webcams, etc.

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