Redesigning College Teaching at Sacramento State University Dr. Rosemary Papalewis, Professor Education Leadership and Director, Center for Teaching & Learning Dr. Jean-Pierre Bayard, Professor Electrical Engineering and Chair, CTL Faculty Mentors in Technology Dr. Jan Andersen, Professor Family & Consumer Science, and Member, CTL Faculty Mentors in Technology EDUCAUSE Regional Conference Sacramento, California March 4, 2004 Copyright Papalewis, 2004. This work is the intellectual property of the author. Permission is granted for this material to be shared for non-commercial, educational purposes, provided that this copyright statement appears on the reproduced materials and notice is given that the copying is by permission of the author. To disseminate otherwise or to republish requires written permission from the author.

The Need for TuT….five years ago Create a community for faculty seeking to transform their curriculum using technology Provide resources (hardware, software and people) to carry out the teaching changes Serve an increasing student population without additional brick and mortar investment Provide access to our students anytime and anywhere

Our Vision at CSUS For using new technologies in learning environments at the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) consists of faculty members embracing their changing role—from “the sage on the stage” to “the guide on the side.”

CTL’s Faculty-Driven Model to Improve Teaching and Learning on Campus. Focuses on Faculty as Students Coordinated Assistance, Campus-wide technical, Faculty mentors, library professionals, and computing, communications & media services

Teaching Adult Learners Papalewis, 2003

The Goals Are 1) Support faculty in seeking technology-based solutions to educational problems; 2) Encourage faculty to choose appropriate technologies and technological projects; and 3) Improve communications among the IT staff, the Campus Computing Center, the University Media Center, the Library, and the CTL

Faculty Mentors are Instrumental in our Success The CTL employs Faculty Mentors to promote teaching learning strategies Faculty Mentors continue working with faculty throughout the project and act as part of a planning committee for future Institutes

Building Knowledge Communities We anticipate student learning will be transformed through the practice and reflection teaching focused on student learning that is made visible, sharable, and widely useful. Iiyosh, T. (2003). Electronic Portfolios as Change Agents in Advancing the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Both faculty and students come to understand resources and support structures to take advantage of new media and technologies as a community of practice and reflection.

Teaching Using Technology TUT Summer Institutes 158 (20% full time faculty) have completed training through the TUT Institutes 16,000+ students have been impacted Professors across all disciplines: 31 from Arts and Letters, 10 from Business Administration, 17 from Engineering and Computer Science, 36 from Education, 30 from Health and Human Services, 14 from Natural Science and Mathematics, and 20 from Social Sciences and Interdisciplinary Studies.

Assessments of New Teaching Strategies Faculty members embrace their changing role from “the sage on the stage” to “the guide on the side.” Indicators of Success: make teaching practices public and visible; establish a critical peer-to-peer review; and, build on each other’s work.

Faculty Report Their Teaching Has Changed… A Business professor said, “Using technology promotes student to student learning…and takes my content to a more conceptual process.” A Health and Human Services professor said, “Learning communities between two of my courses promoted independence and collaboration…provided more feedback opportunities for students.”

Faculty Report… A Natural Science and Math professor said, “My student’s feel connected to class outside of class…and they created materials using the technology that they could take into their classrooms for elementary student’s to use.”

Faculty Report… A Biology professor said, “the technology brought a conceptual understanding through a visual…thus allowing my taking of information with no physical basis to solve questions using this physical interactive visual.”

Faculty Report… A Foreign Language professor said, “technology allowed me to show movement of sounds…very graphic intensive to use first with sound then visuals are seen for inflection.”

Faculty Report… An Engineering professor said, “technology allows me to recreate a job site and build on theory and practices while creating a digital library.”

We agree with Bates (2000) faculty development should not be treated as a separate activity…must be embedded in a broad range of strategies and integrated by teams.

The Centerpiece of our Evidence of Success http://www.csus.edu/uccs/acadtech/tools/instruction/toolbook/showcase.htm and http://gaia.ecs.csus.edu/~jpforms/ctl/. These websites provide anywhere, anytime, resources for faculty members to develop skills in using technology in their classrooms.  

What's in the Our Future? Use wireless technology to provide access to development services to faculty anywhere. Provide discipline specific services that address the needs of specific academic units. Develop and implement an "intermediate" level Teaching using Technology program aimed at retraining past institute participants, and/or retooling experienced teachers who are looking to transform their teaching with technology.