February 22, Southwest Educause Conference 1 Copyright Rebecca Frost Davis, 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.

February 22, Southwest Educause Conference 2 Distributed Inter-Campus Team Teaching Rebecca Frost Davis National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education (NITLE)

February 22, Southwest Educause Conference 3 Outline NITLE Team Teaching –Value –Cost Intercampus Team Teaching Lessons Learned and Applications

February 22, Southwest Educause Conference 4 National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education Advancing Liberal Education in the Digital Age 3 Areas –Professional Development Opportunities –Collaborations –Exploring Emerging Technologies

February 22, Southwest Educause Conference 5 93 Institutions

February 22, Southwest Educause Conference 6 93 NITLE Institutions

February 22, Southwest Educause Conference 7 Team Teaching James Davis, Interdisciplinary Courses and Team Teaching –One course with more than one faculty –Varies in degrees of collaboration Planning Content Integration Teaching Evaluation

February 22, Southwest Educause Conference 8 Faculty Benefits of Team Teaching Social Benefits and Teaching Support Shared Course Responsibility for Planning, Teaching and Grading Maintain student interest and attention Become familiar with more students Help in Classroom

February 22, Southwest Educause Conference 9 Students Benefits from Team Teaching More stimulating Class Broader Expertise Diverse Viewpoints Faculty model scholarly / professional interaction and learning Integrative Thinking Access to more faculty mentors

February 22, Southwest Educause Conference 10 Costs of Team Teaching Faculty resources Reduces income from large classes (decreased student to faculty ratios) Extra time in planning and coordination

February 22, Southwest Educause Conference 11 Inter-Institutional Collaboration Leverage existing small courses Increase enrollments in under-enrolled courses Expand course offerings Access broader faculty expertise Geographic diversity of faculty and students

February 22, Southwest Educause Conference 12 Sunoikisis ICCs Sunoikisis: –A NITLE collaboration for the advancing of teaching, curricular development and scholarship in Classical Studies Inter-Institutional Collaborative Courses –Team Taught between campuses

February 22, Southwest Educause Conference 13 Sunoikisis Began in the Associated Colleges of the South (16 institutions) Classics: Greek, Latin, Archaeology Small Departments –1-7 faculty, average 2.85, median 2 –0-25 majors, average under 10

February 22, Southwest Educause Conference 14 Collaboration: Strength in Numbers

February 22, Southwest Educause Conference 15 Inter-Campus Courses 5 year cycle of advanced languages –One Greek, One Latin, each fall Archaeology CGMA: GIS in Mediterranean Archaeology

February 22, Southwest Educause Conference 16 Latin: Neronian Literature, Fall 2005

February 22, Southwest Educause Conference 17 Language Course Elements Face-to-face with home campus mentor Synchronous common session –Virtual Classroom with streaming audio, chat, and html lecture notes Shared materials online Shared discussion list for study questions and response papers Online exams with shared grading

February 22, Southwest Educause Conference 18 Evaluation 3 year longitudinal study funded by The Mellon Foundation –Executive Summary, Report and How-To Guide Principal Investigators –Deborah Olsen, Virginia Tech –Susan Frost, Emory University

February 22, Southwest Educause Conference 19 Evaluation Faculty and Student Gains and Challenges –Collaborative Teaching and Learning –Content Mastery –Intellectual Stimulation and Professional Growth –Technological Innovation

February 22, Southwest Educause Conference 20 Evaluation Conclusions Furthers a core goal of liberal education Successful collaboration of formerly competitive colleges Unbundling of instructional components to pool instructional resources

February 22, Southwest Educause Conference 21 Lessons Learned Challenges of Team-Teaching Technology solutions Other Applications

February 22, Southwest Educause Conference 22 Challenges Coordination and Planning Building Faculty Trust Communication Student discomfort with other faculty Disjointed course Evaluation and Testing

February 22, Southwest Educause Conference 23 Solutions Planning Technology Administrative and Technology Support

February 22, Southwest Educause Conference 24 Course Development Cycle Initial planning for curriculum cycle –What courses are needed when? Planning documents and calls in Spring –Preliminary syllabus for curriculum review committees –Recruiting students & faculty Summer curriculum workshop Fall Course

February 22, Southwest Educause Conference 25 Summer Curriculum Workshops Design curriculum Liberal Arts Pedagogy Intellectual Stimulation Face-to-face meeting facilitates collaboration and builds trust

February 22, Southwest Educause Conference 26 Technology Web-based Course Delivery System (CDS) – –Share materials for summer seminar and course planning –Learning management system for course Electronic Communication

February 22, Southwest Educause Conference 27 Administrative and Technology Support Course Director (lead faculty member) –Coordination of course members NITLE Staff and interns –Course coordination –Post materials –Monitor live sessions –Troubleshoot

February 22, Southwest Educause Conference 28 Course Delivery System Designed for inter-campus courses –Virtual classroom for live sessions –Archived live sessions –Configurable class lists –Class rosters with pictures and institutional affiliation –Granular permissions

February 22, Southwest Educause Conference 29 Advice for Team Teaching Institutional support Planning Training for faculty in both team teaching and technology Course Director & staff for coordination Administrative and Technology Support All faculty attend all classes

February 22, Southwest Educause Conference 30 Applications Team-taught course on single campus, in a university system or between multiple institutions –Learning Management System Forums for planning, administering and grading –Students in large courses find supplementary interactions online