1 Top 10 Challenges of the Academic Technology Community John P. Campbell & Dennis A. Trinkle EDUCAUSE Live! Monday, May 21, :00-2:00 PM Copyright John P. Campbell and Dennis Trinkle (2007). 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 authors.

2 ACTL  Advisory Committee for Teaching and Learning (ACTL)  Represent teaching and learning issues in EDUCAUSE

3 Instruction 2.0  Moving beyond formative stages of instructional stages  Shifting from “reproducing old ways in a digital format” to “creating new approaches”

4 Issues  Establishing and supporting a culture of evidence  Demonstrating improvement of learning  Translating learning research into practice  Selecting appropriate models and strategies for e-learning  Providing tools to meet growing student expectations

5 Issues  Providing professional development and support to new audiences  Sharing content, applications, and application development  Protecting institutional data  Emerging ethical challenges  The evolving role of academic technologists

6 Establishing and supporting a culture of evidence  Accountability part of the higher education landscape  Academic technologists will be expected to provide more data from an institutional view  Need to collaborate with academic administrative

7 Demonstrating improvement of learning  Evidence of improved learning will be required  Need to share strategies that support and improve teaching  Improving learning technology tools based on research

8 Translating learning research into practice  Awareness of a growing body of research  Translating research into practice  “Selling” research to faculty – “what is in it for me?”

9 Selecting appropriate models and strategies for e-learning  Growing number of models and strategies  Challenge of understanding the context in models are successful  Assisting faculty in adopting models and strategies

10 Providing tools to meet growing student expectations  “Net Generation” of students arriving on campus  Faculty vs. student expectations of technology  Do we accommodate students?

11 Providing professional development and support to new audiences  Retirement of faculty (30%)  How do we prepare for the next generation of faculty?  How do we transition from supporting early adopters to a more general audience?

12 Sharing content, applications, and application development  Collaboration is essential for survival  Collaboration needs to occur at all levels within the organization – professional development, content sharing, application development, etc.  Increased time managing collaboration.

13 Protecting institutional data  Increasing number of academic systems with large data sets  Data owners vs. data stewards  Skills required to protect and utilize data not always found within academic technology units

14 Emerging ethical challenges  Use of analytics continues to emerge  Authorization and access to data  Obligation of knowing

15 The evolving role of academic technologists  Need to have greater understanding of educational research  Must know how to work within a complex organizational environment  Defining “return on investment”

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17 Contact Information John P. Campbell Associate Vice President for Teaching and Learning Technologies Information Technology at Purdue (ITaP) Purdue University Young Hall - 5th Floor 302 Wood Street West Lafayette, IN (765)

18 Contact Information Dennis A. Trinkle Chief Information Officer Valparaiso University (219)