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| Wednesday, July 12, 2006: 11:15 AM-12:00 PM | |||
| Michigan B Room (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) | |||
| B-6: Building a Campus-wide Community for WebCT-based Teaching and Learning | |||
| Detailed Description: | Delta State University’s MARCS3 (Motivation + Attitude + Resources + Compensation + Support = Success + Satisfaction) Model integrates success factors and innovative practices in faculty professional development. The hands-on curriculum, delivered by faculty facilitators, helps instructors to effectively enhance their courses with Web technologies and best practices of Web-based pedagogy. In this interactive session, presenters will discuss pros/cons, how-to’s, and best practices of enhancing faculty preparedness for Web-based teaching and learning. | ||
| Presentation Format: | Showcase | ||
| Topic: | Empowering educators: Professional development models and methods | ||
| Target Audience: | Course Designers, Faculty and Other Instructors, System Administrators, Senior Administrators, E-learning Managers, K-12 Educational Staff | ||
| Appropriate Audience Level: | Beginning or new users of WebCT, Experienced WebCT users | ||
| Abstract Text: | Come and explore an innovative Faculty Technology Institute (FTI) Program at Delta State University, Mississippi. Sponsored by the Office of the Provost and the Office of Information Technology/Sungard Higher Education, the FTI Program integrates critical success factors and innovative practices in faculty professional development and training. The goal of the Institute is to enhance courses with WebCT/Web technologies as well as integrate best practices of Web-based pedagogy into the curriculum to make courses and learning strategies more interactive and engaging. The hands-on curriculum of the Institute, built around Kolb's theory of adult learning, Vygotsky's ZPD concept and Project-based/Peer-led Cooperative Learning, is geared toward assisting faculty with their specific goals and the primary hands-on training efforts fall to fellow faculty facilitators. Each year 20-25% of full-time DSU faculty will go through the FTI Program experience. The Institutes were a remarkable success: in Summer 2005, for example, 90% of the faculty gave the highest evaluation marks and participant/facilitator Journals and Reports revealed moving testimonies of personal, professional and group successes. The new improved distributed FTI model includes pre-Institute activities, followed by five HALF-DAY workshops during the week of the Institute and Post-Institute follow-up/support activities as well as separate tracks for beginning and experienced instructors. In this session, using case study/interactive seminar format, we will discuss pros/cons, “how-to's”, major issues and developments of FTI program and in its effective deployment at WebCT campuses, share experience and resources on active teaching-learning methodologies/techniques employed for faculty engagement, motivation and performance. We also explore best practices of enhancing faculty preparedness for Web-based teaching and learning as well as facilitate networking among participants and evaluate workshop effectiveness. Participants will receive the complete FTI kit (curriculum, schedule, metrics, feedback and evaluation forms, journals/report samples) which will help them to replicate the success the FTI Program on their campuses. | ||
| Session Leader: | Felix F. Rizvanov Delta State University | ||
| Co-presenters: | Lynn Byrd Delta State University Julie Campbell Delta State University | ||
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