Ali Albrecht Brittany Freight

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University of Nevada Las Vegas
UNLV
UNLV
How Technology has Changed the Way Colleges
Deliver their Programs and Services to the
Student Body

• Ali Albrecht Brittany Freight

• Chris DesmaraisAlexander Templeton

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Presentation Overview

• Issue 1 Online Academic AdvisingRationale
  Used by Student Affairs for efficiency and
  ease of Academic Advising.
• Issue 2 PodcastingRationale Used by Student
  Affairs to reach students and beneficial for
  distance learning.
• Issue 3 Emergency Alert ServicesRationale
  To ensure that the students across the country
  are safe and able to be contacted as quickly
  as possible in the case of an emergency.
• Issue 4 Flash TutorialsRationale Used by
  Student Affairs and instructors for better
  retention and clarity of information when a
  student is present.
• Issue 5 Smart ClassroomsRationale State-of-the-
  Art technology incorporated into the
  classroom environment and justified by
  Student Affairs in retention and draw to the
  institution.

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Terminology Clarification

• Online Academic Advising Helps students to
  make better decisions when registering
  forclasses by giving information and helpful
  advice about courses.
• PodcastingPodcasts are audio or video files
  which have been recorded and downloaded on the
  Internet to be listened to at the users
  convenience.
• Emergency Alert ServicesA way to expedite
  notification to students in the event of
  weather-related closures
• Flash Tutorials
• Two-dimensional moving of shapes, or text, to
  create tutorials of instruction so students can
  view when not present for class.
• Smart Classrooms Technologically advanced
  classrooms that might include such state-of-art
  technology as Smart Boards, Elmo Paper
  Scanners, Overhead Projectors, Multiple Internet
  Seats, and various progressive Softwares.

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Reasoning for Issues

• To advance the way information is shared with
  students.
• Students learn in different ways Podcasting,
  Online Academic Advising, Flash Tutorials and
  Smart Classrooms are able to accommodate every
  learning style.
• Emergency Alert Services To keep students safe
  while on college campuses.

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Technology Mission

• UNLV Online Information Technology Mission
  StatementMission (The importance of
  Information Technology at UNLV)The primary
  mission of the Office of Information Technology
  (OIT) is to support and enhance teaching,
  research, scholarly and creative production, and
  administration through the effective management
  and use of information technology resources. The
  Office of Information Technology also provides
  leadership in helping faculty, students and staff
  utilize innovative technologies that results in
  genuine benefits to the University.(http//oit.un
  lv.edu/about_us/mission.html. Retrieved
  2/11/2008)Services Provided Include
• Development and support of applications and
  information systems that meet the changing needs
  of students, faculty, and staff
• Hardware and software maintenance, repair, and
  replacement for faculty and staff, teaching
  facilities, research facilities, college and
  department student laboratories, student
  laboratories, and administrative offices
• Assistance with the development of instruction
  programs that are less restricted by time and
  place than are courses and programs delivered by
  traditional means
• Access to the latest in instruction technology
  including training and incentives for integration
  of technology into the curriculum

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Online Academic Advising
(3) Categories1. e-portfolios 2. Student
Advising Systems 3. Student Learning
Assessment
Career Path Advice Online
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Issue 1 Online Academic Advising
e-Portfolios

• The e-portfolio provides a vehicle for student
  users to
• Learn about and understand the skills that are
  desirable for them to acquire throughout the
  college experience
• Become familiar with the array of experience
  opportunities in support of skill development
• Become proactive in planning a set of experiences
  and skill acquisition throughout college in
  support of their career plans
• Through reflection, translate a range of
  experience into skills and their career plans
• The e-portfolio represents a powerful tool that
  support college student development, as well as,
  career development

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Issue 1 Online Academic Advising

• e-Portfolio Pros
• Enhancing careers services
• Integrating and assessing student learning
• Versatile as institution
• Students are driving force

• e-Portfolio Cons
• Early stages, long term effects limited
• Complexity, cost and variability
• Integration requires tech and time
• Re-conceptualization of how institution defines
  and assesses learning

Example of the Interface
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Issue 1 Online Academic Advising

• Student Advising System 2.0 (SAS2) The latest
  web-based project developed at California State
  University Dominguez Hills.
• Helps students to make better decisions when
  registering for classes by giving them
  information and helpful advice about courses.
• Intended to be user-friendly and effective.
• SAS2 is built based on SAS previously designed
  technology.
• SAS2 is designed to provide support for both
  students and faculty during advising.
• The system combines
• Web-mediated advising.
• Well thought algorithm, database technology and
  e-mail by using Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP)
  scripting language for coding.
• My Sequel Structure Query Language (MYSQL)
  Database system for accessing students records,
  and e-mail technology application.

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Issue 1 Online Academic Advising
University of British Columbia (UBC), e-Strategy

• The implementation of new IT-based services or
  applications can play a direct role in enabling
  people to excel through simple time-saving tools
  and reliable infrastructure.
• Structured methodology for Business Process
  Redesign (BPR). The methodology was introduced
  by JM Associates, a small higher
  educationfocused consulting firm.
• By designing and implementing its own business
  processes through easily configurable
  service-oriented software, a university can
  tailor its relationship with students and alumni,
  reflect unique aspects of research capabilities
  and goals, and save members of the community
  valuable time.

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University of British Columbia, e-Strategy
Developments
Issue 1 Online Academic Advising

• Optical Light Paths Secure, high-speed,
  point-to-point connections that connect directly
  to a remote resource.
• Researchers can link the research team with
  needed resources.
• Consider the example of a Student Information
  System (SIS). It supports business functions in
  the registrars office, such as registering
  students and collecting tuition payments.
• Many of these systems do not allow a student to
  make payments that are not related to functions
  in the registrars office, such as library fines,
  parking fees, or buying textbooks. By contrast, a
  student needs to pay the bills, no matter which
  university department might be involved.
• Existing systems tend to be oriented to the needs
  of the department, not to the needs of the end
  user. This can be restructured within IT using
  e-strategy.

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Issue 1 Online Academic Advising
UBC e-strategy Systems Comprising Services

• Developments in Service-Oriented Architecture
  (SOA) are based on the principle that systems of
  loosely coupled standardized services will be
  more flexible, less costly to maintain, and more
  reliable to use.
• A service can be to process a credit card
  payment or set up a light path. Services
  communicate with one another through open
  standard protocols. They all speak the same
  language.
• Rather than customizing complex software
  packages, people can configure services to
  interact in ways that reflect their needs. A
  service-oriented IT architecture holds the
  promise of liberating from best practice to our
  practice.
• We will have the tools and systems capable of
  leaping departmental borders, but need agreement
  to use them, knowing that the new tools threaten
  to erode the clandestine departmental silos.

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Issue 1 Online Academic Advising

• Online Advising Pros
• Retention through restructuring less idleness
• Addresses commuter student issue
• Applicable to transfer students
• Faculty members may be new and relatively
  unfamiliar with the curriculum
• Small ranks of faculty requiring many
  departments to take special interest in advising
  students
• Distance learners
• Track their progress toward completion of their
  degree

• Online Advising Cons
• No face to face interaction
• Remotely located students and international
  degree programs
• Transfer students less attention
• Transferable credits from institutions
• Appropriate plug-ins
• Mandate for more open classes

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Podcasting
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Issue 2 Podcasting

• Podcasting stands for Portable on Demand
  Broadcasting.
• Podcasts are audio or video files which have been
  recorded and downloaded on the Internet to be
  listened to at the users convenience.
• Podcasts can be listened to through the users
  computer or transferred to an mp3 device which
  can be listened to by the user at their
  convenience.
• Five contributors to the rapid growth of
  Podcasts
• Pervasive internet activity
• Growth in broadband internet access
• Access to multimedia capable personal computers
• A blur between streaming and downloading media
  content
• The rapid adoption of portable MP3 playback
  devices

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Issue 2 Podcasting

• Five steps to create a Podcast
• Step 1 Create a script of what is going to be
  said or create dialogue as they go along
• Step 2 Record footage using a digital recording
  device
• Step 3 Edit footage using editing software
• Step 4 Footage is uploaded to specific web
  server and then to a Really Simple Syndication
  (RSS) feed which points to a specific episode.
• Step 5 User applies validation software to
  assure that the RSS is functioning properly
• The Podcast episode is now ready to be
  distributed to numerous Podcasting sites.

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Issue 2 Podcasting

• Podcasting in Higher Education
• Several examples of how Podcasts are used
• Recording of live classrooms, usually lectures
• University promotional materials, such as
  freshman orientation
• Special event lecture series
• Share announcements, such as sporting events
• Describe homework assignments
• Podcasts should be used to supplement class
  materials so that students can better understand
  concepts, theories, and applications that may not
  have been available during the class. (Vogele,
  2006)
• Podcasts allows students to revisit important
  information in order to grasp key aspects of
  lectures, assignments, announcement, etc.

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Issue 2 Podcasting

• Benefits of Podcasting in Higher Education
• Learner Control Students can re-attend, pause,
  and fast forward to the information necessary to
  help them learn in the way that suits them best.
• Accommodates Absent Students Those that have an
  emergency or are sick and are unable to attend
  class can view the lecture from their own
  computer.
• Significant Learning Aid for Auditory Learners
  Benefits students that learn better through
  listening rather than reading or taking notes.
• Conversational Voice for Online Classes To see
  and/or hear a professor conducting a lecture may
  enhance the quality of learning through online
  classes
• Convenience Faculty and students can access
  Podcasts fairly easily

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Issue 2 Podcasting

• Challenges of Podcasting in Higher Education
• Faculty Buy-In Podcasting Some professors may
  not understand the generation of students, may
  not be technologically sound for the use of
  Podcasts, or may not want to change traditional
  ways of teaching.
• Not useful for the hearing impaired.
• Two-way communication and audience participation
  is not found through the use of Podcasts.
• Understanding Effectiveness Since Podcasts are a
  newly used learning tool there is not a lot of
  evidence to show the effectiveness of Podcasts.

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Issue 2 Podcasting

• Podcasting has not been around for very long,
  there is not enough information to determine the
  effectiveness.
• What we know
• It is effective for those students who are
  interested in the uses of Podcasting.
• Podcasts are beneficial for students that learn
  better by hearing a lecture, speaker, or how to
  do homework.
• Relatively ineffective for students that have no
  desire to use the tools provided through
  podcasts.
• By giving Podcasts a chance to develop over time,
  case studies will have more of an impact on
  determining effectiveness.

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EMERGENCY
Emergency Alert Services
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Issue 3 Emergency Alert Services

• What are Emergency Alert Services (EAS)? A way
  to expedite notification to students in the event
  of a weather-related closure or an emergency
  situations that my be occurring on or near the
  Universities campus.
• Uses of Emergency Alert ServicesThese systems
  have recently been added to college campuses to
  insure that rapid, coordinated, and effective
  responses about a crisis situation reach
  students.
• Emergency Alert Services systems have been
  installed at hundreds of universities across the
  country since the massacre at Virginia Tech last
  April.

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Issue 3 Emergency Alert Services

• Cell phone alerts are promising new technology
  because they can quickly reach students at any
  time and/or place they may be.
• 3n, Omnilert LLC, ClearTXT, MIR3 Intelligent
  Notification, School World, Honeywell
  International, and Instant Alert are just some of
  the companies that specialize in the Emergency
  Alert Services
• and currently have accounts with universities
  and colleges around
• the country.
• These companies are unique in that they have the
  ability to send thousands of messages per minute,
  which is a necessity when talking about alerting
  an entire college campus community of an
  emergency.

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Issue 3 Emergency Alert Services

• EAS Pros
• The ability to hastily distribute a message
  regarding an emergency.
• Able to reach a large number of the student
  population.
• Relatively inexpensive to employ on a campus.

• EAS Cons
• Not all students feel comfortable giving out
  their personal information to the university.
• Not all students receive the messages due to
  server problems.

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Issue 3 Emergency Alert Services

• Case Study Purdue University Tests Emergency
  Messaging
• (As reported in BizEd, 2007. 6(6), p. 64)
• Companies were focused on the function or ability
  to send out mass numbers of messages and calls
  and not on their actual performance.
• Purdue began by asking how many of the messages
  were actually received by their students.
• One-day experiment where thousands of students
  volunteered to accept and respond to text
  messages and e-mails.
• Company text-messaging system, as well as, the
  schools e-mail system were used for the study.
• Researcher at Purdue University tracked the
  following aspects of the study
• Time taken for messages to be delivered.
• Time taken for volunteers to send confirmation
  of receipt of a message.

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Issue 3 Emergency Alert Services

• Purdue University Case Study continued
• 9,900 text messages and 56,000 e-mails were sent
  in within seven minutes.
• 5,700 people in the text-message study responded
  to the message as instructed, with just under 300
  of them coming within the first ten minutes.
• 19,535 e-mails responses were received with
  10,000 in the first hour
• 364 confirmed delivery failures were experienced
  during the study.
• It was later discovered that many volunteers
  received the messages but simply did not respond
  to them.
• Purdue then reviewed the data that was collected
  from this study and planned on running a second
  test study before finalizing which company they
  would work with for their Emergency-notification
  system.

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Flash Tutorials Moving 2D pictures for
instruction of completing tasks
Flash Tutorials
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Issue 4 Flash Tutorials

• Flash Animation is an animated film which is
  created using Adobe Flash animation software and
  often distributed in Shockwave file format. It
  can be created in Flash or with other programs
  capable of writing Shockwave files.
• Flash is able to integrate bitmaps and other
  raster-based art, as well as video, most Flash
  films are created using only 2D, vector-based
  drawings which often result a clean graphic
  appearance.
• Flash animations are typically distributed by way
  of the World Wide Web. Web Flash animations may
  be interactive and are often created in a series.
  Flash animations are being more and more widely
  used in the multi-user community with Flash
  generators and embedded videos in user's profiles
  across the internet.
• Instructors are now using Flash animations as
  tutorials on websites for explanation and
  step-by-step instruction for student viewing if
  they are not present for class.

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Issue 4 Flash Animation
Moving AnimationTutorial
Start
Finish
Computer Tutorial Programmed instruction
provided to a user at a computer terminal, often
concerning the use of a particular software
package and built into that package.
Adobe Flash
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Issue 4 Example of Flash Interface
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a Smart Board to access online documents
Smart Classrooms
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Issue 5 Smart Classrooms

• What are Smart Classrooms?
• Classrooms equipped the latest technology of
  learning based tools. For example

• Projector Systems The ability to project from
  in-class Windows and Macintosh computers,
  laptops, and traditional paper or printed
  materials
• Internet Connectivity for Laptops Wireless
  internet connection
• Elmo Paper Scanner / Projectors Traditional
  text, paper, or transparency sources can be used
  for immediate sharing of your presentation
  materials this in-class projection system.
• Ceiling-Mounted Document Cameras Used to record
  lectures for further viewing through Podcasts.
• Single Control Systems For intuitive switching
  of sources to projector and internal display
  (e.g., computer, VHS, DVD, laptop, etc). Can
  switch sources directly from system as well as
  remote.
• Other Resources Modern Computers, VCR / DVD
  Players, Electronic Whiteboards, Speaker / Sound
  Systems

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Issue 5 Smart Classrooms

• Helpful Products for the Smart ClassroomDigital
  Voice Recorder
• This product records audio and has the capability
  to translate to text. This feature makes it
  easier for students to have effective notes.
• Can also translate speech and text to five
  different languages.
• Especially helpful for students that are hearing
  impaired.
• International students would also benefit from
  this device. While they are learning the native
  language, they can be sure they are
  understanding the information correctly with the
  digital voice recorder.
• How Smart Boards Work
• USB cable and draws the power it needs from the
  computer.
• When you connect a digital projector to your
  computer, you can project the computer image
  onto the SMART Board interactive whiteboard.
• Driver converts contact with the interactive
  whiteboard into mouseclicks or digital ink.
• Enables you to use your finger as a mouse or
  write overtop of applications.

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Issue 5 Smart Classrooms

• What is the purpose of Smart Classrooms?
• To provide educational opportunities for student
  learners.
• to provide classroom environments using
  technology that promotes active participation,
  learning and assessment, and prepares students
  for the real world environments in which they
  hope to excel (SDSU, 2007).
• Many universities that have invested into Smart
  Classrooms have set up designated rooms with
  specific hardware and software needed for class
  instruction.
• For example, a web design course will need to be
  in a room that has a computer with the proper
  software installed for the purpose of the class.
  It is not necessary for every classroom to have
  computers for everyone, but in this case it is
  essential.
• Smart Classrooms cater to the total class size as
  well. A large projection screen is needed, along
  with other smart classroom equipment for a class
  size of 100-150 people.

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Issue 5 Smart Classrooms

• Key Points
• Design a Smart Classroom for those that will
  teach and learn from it.
• Know the function of each classroom.
• Provide support A support staff that knows how
  the technology used works is necessary
• Keep them updated To have a successful Smart
  Classroom, the latest software is needed to
  assure students are learning the most up to date
  information.
• Be flexible
• Keep it simple Putting too much technology in
  the classroom makes it difficult for common use.

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Conclusions
Leaders have to act more quickly today. The
pressure comes much faster. -Andrew Grove,
Former CEO of Intel When computers (people)
are networked, their power multiplies
geometrically. Not only can people share all
that information inside their machines, but they
can reach out and instantly tap the power of
other machines (people), essentially making the
entire network their computer. -Scott McNeely,
Director of Consumer Affairs at Viator,
Inc. Computing is not about computers any
more. It is about living. -Nicholas Negroponte,
Architect, Computer Scientist and Professor at
MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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