The UNC Teaching and Learning with Technology Collaborative

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The UNC Teaching and Learning with Technology
Collaborative

• Sixteen Campuses Working Together to Promote TLT

Frank Prochaska, Executive Director prochask_at_north
carolina.edu 919-843-4538
Hilarie Nickerson, Program Coordinator hil_at_northca
rolina.edu 919-933-8333
www.unctlt.org
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About The University of North Carolina
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About The University of North Carolina

• By the numbers
• 16 constituent campuses
• 165,000 students
• 9,000 full-time faculty members

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About The University of North Carolina

• Diversity of UNC institutions
• smallest largest
• of Students 768 . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
  28,619
• of Full-time faculty 105 . . . . . . . . . . .
  . . . . 2,309
• Carnegie classifications
• 5 Doctoral/Research (extensive or intensive)
• 7 Masters (comprehensive)
• 3 Baccalaureate (general, liberal arts)
• 1 Specialized school (fine arts)

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About The TLT Collaborative

• We are
• A consortial organization created by the
  President of the University of North Carolina in
  1999 as one part of a system-wide Information
  Technology Strategy initiative.

Vision To serve as a catalyst for, and nurture
excellence in, the productive application of
technology for teaching and learning in the UNC
system.
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About The TLT Collaborative

• Our mission is to promote
• Communication
• Research
• Professional development
• Resource sharing
• Resource development
• Policy development
• in the area of teaching and learning with
  technology

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DefinitionTeaching and Learning with Technology

• We define the term TLT as
• Teaching methods and learning environments that
  incorporate computer-based technologies
• TLT can be
• Online
• -or-
• In traditional classrooms

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About The TLT Collaborative

• Administrative organization
• Four full-time staff positions
• Executive director
• Two program coordinators
• Technology coordinator (vacant)
• Board of directors
• One voting representative from each campus
• Non-voting representatives from faculty,
  libraries, system administration

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About The TLT Collaborative

• Structure and function

President
Campuses
Direction
Reporting
Recommends
Board
Vice President,Information Resources
Approves
Direction
Reporting
Executive Director
Direction
Reporting
Collaborative Staff
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ActivitiesTLT Collaborative Programs

• Current major initiatives
• The Professional Development Portal
• Faculty and Staff Development
• Campus Support

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Flagship ProgramThe Professional Development
Portal

www.unctlt.org/pdp
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Flagship Program The Professional Development
Portal

• Description
• A web-based resource for professional
  development, available to UNC faculty, staff, and
  administrators.

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Flagship ProgramThe Professional Development
Portal

• Resource collection over 1000 entries!
• A broad variety of existing professional
  development resources. Most are accessible
  directly from the Portal.
• Focus Areas Scope
• Teaching and Learning UNC / Campuses
• Human Resources North Carolina
• Administrative Development National /
  International
• Library (under development)

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Flagship Program The Professional Development
Portal

• Resource collection, continued
• Review process
• Content area experts select quality resources and
  review additional materials submitted by account
  holders.
• Ongoing critiques, review, and commentary will
  keep content up to date.

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Flagship Program The Professional Development
Portal

• Best practices (coming soon!)
• Annotated examples from UNC and other
  institutions
• How to use these practices on your campus
• Articles and explanations by experts
• Communities of interest (on the way!)
• A collaborative environment for the active
  dissemination, review, evaluation, and discussion
  of professional development in all aspects of
  higher education.

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Flagship Program The Professional Development
Portal

• Sample search

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Flagship Program The Professional Development
Portal

• Sample search

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Flagship Program The Professional Development
Portal

• Search results Description and URL

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Flagship Program The Professional Development
Portal

• Search results Description and URL

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Flagship Program The Professional Development
Portal

• Services for account holders
• Develop and save personalized searches
• Submit new materials for consideration
• Communities of interest
• Services for campuses and departments
• Allow creation of custom interfaces and searches

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ActivitiesTLT Collaborative Programs

• Current major initiatives
• The Professional Development Portal
• Faculty and Staff Development
• Campus Support

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OutreachFaculty and Staff Development

• MERLOT Multimedia Educational Resource
  for Learning and On-Line Teaching
• A national initiative to create a repository of
  reviewed online learning objects (simulations,
  tutorials) that can be incorporated into
  courses
• UNC is a founding institutionalpartner, one of
  23 institutional participants that sponsor
  faculty reviewers

www.merlot.org
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OutreachFaculty and Staff Development

• MERLOT, continued
• Over 6000 resources in 13 subject areas, plus
  sample assignments
• National conferences and training events for
  faculty and academic technology support staff

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OutreachFaculty and Staff Development

• Teaching and Learning with Technology Conferences
  (held annually)
• Share information
• Strengthen professional relationships
• Identify common issues / best practices
• Develop recommendations for future collaborative
  programs

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OutreachFaculty and Staff Development

• Conference evolution
• May 2000 Retreat for campus TLT staff members
• 80 participants
• May 2001 Conference with 6 different tracks
• 180 participants campus TLT staff, faculty
  members, librarians, IT administrators and staff
  members, UNC system administrators
• April 2002 Conference with several TLT
  themes, including faculty peer-to-peer sessions
  and workshops
• 275 participants as in 2001, with additional
  faculty members

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OutreachFaculty and Staff Development

• TLT Symposium
• In partnership with North Carolina State
  Universitys TLT Roundtable, this event in April
  2001 brought four nationally recognized leaders
  in the TLT faculty support arena together with
  eighty UNC campus representatives.
• Tom Lewis, University of Washington
• John Moore, Virginia Tech University
• Lawrence C. Ragan, Penn State University
• Don Buckley, Quinnipiac University

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OutreachFaculty and Staff Development

• TLT workshops
• TLT Group Flashlight Program (January 2001)
• Training workshop to introduce Flashlight (30
  participants)
• MERLOT (January 2002)
• Train the trainer workshop on using MERLOT to
  help faculty integrate technology into teaching
  and learning (60 participants)

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ActivitiesTLT Collaborative Programs

• Current major initiatives
• The Professional Development Portal
• Faculty and Staff Development
• Campus Support

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OutreachCampus Support

• Grant programs
• FY 1999-2000 Competitive grant program awarded
  five grants totaling 141,000 to
  projects suggested by seven campuses.
• FY 2000-2001 8,500 grants were awarded to each
  UNC campus (136,000 total).
• Project areas chosen by the TLT Collaborative
  Board focused on
• Research into instructional uses of wireless
  technologies
• Support for digital library services
• Professional development on course management
  systems and other software

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OutreachCampus Support

• Flashlight Program / TLT Roundtables
• Ten campuses have licensed Flashlight, which
  helps institutions study and improve their uses
  of educational technology.
• Roundtable discussions help campuses develop TLT
  strategies, make decisions, and sustain change.
• The TLT Collaborative purchased licenses and
  conducted training for campus representatives.

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About The TLT Collaborative

• The immediate future (JanuaryJune 2002)
• Strategic planning initiative
• TLT Collaborative Board will engage in a
  strategic planning process to develop a plan by
  Summer 2002 to use in making decisions for FY
  2002-03 and beyond.
• Assessment initiative
• Develop an online database of assessment
  resources including assessment tools.
• Campuses can participate in discussion and
  support of individually-selected assessment
  projects.

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AboutThe TLT Collaborative

• Lessons learned so far
• Collaboration in the TLT area among 16 very
  diverse sister institutions is indeed possible
• One size does not fit all
• Finding and establishing the self-identity of the
  Collaborative is important and difficult
• Keep all participation voluntary

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AboutThe TLT Collaborative

• More lessons
• Geographic location is a major issue in travel
  considerations
• Facilitate information exchange among campuses
• Provide opportunities that the campuses cannot
  provide on their own
• Communicate, listen, communicate, listen

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The UNC Teaching and Learning with Technology
Collaborative

• Sixteen Campuses Working Together to Promote TLT

Frank Prochaska, Executive Director prochask_at_north
carolina.edu 919-843-4538
Hilarie Nickerson, Program Coordinator hil_at_northca
rolina.edu 919-933-8333
www.unctlt.org