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Michael Clay & Rich Ranker
East Tennessee State University
Faculty Technology Leadership
of Professional DevelopmentCopyright Clay/Ranker, 2002. 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.
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Michael Clay & Rich Ranker
East Tennessee State University
Faculty Technology Leadership
of Professional Development
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Presentation Overview
• Background Environment, History and Research
• Theory into Practice• Transformational Aspects of the
FTL Model• Results
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ETSU Environment
•Carnegie Doctoral-Research institution… Carnegie Doctoral-Research institution… with 12,000 students and 800+ faculty with 12,000 students and 800+ faculty •Blue Ridge Mountains of East Blue Ridge Mountains of East TennesseeTennessee•IT Strategic Plan, supported major IT Strategic Plan, supported major investments in infrastructure and investments in infrastructure and integrationintegration•Collegis partnership for IT infrastructure Collegis partnership for IT infrastructure and ATS integrationand ATS integration•Lone rangers, Early adopters, Late Lone rangers, Early adopters, Late adoptersadopters
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Challenges
How to…How to…• create a learning community with a create a learning community with a
“critical mass” of faculty using “critical mass” of faculty using technology?technology?
• evoke systemic change without evoke systemic change without faculty alienation?faculty alienation?
• respond to needs of mainstream respond to needs of mainstream faculty? faculty?
• accelerate technology integration by accelerate technology integration by all faculty?all faculty?
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Requires a Changed Perspective
In terms of technology things (hw/sw)
One time events
External change
Past view
People using technology
Continuous
Internal transformation
Expanded view
ATM
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Academic Culture,(Social/Psychological) Diffusion rate
Economic, Political, TechnologyHistorical, Accreditation
Present Future
Socio-technological Driven Prediction
Technology Driven Prediction of the past
FutureTechnologyPresent
Changed Decision-Making Considerations
Advancements in technologyLower costs
Staying competitiveOverstated & underestimated
Thomas Hughes
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Two Staff Development Approaches
Broadcast
Core/Plug
Build it..They will come
Technology focus, skill based
Walk-in, lower response by mainstreamers
More staff than faculty
Short term
Professional development focus
Recruited faculty
Cross campus
Main-Stream, Opinion leaders
Promote mentoring & leadership, Transformation hopes
Long term, continuous
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ETSU takes a Transformational
Approach
“Change”… to make different in some particular manner…
“Transform”… to change from one form to another..
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Bailey & Pownell on Technology
Adoption and Implementation
Highest Needs
Self-Actualization
Recognition
Belongingness
Security & Safety
Most Basic Needs
Physiological Needs
Educators are empowered Learning becomes constructivist, “Transformational”Recognize and reward innovations “Technology Pioneers”
Establish a risk-free environment
Dependable Technology
Acquisition of Technology
Maslow Bailey & Pownell
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MentoringModelingLeadership
Buckley’s Institutional Transformation Model
FTL
Lavish, 1:1, TLC
FTL
Lavish, 1:1, TLC
Based on Buckley
Approach
Scalability
Diffusion
Interest
Lone Rangers
Random Acts
Entrepreneurs
Innovation
Boutique
Transformation (PreML)
Early Adopters/ Main Streamers
Effectiveness and efficiency
Systemic
Critical Mass
Late Adopters
Career
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Theory into Practice• Design• Strategies• Administration• Instruction• Curriculum
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No silver bulletNo silver bullet Faculty awarenessFaculty awareness Culture and Culture and
attitudes first, attitudes first, technology secondtechnology second
Design Considerations
◊Tailored for Tailored for “mainstream” faculty “mainstream” faculty needsneeds◊Formal structure Formal structure delivery with informal delivery with informal cohort buildingcohort building◊Model changes in Model changes in instruction and instruction and technology usetechnology use
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Two Strategies
1. Prepare opinion leaders to use and model technology in their instruction
2. Prepare opinion leaders to serve as mentors and leaders in their colleges
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Administrative SetupAdministrative Setup• FTL CommitteeFTL Committee• 2, 3-credit Graduate 2, 3-credit Graduate
CoursesCourses• Resources, laptopsResources, laptops• Deans and ChairsDeans and Chairs• Faculty Technology Faculty Technology
Professional Professional Development PlanDevelopment Plan
• Candidate selection Candidate selection criteriacriteria
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Instructional ApproachInstructional Approach
• Strategies, methods, toolsStrategies, methods, tools• Team teachersTeam teachers• Guest presenters, specialistsGuest presenters, specialists• Model technologiesModel technologies• Model instructional Model instructional
strategiesstrategies• Course management, web Course management, web
course site, lead instructorcourse site, lead instructor• Weekly FTL planning Weekly FTL planning
meetingmeeting
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FTL CurriculumFTL Curriculum
11stst Semester Focus Semester Focus• Breadth of possibilitiesBreadth of possibilities• Core technology skillsCore technology skills• Leadership/mentoring Leadership/mentoring
projectsprojects• Cohort buildingCohort building • ETSU IT resourcesETSU IT resources
22ndnd Semester Focus Semester Focus• DepthDepth• Technology integration Technology integration
projectsprojects• Shift to learner centeredShift to learner centered• Follow through mentor-Follow through mentor-
ing and leadershiping and leadership
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Transformational Aspects of Faculty Technology
Leadership
•Leadership•Peer evaluation•Attitude toward technology use•Visibility•Follow-up
•Selection process•Cohort building•Confidence building•Skill acquisition process•Constructive, relevant projects
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Selection Process• Self-nominationSelf-nomination• Endorsement by chair Endorsement by chair • Ranking by deanRanking by dean• Criteria:Criteria:
– Not an early adopter/ mainstream Not an early adopter/ mainstream facultyfaculty
– Peer leader in departmentPeer leader in department– Available for classAvailable for class– Willing to serve as technology mentorWilling to serve as technology mentor– Quotas for collegesQuotas for colleges
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Cohort Building
• Challenge course
• In class every Friday
• Group projects early on
• Collaborative projects
• Sophisticated Otter socials
• Class shirts
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Confidence Building• Workshops over the Workshops over the
summersummer• Surveys of confidence in Surveys of confidence in
Core SkillsCore Skills• Lots of support early onLots of support early on• Projects require skill Projects require skill
applicationapplication• Class presentationsClass presentations• EncouragementEncouragement and respectand respect• Success orientedSuccess oriented• Report survey resultsReport survey results
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Skill Acquisition Process• Not the same as confidence• Model – Teach – Apply• Breadth then depth• Surveys as formative tool• Hands-on• Lab time
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Constructive, Relevant Projects
• Constructivism• Useful to them in their faculty and mentor
roles• Examples:
– FTL-1 Project 1 at http://ats.etsu.edu/ftl/fallProject.htm– FTL-1 Project 2 at http://ats.etsu.edu/ftl/springProject.htm– FTL-2 Project 1 at http://ats.etsu.edu/ftl/ftl2/ftl2link/index.htm– FTL-2 Project 3 at http://ats.etsu.edu/ftl/ftl2/project3/– FTL-3 ePortfolios
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Leadership
• In Class– Small group leadership– Informal peer project
leadership
• In Department/College project dissemination
• In University “Best Practices” Presentations
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Peer Evaluation
• Grades • Present projects to classmates• Chairs and deans invited to
class projects• Previous cohort projects posted
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Attitude Toward Technology Use
• Tool for their purposes• Exploration• Risk-taking encouraged• Freedom to fail• Don’t have to be an expert; “I
don’t know”• Lifelong learning
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Visibility
• Recruiting announcement to deans, councils
• Project presentations announced• Chairs and deans invited• Web page• Included in chair visits• Follow-up survey results posted• Graduates included in technology-
related committees
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Follow-through
• Graduate surveys• FTL Association
– Social– Attend classes– Mentor or teach
current class workshops
• Demonstration• “Best Practices”
presentations
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Results
• Core Competency Survey at http://ats.etsu.edu/ftl/outcomesAssessment-9-3-02.htm
• Web-based Course Development Survey at http://ats.etsu.edu/ftl/ftl2/web-based_course_development_skills_survey.htm
• 9-month Survey • Student Attendance and Completion
Rates• Student Comments• Administrator Comments
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9- Months After Graduation Survey
ResultsThe nine-month follow-up survey of the FTL-1
participants returned the following information:– conference presentations: 8– papers published: 5– web-enhanced courses: 33– web-based courses: 13– other technology enhanced courses: 4– faculty mentored: 39+– Details at http://ats.etsu.edu/ftl/FTL-1Survey.htm
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Student Comments
• Details at http://ats.etsu.edu/ftl/peopleSpeak.htm and http://ats.etsu.edu/ftl/discussionForum.htm
(After using Blackboard quizzes in his web-assisted class)
“The first exam had an average score of 92! Further, there were no F’s (I usually have 2 or 3). I was shocked. My class in the course my first semester at ETSU (Fall 99) had an average of 61”
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Student Comments
• ““FTL broadened FTL broadened my insight into my insight into the connection the connection between: between: Teaching and Teaching and Learning, Learning, Administration Administration and Faculty, as and Faculty, as well as between well as between Money and Money and Innovation.”Innovation.”
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Student Comments
“My level of comfort in using technology in my teaching has increased 100 fold. This in turn has boosted my confidence in tackling other technology issues (purchasing and using a PDA)”
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Student Comments
• “Personally, I saw the FTL experience as a great tool for uniting ETSU faculty.”
• “This forward-looking concept provides a means of bringing faculty together to share a technology experience.”
• “I am grateful for the opportunity to have participated in the FTL cohort experience.”
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Comments from Administrators
“I am very pleased with what the FTL has accomplishedaccomplished to date.”
Dr. Bert Bach, Provost and VP for Academic Affairs
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Comments from Administrators
““I believe that the Faculty I believe that the Faculty Technology Leadership Technology Leadership Program is one of the most Program is one of the most powerful models of faculty powerful models of faculty development that I have seen... development that I have seen... I like this model so much that I I like this model so much that I am thinking how to extend it am thinking how to extend it into other areas of faculty into other areas of faculty development.”development.”
Dr. Norma MacRae, Associate Provost
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Comments from Administrators
““The FTL course has been an The FTL course has been an exciting and motivating exciting and motivating opportunity for faculty to opportunity for faculty to learn about technology, to learn about technology, to learn to use technology in learn to use technology in their courses, to develop their courses, to develop friendships and grow across friendships and grow across colleges.”colleges.”
Dr. Martha Collins, Dean, College of Education
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Useful LinksUseful Links
• http://ats.etsu.edu• http://ats.etsu.edu/ft
pdp/Facdevplan011702.htm
• http://ats.etsu.edu/ftl• http://ats.etsu.edu
/resources/surveys
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References• Bailey, Gerald D. and David Pownell, “Technology Staff-
Development and Support Programs: Applying Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs.” Learning and Leading with Technology (November 1998). Vol 26, No. 3. pps. 47-51, 64.
• Hughes, Thomas P., “Through a Glass, Darkly:Anticipating the Future of Technology-Enabled Education” The Internet and the University: 2000 Forum (2001). http://www.educause.edu/internetforum/2000/
• Buckley, Donald P., “In Pursuit of the Learning Paradigm”, Educause Review. (Jan/Feb 2002). http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/erm02/erm021w.asp
• Bates, Tony, Managing Technological Change, (2000). Jossey-Bass Inc., San Francisco
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Questions?For more information:
– Dr. Mike Clay, claym@mail. etsu.edu
– Dr. Rich Ranker, [email protected]