westminster college small college transitions to angel with different approach to training faculty
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Westminster College Small college transitions to ANGEL with different approach to training faculty. Westminster College. Liberal Arts College in Salt Lake City Utah FTE of about 2200 students No official online courses or programs 140 Full-time faculty 100 Part-time faculty - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Westminster College
Small college transitions to ANGEL with different
approach to training faculty
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Westminster College
• Liberal Arts College in Salt Lake City Utah
• FTE of about 2200 students
• No official online courses or programs
• 140 Full-time faculty
• 100 Part-time faculty
• Website: http://westminstercollege.edu
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Faculty Technology Center
• Computer Lab• 2 Staff positions • Manage Course Management System• Part of Information Technology Department• Assist faculty with technology projects• Encourage effective teaching and learning
practices• Host workshops about technology and pedagogy
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Faculty Technology Center Motto(s)
“We’ll teach you what to do, not do it for you.”
“A lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine.”
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Who Are We?
• Ben Neiswender – Faculty Technology Center Staff– [email protected]– http://angeldude.com
• Roksana Rezaei– [email protected]
• Dr. Peter Ingle– Faculty Liaison for FTC
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WebCT History
• Training History:– Required Training to use WebCT– Week long summer session
• Full time faculty received stipend of $500• Adjunct faculty were not eligible to receive stipend
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Why ANGEL
• Easy to use for our faculty
• Enterprise features that WebCT would charge us more than we could afford– ePortfolio– Learning Object Repository– Reporting features
• Still less expensive for us over 3 years- – we estimated approximately $90,000 cheaper
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The Decision Making Process
• Demonstrated ANGEL to Faculty• Faculty Pilot group set up• Pilot group trained• Pilot group use for 1 semester• Pilot group recommendation given to Faculty
Technology Committee• More Faculty Demonstrations• Technology Committee review and
recommendation to faculty senate• Faculty senate approval and Provost approval
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ANGEL Pilot Group
• Started out as 5 faculty and grew to 10 quickly
• Some “CAVE-dwellers”– Colleagues Against Virtually Everything
• Some faculty who are tech savvy and buy-in to almost everything
• Mostly WebCT users
• Training Pilot group Tip: Be Prepared!
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Success and Struggles of Pilot Group
• Success:– 2 hour training session worked for most faculty– Most of them instantly fell in love with ANGEL– All of them started talking about ANGEL with
other faculty• Struggles:
– Concepts that were difficult for me where twice as difficult for them
• File structure• LOR• Drag and Drop• Assoc file manager
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Transition Semester
• Goal: Have between 20-30 faculty trained– Offered 12 workshops over Winter Break– Offered to meet one-on-one to meet with faculty
to help them set up their class
• What happened:– Each workshop was near capacity– Helped approximately 2-3 faculty each day get
set up in a one-on-one coaching environment– Had to offer 6 more workshops once the
semester started
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Results
• OVER 75 Faculty were trained in approximately 3 weeks by 1 person.
• Grand total of ANGEL users: 85– Spring 2006 Total WebCT users: 90
• Faculty Were not given a stipend at this time and were not promised one
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Training Plan
• Faculty learn most of their skills by building something on their own
• Online Training
• 2 hour introductory session
• Stipends to be rewarded based on Levels of competency
• Goal: Receive as few support requests as possible.
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Goals
• Level 1- Web Enhanced Instructor– 80 Level 1 faculty by January 2008
• Level 2- Hybrid Instructor– 20 Level 2 faculty by January 2008
• Level 3- Online Instructor– 10 Level 3 faculty by January 2008
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Level 1Goal
Instructors will be able to:• navigate around the ANGEL LMS as a student and as an
instructor• upload and organize files into ANGEL• setup and use basic online communication tools such as
the calendar, email, and discussion boards• describe the characteristics of a web-enhanced course,
hybrid course, and an online course.• successfully teach a web enhanced course
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Level 1 Requirements
To demonstrate competence faculty must:– ANGEL SCORM simulation
• Created using Captivate• Located in Course
– Multiple choice/True False policy and procedure
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Level 2 Goal
Each Instructor will be able to:• determine how and if they will use the learning object
repository• use the HTML editor in ANGEL• collaborate online by using discussions and teams• assess student learning by using online quiz, survey, and
polls• create an online gradebook• successfully teach a pedagogically sound hybrid course
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Level 2 Requirements
Pass Level 1DiscussionANGEL EmailSyllabusSurvey/Quiz/Poll
Drop BoxGradebookWorkshop 1Workshop 2Student
Satisfaction SurveySummary/Interview
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Level 3 Faculty Certification
Each Instructor will be able to:• generate reports to monitor student activity and
engagement• create automated agents which maximize instructor
impact on students• find, develop and share learning objects • determine which advanced course techniques could be
most effectively used for their specific course• successfully implement a pedagogically sound online
course
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Level 3 Requirements• Complete Level 1 and 2 • Semester long course using
– 3 or more of the level 3 concepts• Automate • Learning objects• Chats• Videos
• Attend 2 or more pedagogy workshops• Participate in semester long discussion group
– 5 postings and 3 sessions
• Submit a Summary report
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What we have learned:
• Start with Faculty buy-in
• If you are going to use a stipend make it based on competency- not just attending a training session.
• Training sessions need to be short
• Break training sessions into relevant areas
• Provide lots and lots of sessions about the basics.
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Reflection on process
• Good:– Low amount of support calls– Many faculty transitioned early– Faculty love ANGEL
• Bad:– Lots of work and management– Too much success: server has struggled– Stipend plan should have been presented to
faculty earlier
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Summary
• The few hiccups don’t compare to the great overall success ANGEL has been
• Westminster Loves ANGEL!!!
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Questions and Contact Info?
Contact Information:Ben Neiswender:
http://angeldude.com
http://westminstercollege.edu