Learning Technology Development Council

Here is what is happening at the UW Colleges:

Six UW Colleges academic departments are participating in the ePortfolio Pilot.  Faculty who are on the tenure track will be building their dossier in D2L using Desire2Learn’s ePortfolio.  To get this project started, we are providing a demo site in D2L where I am building my promotion portfolio as an example.  Next we will be creating a Captivate or Camtasia video with narration, for the faculty to watch before beginning their work. Each department has an ePortfolio site in D2L where the faculty will build their ePortfolio.  They have until November (for folks in their 3rd year) or January, 2010, (all others) depending on where they are on the track. We have decided to not allow them to create tags, we are going to be building a tag library, so it is consistent. The department chairs are providing the terminology to use for the tags.  In the fall we will be training the review committee members, from both the campuses and departments, campus Deans, and the Provost, and his PA,  on how to access, export (if necessary), and review the ePortfolios.  The faculty themselves will be responsible for making sure the campus and departmental committee members have the necessary access to their ePortfolio by the due date.  Finally, there will be online evaluations for the faculty, the review committees and the Provost and Deans to complete once the pilot is near its end. Support for this project will be provide through our Service Center. Note that all training will be provided on a website, instead of using WisLine Web to save money and to make the training for this project as convenient as possible.  We are hoping it is successful and that we can add merit, promotion, and post-tenure review to the ePortfolio system in the future AND have all departments and campuses involved.

During this past year we piloted clickers on 5 campuses, and based on the success of the pilot and interest from other campuses, we were able to use year-end money to purchase a clicker kit for the other 13 campuses to begin to build interest among their faculty. Training will be provided using Camtasia, Captivate or iMovie videos.

Of course we have several other projects going on, but these two are new and exciting!

-Submitted by Pat Fellows

Colleagues,

The LTDC Communications Committee is working on updating the LTDC Blog and would like your input. If you have specific ideas on what content you would like to see, or features you would like added please let us know.  We greatly value your input.

The LTDC sponsored a group workshop on “Applying the QM Rubric” at UW-Oshkosh on Friday, Dec 12. This workshop was led by  Quality Matters certified trainer Cassie Carter. 35 faculty and instructional design and learning technology support staff from all campuses attended.

Quality Matters is a nationally recognized organization that promotes quality design of online and blended courses with a peer-review process. Curently, 6 UW campuses have joined to form a UW consortium with Quality Matters. They are UW-Madison, UW-Green Bay, UW-La Crosse, UW-Oshkosh, UW-Superior, and UW-Colleges Online. This workshop serves as a first step to develop expertise in applying the QM methodology in building awareness and encouraging a more thoughtful approach to online course design among UW campuses.

To know more about Quality Matters, go to http://www.qualitymatters.org

Lorna

The LTDC Fall conference was held on Nov 5, at the Pyle Center. Over 25 learning technology staff attended, almost all campuses were represented. Agenda topics included introduction of the many new staff the joined the campuses the past year; a brief discussion of various organization structures; a briefing on the e-learning work group report and recommendations; user of video  and the DoIT streaming services; reports on Quality Matters, eportfolio, Learning Object repositories, Curricular Redesign RFP; Discussion on Blogs & Wikis at local campuses, and concluded with campus updates. Mary Mielke was elected to fill the three year term on the Exec Committee vacated by Lorna Wong. More detailed notes of the meeting were recorded by Carole Turner, and sent to LTDC-representatives.  A lighter side of the day’s event was recorded digitally by Nick Dvoracek at http://www.f295.org/Pinholeforum/forum/Blah.pl?m-1226503871/.

Lorna

For two days on Nov 6 & 7, a group of learning technologists and faculty of various disciplines had the opportunity to discover the power and magic of digital story telling from nationally known expert Joe Lambert, Center for Digital Telling, Berkeley, Ca. The event was sponsored by the LTDC to explore possibilibites of self expression and documentation through creative writing and use of media technology . Over 70 participants attended this workshop at the Pyle Center, while almost the same number of interested faculty attended remotely featured speaker sessions including Liv Gjestvang, Program Coordinator, Digital Union, Ohio State University, Roger Schrank, CIO, Socratic Arts, and Dimitris Lyras, Greek ship owner. Learning Technology support staff gathered for a highly engaged discussion on possibiities of this new application of technology in teaching and learning, while sponsored faculty attended a special workshop to hone their technical skills on digital image manipulation. The partnership of the faculty and LTDC attendees are expected to bring the message “Storytime isn’t just for kindergarten anymore” back to local campuses. The event was organized by Cheryl Diermyer-UW Madison, and assisted by Pat Fellows-UW Colleges, Tom Gillespie-UW Whitewater and Elizabeth Harris at UW-Madison. Please contact your local LTDC representative if you are interested to know more about Digital Storytelling and how to get started.

Lorna

The first group workshop on Quality Matters will be held at UW-Oshkosh on Friday, Dec 12, 2008. Certified trainer Cassie Caster will faciliate the training. All UW campuses are invited to attend. However seats are limited. Please contact your local campus LTC representative on details to register for the session.

Lorna

E-portfolio has been a topic of discussion and pilot projects in various segments of the UW campuses for a number of years. Different products fit different needs of target audience. A current development is a product offered by D2L. While this is a new product in the market, it has some potential to fit general audience needs, especially it can be integrated with our current course management system which is widely used on UW campuses.

Through the summer, UWSP has taken a lead in negotiating a pilot agreement with D2L and UWS. We are at the stage where Letters of Intent can be signed soon. Interested campuses should contact Lorna Wong for more details.

A webcast demo on the product features is scheduled for Friday, Oct 24, 10am - noon. It is open to all interested faculty and instructional design support personnel. Please contact your LTC representative for details on participation of this demo and express your interest in the pilot program.

Lorna