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The University of Texas at El Paso
http://www.utep.edu
UTEP Service Area/Connection Map
The University of Texas at El Paso
URL : http://www.tpdl.utep.edu
Underlying Themes and Major Concerns
Technology and demography as “drivers” for educational change and transformation
On campus vs. off campus settings for learning
Changing nature of knowledge base (from content to context)
Challenges of continuing education and lifelong learning we as a society are facing
“Information technology can be the excuse and the means to move closer to educational goals that we have been unable to achieve for decades – and to some new ones…”
- Excerpt from “A New Vision Worth Working Toward -- Connected Education and Collaborative Change” February, 2000 version available at http://www.tltgroup.com
Harnessing Technological Change to Serve a Changing Student Demography
http://www.tpdl.utep.edu/conference/ Nov 01 – Apr 02
Involving the Campus with Technology
Campus IT Steering Committee
Technology Decision-Makers Round Table
Academic Affairs IT Committee
Faculty Senate Technology Committee
Involving the Campus with Technology : External Groups
UT System Strategic Leadership Council
State Department of Information Resources
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
UT TeleCampus
AN-MSI
Educause/NSF Consortium
Technology
•Asynchronous
•Digital
•Instantaneous
•Interactive
•Portable/Wireless
•User friendly
•Ubiquitous
Student Demography
•Diversity with a Capital “D”
•Technology savvy
•Bottom-line oriented
•Impatient and anxious
•Multiply challenged
Student Profile
69% Hispanic, 15% Anglo, 2% African-American, 1% Asian, 0.3% Native American
46% male, 54% female
Average age: undergraduate 24; graduate 34
82% from El Paso County
9% Mexican nationals
5% from 44 other states and 67 other countries
81% are employed
54% are 1st generation university students
UTEP Facts http://ir.utep.edu/main/pubfrm/public.htm
Faculty
•Discipline-based
•Technology doubtful
•Mainstream oriented
•Academically minded
•Culturally challenged
•Time conscious
Faculty
861 full-time and part-time faculty
More than 93% of university’s tenure-track faculty members hold doctorial degrees or the equivalent in their fields
UTEP Facts
Instructional work changes
Interdisciplinary oriented
Problem based teaching-learning approaches
Distributed learning platforms
Brokerage vs. knowledge imparter
Learning by doing vs. learning by telling
Culturally relevant vs. culturally neutral content
Faculty as learner and student as teacher
Pedagogical “savvy”
Faculty Role Changes
Advice to Others
Technology is not for wimps.
To be effective, technology requires:
Consistent, focused, integrated campus efforts
Developing a rhythm for change, as opposed to a routine for change
Moving form “stepping stones” and “islands of innovation” to Campus Profile
Defining technology as value added component and not just an “Add-on”
Four major information needs for planning
Characteristics of learners
Conditions for use
Characteristics of media and technology
Characteristics of content and messages being delivered
Evaluating the New Information Technologies
1. Media Characteristics
2. User/Audience Characteristics
3. Conditions or Environment for Use
4. Message or Instructional Content
Conditions for Use
Types of Media (Content)
Media Characteristics
User/Learner Characteristics
Concentric Circles
The Pedagogy of Electronic Instruction
http://www.tpdl.utep.edu/pedagogy
Accommodating A Changing Student Demography
Assessing what works and what does not and developing digital repository of “best practices” exemplars to guide your production.
More widespread use of the IEEE’s Internet best practices standards for web page and site layout, development, maintenance, and updating.
More systematic efforts to work with digital media approaches that integrate the attributes of the technology with characteristics of the learners.
Recruitment and involvement of individuals from diverse backgrounds in your digital media production and web-based development staff.
Accommodating A Changing Student Demography (continued)
Moving beyond personal assistive technology options to the adoption of human-centered interfaces that adapt to the user.
Greater use of multiple language & signing options that the technology now affords web site developers.
On-going discussion and analysis across your production staff and faculty about those components that make for effective and executable accessibility for “challenged” population groups.
More appropriate integration of text, audio and video elements on web sites.
Accommodating A Changing Student Demography (continued)
More conscious decision-making about the web-based production processes, coupled with pre-testing of the value-added effects of using different fonts, under-lining, bolding, italics as well as colors and hues, animation and graphics (drawing on
research base on print media layout protocols and effectiveness indicators).
Inviting structured reviews of web sites by outside resource groups, such as the TLT group, and using the feedback provided to guide updates and
revisions.
http://www.tpdl.utep.edu/demography
Important Websites for Follow-up
UTEP www.utep.edu
TPDL Office www.tpdl.utep.edu
Digital Media Center www.dmc.utep.edu
Pedagogy Electronic Instruction www.tpdl.utep.edu/pedagogy
Creative Kids www.creativekidsetc.org
Manual Acosta www.utep.edu/acousta
AN-MSI www.anmsi.org
UT TeleCampus www.telecampus.utsystem.edu
Harnessing Technological www.tpdl.utep.edu.conferenceChange