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Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL): A Collaborative Initiative

between Faculty & Designers at UVa

Gail Hunger, Yitna Firdyiwek, and Trisha GordonUniversity of Virginia

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Introduction

• TEL is an evolving model for course [re]design using Sakai

• This presentation will describe what we have done and how it dovetails with current research

• Our plans going forward• Our presentation will be short to give us plenty

of time to discuss your comments and questions• Be thinking about how you would do

something similar at your institution!Technology Enhanced Learning

(TEL)

April 13, 2023 Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL)

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PROGRAM DEVELOPMENTTEL 1.0


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• How program was developed• Who was involved• Elements• Final result

TEL 1.0: The Program


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Administration• School effort to improve Technology

Enhanced Learning for online instruction• Incentive Program identified by

department leaders• Provide engagement opportunity for

faculty across wide spectrum of disciplines based on school’s strategic plan for specific programs


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Faculty were charged with:• Re-designing their course • Exploring potential for specific

instructional technology applications• Improving the effectiveness of their

teaching-learning practices with technology

• Agreeing to be a resource for other faculty in their program pertaining to engagement for online learning strategies


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Elements of Program• Participate in individual consulting with

faculty developer • Participate in three live sessions and

monthly online large group sessions with instructional technology team

• Present at the SCPS TEL Conference- Over 100 participants attended university wide


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TEL 1.0: The Program - Who Was Involved?

Collaboration for Instructional Technology Team• Leadership• Department Chairs• Central Grounds: ITS, UVaCollab (Sakai),

Library Services, Digital Media lab, Office of Institutional Assessment

• Faculty Participants


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Final Results• Instructional Strategies Designed and Developed

• Team Debates• Guest Speakers• Lab Simulations• Assessment Rubrics

• Faculty Development facilitated Across Disciplines

• Authentic Development Over Time Approach

• Success: Institutional and School Level Support and Contribution


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INDIVIDUAL PERSPECTIVESTEL 1.0


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Gail Hunger

• Best take-away

• Lessons learned

• Role: Faculty and Program Development

• Importance of Working as a Team

• Value all partnerships

• Connections for Faculty- See complexity from their perspective

TEL 1.0: Individual Perspectives


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Yitna Firdyiwek

• Best take-away

• Lesson learned

• Role: Instructional Designer

• Organizational models matter; TEL gave us a chance to integrate the technology/teaching/learning activities.

• It’s still too much for individual instructors to learn and do it all.



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Trisha Gordon

• Best take-away

• Lesson learned

• Role: UVaCollab (Sakai) Training and Support

• Developed deeper relationships with the faculty– I’m more involved

and invested in their success!

• (Just in) Timing is important



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RELATIONSHIP TO CURRENT RESEARCH

TEL 1.x


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“Disrupting Ourselves: The Problem of Learning in Higher Education” by Randall BassAssociate Provost and Executive Director for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship, Georgetown University

Toward Team-based Course Design


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“Disrupting Ourselves: The Problem of Learning in Higher Education”

• There are a lot of different types of pressure being exerted on Higher Education



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• “…our concept of learning has outstripped our notion of teaching”



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• “we need to… move beyond the individualistic faculty change model”



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Credit:Patricia Iannuzzi, Dean of Libraries, University of Nevada-Las Vegas


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“Disrupting Ourselves: The Problem of Learning in Higher Education” • There are a lot of different

types of pressure being exerted on Higher Education



• “How do we reverse the flow? How do we flip the curriculum?”




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• The old course creation model is now dysfunctional and needs to change




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• We are now in the “post-course era”




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• We are now in the “post-course era”

• Proposal: Team-based collaborations on course design



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• We had intuitively assembled our team• We had begun to break the “hub and spoke”

model by having instructors work together• We always had the student experience at the

center• We never envisioned the course at the center of

the process• But we never leveled the hierarchy between the

participants• Which is what we want to do going forward…

Overlap with TEL 1.0


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AN EVOLUTION OF TELTEL 2.0


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• Faculty development role is key component of TEL 2.0

• Where we’re going from here

Students and

Course

Faculty Develop-

ment

Instructor

Instruc-tional Design

Techno-logy

Support

Subject Matter

Librarian

Assess-ment

Grad Student

Research

Others?

TEL 2.0: Going Forward


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OPEN DISCUSSIONTEL 2.0


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TEL 2.0: What Would You Do?

Questions for attendees:• [How] do you perceive this

evolution/need at your institution? • [How] would our model/solution work in

the context of your institution? • Do you perceive any obstacles to

implementing it? • What other leverages could be taken

advantage of to effect the change? • What questions do you have?


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TEL Contacts

• TEL Program at UVa:http://www.scps.virginia.edu/audience/faculty/technology-enhanced-learning-tel

• Gail Hunger, Director of Instructional Quality, [email protected] or 434.924.1305.

• Trisha Gordon, UVaCollab User Support Manager, http://collab.virginia.edu/, [email protected]

• Yitna Firdyiwek, Instructional Technology Advisor, Information Technology Services, http://faculty.virginia.edu/firdyiwek

http://www.scps.virginia.edu/audience/faculty/technology-enhanced-learning-tel



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http://collab.virginia.edu/

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