In the Cloud and on the Ground » Instructional Design

New Roles for Faculty

Heidi Trotta — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 01:47:00 +0000

I saw a youtube video on the Networked Student and they had identified new roles for teachers/faculty that I thought were very accurate. They included:

Learning Architect
Modeler
Change Agent
Learning Concierge
Network Sherpe
Connected Learning Incubator
Synthesizer

What is missing is “knowledge provider”. This is a gigantic shift for the academy … one I’m not sure all it’s members are prepared or even trained for.

Catch the video below …

Fast Tube by Casper

Creative Commons

Heidi Trotta — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 20:04:32 +0000

I’m a “Creative Commons” kind of girl. This is the best introduction I have seen for students and faculty on what Creative Commons is. The way I see it, nothing is really “original” … it is all a mashup of past discoveries, observations and thoughts.

Fast Tube by Casper

Information and Computers in Public Service

Heidi Trotta — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:38:22 +0000

Matt Hale

Dr. Matt Hale, faculty in Seton Hall University’s Center for Public Service is teaching a graduate course this spring semester called Information and Computers in Public Service. PSMA6008, is designed to provide students with the skills necessary to serve as an interface between administrative personnel in an organization focused on policy and those focused on technology.

A number of learning activities are planned for this course:

“Me and My Technology” … an early writing assignment to help students reflect on how they use technology in their everyday lives. By comparing reflections, students will explore how different people use technology in different ways.
A collaborative book/article review
Individual article reviews to be written in individual student blogs
“How are you going to do that?” – a collaborative group project for a factitious organization. The class will identify a series of goals and taskes related to the project as well as desired organizational outcomes. Each project will then review a different technology to see if their technology will aid the organzation in reaching their goals and objectives.

To aid in gathering and recording all student work, the students created individual WordPress blogs. A class pbwiki was created along with a class pageflakes site.

To help students get started with the techology, a hands-on session was provided. To see a syllabus of PSMA 6008, psma-6008-syllabus-spring-2009.