Learning Technology Forum
for Faculty
Dr. Alex Hills
Distinguished Service Professor
Carnegie Mellon University
ahills@cmu.edu
Learning Technology
Forum For Faculty
What UA is doing now
What UA could do in the future
Learning Technology
Forum
What UA is doing now
Professors are positive about using
classroom technology
Professors are positive about using
course management systems
(Blackboard and UASOnline)
Why do professors use learning
technology?
How students say learning
technology affects their
academic success?
How often do professors request …
and use … technology – equipped
classrooms?
What do faculty say about
technology-equipped classroom
reliability?
CMS is next to the top technology
students wish instructors used
more.
How do faculty rate UA online
systems (OLSs)?
How do students rate UA online
systems (OLSs)?
What value do specific applications
have … to faculty?
What value do specific applications
have … to students?
Learning Technology
Forum
What UA could do in the future
One vision of learning
A classroom isn’t just one place
Technology is an important part of students’
lives
An approach:
• Presentation of fact-based material (one way
communication): outside class
• Interaction and activities: in class
A vision of learning
Duke University
“Changing the Classroom”
Video – mpeg
or
http://www.cisco.com/web/strategy/education/
duke_university_transforms_learning.html
A vision of learning
Duke University
“Open Chemistry Course”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player
_embedded&v=CmZtGPhiAac
Today’s technology tools
University infrastructure
• Classroom technology
• Online systems
Mobile devices
Tablet computers – iPad, Kindle, Nook, etc.
• 29% of Americans own them
Social networks – Facebook, Twitter, etc.
Apple iBooks
Textbooks for iPad
• Interactive
• Diagrams
• Photos
• Videos
Apple iBooks
Students can:
• Find definitions
• Search
• Highlight text
• Take notes
Apple iBooks
Professors can:
• Create iBooks
University learning infrastructure
Purdue University case study
• Publishing (Jetpack)
• Video sharing (Doubletake)
• Media sharing (Mixable)
• Social networking (Hotseat)
• Progress monitoring (Signals)
“Jetpack”
A new kind of coursepack
• Published to mobile devices
Capabilities
• Documents
• Images
• Customized interactivity
http://www.itap.purdue.edu/studio/jetpack/
“Hotseat”
Social networking
“Micro-discussion”
In class
Outside class
Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTTMAftkCc&feature=player_embedded
What do you think?