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Grappling with Education Related Issues
- Deciding what the future of literacy looks like. With the decline of the hegemony of the book and the rise of hyper-textual constructions, reading and writing are both undergoing essential changes. If I bemoan their lack of literacy it's because students don't meet the definition I was taught, I'm cheating them of their futures and me the possibility of embracing change.
- We are grappling with what new technologies we can integrate into physician education to keep abreast of the latest trends and keep people engaged in learning.
- The chasm in understanding between researchers who use Second Life as a field site and "traditional" academic scholars and IRB members as they supposedly share a common responsibility for ethical methods in data collection.
- Change
- How, with limited resources, to a adequately support learning communities- with adequate time as well as rewards for their efforts.
- Getting faculty involved
- Keeping technology in step with growths. Working with various technology, education apple, fear of technology
- developing ways of helping fellow faculty integrate technology into classroom instruction. It isn't enough to have understanding about technology and to simply share. How do I help get buy-in? Interested in exploring how other colleges/univ. are presenting academic information to their students.
- Everything!
- How to directly address the educational interests of faculty- we know what we want them to know, but what do they want to know?
- How can we simplify clinical evaluation and keep them meaningful?
- Getting students to write strong conclusions that are based on and refer to evidence (data, results, and observations)?
- Overall, incorporating technology into curriculum
- Students not reading
- How to help faculty get the most out of technology in the classroom and use it effectively without it becoming an added burden on them
- WebCT does not meet my needs-we're slow going to Bb (which I've used before) and that's frustrating.
- How to get faculty to adopt instructional technologies in their classrooms or at least try new things
- engaging students in ways that are significant to them- not just me.
- Retention of students
- Making composition relevant for technical students
- Ensuring equal access to/ knowledge of technology for students
- the identification of educational technologies that are user-friendly (both in terms of students and faculty) and support student interactivity and accountability in online environments
- How to help faculty who have developed their online teaching strategies on various learning management systems move collaboratively to a new LMS that no one has used (LMS functionality affects strategies)
- Shrinking budgets- limited funds for new technology and/or building blocks for Bb. Getting faculty to embrace new technologies evaluating distance learning courses
- Students now fully prepared with basic math and writing
- Determining the best way to engage faculty in using educational technology (podcasts, vodcasts, clickers, LMS) to help students group information and become engaged in learning.
- Doing more with less- demands vs. quantity of educators (time, budget) and yet producing quality
- Early educators not entering the classroom with a strong understanding of how to use technology- taking an online course doesn't always encourage teachers to then use technology in their classroom
- Deciding which classes to offer online
- Keeping current with technology
- Effectively using technology, not just because it is the current rage.
- How to create inverted classroom design and social networking into a discipline like applied music; online applications for a hands-on discipline
- students come to college unprepared
- It is harder and harder to get students' attention with traditional teaching methods
- Communicating with and bringing faculty into the 21st century and facilitating their understanding about how to teach differently and use technology appropriately in their classrooms.
- Consolidating best practices in hybrid course development across different fields of study.
- Globalization and changing of technologies in the language industry. This may include new technologies, the needs for updating current software and making sure that appropriate resources are available.
- Time management- how to do it all (everything I want to do and learn) and still sleep a reasonable number of hours a night. Also, how to balance structured and unstructured learning.
- Meeting the varied technology-related needs of all of our teachers (some need basics of word, while others need/want to explore web 2.0, podcasting, etc.)
- Convincing faculty of the benefits of bringing technology into their teaching
- Getting faculty on board with new learning system- eLearning system
- Time and other resources
- Blocked sites that have educational value but also pose a threat of being inappropriate according to CIPA
- Getting some faculty to use more technology in their course delivery i.e. podcasts, you tube, chats, or open forums
- Curriculum design for associate degree nursing students, moving forward with change while maintaining key concepts related to the field, keeping up with exams effectively
- Slow connection speed in rural areas
- Advising effectively from a distance
- Using new technologies for instruction when assessment in paper in pencil
- How to provide equal access to educational technology
- Balance: new technologies and the time commitment to use them effectively
- Helping others understand the value to their teaching and careers of participating in a learning community and fostering their commitment
- Encourage faculty to engage in faculty development/ FLCs: new faculty use their time for tenure, mid-career too busy establishing process, and old think it is not for me
- Finding time
- Transforming/ updating teaching methods for today's digital native students
- Learning about OLN and all of the resources and technologies available
- How to use paper writing, assignments in a large literature class.
- How to use outside of the class time more effectively for students
- How to best develop a hybrid course to meet students' learning goals
- How to convince students of the real-life consequences (ethical/political) of the issues discussed abstractly in class
- Integrating modern students' perception of theory with traditional instruction methods. Students expect to get the education without knowing professional history and theory of use.
- The low level of general knowledge and preparation for college work among the student body
- Getting students to read resources beyond web-based materials, i.e. good old-fashioned books/ articles which have been properly peer reviewed
- We continue to struggle with basic writing issues grammar, sentence structure, basic formatting. We continue to struggle with getting students to pay attention to these issues and take them seriously.
- Increasing opportunities for graduate education
- To provide a consistent and effective platform to deliver course content to students to support and enhance learning
- Developing a strategic plan for distance education in our college and at the university level
- Student motivation, students not prepared for college work, methods to increase student access to course content, diversity in experience with technology: traditional vs non-traditional students
- Involving faculty in the strategic planning process for technology in a way that is meaningful
- Interactive learning/ active learning
- Translating to "online" a course which it seems will lose significance in that translation
- Engaging faculty in course reviews and improvement to better service our students
- How to promote a sense of community of scholarship of teaching and learning at a school where the majority of faculty are tenured, overlooked and somewhat egotistical about their current teaching
- Giving my future students an understanding of students with exceptional needs and how to teach them using practice before they teach real children.
- How to convert a laboratory hands-on course into a distance format
- Faculty accepting quality review of their online courses
- Faculty learning to be more accepting of technology and open to learning about it
- Teaching the teacher
- How to increase the effectiveness of distance learning while reducing the attrition rate
- How to better prepare distance learning students to understand the realistic demands of being a DL student
- Best ways to integrate technology into the development of an entirely new integrative studies degree introductory seminar
- Making promotion and tenure of faculty contingent upon effective implementation of technology in teaching and student learning
- Assessment of student learning: How do we provide evidence of a process of learning without the process becoming a burden
- Motivating faculty who are strongly tied to traditional pedagogy to adopt technology in their classrooms
- Under-prepared students
- Rapid change and keeping up
- Working with students to keep them engaged and connected even out of class
- How technology can improve teaching and learning but that having all of the high tech tools will not make learning happen automatically
- Ensuring that all teachers are trained in the use of technology so that they can enhance student learning in the classroom
- Delivering/teaching lab skills in an online environment for disciplines like chemistry, physics, engineering, etc.
- How to give real time "stop action" feedback in a semester long simulation exercise
- Preparing students for distance education opportunities by getting them to read instructions ahead of time, investigate criteria, etc.
- Are teachers teaching or facilitating when offering online coursework
- How do I integrate the pieces such as assessments, curriculum development and technology to demonstrate student and program outcomes
- Accessing best practices/ creative ways of using technology
- Figuring out what courses is distance education effective
- Helping faculty understand the complex nature of teaching an exceptional online course vs a computer based correspondence course
- How to keep high-teach, high-touch: I am not interested in helping students separate from one another or become more isolated through technology
- How to instill respect for others' intellectual property and encourage/ develop info literacy skills
- How to keep up with the latest technology and how to use the technology for course delivery while balancing a tremendous work loads as faculty/director of a program
- Engagement within a context for learning
- Getting "old school" instructors to upgrade their methods in the classroom and online
- Student retention during first-year experiences
- Assessment of institutional measures
- Increased demand for more and more system changes that are high tech from many directions at the same time, often cause overload with the juggling that occurs
- The assessment of efficacy of digital learning objects and instructional technology on students' learning and attitude
- Getting students to take responsibility for their education and see how it interconnects with other interests and other courses of study at the university
- Getting administrators to understand the time it takes to do what we do well, not in a "cookie-cutter/one-size fits all" fashion, and to reward those efforts appropriately. Basically, trust me to do my job.
- How to get faculty to attend workshops on learning community technology
- Student engagement, lack of commitment to their studies, expecting to pass a course with minimal effort, want their education handed to them
- How to encourage faculty to use learning technologies (LMS, clickers, podcasting) to enhance teaching and learning and how to expand use of those learning technologies to administrative and outreach applications as well
- Offering an avenue where my organization can receive feedback via new technology
- If the epsilon system is alright for our school and if it's flexible enough to meet our LC goals
- How to use learning networks effectively
- How to use instructional technology to support the ultimate educational goal of teaching for understanding humanity
- Helping faculty with the shift to use appropriate pedagogy and technology in their online classes
- Using new technology effectively, implementing student centered learning when students prefer "traditional lectures", holding students accountable for learning
- The clarification of outcomes that matter so that projects can more readily be part of SoTL instead of only descriptive, innovative projects
- Getting all faculty involved with online learning, moving from one course management system to another, keeping up with technology changes, providing good online pedagogical training for faculty
- How to make businesses understand the value of online education- getting it down to the bottom line...how online education will positively impact the bottom line
- Finding the most effective and user-friendly format for our teacher work sample (ePortfolio). Sakai didn't work, college web page was a burden, live text? funds for training?
- How to motivate and sustain motivation of our students enrolled in our distance education program. Promote throughout the term active learning
- Making sure the "enabling technologies" i.e. LMS, capture stations, studio tools, etc. are the RIGHT ONES for our school. User-friendly for instructor and student, cost effective, lasting and not a passing fad.
- Student motivations, or lack of motivation, rapid changes in technology and the cost of those changes
- How to move beyond knowledge- level learning into analysis and evaluation in an online environment. i.e. when all tests are open-book, how do you accurately assess understanding
- Enhancing student involvement, helping faculty with new technologies, convincing management to invest in new technologies
- How to increase online enrollment and to better train online faculty and students
- Ongoing college support to maintain and advance technological capabilities...there is not a lack of ideas but a lack of resources
- How to fully integrate library services, i.e. student and faculty support, access to resources, instructional support, and information literacy into our university-wide new LMS- Sakai
- Convincing a department of "old fashioned" colleagues that technology is useful for teaching and learning
- Faculty who want to teach online but do not always have the prerequisite basic computer skills to do so with relative ease
- Inclusion- motivating and teaching instructors to make their courses universally accessible and motivating and teaching students to join in and take part in learning together
- Learning all the technology- software and hardware and teaching it to the necessary faculty members
- Faculty involvement in distance learning, early adopters have either burnt-out or stagnated, 2nd level adopters are slow to engage, entrenched Luddites resist and sometimes even oppose adoption
- Ways to get more faculty "buy-in" in the use of new technologies- online-hybrid and in face to face classes..and hopefully build more support for creating more online classes
- A wide variety of student preparedness in non-traditional aged students in terms of technology and writing skills
- How to increase use of technology to stimulate and support student learning and achievement. Today's younger students are technology natives but many faculty are not. Faculty need help to see the benefit of use of technology to engage students, to help them learn and to increase their success.
- Resources: Being able to hire the required staff members to support the number of courses, programs we have and/or are developing online
- Moving faculty to increase their use of active learning in technology, both with technology and within traditional delivery...motivate faculty to change
- How to get started with a distance learning initiative; curriculum-wise and technology-wise
- Engaging "technology phobic" faculty
- Keeping the attention of our new generation of folks who want education on the web
- Funding for technology equipment, technical support and professional development
- Active learning in large lecture halls
- Faculty buy n to embrace new technologies
- How can we introduce technology without interfering with the educational process, how can we learn to make distance learning more personable
- Using technology to enhance our programs in a meaningful way (not just using technology because it is available)
- Helping create and support an learning system that appeals to those who don't necessarily embrace technology- faculty and students alike
- How to get students to use our academic support services when they can still be helped. Can technology help us to connect with those students who won't come in for face to face assistance
- How can we encourage faculty to develop more media-rich materials for online and distance education courses to address specific content
- How can we effectively sere well over 20,000 students with a faculty and academic support staff that is +/- 90% part-time
- How can our institution move from an enrollment-driven to a retention driven college
- Staying on top of my students technological abilities when they are beyond my own
- The range of studetns' preparation and ability within a simple class, especially when classes are large
- More effective student collaboration and group work in English and education literature and writing courses- have used wikis, voice thread, web quests with limited succes
- Assisting a faculty of ten scholars to adapt a new LMS (Sakai) to a non-course based PHD non-residency program
- Training faculty, encouraging the adoption of technology, when faculty are not acclimated to computing (faculty who have agreed to teach online but are reluctant or fearful of doing so)
- Having students VALUE research and learning without google or plagiarism
- Ways to reflect on our educational experiences as we are in the process- blogs, journals; evolving experiences where the reflection furthers the learning and leaves footprints we, and others, can learn from
- How to "facilitate learning" for an online graduate course vs "delivering material" to be learned. I guess; how to get students to embrace active vs passive learning
- Students come to college with weakened attention spans, little engagement with deep reading and thinking after engaging with traditional media, e.g., books, newspapers. How do I take them where they are with the media (what they're comfortable with) but still do what colleges aim to do: increase critical thinking skills, love and learning and exposure to a world beyond their limited experience.
- Encouraging faculty to embrace new technologies and learning activities, meet students where they are in relationship to technology
- Using emerging technologies while assuring access and quality within a vibrant learning environment to the graduate learner
- Process and for converting design for leadership distance learning program in Christian education to a fully online, cohort-drive, semester-based, without sacrificing students already in the open-enrollment course completion, individual program
- Trying to get faculty on my campus more excited about technology and teaching, and more excited about sharing their experiences with others
- How to effectively use podcasts/vodcasts as part of a CMS. I am also struggling to learn a much as I can about new technologies
- Staying up to date with technological innovations as they become available, on-line course management
- How to introduce SL in computer science and business classes. Sustaining an awareness of emerging technologies, improved online course design developments
- Doing more with less resources
- Engaging students in the classroom: having them get excited about learning the basics, stop falling asleep during lecture time, getting to the point where they are excited to come to class
- Investing the time up front to optimize time out front
- Expand conversations to the whole- engaging more cohort members and enabling community voice Creating flexible alternative delivery of courses with current "seat-time" system. We are stifled by institutional policies built on "presumed" OBR requirements
- Implementing new emerging technologies in a user friendly way before it becomes old technology
- Connecting with students where they are and assisting them in moving to where they can/should be
- How to organize, plan, implement, deliver and evaluate distance education programs
- Finding the time to explore these different technologies and then implementing in the classroom
- Engaging learners in an online course beyond postings. How to make discussions come alive
- The time needed to integrate active learning (which may include technology) into my courses which are very content heavy
- Using innovative technologies to improve student learning and teaching outcomes
- Getting reluctant faculty members to engage (yet another) LMS
- Effectively integrating technology and technology tools into education to enhance our students learning environment while meeting the needs of our teachers
- How do I really know that incorporating technology into my courses improves student learning
- Familiarizing myself with technologies and relevant issues related to work in the K-12 environment, especially accommodating students with special needs
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