2. The world we live in
•Internet use doubles every 100 days.
•Radio was in existence 38 years before
50 million people tuned in; TV took
13 years to reach that benchmark.
The Emerging Digital Economy, US Commerce Dept.
3. The world we live in
•Sixteen years after the first PC kit
came out, 50 million people
were using one.
•Once it was opened to the general
public, the Internet crossed that line
in four years.
The Emerging Digital Economy, US Commerce Dept.
4. The world we live in
•Information technology has already
begun to create demand for highly skilled
Workers.
•Countries that have an insufficient supply of
skilled workers will see high-skilled, high-paying
jobs migrate to countries that can supply the
needed talent.
The Emerging Digital Economy, US Commerce Dept.
5. The world we live in
• The private sector and governments must
work together to create new human resources
policies that better prepare students and
workers to meet the challenges of the
emerging digital economy.
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6. How do we use technology to enhance
teaching and learning?
We have a duty to our students to use
technology to enhance teaching and research.
We have a duty to ensure that all of our
students have an appropriate
familiarity with the technology that is so
rapidly remaking the world.
7. How do we use technology to enhance
teaching and learning?
By using technology to enhance teaching and
learning, we improve our core function as a
University, and give our students the skills
they need to function effectively in the
world of work.
8. Characteristics of good teaching:
•Instructors are well prepared.
•Instructors excite and motivate students
•Instructors communicate effectively
with their students.
•Instructors bring latest information to
students
9. Characteristics of successful learning:
•Students gain and retain knowledge of the
content of the course.
•Students develop critical thinking skills.
•Students integrate knowledge within and
across disciplines.
•Students develop the ability to work in a
team to solve a problem.
10. Using technology to enhance
education
The use of modern instructional technologies
enhances teaching, and learning, by promoting
all of these characteristics.
11. Enhances how we teach
New instructional tools:
• Require that instructors are
well-organized and adaptable.
12. Enhances how we teach
New instructional tools:
• Require that instructors are well organized
and adaptable.
• Bring text, sounds and images to enrich and
enliven the classroom.
13. Enhances how we teach
New instructional tools:
• Require that instructors are well organized
and adaptable.
• Bring text, sounds and images to enrich and
enliven the classroom.
• Improve communications between
instructor and student.
14. Enhances how we teach
New instructional tools:
• Require that instructors are well organized
and adaptable.
• Bring text, sounds and images to enrich
and enliven the classroom.
• Improve communications between
instructor and student.
• Bring up-to-date content into classroom or
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15. Further enhancements
• More content available outside the
classroom, asynchronously.
• More interaction in the classroom.
• Increased use of research methods in
undergraduate courses.
16. Enhancements to learning
New instructional tools:
• Assist in the delivery of content knowledge
to students.
• Availability of electronic data resources
and the web
17. Enhancements to learning
New instructional tools:
• Improve retention
•Increased interaction improves retention
•Empower students who find communication
in traditional lecture to be intimidating.
18. Enhancements to learning
New instructional tools:
• Improve the development of critical
thinking skills.
• Students engage content in a mode suited
to their preferred learning style.
19. Enhancements to learning
New instructional tools:
• Improve students’ integration of knowledge
within and across disciplines.
•Research projects can become part of the standard course
•Students can bring ideas to some stage of completion,
integrating knowledge more effectively.
20. Enhancements to learning
New instructional tools:
• Improve and encourage teamwork
and problem-solving.
• Email and WWW applications enable
group activities, even in large courses
•Conferencing and chat facilities
promote discussion
21. Enhancing Education
It is incumbent upon the faculties of research
universities to think carefully and systematically
not only about how to make the most effective
use of existing technologies but also how to
create new ones that will enhance their own
teaching and that of their colleagues.
Reinventing Undergraduate Education: A Blueprint for America’s
Research Universities.
22. Enhancing Education
The best teachers and researchers should be
thinking about how to design courses in
which technology enriches teaching rather
than substitutes for it.
Reinventing Undergraduate Education: A Blueprint for America’s
Research Universities.
23. Enhancing Education
At Rutgers, we have been doing just
what the Carnegie Commission suggests.
We have a number of initiatives in place that
enhance and improve teaching with technology.
24. Enhancing Education
•Instructional Technology Initiative
•Year of the Network
•Advisory Committee on Instructional Computing
•Mellon Foundation Cost Effective Uses of
Technology in Teaching Grant
25. Enhancing Education
Instructional Technology Initiative:
Funds large grants to departments or
schools to transform courses or
curricula
Year of the Network
Promotes development of new instructional
technologies and diffuses them throughout the
University.
26. Enhancing Education
Advisory Committee on Instructional Computing
Funds public use machines, networking,
student access to email and web, and
departmental computer teaching laboratories.
Mellon Foundation Cost Effective Uses
of Technology in Teaching
Three year grant to study cost effectiveness of
Instructional Technology Initiative projects.
