What Starts at DIIA Changes the World
DIIA staff made significant contributions to teaching and learning beyond the Forty Acres during the past year. Many staff were invited presenters at institutions of higher education and professional organizations around the world.
"Expanding Assessment and Evaluation Capacity in Higher Education: The Instructional Assessment Resources Web site"—Joel Heikes
"Evaluation 2005—Crossing Borders, Crossing Boundaries," the American Evaluation Association (AEA) and Canadian Evaluation Association annual meeting held in Toronto, Canada, October 28, 2005.
Joel presented a demonstration of the Instructional Assessment Resources (IAR) Web site at this international conference that included purpose, uses, development issues, major features, usage, and future plans.
"Workshop for New Faculty Developers"—Michael Sweet and Karron Lewis
The 2005 Annual Conference of the Professional and Organizational Development (POD) Network in Higher Education, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 27, 2005
Michael and Karron introduced the multidimensional nature of faculty development to those new to the role at this one-day, interactive survey of faculty development responsibilities, strategies, and techniques. Their presentation and discussion included a historical/organizational framework of faculty development; how to determine the needs of constituencies served by the faculty developer, create a climate of inclusion, establish and maintain a program; and practical workshop and faculty consultation strategies.
Presentation on lecture webcasting using MediaSite—Coco Kishi and Tomoko Traphagan
The University of Texas at Austin, October 2005
Coco and Tomoko presented a session on lecture webcasting using MediaSite in both English and Japanese for visiting executives from Towa Engineering, a leading builder of AV classrooms in Japanese universities.
"Updated Survey of Current Wireless Keypad Systems"—Morrie Schulman
American Association of Physics Teachers, Salt Lake City, Utah, August 9, 2005
Physics instructors were some of the first to incorporate classroom response systems (CPS) in their instruction to create active learning environments. Many use wireless keypad systems to personalize large classes and give students and faculty feedback on content mastery. Many affordable, easy-to-implement products are now available, including newer radio frequency (RF) systems. Morrie and Ray Burnstein (from The Illinois Institute of Technology) displayed and compared different types of equipment and discussed how this tool is used at UT Austin with commercial and homegrown software developed by the UT Austin physics department.
"Updated Survey of Current Wireless Keypad Systems" PowerPoint presentation (6.93 MB)
Syllabus Executive Summit participant, and Conference Curriculum and ID Track Session moderator—Coco Kishi
Syllabus Conference 2005, Los Angeles, California, July 2005
Coco moderated several sessions and participated in this summit meeting.
"Maximizing Online Information Retrieval: How Theological Librarians Can Best Access the Gnostic Areas of the Internet"—Libby Peterek
American Theological Library Association Annual Conference, Austin, Texas, June 17, 2005
Libby was invited to discuss the implications of the deep Web, federated searching, and RSS for the information community at large and for specialized user groups, such as members of theological communities. More accurately accessing and assessing these lesser-known areas of the Internet has the potential to profoundly shape and reshape how research is performed.
"Expanding Assessment and Evaluation Capacity in Higher Education: The Instructional Assessment Resources Web site"—Coco Kishi with Paul Williams, College of Communication, and Kurt Bartelmehs, College of Natural Sciences
Innovations in Online Learning (IOL) Conference, Austin, Texas, June 2005
As interest in lecture webcasting grows, so do the number and types of available commercial turnkey tools that produce rich media presentations for live and on-demand viewing. These tools capture and synchronize the lecturer’s video/audio output and presentation materials, and compresses and encodes the media in various formats.The collaboration reported on three systems in use at UT Austin, with preliminary results from DIIA's classroom lecture webcasting impact study.
"Accessibility Issues 2005"—Coco Kishi with Paul Hyde, University of Delaware and Victor Edmunds, University of California at Berkeley
New Media Consortium Annual Conference, Hawaii, June 2005
Coco’s group outlined advances, tools, techniques, and issues in providing accessibility for webcasts and other instructional media.
"Strategies & Heuristics for Novice Instructional Designers as They Work with Faculty Content Experts in a University Setting," from Instructional Design: Case Studies in Communities of Practice—Coco Kishi and Suzanne Rhodes with Dr. Liu Min, College of Education
Published by Idea Group Inc, edited by Dr. Mike Keppell. Summer 2005
Real-world case studies provide relevant heuristic and communication strategies for instructional designers working with content experts in diverse communities of practice. Coco and Suzanne’s chapter is especially helpful to understand the knowledge, skills, and principles required to complete challenging projects in cross-cultural and international settings.
Accreditation on-site visit to Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS)—Karron Lewis
University of Alabama, March 22-23, 2005
After analyzing the institution’s Quality Enhancement Plan and other documentation, and conducting interviews with administrators and faculty, Karron’s team presented their findings and recommendations to the administration, faculty, and staff.
"Two Carrots, No Stick: Supporting Faculty Instructional Technology Assessment"—Michael Sweet and Suzanne Rhodes
SUN Conference on Teaching and Learning, The University of Texas at El Paso, March 4-5, 2005
Michael and Suzanne presented an overview of the ~FAST Tex and IITAP programs at UT Austin, including incorporating assessment criteria, and coaching faculty as they develop assessment plans. They focused on both organizational strategies and interpersonal strategies to help faculty clarify assessment goals.
New Media Consortium directors campus tour of UT Austin—Coco Kishi
The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, March 2005
Coco organized a tour for New Media Consortium directors interested in instructional technology developments such as technology classrooms, online course resources, and assessment. The NMC directors toured the ACES building and College of Liberal Arts (COLA) classrooms and facilities, and met with IT directors from various UT Austin colleges.
"Issues in the Language Classroom"—Josh Iorio
TESOL/Applied Linguistics Graduate Students (TALGS) Conference, Greenville, NC, February 19th, 2005
Josh founded the TALGS conference in 2001 to bridge the gap between theory and practice in teaching English as a second language (TESL). The conference introduced ESL and mainstream teachers in the Eastern North Carolina community to related graduate student research. Josh led a panel discussion addressing teachers’ concerns and included graduate students to create a forum on the application of theory to the classroom. Now that the conference is established, Josh has moved into an advisory role.
"Using Learning Styles to Enhance Teaching and Learning"—Karron Lewis
Faculty Development Seminar, Texas State University, January 14, 2005
People have different ways of receiving and processing information. Karron designed this workshop to help faculty participants use learning styles to improve teaching and learning in their classroom.
"Issues in Management Strategy," "TIP@UT"—Susanna Wong Herndon
e-Learning in Higher Education: Conditions for Success, National Institute of Multimedia Education International Symposium 2004, Japan, November 17-19, 2004
Susanna explored the conditions and constraints inherent in a large public research university and traced the former Center for Instructional Technologies’ path from a small unit championing the development of instructional technologies with a few faculty innovators to the impact and opportunities of integrating the CIT with the former Center for Teaching Effectiveness and the Measurement and Evaluation Center to form the Division of Instructional Innovation and Assessment at UT Austin.
“Best Practices of Outstanding Faculty,” “Teaching and Learning Centers: Design, Development, Maintenance,” “Using Learning Styles to Enhance Teaching and Learning.”—Karron Lewis
Faculty Professional Development Seminar, University of Houston, November 19, 2004
The provost at the University of Houston, Downtown invited Karron to lead several workshops and discuss the advantages of an on-campus Teaching and Learning Center for a faculty professional development day.
“Getting Started in Faculty/Instructional Development”—Karron Lewis with Marilla Svinicki, College of Education
2004 Annual Conference of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education (POD Network), Montreal, Canada, November 4, 2004
This workshop was for people who are new to instructional, faculty, or organizational development. They presented and discussed the skills needed to be an effective faculty developer, ways to serve a variety of constituencies, establishing and maintaining a faculty or TA development program, strategies for consulting with faculty individually and in groups, and practical strategies for developing and presenting effective workshops.
“Using Learning Styles to Improve Teaching”—Karron Lewis
Workshop for Danish teachers from around the world, The University of Texas at Austin, October 8, 2004
People have different ways of receiving and processing information. Karron designed a workshop to help Danish language teachers use learning styles to improve teaching and learning in their classrooms.