Introduction
At the request of ITLC, key administrators and thought leaders across the campuses were asked to identify 3-4 challenges and opportunities facing each campus with respect to teaching and learning. The intent was to not focus so directly on the technologies deployed but, instead, to broaden the conversation and establish lines of communication.
Second Year Analysis (2011-12)
Objectives:
- To facilitate the process of gathering 3-4 top pedagogical challenges / issues from our campuses.
- To aggregate those individual campus responses into a report to be delivered to ITLC.
Timeline:
Task: In an effort to begin our information gathering process, please list below any ideas you feel are essential or ideas that have been expressed to you by a thought leader on your campus. Please also designate your campus.
- Paradigm shift from on-the-ground to online teaching. (UCI)
- Paradigm shift from lecture to more active types of instructional design. (UCI)
- Aligning course curriculum with instructional design, assessment strategies, and Learning Objectives. (UCI)
Initial Year Analysis (2010-11)
In our inaugural year, the most common grouping of issues reported were:
- Faculty workload
- Insufficient faculty support, and
- Funding to meet faculty instructional technology needs
All of these top tier concerns stem primarily from a general lack of funding for support for teaching and learning.
After budget/funding issues, the second most pressing issue noted in our pedagogical issues discussion came from senate faculty concerned about the prospects of online courses.
Finally, the following group of issues are tied in third place and are each listed by five campuses :
- Time to Degree
- Lack of assessment of learning outcomes, and general evaluation
- Lack of rewards to faculty for teaching excellence