Comments on: Technology in Higher Ed: One step at a time. http://targuman.org/blog/2006/11/02/technology-in-higher-ed-one-step-at-a-time/ Translating my thoughts into words. Sat, 19 May 2012 01:55:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Cole http://targuman.org/blog/2006/11/02/technology-in-higher-ed-one-step-at-a-time/comment-page-1/#comment-147 Cole Sat, 04 Nov 2006 14:21:35 +0000 http://targuman.org/blog/?p=300#comment-147 It is honestly the only way to look at things -- as a step by step approach. I like to take the long view with all of it ... we deal with faculty who are early adopters, mif-range users, and the ones who stay far behind. It is always easy to hit the first group with first generation ideas. This group is critical when you look at the long range -- they inform us as they are usually on board with the latest concepts and will allow us to come in and do some assessment to help shape the opportunities for the second group. If you look at podcasting, everyone assumed faculty would just create audio recording of lectures -- while that is happening, by turning early adopters on to podcasting we are seeing far more interesting and engaging ways to use it. These data points will help us get to the next level with it all. While I think iPods for students is an interesting concept for a lot of reasons, you are asking the more important questions ... what I would want to make sure of is related to the faculty use of the tools. Being assured faculty of how faculty would take advantage of the technology would make me feel more confident about dropping the cash for 200 iPods. So the challenge isn't the purchase of the technology, it is the pedagogical approaches and strategies we'd use to get faculty to fully engage students in new and interesting ways. It is a good conversation and could be worthy of a (podcasted) conversation. It is honestly the only way to look at things — as a step by step approach. I like to take the long view with all of it … we deal with faculty who are early adopters, mif-range users, and the ones who stay far behind. It is always easy to hit the first group with first generation ideas. This group is critical when you look at the long range — they inform us as they are usually on board with the latest concepts and will allow us to come in and do some assessment to help shape the opportunities for the second group. If you look at podcasting, everyone assumed faculty would just create audio recording of lectures — while that is happening, by turning early adopters on to podcasting we are seeing far more interesting and engaging ways to use it. These data points will help us get to the next level with it all.

While I think iPods for students is an interesting concept for a lot of reasons, you are asking the more important questions … what I would want to make sure of is related to the faculty use of the tools. Being assured faculty of how faculty would take advantage of the technology would make me feel more confident about dropping the cash for 200 iPods. So the challenge isn’t the purchase of the technology, it is the pedagogical approaches and strategies we’d use to get faculty to fully engage students in new and interesting ways. It is a good conversation and could be worthy of a (podcasted) conversation.

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