American Association for Higher Education
Teaching, Learning, and Technology Roundtable
2nd Annual TLTR Summer Institute
July 12-16, 1996
Scottsdale Princess Resort, Scottsdale, AZ
The Teaching, Learning & Technology Roundtable Program seeks
to improve teaching and learning through more effective use
of information technology, while controlling costs. It
provides a conceptual framework, guidelines, training to form
local Roundtables, and a forum for individual colleges and
universities to work with peer institutions.
Local Roundtables become vehicles for inclusive institutional
planning, communications, coordination, and collaboration -
engaging representatives of all key stakeholders and support
services in the deliberate pursuit of major educational
change. At every level, participants in the TLTR Program are
committed to developing and implementing effective strategies
for change: strategies that address growing fears and
engender realistic hopes; strategies that make technology the
servant of important educational missions and personal
values.
1996 TLTR Summer Institute:
"Strategies For Change"
The TLTR Summer Institute will encourage and enable
participants to learn about, develop, implement, and advance
a variety of strategies for change in which information
technology is used to improve teaching and learning, and
control costs. The Call for Proposals encourages
presentations and activities that include students (of all
ages and status) as leaders and participants. Contact
tltrinfo@aahe.org or Ellen Shortill (202) 293.6440 x38 to
receive the Institute's Call for Proposals. Submission
deadline: April 26, 1996.
Who should attend the 2nd Annual TLTR Summer Institute?
Members of an information industry (publishing,
telecommunications, computing, etc.).
-- Come to "network" - listen, argue, collaborate - with
academic administrators, faculty, librarians, computing
professionals, faculty development professionals, et. al.
Learn how to work more effectively with local TLT
Roundtables and with the national TLTR Program.
Colleges or universities struggling with difficult
decisions about how to make information technology serve
their educational mission and how to (re)allocate resources.
-- Send individuals for an introduction to the TLTR ideas and
opportunities to help you decide whether to form your own
TLT Roundtable. And gain ideas you can use to improve
teaching and learning through technology even if you don't
form a Roundtable!
-- Send a team to draft a plan for
launching your own local TLT Roundtable.
Colleges or universities that already have a TLT
Roundtable and want to advance their efforts to focus
institutional resources on using information technology
more effectively to improve teaching and learning
- to have an impact on the curriculum.
-- Send individuals to exchange ideas and strategies about
getting the most out of local Roundtables and to develop a
schedule of TLTR activities with regional or peer
institutions - and to learn to work more effectively with
industry representatives.
-- Send a roundtable team to learn about more advanced TLTR
strategies and options and integrate them into a plan for
1996-97. and to work more effectively with industry
representatives.
The Tracks
The Institute's sessions will be organized in four major
theme tracks:
- Institutional Planning, Resources, and Support
Services
- Advancing roles of local TLTR Roundtables
- Developing teaching/learning centers
- Building more effective relationships between educators
and vendors
- Examining educational productivity
- Exploring the reallocation of institutional/societal
resources.
- Changing Faculty and Student Roles - and the
Curriculum
- Using students as assistants - helping peers, faculty,
and K-12 schools
- Extending collaborative approaches to teaching and
learning
- Describing, evaluating, and rewarding faculty use of
technology for instruction
- Finding discipline-based technology applications that
can be used across courses
- Rethinking syllabi.
- Education, Technology, and the Human Spirit
- Identifying key personal, institutional, and
educational values that are touched by educational uses of
technology
- Exploring the principles that may guide the
reallocation of institutional/societal resources that
educational uses of technology permit or require
- Transforming unrealistic fears into realistic hopes for
the role of technology in education and society.
- Assessment, Evaluation, and Research about Educational
Uses of Information Technology
- Summarizing what is already known and what tools are
already available to assist decision making about information
technology
- Exploring how technology can help faculty conduct
classroom assessment and action research
- Exploring how classroom assessment and action research
techniques can be integrated into educational uses of
information technology;
- Identifying critical areas for research needed to
advance effectiveness and efficiency of educational uses of
information technology.
Within these tracks, the Institute will offer models of "good
practice" in areas such as distance education, serving
underprepared students, and moving ahead with less-than-ideal
technological infrastructure.
The 1996 Institute will also explore how two apparently
competing paradigms for integrating technology can be applied
for different institutions: the first is dominated by
concerns about improving institutional productivity and
access to education; the second, about teaching, learning,
and content. [See the editorial in the March/April 1996
issue of Change Magazine for more on these two "paradigms"].
The Institute will also provide structured opportunities for
teams to synthesize what they are learning and apply the
results to the needs of their own institutions. All
participants will receive an Institute workbook to help them
translate what they learn into action. Return to your
institution with plans, strategies, resources, and models of
"good practice" ready to be discussed and implemented!
Models of "Good Practice"
Participants attending the 1996 TLTR Summer Institute need
real examples. Within each track, sessions should offer
models of "good practice" that can become the basis for local
adaptation and that address issues and questions such as the
following:
- Local Roundtable Strategies: What pitfalls and
recommendations can you share based on how you have developed
or managed a portfolio of change strategies for your
institution? What role did your local Roundtable play?
- Using Students as Assistants: How are you using
undergraduate students to assist their peers, faculty
members, or nearby K-12 schools to improve teaching and
learning through more effective uses of information
technology?
- Under-prepared Students: How is your institution (and
individual faculty members) using information technology to
help under-prepared students?
- Cost Effective Uses of Information Technology: How is
your institution using information technology to reduce
instructional costs while maintaining or improving
educational quality and access?
- Distance Education: What forms of distance education
are enabling your institution to reach students whom you
could not reach previously?
- "Waiting for the Infrastructure:" How are some faculty
and students already using technology to improve teaching and
learning before the institution has "completed" the
infrastructure (hardware, software, staff)?
- Appropriate Use Policies: What are effective guidelines
and policies for responsible faculty and student behavior in
new digital environments - especially the Internet?
- Collaborative Learning (Problem Solving Projects): How
are some faculty effectively using information technology to
support collaborative learning, problem- or project-oriented
learning?
Students are Central
All presenters and session leaders are encouraged to address
the needs of students. In addition, we actively seek to
offer sessions and events in which students can participate
as leaders and/or benefit from participation. We recognize
the definition of "student" is being stretched and welcome
the involvement of students of all ages, work experience,
degree status, etc.
Accommodations
Extraordinary low rates for luxurious accommodations- you'll
not only survive Phoenix in July, you'll enjoy it! You can
find the Scottsdale Princess west of the Superstitions, where
the McDowell Mountains frame the Sonoran desert town of
Scottsdale. Just 20 minutes from Phoenix Sky Harbor
International Airport, the Princess is a convenient retreat
from the fast-paced city. The Scottsdale Princess offers
activities for the whole family. While you attend the
Roundtable Institute sessions, planned activities for children
(a trip to WestWorld, the nearby waterpark) and adults (golf,
tennis, horseback riding, a trip to the Frank Lloyd Wright Museum),
or refreshing dips in the pool are available to those who may
accompany you on your trip.
For reservations and more information, contact:
The Scottsdale Princess
7575 East Princess Drive Scottsdale, Arizona 85255
602.585.4848
Be sure to mention AAHE-TLTR to get the discounted rate of
$88 for a single or double suite.
Conference Reservation Form
You can also mail information to: Ellen Shortill at AAHE, One Dupont
Circle, Suite 360 Washington, DC 20036.
