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Phoenix College |
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Mon, 14 Jul 2003 08:19:05 -0700 |
| 1. What is the name of your college center?
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Leraning Technologies and Development (LTD)
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| 2. Who is the the Director of the center? What is his/her title?
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Sandra Wells, Faculty/Department Chair
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| 3. When was the center established?
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Fall 1997
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| 4. What is the URL for center's web site?
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http://www.pc.maricopa.edu/departments/ltd/startpage2.html
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| 5. What are the major areas of the center's focus? (e.g. Technology Integration, Faculty Development, Training, media development)
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Technology integration into the classroom
Explore new technologoes and pedagogies
Faculty Development (New Faculty Orientation - year long)
New Employee Orientation and support (2 days)
Adjunct faculty support
Mini Grants and Technology Instruction grant support
WebCT support and training
Online learning initiatives
Unseated initiatives
Hardware and software training
Staff Development
Open Computer Lab coordination and support
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| 6. Indicate the numbers of full-time equivalent staff and the support roles they provide or special skill areas (e.g. "1 instructional designer, 2 trainers, 2 web programmers, 1 graphic artist, 3 PT student programmers...")
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1 Fulltime faculty - Chair
1 OYO faculty
2 MAT (Trainer and Open Computer Lab Coordinater)
1 Office Coordinator
1 Web technician
2 OCL support staff
2 49% (WebCT admin support and Instructional design)
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| 7. Please share descriptions of the types of physical facilities at your center (footage, conference rooms, computer stations, special hardware/software)
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Approximately 1800 sq. feet
Open conference room in LTD
Small training room with 8 computers
Computer setup for scanning (Mac and Windows)
LTD is an open area with 2 regular size cubicles and 4 large cubicles.
Storage area with Fridg, microwave and file cabinets
Software: Microsoft Office suite, Dreamweaver, Micrograde, Memo, Calendar, Flash, Fireworks, PhotoImpact, Photoshop, Respondus, Project, Acrobat, HotPotatoes, IE, Netscape.
LTD shares a computer lab (28 laptops XP OS and XP Office) with the Library and Legal Studies.
Employee computers have XP operating system and both Office XP and Office 2000. Training computers have Windows 98 and Office 2000
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| 8. List and describe your center's most successful programs/initiatives in the last year. How did they lead to improved teaching or learning? Provide URLs if relevant.
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Day of Learning: One day during the week of accountability focused on professional growth (modeled on PVC's Week of Learning) this year in August. We focused on professional development, software training, wellness and other areas. This provided an opportunity for all employees to have one day set aside to engage in professional growth and learning. Based on attendance and feedback, we are planning for another Day of Learning in January.
Unseated: Providing alternative delivery of courses to our diverse student population is a high priority of the college. This project focuses on reducing the amount of time that students spend in classrooms and provides out-of-classroom learning while optimizing the classroom time. During Spring and Summer of 2002, nine faculty redesigned ten courses. Collaboration across disciplines at periodic meetings of this group led to new ideas and perspectives on instructional issues. Three of the courses were offered in the Summer session and all these courses are being offered this Fall term. Instructors report increased enthusiasm for both themselves and students. Currently, more faculty work collaboratively on another set of courses. Instructional options developed through this program provide a variety of instructional options for students including learning communities, on-line hybrid courses, collaborative learning, and mastery learning.
http://www.pc.maricopa.edu/departments/ltd/unSeatedFrame/
PC Cubed: PC3 is a local leadership development program. The group discussing Campus Climate identified the need for this program. The Staff Development Committee implementing it last year with 25 participants representing a cross-section of employees. Sessions included a variety of leadership topics presented by an array of external and internal (MCCD) experts. Last year's participants expressed a strong desire to continue along with this year's group.
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| 9. What are the most important issues / initiatives your center is facing this year? What are your significant challenges?
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Important issues/initiaves:
--Supporting faculty as they create Hybrid and online courses.
--Technology training
--Supporting online students
--Staff Development support - Learning Day & Community Building.
Significant challenge:
--Supporting training, and staff development needs of campus with decrease staff and budget.
--Create processes and various learning tracks for faculty and staff.
--New student systems training
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| 10. What do you think we can do collectively / collaboratively as a network of centers?
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Share ideas, resources. A colleague and I have been visitng different campuses and are getting great ideas. Campus support take time to talk with us, share their initiatves, challenges, and soloutions. We have come back with several ideas we are going to implement on our campus. It is wonderful - campuses are willing to share resources, job aids, processes.
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