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EdTech Meeting Tuesday, April 26, 2005
Attending: Mike Battig
(chair), John Devlin, Greta Pangborn; and ex officio members:
Steven Burks (Libr), Dennis Voigt (CEPC), Susan Breeyear, Bill
Anderson.
1. Minutes of the last
meeting (8 March, 2005), previously distributed, were approved as
submitted. Greta was appointed scribe for today’s meeting.
2. We looked over the
draft of the year end report.
- We should add a comment on the email Mike
sent to heads of departments sounding them out on interest in a
series of lunches that offer “hints on combining technology and
pedagogy” which could be targeted to specific disciplines.
- We need to add the number of adjuncts that
participated in the Teaching with Technology Workshop as well as a
quote from the final report.
- Mike will send the Provost an email noting
that information in our final report may be relevant for the
five-year review.
3. Old Business
- We are still waiting on a reply regarding
our McGrath proposal (which was misplaced by the Provost’s
office).
- Mike will send a clarification to Jan
indicating that we are looking for money from next year’s budget
year (not the current year’s budget).
4. Other
Business
- “IT Budget”
- Bill outlined the renovation plans for the
next two summers.
- He also noted that a number of projects
for this year are on hold, pending the results of the controls
audit and the resulting available funds.
- Bill introduced the proposal for the
eCollege Commons which formalizes a system for faculty members to
access course material created by their peers.
- Faculty Members who submit courses to the
Commons will be assured that these materials will only be used
for teaching at the College. The College will not have any
intellectual property rights for material placed in the Commons.
- A question was raised regarding the fact
that student work (such as discussion question responses) is the
intellectual property of the student and likely cannot be placed
in the Commons. This needs to be clarified in the policy.
- We will discuss having Ed Tech endorse /
promote this proposal in the fall.
- Laptop Requirement
- There is some preliminary talk about the
possibility of having incoming students purchase specific
laptops (determined by the college)
- The majority of students now come to
campus with machines
- This might serve to reduce the rate of
increase in the machine inventory maintained by the college
(particularly if laptop use in the classrooms increases)
- This could make IT support more
efficient
- One serious drawback would be an
effective increase in the sticker price of the college
- Another idea is to present a “suggested”
machine / configuration option to the students for which they
would have the promise of more support from IT
5. Next Meeting: Mike will schedule another
meeting if we receive a favorable response to our McGrath proposal
(otherwise we are adjourned until fall).
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