9 Sep 2009 Getting to know the IPT Department

IPTSO
- seminar every Weds (12-1pm)
- soup kitchen every Weds after Seminar (1-2pm)

FACULTY

Steve Yanchar:
- Rethinking Critical Thinking
- Practical Invovlement with Conceptual Tools

Michael Bush:
- French, Inst Tech, Language Acquisition
- teach naked (don't use tech if you don't need it)

Richard Sudweeks:
- what has been learned and not learned
- advanced ed measurement, statistics
- reliability and validity, generalizability theory
- track learning from year to year
- concept maps to track learning

Rick West:
- Univ of Georgia, new faculty
- communities of practice - transferred to communities focused on innoation
- design, innovation to collaboratively design new things together
- collaboration for innovation, distance learning, online collaboration, social media
- participatory models of evaluation, involving stakeholders in that process

Charles Graham:
- blended learning environments (combining face to face with technology mediated instruction)
- asynchronous video in Hawaii to connect students with teachers (human interaction with tech)
- use of tech to enhance teaching and learning environments (not necessarily with tech)
- TPAC (describing relationship of Technology-Pedagogy-And-Content)

Peter Rich:
- Univ of Georgia
- how to use video annotation processes to review our teaching
- lateral transfer (one domain of knowledge impacting another domain of knowledge)
- programming duck hunt video game and learning critical math skills (or gaps)

Randy Davies:
- program evaluation and assessment
- improving our data collection instruments
- intentionality and agency - the true nature of the individuals involved and to help learning
- data analysis of distance ed

David Williams:
- evaluation compares what is to what should be
- we are always doing informal evaluation

David Wiley:
- graduate coordinator (next stop in chain before going to Dean's)
- social media, Open Education and policy (working with Jon Mott)
- increasing access to educational opportunity (digitized tools, licensing, copyright reform)
- sustainability of open ed programs, does access change enrollment?
- educational data mining (open ed high school) - to trigger and inform ed and curricula devpmt
- Access to Knowledge initiative (MSE Open Learning dept)

Andrew Gibbons:
- instructional design
- 18 years in industry
- what does it take to disseminate an idea
- very structured; compelled by the structure in designs

Harvey Black:
- proud and overwhelmed by the work that is going on
- originally here with Dave Merrill and himself
- frantically seeking funding to establish the program
- the goal was internships (you only really learn by doing the professional things)
- Teach Your Baby to Read ($14.95)