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Achieving Faculty Buy-in: A Grass Roots Approach
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- Elizabeth Kiggins,Director of the Center for Instructional Technologies, and George Weimer, Professor of Education and Music, University of Indianapolis
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| Presenters will discuss the integration of Blackboard’s Course and Portal Solutions at a medium-sized, private institution. The presenters, acting as change agents, developed and implemented a plan including faculty training, promotion and tenure, support, and administrative buy-in to achieve wide-scale adoption on their campus.
Presenters will discuss the following topics in their university’s implementation of Blackboard’s Course and Portal Solutions:
Initial selection of Blackboard
Center for Instructional Technologies’ support
Achieving faculty buy-in
Grass-roots faculty adoption
Faculty mentorship
Workshops and brown bag lunches
Incentives for the faculty risk-takers
Developing and hosting Instructional Technology Conferences relating to the integration of Blackboard on multiple, private college campuses
Enabling faculty to network with colleagues from other campuses
Purchase of a test & development license
Establishment and support of a Distance Learning Committee
Three levels of course integration: Web-enhanced, Web-based and Distance Learning
Promotion and Tenure issues related to technology integration |
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