Meeting Logistics: Tue, 6 February 2007 in UMC 404
Thanks to Kimberly and Laura, there will be a screening of Declining by Degrees, the film that will serve as the basis for our next Junto, from 11-1p this coming Monday, February 5 in Telecom 215.
The documentary examines the challenges today's university faces, even suggesting that more interactive teaching (in this case, clickers) might help retain students and thus revenue streams.
Since I want to leave some time for us to talk about how things are going for us in our own positions, especially in light of the CULearn launch, I will keep questions short and sweet:
- If the university (thus, ITS) had more money, how do you think it would best be spent?
- Is technology antithetical to more personal contact between faculty and students—something the documentary suggests as an improvment?
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Thanks to everyone for participating today! Below is an outline of the discussion (feel free to amend or add your own comments or addenda):
1) If CU was suddenly endowed with lots of money, how would you spend it to make the university a better place:
-increase faculty salaries
-do more tech testing
-provide more incentives
-give faculty more experimentation time and resources
2) What is the goal of higher education?
-Self-betterment
-Liberal education (opening people to different viewpoints/lifestyles)
-Diploma (getting a better job) or meeting employers' expectations
-Moving to a higher class or at least into the middle class
3) Can technology come to the rescue?
-perhaps in the sense that it can help foster engagement (clickers, wikis, etc)
-perhaps not in the sense that it is truly the educator who employs the technology to foster student discussions/engagement
4) How can DATCs help?
-being aware of the bleeding edge technologies
-making tactful interventions in our one-on-one meetings
-promoting "success stories"
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