AT&TF Project Abstracts: Round 6
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Preparing for Innovation
Margaret Branstrator
Natural Science and Mathematics, IUEE-mail Branstrator
Virtual Environmental Field Trips
This proposal seeks funding for the design, development, and implementation of simulated field trips using interactive multimedia presentations delivered via Oncourse CL. Initial use of the virtual field trips would be in BIOL-L 108, Environment and Life, a popular science course for non-science majors on the IU East campus. The virtual field trips and the conversion of existing course components to Oncourse CL will enable total on-line course delivery.
Dennis Groth
Informatics, IUBE-mail Groth
Transitioning Capstone Projects to Oncourse CL and ePortfolio
The proposed project will advance the use of the new learning environments for undergraduate capstone projects. The project director has made extensive use of the existing Oncourse systems to help support group collaboration for more than 80 projects and more than 300 students in the last 4 years. Over the course of the project, we will design a "model" project to serve as training materials for our course, as well as other group project courses. We anticipate using ePortfolio in a novel way to document the stages of the projects, leading to a "behind the scenes" view of work products.
Wanda Worley
Technical Communications, School of Engineering and Technology, IUPUI,E-mail Worley
Preparing for Innovation in Technical Communication: An Evaluation and Planning Study
Given the extensive changes in Oncourse CL, and the potential of ePortfolio, a fresh assessment of the learners, objectives, desired learning outcomes, activities, and the new tools themselves will be necessary before the Technical Communications program (TCM) can plan the transition to and effective use of the new environments. This proposed study will undertake such an evaluation, in collaboration with the Center for Teaching and Learning. The outcome of this study will be a set of objectives and strategies that will provide the basis of a transition plan for moving TCM online modules and courses to the new environments.
Examining Innovation
Faye Marsha G. Camahalan
Graduate Studies, School of Education, IUSE-mail Camahalan
Promoting Critical Thinking and Collaborative Learning among Graduate Students through Online Discussion
Using her P510 – Psychology in Teaching graduate class, the purpose of this project is to promote critical thinking and collaborative learning through online discussion forum where students discuss issues/problems confronting psychology in teaching. Specifically, this project is designed to: a) help students analyze problems and issues concerning psychology in teaching; b) allow students to share problems and issues with a community of professionals/peers; and c) promote collaborative problem solving and inquiry among students through the use of a web-based conferencing tool where participants can post and respond for asynchronous dialog, discussion, brainstorming, and debate about issues/problems concerning psychology in teaching.
Eugenia Fernandez & Sally Catlin
Computer and Information Technology, School of Engineering and Technology, IUPUIE-mail Fernandez
Exploring the Use of ePortfolio for Assessment
This proposal seeks funding for a pilot study to test the use of ePortfolio for assessment of student work in CIT 212, Web Site Design. The customizable matrix feature of ePortfolio will be used to match accreditation-based outcomes to course objectives and PULs. Students will upload their relevant assignments using the custom matrix, while faculty will use ePortfolio to assess the work. The goal of this project is to increase student and faculty awareness of and participation in assessment. The results of this project will demonstrate the feasibility of using ePortfolio for assessment, and will inform our department's efforts to develop a department-wide assessment matrix.
Dennis Groth
School of Informatics, IUBE-mail Groth
Examining the Relationship Between Perceived Project Risk and the Use of Collaborative Learning Environments
This project proposes to study the impact of collaborative technologies, and collaborative learning environments on perceived project risk for group IT projects. In particular, we hypothesize that the use of such collaborative systems enhances group project activities in a way that decreases risk - as assessed by the group members themselves. We will use established methods for determining and measuring risk. An HSC-approved study within the Informatics capstone course will serve as the data collection mechanism.
Sara Anne Hook
School of Informatics, IUPUIE-mail Hook
Managing, Extracting, and Assessing Data from Discussion Forum Postings in the Online Courses
The proposed project will employ the services of a SIFTER system to develop a method and algorithms for counting, sorting, categorizing and rank ordering individual postings for discussion forums in two of the investigator’s online courses that will be taught in spring 2006 semester. This project will analyze whether a SIFTER system can be designed to extract, manage and grade the content of student responses to discussion forums effectively in a way so that it maintains student to instructor interaction but streamlines the process for faculty.
Doug Knapp, Deborah Getz
Recreation and Park Administration, School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation, IUBE-mail Knapp
Examining the Impact of Using Interactive Technologies in the Classroom
Greenspace Management has been taught with traditional methods that included guest lecturers and the development of a hard-copy site portfolio. In 2006, the course content will be migrated to a blended environment that employs videoconferencing with experts and developing site plans on Oncourse CL’s ePortfolio. This proposal requests a Polycom unit to investigate the impact of such technologies for both the student and instructor. The approach is unique in that the course instructor is experienced in developing online materials, one of the enrolled students will act as an internal informant and the lead researcher will be an outside observer.
Anthony Y. Naaeke, Mardic C. Bergen, and Jerome D. Mahaffey
Communication, Humanities and Fine Arts, IUEE-mail Naaeke
Technology Enhanced Instruction: Teaching Public Speaking at Indiana University East
The purpose of this project is to develop an online instruction of public speaking to dovetail with the Oncourse CL environment and to support the distributed educational initiative at Indiana University East. The project is in accordance with the educational goals of IU East.
Implementing Innovation
Rachel Applegate
School of Library and Information Science, IUPUIE-mail Applegate
Outcomes Evaluation of IUPUI University Library Information Commons
The Principal Investigator and a team of faculty and librarian partners will explore learning outcomes associated with student use of the innovative, group-oriented, technology-rich learning environment, the “Information Commons” recently created at the University Library at IUPUI. Librarians will introduce the workspace features to students, faculty and librarians will work with students throughout the semester on their group-oriented projects, and assessment of those projects (for group effectiveness, information use, and technology use) will be compared to Information Commons use. Oncourse and ePortfolio will facilitate student work and collaborative work assessment.
Dennis Groth
School of Informatics, IUBE-mail Groth
Integrating Project Management Tools and Techniques with Oncourse CL
This project will integrate professional-level project management tools and techniques with Oncourse CL. A new interface for users will allow them to import tasks from a standard file format and then track the tasks through a graphical user interface that extends Oncourse CL. Multiple assessments will occur, including an evaluation of improved understanding of project management techniques, as well as a controlled user study of the proposed software.
Scott Jones
Humanities, School of Arts and Sciences, IUKE-mail Jones
Creating a Course Webtext
This project will use Oncourse CL to house a fully integrated course webtext, a sort of online textbook, which will improve student learning in the ENG W-315 Writing for the Web course, by making linkages among course content explicit to students in what is becoming their preferred reading mode. As writing and reading in our society have become increasingly an electronic, web-based activity, it is important to create and maintain course materials that take advantage of these technologies in ways that static print textbooks cannot.
Angela McNelis, Sara Horton-Deutsch
Environments for Health, School of Nursing, IUPUIE-mail McNelis
Preparing Advanced Practice Psychiatric Mental Health Nurses
This project is to create and implement a version of ePortfolio to be used as a component of a larger venture of increasing the number, diversity, and distribution of advanced practice psychiatric mental health nurses in rural and underserved regions. We propose to develop a unique matrix that is specific to the course outcomes in the Psychiatric Mental Health programs and the Standards of Practice for Advanced Practice Nurses. The project will result in a learning environment that can be used by students, faculty, and preceptors in an active and growth enhancing manner as students journey from novice to expert.
Michael Morrone
Kelley School of Business, IUBE-mail Morrone
Creating Diversity in the Classroom through Use of Indiana University's Online Collaboration Tools
Students from Savannah State University, a historically black college or university, will work in teams with Kelley School of Business students to complete communication projects. IU’s online collaboration tools will be used to facilitate communication and document sharing in real time. The ePortfolio will empower students to reach a deeper understanding of diversity and to track the students’ development. This project is aligned with the goal that IU “reflects the diversity of American society and supports the achievements of minorities.”
Anderson Norton
Math Education, School of Education, IUBE-mail Norton
Web-based Connections of Mathematics Curricula
This grant supports the development of mathematics education students' web-based projects. The projects would link ideas from college mathematics courses to high school curricula. The web site would provide a valuable resource for mathematics education students as they begin their professional careers. It should also serve in outreach to teachers across the country, as this repository of useful teaching and learning projects grows. A second aspect of the grant reaches out to new students at Indiana University, informing them about our mathematics education program and attracting them to careers in teaching.
Dale Roberts
Comuputer and Information Science, School of Science, IUPUIE-mail Roberts
Redefining the Computer Science Classroom Experience Using Technology-base Just-in-time Teaching
This project improves learning and retention by modularizing lecture content into streaming media segments (thereby removing the time and place linkage between lecture and classroom) and refocusing classroom time to incorporate Just-in-Time Teaching and Active Learning modules. Every learning style experiences improved learning by refocusing the lecture on relevant material, engaging in interesting active learning modules, and making the lecture material more dynamic. The project removes a primary obstacle for improved learning – the huge time burden of content delivery through the use of in-class lectures. This alternate method of delivery benefits both traditional and non-traditional students.
Leslie Sharpe
Digital Arts, School of Fine Arts, IUBE-mail Sharpe
Podcasting in Education
This proposal is for the use of podcasting in education. ‘Podcasting’ is a form of broadcasting that is serial in nature and utilizes audio or video that can be downloaded to a portable media device such as an MP3 player or a video iPod. This proposal takes advantage of popular portable technologies such as ipods to enhance and encourage students’ active learning in and beyond the classroom. The project will test the use of audio, still image and video podcasts in two classroom environments: 1) a seminar class dedicated to mobile art projects, and 2) a lecture class on digital imaging.
Chris Thomas
Geology, School of Science, IUPUIE-mail Thomas
Advancing Student Learning and Assessment through Spatial Tools and Collaboration Tools
The Department of Geology at IUPUI wants to advance student learning and assessment in the online course Indiana Geology G135 by creating spatially-based homework assignments and field trips that integrate Oncourse CL with the software tool Google Earth and MP3 audio podcasting. Podcasts, or disseminated digital audio narrations, and Google Earth, a customizable spatial mapping tool, represent breakthrough technology pieces that allow educators to teach course content or develop assessments in new ways not feasible or possible before. Additionally, we want to research the integration of a wiki or weblog into Oncourse CL communication tools.
Robert Wildblood
Behavioral and Social Science, School of Arts and Sciences, IUKE-mail Wildblood
Assessing Bachelor of General Studies Students with ePortfolio
Bachelor of General Studies degrees comprise approximately 19% of baccalaureate degrees awarded on the IU Kokomo campus. As with many of the IU campuses, there has been no formal mechanism for assessing student learning within this degree program. We propose to use ePortfolio to allow BGS students to track their progress in their learning goals and to permit assessment of student learning in the program. We anticipate that this project will help BGS students make explicit links between their course work and their learning goals, feel more connected to the campus and the BGS program, and become more effective advocates for their own learning.