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How Can Media Managers Influence Faculty to Use More IT?: 

How Can Media Managers Influence Faculty to Use More IT? Pal V. Rao, Ph.D., CDP Dean of Library Services Laura M. Rao, MBA, CDP Instructor, Computer Information Systems Central Missouri State University

Technology:: 

Technology: “The systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks” John Kenneth Galbraith, The New Industrial State.

Instructional technology:: 

Instructional technology: The systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical teaching/learning tasks

U.S. Commission on Instructional Technology :: 

U.S. Commission on Instructional Technology : “a systematic way of designing, implementing and evaluating the total process of learning and teaching in terms of specific objectives, based on research in human learning and communication and employing a combination of human and non-human resources to bring about more effective instruction”

Emphasize core business: 

Emphasize core business Enhancement of teaching/learning through appropriate instructional technology

Standard Oil of NY Study: 

Standard Oil of NY Study Retention rate What they read 10% What they hear 26% What they see 30% What they see and hear 50% What they say 70% What they say as they 90% do something

Glasser: 

Glasser We learn 10% of what we read 20% of what we hear 30% of what we see 50% of what we see and hear 70% of what we discuss with others 80% of what we experience personally 95% of what we teach someone else

Dale’s Cone of Experience: 

Dale’s Cone of Experience Verbal symbols Visual symbols, Recordings, Radio Still pictures Motion pictures Television

Dale’s Cone of Experience: 

Dale’s Cone of Experience Exhibits Field trips, Demonstrations Dramatized experiences Contrived experiences Direct purposeful experiences

Major factors for adapting and integrating IT into curriculum: 

Major factors for adapting and integrating IT into curriculum Access to technology Convenience in using technology Rewards and recognition for using technology

Access: 

Access The conundrum Faculty need to tell us what they need. Faculty do not know what to ask for.

Access: 

Access Media managers need to take a proactive role as well as a reactive role.

Access: 

Access Proactive role insure that a variety of technologies are conveniently available let faculty select the technology appropriate for their discipline

Access: 

Access Reactive role continuously listen to the clientele know what communications tools work for your environment maintain hardware and software in optimum operating condition be sure students have access to the technology

Convenience in using technology: 

Convenience in using technology Be sure IT applications are simple to use Provide a stable operating environment Standardize on software being used across disciplines Invite user participation when changing or installing a new system

Convenience in using technology: 

Convenience in using technology Provide training when implementing a new system Provide on-site technicians Provide a back-up system Maintain a good support and repair facility

Rewards and recognition: 

Rewards and recognition Academy wants good teaching but rewards research, grants and publications.

Rewards and recognition: 

Rewards and recognition The extent of a media manager’s influence depends upon the manager’s status in the institutional hierarchy--faculty vs staff.

Rewards and recognition: 

Rewards and recognition Faculty status affords access to promotion and tenure process curriculum design process

Rewards and recognition: 

Rewards and recognition Acknowledgement letters to promotion and tenure dossiers Build comparative database on student learning

Rewards and recognition: 

Rewards and recognition Set up recognition activities for innovative use of IT certificates monetary rewards recognition lunches software grants

Questions: 

Questions

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