College of Dental Medicine
The Instructional Technology Advisory Committee (ITAC) for the College of Dental Medicine
will provide direction on the best strategies for providing information technology
resources to support instructional activities at the university. The ITAC will serve
as a conduit for the two-way dissemination of information related to instructional
computing at each school of the university and will serve to otherwise enhance communications
among the faculty and academic leaders of the schools. The ITAC will keep abreast
of technological, philosophical, and operational advances that impact instructional
computing and provide advice on how the university should prepare to support instructional
computing in the future.
The advisory committee’s goal is to represent the respective College’s needs when
making their recommendations not just the individual goals of their department or
center.
Success Measures:
- Document and publish an instructional technology strategic plan for FY 2012, 2013,
2014
- The development of annual Strategic Initiatives
- Establishing the initial measure of how many courses within each
degree program are using technology and then setting a goal of how much
this should increase each year.
- Delivery of an effective assessment instrument
- Establishment of a faculty development program that supports faculty
in better recognizing opportunities to use instructional technology.
- Documentation of the operational procedures for the support of curriculum design and
classroom technology support.
Team Members:
- Roman Cibirka, Vice President for Instruction/Associate Provost
- Zach Gorman (ITS)
- Walter Ray (ITS)
- Jimmy Londono (CODM)
- Kevin Plummer (CODM)
- Lee Getter (CODM)
- Peter Shipman (Library)
- Ranjitha Krishna (CODM)
- Shawn Parham (CODM)
- Shawnee Sloop (ITS)
- Susan Kinney (CODM)
- Kurt Metzler (CODM)
- Erick Lemon (ITS)
Duties of the Team:
- Assist in developing appropriate communication to faculty regarding the use of technology
for instructional content delivery.
- Identify instructional problems that technology can solve or instructional enhancements
for which technology can be employed. Recommend solutions and prioritize.
- Identify technology challenges for faculty to be successful in using technology for
delivering instructional content.
- Assist in developing a periodic instructional technology assessment program to evaluate
effectiveness incorporating student input where possible.
- Annually assess the use of available technology using the inventory of degree programs
and required courses.
- Assist in developing an appropriate faculty development program, with recommendations
of potential incentives, as it relates to using technology for instruction.
- Participate in annual strategic planning activities for instructional technology support.
Boundaries:
- The Committee will remain focused on the use of technology within instruction. While
the group might gain a broader understanding about how the same technology might be
applied in research or administrative areas, any projects that are related to those
implementations will be managed separately.
- The Committee will focus on the educational benefits of using technology rather than
allowing technology to be the driver.
- The Committee will not use this meeting to resolve day-to-day issues, but use the
normal IT Service reporting process.
Operating Guidelines:
- The Committee will establish a monthly meeting schedule.
- Meetings will not last longer than 1 hour unless specially planned.
- Agenda will be published in advance and action minutes will be published within 1
week afterward.
- At least annually, the Committee (or representatives) will join similar committee
groups from other Colleges to review common issues and plans.
Ground Rules:
- If members can not attend on a regular basis (misses two meetings in succession), a replacement will be requested.
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