Building Technology Skills for the Labor Market

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Framework : Measuring Success

"Framwork for Success"

• The "Framework for Success" format is based upon 9 topics or "Buckets"
  1. Mission and Vision
  2. Strategic Planning Team
  3. Measuring Success
  4. Content and Instructional Practices
  5. Professional Development
  6. Financing and Funding
  7. Building the Environment
  8. Deployment Planning
  9. Engaging the Community

2015

September 2015

• 9/25/15 - Brainstorm on Measuring Success with Stephen Larochelle, Wendy St. Pierre, and Mark Kavanaugh
• Various Measures
  • Assess complete implementaton of the initiative by determining that every current student has an iPad
  • Develop an infrastructure for iPad Questons/Issues
  • Completion of Course-specific App Selection
    • All MHT Instructors/Adjucts selected apps for integration into their courses
    • Clarify a list of "standard apps" that will be required in many or all classes
    • Identify the "complexity" of the app and training/orientation mateirals
    • Syllabi updates to include apps?
    • Follow up at the end of the semester to assess app utilizaiton and success
      • Measures of Technology Acceptance
      • Measures of Engagement (student perspective)
      • Measures of Androgogical Utility and/or Success/Failure (instructor perspective)
    • Assess continued use of app - goal is to establish standard apps
  • Assess strategies connected to outcomes - Assignments - Rubrics
  • Develop a plan for smooth interface between Blackboard and iPad
    • Confirm the best best for accessing Blackboard on an iPad (Puffin or Puffin Pro)
    • Alternative LMS
      • Pilot - Implement - Assess Outcomes
  • Integration of iPad into "Special Assignments"
    • Review all Special Assignments and assess expectations for iPad apps
    • Current rubrics for special assignments will be base line (non-iPad group)
    • Next semester we will have altered assignments, but similar rubrics (Identify similar elements of each rubric...these will be the comparison items.)
  • Changes to Faculty and Student Engagement
    • Gather research on technology and engagement
    • Goal is to increase Faculty engagement
    • Goal is to increase Student engagement (consider measures such as Sense of Community...we would need to baseline this now)
    • Did course encourage additional engagement? (quantitive vs qualitative)
    • What about Faculty?
    • Survey each student on each app that they use (Teachnology Acceptance - Ease of Use and Usefullness of Technology)
  • Tech Support
    • Track the time spent teaching how to use iPad and apps in classroom
    • Track the time spent teaching how to use iPad and apps in technical support
    • Track time spent providing training sessions and workshops (students and faculty)