Comments and recommendations from the TLTR session on Feb. 14, 1997

1. General faculty support might be enhanced by having support for individual faculty development include a stipulation that they share their results and experiences with other faculty.
2. Training graduate students to use the technology, for example web page authoring, can be an efficient way to support technology. Students could take courses from faculty and learn about course design and pedagogy in exchange for helping the faculty put more technology into the course.
3. Specialists might be hired into departments to support the technology needs. This is the "Stanford Model". The technology support at Stanford followed curricular revision efforts. In any case, we will need to address, at the departmental budget level, whether we need more faculty or specialized support staff.
4. We need to assess the use of technology in achieving increased student learning outcomes. One aspect of this is to assess how well the students can use technology and determine where in the curriculum they are supposed learn to use these tools. We would like to see specific technology objectives for University Studies as well as discipline based use of particular technologies by students.
5. In reference to Figure 3, there might be positive feedback to faculty for courses that meet their specified learning objectives.

The next TLTR will be on March 11 from 2:00 to 3:00 PM