The mission of The Center for Learning Technologies is twofold: to support, promote, and enhance teaching, learning, and research; and to foster innovation.
To achieve this mission, CLT provides programs, services, and information to Old Dominion University faculty, instructors, adjuncts, and teaching assistants for the
Support of University strategic planning and academic initiatives
Provision of a comprehensive and coherent faculty development program
Promotion of scholarship in teaching within the campus community
Research, evaluation, demonstration, and integration of appropriate learning tools and techniques
Dissemination of best practices in teaching and learning
Promotion of innovative instructional technologies to enhance teaching and learning
Support of curriculum and course development and production
Development of a graduate student internship program
Promotion of faculty innovation and discovery
Pursuit of grants and contracts to develop products
Development and implementation of best practices and procedures within CLT.
Goals for Academic Year 2009-2010
The Center for Learning Technologies will focus on the following goals to provide programs, services, and information to Old Dominion University:
Assist the University with strategic initiatives implementation, including the research, planning and/or rollout of:
Course Management System Review (research and planning)
Copyright clearance process (research and planning)
CLT Portal Strategy (roll-out)
Three-year Asynchronous Development Plan (research and planning)
Provide a comprehensive and coherent faculty development program, to include:
Brown bag discussion sessions
Classroom observation
Faculty book talks
Faculty Innovator Grant Program
Focus groups
Framework to evaluate CLT faculty development activities
Greater visibility of available resources and services
Individual teaching consultations
Orientations to appropriate technologies and common practices for new faculty, instructors, adjuncts, and teaching assistants
Questionnaires
Summer Institute Program
Surveys
Teaching newsletter
Teaching portfolios
Workshops by Old Dominion University faculty
Workshops on campus by off-campus experts
Promote scholarship in teaching within the campus community through provision of or participation in:
Collegial dialogue and communication
Self-reflection and analysis
Sharing of successful teaching practices with peers across disciplines
Faculty Innovator Grant Program
Summer Institute Program
Faculty Development Program:Integrating Technology into Teaching
Faculty, administrator, and teaching assistant orientations
Committees related to faculty, teaching, and technology issues
Share research, evaluation, demonstration, and integration of appropriate learning tools and techniques through consultation on teaching, to include:
Review and analysis of course materials including syllabi, learning activities, and evaluation and assessment methods, and the application of quality assurance
Review and analysis of class and lecture organization
Strategies and tools for motivation and engagement
Strategies and tools for mid-semester and end-of-semester course evaluation
Methods for providing and receiving student feedback
Disseminate best practices in teaching and learning by:
Supporting faculty members to gather and analyze data about their effective teaching practices using
Course portfolios
Classroom videotapes
Classroom observation
Questionnaires, surveys, and fast feedback
Supporting faculty members to engage students in practices that may improve effectiveness and efficiency in learning:
Study tips
Time management
Library usage
Computer literacy
Information literacy
Promote effective use of innovative instructional technologies to enhance teaching and learning through:
Research and dissemination of information regarding best practices in technology and learning
Identification of appropriate learning tools, strategies and technologies
Development and production of faculty support materials
Provision of workshops, seminars, and demonstrations for a variety of applications and environments
Support curriculum and course development and production through:
Development or conversion of course materials for various delivery modes or formats
Increased efficiency in the production of course materials during course development
Development of tools and documentation of methods which will allow faculty members to become more self-sufficient in their own course development and production of their own content
Develop graduate student internship program by:
Identifying opportunities for collaboration between CLT, departments, faculty members, and students that will facilitate course development, teaching, and learning
Identifying or developing models for collaboration that can be utilized across disciplines
Identifying tools to initiate and maintain communication and networking opportunities across disciplines
Promote faculty innovation and discovery:
Support faculty innovators with research and development of their innovations
Provide limited assistance with the development of prototypes
Provide limited assistance with grant activities in other departments
Pursue grants and contracts to develop products:
Identify opportunities to expand knowledge and skills through collaboration with external entities
Identify opportunities to support the research and development of innovations through special funding
Develop and implement best practices and procedures within CLT:
Build repository for best practices
Implement project management practices
Implement a student worker development program
Implement a new communications plan
Strengthen public relations to publicize activities and services
Communicate CLT identity as a service organization for all faculty
Build an integrated calendar of unit duties and requirements
Cultivate relationships with counterpart service organizations
