Teaching & Learning with Technology Roundtable
July 11-14, 1998
Phoenix, Arizona
Nancy Perrin and John Rueter
Portland State University
http://edtech.clas.pdx.edu
"Curricular Revision in Educational Technology: Improving Student Learning Outcomes in Large Courses"
Assessing the effect of educational technology on student outcomes can be done with multiple approaches. This session describes a course redesign model that links learning objectives, technology and assessment and describes the various approaches to assessing the impact of the curricular revision on student outcomes. The connections between course revision, assessment and scholarship of teaching also will be discussed
"Results from Two Years of Assessing the Use of Educational Technology"
Results of a FIPSE funded project that integrated technology and assessment into large courses will be discussed. The integration of technology was done in two phases. In the first phase multimedia and email were integrated and in the second phase course web-sites were added. Each course is compared with a course taught in the traditional format during the curricular revision process.
"Assessing the Effectiveness of Multiple Strategies for Teaching and Learning"
Faculty who teach in our large classrooms don't just lecture, they use a wide range of teaching and learning strategies. Individually, these strategies employ different amounts of technology, however we find that the value of information technology is to tie these different strategies together. We have developed a model for how we think the students learn the material that is based on Bloom's cognitive taxonomy and then we developed an assessment strategy to test the effectiveness of particular strategies and the student learning outcomes. We will discuss how faculty might use this approach to improve their courses by comparing assessment of units within a course.