Program
8:40 - 9:20 am | 9:30 - 10:10 am | 10:20 am - 11:00 pm |
11:15 - 12:15 pm | 12:15 - 1:15 pm | 1:15 - 2:30 pm
Evaluation and Redesign of a Nursing Distance Education ProgramLinda Goodwin, Jane Blood-Siegfried, Carla Gene Rapp, and John Skinner
School of Nursing
Von Canon Room A
A group of faculty and a graduate student from the Duke School of Nursing received a CIT Faculty Fellowship in 2004-05 to evaluate and make recommendations for best practices in the School's distance education courses and programs. The group has developed and applied an evaluation rubric, conducted student focus groups about course quality, and analyzed how well the core online courses address required competencies in informatics (applied information technologies). During this session, members of the group will describe their work this year, how they have developed a communication plan to disseminate their results within their School, and how their work has begun to affect administration of Nursing School distance education programs.
Distinctive Aspects, a Customizable Instructional Website
Tom Metzloff and Wayne Miller
Law School
Von Canon Room B
This website is a PHP-based shell that allows a non-technical person to upload materials of various kinds, and create instructional modules based on these materials, documents and links. These modules can be also customized by "member" faculty, who can create their own view of the materials and contextualize them in the framework of their own classes and needs. The shell does not provide for individual student accounts or interactive assessment, but our focus has been on making materials easily accessible and allowing faculty to customize the materials quickly, rather than on recreating a full-featured environment like Blackboard.
Using Blogs, RSS Feeds, and Podcasting in Teaching
Jim Coble
Duke Center for Instructional Technology
Von Canon Room C
Faculty at Duke are beginning to experiment with the use of blogs, RSS feeds, and podcasting as a means of enabling student participation, encouraging student-student interaction, and delivering course content. Movable Type is a widely used blogging tool that can be used to support these activities. This presentation will provide an overview of blogs, RSS feeds, and podcasting; demonstrate how Movable Type can be used to provide these services; highlight some of the challenges involved in using Movable Type for these purposes in the Duke environment; and describe recent faculty projects.
Portable Research: iPod Devices
and Field Work
Griffith Theater
Moderator: Joseph Harris
Panelists: Peter
McIsaac, Michele
Strano, Satti
Khanna, Jennifer
Ahern-Dodson
Faculty members participating in Duke's iPod initiative discuss their impressions of using the devices in classes for student research projects. Featured in the panel are faculty whose students used the iPod for conducting field interviews, notes and other material for editing and use in presentations, papers, and other class activities. The iPod devices were used by students to conduct interviews on American impressions of German culture, memories of significant cultural events, student work with local community initiatives and for recording of sounds documenting the students' daily environments.
Educating the Next Generation
of Leaders in Clinical Research
Ricardo Pietrobon
School of Medicine
Von Canon Room A
Clinical research education focuses on a set of four abilities that allow students to translate clinical insights into innovative clinical research projects: Research question formulation, data collection design and oversight, data analysis, and scientific writing. The Center for Excellence in Surgical Outcomes has developed a suite of Web applications to facilitate the education of novice investigators from different clinical areas, including Nursing, Medicine, Physical Therapy, and Physician Assistance. First, QuestForm (an acronym for Question Formulation) allows students to formulate research questions from large existing clinical data banks. For research questions involving prospective data collection, QuestForm permits that students verify for discrepancies between the research hypothesis, individual data points being collected, and the results to be reported in the final scientific manuscript. Finally, QuestForm facilitates the interaction between students and data analysts by structuring questions in a language easily accessible to both. Second, the Web application Manuscript Architect facilitates the educational process involved in the writing of scientific texts, allowing instructors and students to access the same manuscript online. Manuscript Architect, has been used with success in online scientific writing workshops involving students from geographically distinct areas around the world.
Voices from the Latino Community
in North Carolina: A Digital Archive Project
Joan Clifford and Graciela Vidal
Spanish
Von Canon Room B
Voices from the Latino Community in North Carolina is a digital video and
audio archive of authentic interviews with native Spanish speakers living
in North Carolina in 2004-2005. The representation in the interviews of different
races, economic backgrounds, educational levels, and places of birth supply
the public with a glimpse of the diversity of Spanish speakers in our community.
The interviews are available on a public
Web site and the team of Spanish Language Program Instructors have developed
interactive activities based on the cultural, linguistic, and historic information
provided in the interviews. The interviews were conducted by a team of Spanish
Language Program Instructors and undergraduate students in Political Science
151A (Spring 2005). This presentation will provide an overview of the logistics
involved in IRB approval, training staff, recruiting participants, and developing
interactive activities with StudyMate.
Technical Aspects of Recording
and Distributing Audio Content
Kirk Griffin
Duke Center for Instructional Technology
Von Canon Room C
There are several ways to record faculty lectures and presentations. This presentation will discuss some questions that need to be addressed before recording a presentation and or faculty lecture. Some of the questions we will address are: Why is the lecture being recorded? How is the lecture delivered? Who is the recorded lecture intended for? How will they receive this information, and what will they do with the recorded lecture? We will present a demonstration of iLecture, an application used to capture presentation and lectures currently being tested by CIT, OIT, and Arts and Sciences.
Learning on the Go: Analysis
and Practice with the iPod
Griffith Theater
Moderator: Adrienne Moore
Panelists: Vicki
Russell, Kenneth
Rogerson , Robert
Zimmerman, Anthony
Kelley, John
Druesedow
In this panel discussion, faculty members who participated in Duke's iPod initiative discuss how their students used the iPod for commenting and review of their own work. This panel focuses on how the iPod devices were used by students to analyze and study audio material, assess their progress, and exchange feedback with faculty. In Journalism, students used the iPod to learn and practice interview skills; in Music, the device was used for practicing singing and, in Writing, for exchanging comments on assignments.
PRESENTATIONS 10:20 - 11:00 am
PDAs in the Clinical and Educational
Environment
Colleen Grochowski and Paul Debien
School of Medicine
Von Canon Room A
Duke University and Duke University School of Medicine have embarked on an initiative to embrace the realities of today in mobile computing in a healthcare environment. PDAs are being employed in clinical settings to increase the quality of patient care, increase physician efficiency, and increase patient safety in inpatient and outpatient settings. PDAs also are being used in the academic setting for residents, and medical and nursing students to track their achievement of the clinical learning objectives. Additionally, mobile computing can have significant impact in medical education by helping physicians, administrators, residents and health professions students to adhere to institutional and accreditation agency requirements.
This session will highlight how PDAs and other technologies are being used to enhance medical education and the delivery of health care.
Grounded Design: Developing Principles to Guide Web-Based Course Development
Linda Lee and Haiyan Zhou
Clinical Research Training Program
Von Canon Room B
The goal of this session is to introduce participants to practical instructional design that incorporates instructor teaching styles as well as best practices in web-based teaching and learning. Participants will leave the session with pragmatic guidelines for adapting existing courses to a web-based format and a list of additional resources and readings.
Looking Back Over Four Years:
Simple Tools Faculty Can Use in Instruction
Kevin Fogg (Trinity '05)
Von Canon Room C
Kevin Fogg, Trinity '05, will draw from his four years of experience as a Duke student to share some effective technology tricks and shortcuts that he and many classmates wish more professors would have used. Tips will include in-class use of technology and communication between faculty and students via various technologies. The focus will be on easy-to-learn (under 5 minute) technology aids.
Some of the tools discussed will include:
• track changes/ add comments in Word documents
• AOL Instant Messenger office hours
• digital substitutions for chalkboards
Sharing Content: Disseminating
Class Materials and Projects with the iPod
Griffith Theater
Panelists: Lori Leachman, Richard Lucic, Daniel Foster
In this panel discussion, faculty members who participated in Duke's iPod initiative discuss their use of the iPod to disseminate course content to students in their class. In addition, they and the students used tools such as podcasting and audioblogging to share audio among students in the class for group projects and were able to share projects they had created with others in the Duke community and beyond. In the courses, students were given access to class lectures, guest speakers and radio plays that could be used for analysis, presentations, class discussions and test preparation. Students and faculty in the courses also used the iPod and related technologies to facilitate working with sound files and large multimedia class projects.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER 11:15 am - 12:15 pm
Kenneth C. Green
Beginning The Third Decade: From Great Aspirations to Assessment and
Accountability
Three decades into the so-called “computer revolution in higher education,”
the
campus community confronts a series of continuing questions about our aspirations
for, investments in, and the impact of information technology on teaching,
learning, instruction, scholarship, and campus administration and management.
Ample evidence suggests a recent and real movement in the campus (and public
policy) conversations about IT in higher education — a movement from
great aspirations (what we hope to do; what we believe technology can do)
to accountability and assessment (what is it that technology can really do?
and what evidence do we have to document the impact of IT on instruction,
learning and operations?). Green’s presentation will offer a “long”
view on the issue of technology in academe. It will draw on data from The
Campus Computing Project and other sources to describe our current efforts
and accomplishments.
Duke faculty and staff will present posters showcasing instructional technology use on campus.
For descriptions of all posters, click link above.
Link to CIT : Perkins Library : Duke University
