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=Welcome to the "Assessing the Impact" Wiki=

This wiki provides resources for assessing the impact of technology on teaching and learning, particularly at liberal arts institutions. Beginning with the NITLE Summit 2010, continuing with a NITLE Camp 2010 //"Assessing Instructional Technology Community Meeting//", and expanding the conversation in a facilitated discussion for AAC&U 2011 Network for Academic Renewal "//General Education and Assessment 3.0: Next Level Practices Now//", we continue to try to figure out how to do this important work better. We've been wondering ...

// What if... // ... liberal arts institutions with similar assessment interests focused on assessing academic technologies and literacies? ... face-to-face and virtual meetings catalyzed a collaborative effort? ... open lines of communication furthered integration with local IR offices? ... expert advice became available where IR resources did not exist? ... a distributed approach helped to accomplish this work across liberal arts campuses? ... a centralized question bank served a just-in-time function for local assessment efforts? ... a common instrument was developed to either amend existing instruments or as a stand alone instrument? // What would that look like? //


 * And we hope you'll contribute to the conversation!**

David Baird, Director of Academic Technologies, Colgate University Rebecca Davis, Program Officer for the Humanities, National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education Andrea Nixon, Director of Curricular and Research Support, Carleton College Brendt Simpson, Director of Institutional Planning and Research, Colgate College Carol Smith, Chief Information Officer, DePauw University Sondra Smith, Co-CIO for Information Technology and Director of Educational Technologies, St Lawrence University

//With special appreciation for Nancy Millichap in helping to coordinate 2010-2011 efforts.//