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=Assessing Instructional Technology Community Meeting=

June 22, 2010 9:00am - 4:30pm For innovative faculty members and front-line technologists, librarians, and other staff members who are interested in effective assessment of instructional technology. DePauw University (Greencastle, Indiana) Description We all want to understand the impact of technologies and information literacies on teaching and learning in the liberal arts environment. This desire becomes all the more important in the context of increasing demands for accountability in higher education, as well as the need to spend scarce resources wisely. All of us have anecdotal information on the impact of instructional technology in teaching and learning. Most of us have also developed some measurements and methodologies to measure this impact, but few of us are completely confident that we are getting it just right. This community meeting will provide an opportunity for participants to learn about assessment resources, share best practices, develop consistent methods for technology assessment, and consider how collaboration might move campuses forward together in this important area. Participants will consider questions such as these:
 * How should we be assessing instructional technology usage at our institutions?
 * What are the primary areas to be assessed? Where can we most effectively focus our attention?
 * What resources exist for pursuing assessment?
 * What assessment practices are institutions currently using?
 * How can we integrate assessment of instructional technology into other assessment issues on campus?
 * What possibilities exist for inter-institutional collaboration in the area of academic technology assessment?

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