Steve Kerby

• Work with Graduate Steering Committee to establish process and timeline for course development.
• Work with Graduate Department to establish faculty training policies for online instruction.
• Work with faculty to put at least 20 new courses online and improve the design of at least 5 existing online courses.
• Work with LGE to put complete program online.

1.5.2.  Use and integrate online instruction and enable more courses to take advantage of all pedagogies.

3.6.12. Enhance and build online offerings to meet the needs of prospective students

4.3.3.   Introduce and promote the McDaniel Center for Leadership in Global Enterprise

1.5.1.   Offer support and training for the use of instructional technologies that enhance student engagement.

1.4.5.   Help faculty to integrate and effectively use appropriate technologies in teaching at all levels.

3.6.13. Continue to maintain and build partnerships with school systems, business, not-for-profit organizations, professional groups and state and local agencies to provide enhanced graduate offerings to meet their needs.

3.6.15. Establish online communities for graduate and professional programs.

4.3.8.   Develop strategies to keep a McDaniel education accessible in light of changing demographics and challenging economic times.

1.2.4.   Develop more opportunities for undergraduates to enroll in graduate courses, and use the resources of the graduate program to enhance the undergraduate program.

• Improve training for SWATT and consider ways of effectively expanding its mission
• Work with Graduate Marketing to create social networking site that will provide a “My First Year” type community/information portal for graduate students.

1.5.1. Offer support and training for the use of instructional technologies that enhance student engagement.

1.5.3. Offer additional instruction to students in their use of technology.

2.1.3. Identify pedagogies and new technologies that promote collaborative student learning in the classroom and find ways to support the out-of-classroom collaborations necessary for student learning and in-class projects.

1.2.4.   Develop more opportunities for undergraduates to enroll in graduate courses, and use the resources of the graduate program to enhance the undergraduate program.

• Improve and add to our workshop series, with special emphasis on ways of supporting student-centered learning and increasing student collaboration.
• Create Online Tutorials.
• Implement Atomic Learning series and provide opportunities for synchronous online training.
• Work with GPS to create a social networking site directed primarily at adjunct faculty, providing training and resources, as well as information, communication and opportunities for new learning communities.
• Have plan in place for using Blackboard to continue classes in the event of campus shut down due to pandemic or other crisis.

1.4.5. Help faculty to integrate and effectively use appropriate technologies in teaching at all levels.

1.5.1. Offer support and training for the use of instructional technologies that enhance student engagement.

3.6.15. Establish online communities for graduate and professional programs.

• Promote, support, and train faculty on the use of Wimba for synchronous online meetings.
• Promote, support, and train faculty and students on the use of iTunesU for alternative means of distributing course content and displaying student work.
• Continue to provide options and strategies for the use of digital portfolios.
• Promote, support, and train faculty and students on the use of Second Life as a means to collaborate with new learning communities, display student projects, have additional options for synchronous meetings.
• Promote, support, and train faculty and students on the use of Blogs and Wikis as a means for multiple constituencies to collaborate and communicate with one another.

1.5.2.  Use and integrate online instruction and enable more courses to take advantage of all pedagogies.

1.4.5. Help faculty to integrate and effectively use appropriate technologies in teaching at all levels.

1.5.1. Offer support and training for the use of instructional technologies that enhance student engagement.

4.3.8.  Develop strategies to keep a McDaniel education accessible in light of changing demographics and challenging economic times.

2.1.3. Identify pedagogies and new technologies that promote collaborative student learning in the classroom and find ways to support the out-of-classroom collaborations necessary for student learning and in-class projects.

1.3.4. Strengthen the McDaniel College Budapest program in both its academic and cultural dimensions and increase the number of students from Budapest who study at the Westminster campus.

• Keep up with instructional media literature and newsgroups.
• Work with CFE to learn more about faculty members’ specific pedagogical objectives.
• Communicate the connections between specific instructional technologies and student-centered learning objectives

1.5.1. Offer support and training for the use of instructional technologies that enhance student engagement.

2.1.3. Identify pedagogies and new technologies that promote collaborative student learning in the classroom and find ways to support the out-of-classroom collaborations necessary for student learning and in-class projects.

1.5.2.  Use and integrate online instruction and enable more courses to take advantage of all pedagogies.

4.3.8.  Develop strategies to keep a McDaniel education accessible in light of changing demographics and challenging economic times.

• Work with CFE to increase our connections and conversations with faculty.
• Each member of InTech will contribute regularly to an instructional technology blog.
• Improve our www presence, our www2 presence, and our Intranet presence.
• More effectively communicate SWATT and Maggie Lab resources to campus community.

• Implement and support Atomic Learning program.

• Continue to work with IT and the Registrar’s office to improve the data integration process between Blackboard and Colleague.

• Anita will work on Instructional Technology degree, Chris will continue development in instructional systems, and Steve will present to at least one major conference.
• Make attempts at publishing in peer-reviewed journals.

• Continue surveying our constituents and provide more feedback opportunities to the campus community.
• Consider new ways of measuring our effectiveness.