CSUS's Teaching Using Technology (TuT) Summer 2005

CSU Sacramento's Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) believes that teaching using technology creates learning opportunities for faculty members to embrace their changing role from "the sage on the stage" to "the guide on the side." Toward that end, the CTL began addressing the challenges of technological support for teaching and learning in 2000 by offering faculty-driven Teaching Using Technology (TuT) Summer Institutes.

The primary goal of TuT is to support faculty seeking technology-based strategies for improved student success. This summer's institute is sponsored by CSU Sacramento's Division of Academic Affairs and is presented collaboratively by the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL), Academic Technology and Creative Services, and ITCs of individual colleges. Other goals include encouraging faculty to consider technologies and projects that benefit from the use of multi-media; and improving communications between faculty, the college-based IT staff, Academic Technology and Creative Services, the Library, and the CTL.

The 2005 TuT will have the largest cadre to date (67). When it's over, 30% of the CSUS full-time faculty (276) will have completed training through the Institutes. Through 2004, approximately 45,200 students have been served. Professors across all disciplines are adopting new methods that expand their choices of strategies for active learning.

This year participants are being divided into two groups.  One group will receive laptops. The other group, those faculty who have reasonably up-to-date laptops, will get a "technology incentive package" consisting of a digital still camera, external hard drive storage, DVD burner and other items. The incentive package was designed to appeal to faculty who already have reasonably up-to-date laptops.

Anticipated outcomes of TuT are the increased expectation for the types and quality of projects developed by faculty, and the documentation of the evolution of their teaching practices, strategies, tools, and collaboration with IT experts.  Goals will be measured by: making teaching practices public and visible; establishing a critical peer-to-peer review, and building on each other's work.

For more information, contact Arthur Shmarak.