Are Coffee and Cakes Enough? Incentives for Mainstreaming Technology-Supported Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Online Educa Berlin, Dec 5 th 2008 Deborah Arnold, eLearning project manager eLene-TT / eLene-TLC coordinator, Vidéoscop – Université Nancy 2, France

2/14 eLene-TLC: Teaching and Learning service Centre Preparing higher education for the ne(x)t generation of students Université Nancy 2 Politecnico di Milano Bremen University Université Paris- Dauphine UOC Maria Curie Sklodowska University Utrecht University Finnish Virtual University Umeå University

3/14 Our biggest challenge… Decision makers Students Teachers Teacher trainers Instructional designers eLene board of directors Policy recommendations …involving decision makers

4/14 Developing the policy recommendations… Share existing practice on incentives Look for other examples Guided interviews with decision makers Validation by top-level management National and European policy makers European directive…? …or leave it to the Edupunks?

5/14 Finding common ground… Hypothesis “Mainstreaming of ICT-supported teaching and learning will not truly occur until teaching itself is fully and formally recognised in an HE teacher’s career. ” What is higher education? What is the place of research with respect to teaching? …and ICT in all this? What incentives for teachers?

6/14 Results… “Mainstreaming of ICT-supported teaching and learning will not truly occur until teaching itself is fully and formally recognised in an HE teacher’s career.” Strongly agree AgreeUndecidedDisagree Strongly disagree FR1FR2 SE DE FI IT ES NL PL “As long as teaching is not recognised in the career of a HE teacher, ICT teaching won’t be either” “It is not only a matter of being formally recognised but more related to the fact of being supported and motivated at institutional level” “ICT usage by teachers is driven not by career possibilities, but rather personal passion”

7/14 Incentives (1) Qualification systems integrating pedagogical requirements in ICT supported teaching and learning linked to salary scales FR UN2 FR UPD IT METID DE ZMML ES UOC FI FVU SE UMEA NL UTRECHT PL MSCU Highly desirable Desirable Neutral Not desirable “…HOW you use ICT in teaching rather than THAT you use it that should be rewarded by a salary increase. It should be part of a general appraisal of teaching skills.” “Too early… Each country and even university has it’s own system of salary- qualification…”

8/14 Incentives (2) Peer review and quality assessment systems for producing online teaching and learning materials linked to academic recognition FR UN2 FR UPD IT METID DE ZMML ES UOC FI FVU SE UMEA NL UTRECHT PL MSCU “…peer review is linked to research practices and thus acceptable to teachers.” “It is too soon... In our culture, evaluation is not compulsory.” “We’re not used to using a peer review system for our teaching. […] many teachers experience this as being very strange and unpleasant. But almost no academics react [this way] when their research is subjected to peer review!”

9/14 Incentives (3) Scholarship and the integration of teaching with research processes FR UN2 FR UPD IT METID DE ZMML ES UOC FI FVU SE UMEA NL UTRECHT PL MSCU “Career recognition more important than one-off financial rewards. Also, many are not teaching what they are researching!” “It requires much training to be able to accept criticism of our teaching in the same way that we do with research.”

10/14 Incentives (4) The introduction of prizes and awards for the innovative use of ICT FR UN2 FR UPD IT METID DE ZMML ES UOC FI FVU SE UMEA NL UTRECHT PL MSCU “I think to promote good teaching and ICT usage innovations go hand in hand, not just using ICT is innovative.” “There are [already] a lot of such prizes.” “The prizes need to be money (teachers look more in a financial prize)” “Doesn’t necessarily need to be a sum of money.”

11/14 Incentives (5) The necessity for universities to invest in change management FR UN2 FR UPD IT METID DE ZMML ES UOC FI FVU SE UMEA NL UTRECHT PL MSCU “Only if there’s a reflection on what is ‘change’ in universities.” “No, this is no incentive.” “Often has to do with the view we have of academic freedom, where instead of seeing academic freedom as an intellectual freedom we see it as the right to do what we want to, when we want to and how we want to.”

12/14 Incentives (all) change management FR UN2 FR UPD IT METID DE ZMML ES UOC FI FVU SE UMEA NL UTRECHT PL MSCU FR UN2 FR UPD IT METID DE ZMML ES UOC FI FVU SE UMEA NL UTRECHT PL MSCU qualification, salary scholarship FR UN2 FR UPD IT METID DE ZMML ES UOC FI FVU SE UMEA NL UTRECHT PL MSCU prizes and awards FR UN2 FR UPD IT METID DE ZMML ES UOC FI FVU SE UMEA NL UTRECHT PL MSCU peer review, quality assessment FR UN2 FR UPD IT METID DE ZMML ES UOC FI FVU SE UMEA NL UTRECHT PL MSCU

13/14 Other suggestions What do you think? Contribute to the debate in the eLene wiki: providing opportunities for teachers to travel to international conferences on ICT and teaching involving students and using them as a lever for change providing teacher-friendly spaces in universities for them to meet and exchange practice the need for a few, strong recommendations at EU level for implementation at national and institutional level

14/14 Thank you! Deborah Arnold Project manager Vidéoscop-Université Nancy 2, France