1. Use of Technology in an Academic Setting
A study of effective and ineffective use of technology by the faculty, staff and students of the University of Florida’s Health Science Center

2. Outline About Me About the Health Science Center Philosophical Beliefs
Technology Classroom
Positive Use
Negative Use
Preliminary Findings

3. About Me Health Education Emory University 6 Years
Effective use of Technology in Distance Education

4. About the Health Science Center
Dentistry
Public Health and Health Professions
Medicine
Nursing
Pharmacy
Veterinary Medicine

5. Philosophical Beliefs
Ontology
Idealist/Interpretivist
Epistemology
Constructivism

6. Technology Classroom

7. Positive Use: Teaching
Match student learning styles
Facilitates organization
Effective use of classroom time
Increases feedback

8. Negative Use: Teaching
Gratuitous
Distracting
Unsupported
Forceful

9. Preliminary Findings Will, skill and access
Highest stages and change in attitude
Self-appraisal

10. Preliminary Findings
Successful integration appears to require faculty will, skill and access to technology tools.

11. Preliminary Findings
Faculty advances in integration appear to proceed through a set of well defined stages, where the highest stages require change in attitude more than skills.

12. Preliminary Findings
Self-appraisal of level of technology integration can be effective in prescribing training for an educational professional.