1. Ellen Yu Borkowski Director Academic Support December 2002

2. 2 Academic Support Organization Ellen Borkowski Director Teaching and Learning Support Paulette Robinson Classroom Technology Support Sue Clabaugh Research Support Chip Denman Technology Training Services Deb Mateik Outreach Academic Technology Coordinators

3. 3 Teaching and Learning Support  People  Instructional Designers - help faculty with curricular redesign and provide access to educationally sound pedagogical practices  Instructional Technologists - enable faculty to use both online technologies and classroom technologies  Online Resources  Digital Images, Instructional web server, streaming media server, groupware to support collaboration and consensus building, asynchronous chat tools, web-based course management system

4. 4 Research Support  Stat Lab  A joint venture between the Statistics Program in the Mathematics Department and OIT  Provides extensive expertise in statistical consulting and data analysis  Assists in the uses of mainframe and microcomputer statistical software, such as SAS, SPSS and S-plus.  Assists faculty, graduate students, and other consultees in designing research protocols, formulating statistical models, choosing the appropriate methodology, analyzing data, and interpreting the results

5. 5 Research Support  Visualization and Presentation Lab (VPL)  Provides leadership in visualization and computer graphics technology, in partnership with the university research community  Actively pursues joint projects and grant proposals with researchers to develop visualization tools for their particular requirements.  Support and training opportunities for selected high-end visualization, animation, and 3D design software packages, and for video production.  Works with educators on and off campus to incorporate visualization and presentation techniques into the teaching of specific disciplines. It further supports educators designing and teaching courses in visualization, scientific computing, video production, and color graphic publishing.

6. 6 Classroom Technology  Technology Classrooms  78 Technology Classrooms  Equipped to make it easier for faculty to use technology in their classes.  Located throughout the campus  From 25 to 506 seats  Support  Daily operations  Staffed Classroom Technology Office in Plant Sciences  Maintenance of equipment in existing classrooms  Instructional Facilities Design  Work with departments to design classrooms, training rooms, distance learning rooms, computer labs, and other educational facilities  Help users determine needs, developing and reviewing specifications and design documents, and oversee installation of technology  Ongoing maintenance for departmental facilities

7. 7 Classroom Technology  Teaching Theaters  Transform the teaching/learning process, changing it from its traditional unidirectional information flow to a more collaborative venture  AT&T Teaching Theater  Opened Fall 1991  20 Pentium-based stations, 40 students  IBM-TQ Teaching Theater  Opened Fall 1993  20 Pentium-based stations, 40 students  OIT Teaching Theater  Opened Fall 1997  24 Macintosh stations, 48 students  Plant Sciences Teaching Theater  Opened Fall 2000  36 Pentium-based stations, 36 students

8. 8 Classroom Technology  Faculty Technology Center  30 seat Pentium-based computer training facility  Instructional WAM Labs  Configured for training  3 - 20 seat training facility and student WAM lab  Windows, Macintosh and Unix operating systems

9. 9 Technology Training Services  Institute for Instructional Technology  Co-sponsored by OIT and Center for Teaching Excellence  Provides skills training and peer mentoring to faculty wishing to explore the ways in which technology can be integrated into their course curricula  Provides hands-on, interactive training, instructional design guidance, product development advice, and pedagogical discussion and debate

10. 10 Technology Training Services  Peer Training  Instructors are computer-experienced students trained by OIT  Non-credit classes for new and experienced personal computer and network users  Features a slate of 19 different courses  Academic Discipline support - Math  Mathematica - introduction and intermediate  MATLAB - introduction and intermediate

11. 11 Technology Training Services  Short Courses  Non-credit computer training classes for the College Park administrative, instructional, and research communities  Combination of vendor-led training and OIT staff-led training  Subject offerings range from introductory through advanced coverage of popular applications like the Microsoft Office Suite, Adobe Photoshop, HTML, FileMaker Pro, Dreamweaver, Corporate Time and more; operating systems; statistics; and applications that are unique to academic and administrative computing at the University of Maryland

12. 12 Technology Training Services  Web Designer & Developer  Provides skills training and mentored workshops in the design, development, and maintenance of web sites to College Park faculty, staff and students

13. 13 Outreach  Academic Technology Coordinators  Liaison between colleges and schools and OIT  Work directly with faculty and others to promote academic use of information technologies in the colleges  Colleges & Schools: AGNR, ARCH, ARHU, BMGT, BSOS, CLIS, EDUC, HLHP, ICONS Project*, JOUR, LFSC, PUAF *Not funded by OIT

14. 14 Collaborations  Center for Teaching Excellence  Institute for Instructional Technology  UM Innovation in Teaching with Technology Award  Teaching with Technology Conference  Office of Continuing and Extended Education  E-learning program  Masters of Life Sciences  Masters of Ethnomusicology  Tek.Xam  provide a means to assess problem-solving skills within the information technology environment, particularly for college students in the liberal arts  Train-the-Trainer program

15. 15 Collaborations  ARHU/Libraries  Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH)  AGNR/LFSC  Undergraduate Technology Apprenticeship Program (UTAP) - targets sophomores and juniors with a "B" average or better to receive two credits while being trained to support faculty within their collegial disciplines with the integration of technology into instruction  College Park Scholars  Undergraduate Research Day  Working with students to enhance presentations  Generating poster presentations  NFSC  Dietetic Internship

16. 16 Collaborations  MATH  Stat Lab  BSOS/ARHU/MATH  Classroom Technology Pilot Project  Shady Grove  Classroom technology support  Instructional facilities design for Shady Grove III  R. H. Smith School of Business  Classroom technology support

17. 17 Recognition  Teaching with Technology Conference  Annual spring conference  College Park faculty share their experiences, research, and the tools they have developed with campus and other invited peers  UM Innovation in Teaching with Technology Award  Co-sponsored by OIT and the Office of Undergraduate Studies  Award seeks to recognize innovative uses of technology in the teaching/learning process at the University of Maryland  Past awardees (both individuals and teams) came from a variety of disciplines and addressed very different areas and constituencies

18. 18 Advisory Committees  Teaching and Learning Advisory Committee  Co-chaired by Jim Greenberg, Center for Teaching Excellence and Paulette Robinson, OIT  Research Advisory Committee  Co-chaired by John Townshend, Geography and Chip Denman, OIT