>From owner-trad-l@LISTSERV.VT.EDU Thu Feb 20 18:15:54 1997 Received: from listserv.vt.edu (listserv.vt.edu [128.173.4.9]) by listserv.vt.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA23960; Thu, 20 Feb 1997 18:15:53 -0500 Received: from LISTSERV.VT.EDU by LISTSERV.VT.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8c) with spool id 504961 for TRAD-L@LISTSERV.VT.EDU; Thu, 20 Feb 1997 18:15:53 -0500 Received: from sable.cc.vt.edu (sable.cc.vt.edu [128.173.16.30]) by listserv.vt.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA45202 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 1997 18:15:52 -0500 Received: from [128.173.126.10] (conn.prov.vt.edu [128.173.126.10]) by sable.cc.vt.edu (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id SAA30507 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 1997 18:15:50 -0500 (EST) X-Sender: conn@mail.vt.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Message-Id: Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 18:15:53 -0500 Reply-To: "W. David Conn" Sender: trad-l Discussion List From: "W. David Conn" Subject: Toward a Draft Report ... To: TRAD-L@LISTSERV.VT.EDU Ed and I met this-afternoon to go over our current status and future plans. As you may know, Ed will be leaving town next Wednesday and will not return (except for brief respites) until March 11. It is crucial that he take with him (on his laptop) as many as possible of our individual contributions, so that he can work with them while he is away. Accordingly, we request that you send whatever you can to Ed, with copies to me, no later than Tuesday February 25. To help us keep track of everything, please attach a checksheet indicating (1) what you have already provided, (2) what you are now providing; and (3) gaps that you still intend to fill, with expected dates of completion. At this stage we would ask you to send even rough/incomplete text so that we can begin to assemble the first draft. Two other subcommittees have done this already, and it has proven very useful in raising organizational issues, helping to identify gaps, and so on. If you have no text at all for a particular section, an outline would be better than nothing! In other words, please SEND SOMETHING by next Tuesday! We'll work with whatever you give us! In the meantime, we are working on a web page that makes it all accessible. Below I am listing items ("facts to report") from Ed's 1/21/97 memo, indicating the individuals to whom -- I believe -- responsibilities were assigned. Please notify me of errors/additions. Some, but certainly not all, of the items listed have already been provided. A. Reasons students become a full-time, degree seeking residential campus student at Virginia Tech (Muffo via ANNE) IT capabilities of students at entry (potential applicants, new students) (Muffo via ANNE) IT capabilities of students at graduation (Muffo via ANNE) Changes in instructional information technologies forecast for the coming 5 years,10 years, beyond (TERRY) Changes in learning forecast as a result of deployment of those information technologies (TERRY) Status and plans for requiring / recommending student IT purchases (SUSAN or CATHY) Current situation and projections regarding the nature of students who will access a Virginia Tech education by coming to Blacksburg as a full-time degree-seeking student (ANNE) Needs, status and plans for student access to education that is mediated in some way by IT (TIM to coordinate) Needs, status and plans for change of instructional facilities related to instructional IT (IIT) - and their interactions: a. Explicit learning environments - buildings (e.g., ACITC), classrooms, laboratories, faculty offices b. Virtual learning environments, services - WWW, email, listservs, electronic publishing, spreadsheets c. Structures to administer and manage "learning": courses, credit hours, teaching assignments (TIM to coordinate) Taxonomy and statistics of occurrence of positive effects of IT (TIM) Taxonomy and statistics of occurrences of negative effects of IT (TIM) Taxonomy of shortcomings in IT that lead to these negative effects along with plans/forecasts for solutions (TIM) Focus group insights regarding the sense of community and "belonging" of students, along with correlations regarding use of IT, disabilities, and demographics (What does each tool contribute?) (BARBARA) Statistics of students with disabilities, plus status and plans for making adaptive technologies available (BARBARA) Statistics of students who are female, from other nations, and/or are of minority backgrounds - as well as related statistics at peer institutions, in Commonwealth, in nation - along with future projections (BARBARA) Success stories of the beneficial uses of IT by students: a. with traditional backgrounds b. with non-traditional backgrounds (BARBARA) B. Practice and plans regarding data collection, surveys, focus groups and other means to understand student needs and perspectives (McLaughlin, Muffo via RACHEL???) Tabulation of student representation on IT-related bodies on campus (RACHEL) Campus-wide, college, and departmental evaluation methods of IT-enhanced education and the roles / rights of students in their planning and implementation (RACHEL) Focus groups with students regarding their role in planning and participating in the evolution of IT for enhancing campus life (Perhaps work only with honors students on this.) (RACHEL) C. Statistics and trends regarding on vs. off-campus housing (???CATHY) Statistics and trends regarding summer school attendance (SUSAN) Focus group comments on distance education during summers for normally residential students (TIM) Statistics and trends regarding students in coop programs (????) Focus group comments on distance education during coop sessions (????) Status, plans and forecasts regarding BEV and connectivity for students living off-campus (Cohill via ????) Focus group comments on types and values of life-long learning services, including access to IT. (????) Thanks for your cooperation! David *********************************************************** W. David Conn, Professor & Special Assistant to the Provost Director of University Self-Study Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University Blacksburg, VA 24061-0155, USA E-mail: conn@vt.edu Tel: (540) 231-2690 Fax: (540) 231-7211