Monday, March 12, 2012

Campus Technology: Bringing Faculty Into the Fold

http://campustechnology.com/articles/2012/03/01/bringing-faculty-into-the-fold.aspx?=CTIN

Engaging faculty with instructional technology is a big hurdle, but it can be done. Four institutions share their strategies.
The biggest impediment to the integration of technology into the classroom is not budgets, bandwidth, or byte-related. It's faculty. Convincing them of the value of classroom technology--and persuading them to use it--is probably the most significant tech hurdle facing campuses today. Without faculty support, even the most promising initiative is doomed. And no amount of mandates will secure that support either. To succeed with faculty, the carrot beats the stick every time. Here are tips from four institutions that have discovered ways to foster instructional technology use among their faculty.

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