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Over the winter break we were able to upgrade Fernald 11, Goessmann 20, and Isenberg SOM 133. We also began a project to equip our smallest classrooms with a smaller AV package to meet the needs of more classes. We completed Dickinson 206 and LGRT 1234 with this simplified package that requires the instructor to bring her or his laptop to the room or to ask AIMS to deliver a DVD/VCR to the room. We are calling these new, smaller installations CIP IT Lite. During spring break, we will continue installing these “Lite” packages [see CIP IT Lite post]. In addition, we will install the full CIP IT package in these eight rooms over spring and summer breaks:

Satisfaction with your Instructional Technology needs and the Classroom you were assigned

Source: IT and Classroom Survey, Spring 2007

Laptop use tops the IT Teaching Tools used–not surprisingly closely followed by “presentation software”.

Source: IT and Classroom instructor survey; Spring 2007.

Major reasons given for not using Instructional Technologies in Teaching–IT Survey Spring 2007.

Thanks to Academic Computing’s Michele Turre for teaching me how to post.

There was no difference in the average age of users and nonusers.

Percentage of laptop use by:

Assistant Professors: 73.9%

Associate Professors: 73.7%

Full Professors:           64.2%

Lectures:                     62.5%

Teaching assistants:   48.0%

Mean size of “largest course taught”by instructor

users of laptops in teaching: 87.0 students

non-users of laptops in teaching: 51.2 students

As of September 2007, the Classroom Improvement Project has completed 128 general-purpose classrooms with 30–90 seats that lacked instructional technology beyond overhead projectors and internet access.  This represents nearly 60% of our registrar-controlled classrooms with 20 to 100 seats, and we now are assessing whether more installations are needed. For more information on these rooms see: http://www.umass.edu/provost/classroom/

We will be using this Blog to update you on teaching, academic technology and related issues that the Provost’s Ofice is working on.