In the “The 2008 Campus Computing Survey” session, the speaker came up with three big messages:
- Why don’t Faculty do more with technology?
- Why don’t we make more use of IT on campus operations?
- Why don’t we assess the impact of our investments (IT accounting for 6% of budgets on average)
Overall, for me, there was a bit too much of the “our Faculty are aging” stuff. I don’t think age is a determinant of being innovative in your teaching, there are several examples of this at SHU. I went to several sessions where the above attitude had led to a regression to old fashioned pedagogies – presented as a defence against the current student mindset. The most startling omission at the whole conference was the lack of student input or evidence, apart from the “disconnect” session mentioned elsewhere. Everyone was assessment crazy – remember, assessment in the US is evaluation in our terms – without trying to work out what they were assessing (or why, in many cases).
One of the keynotes was a trip down memory lane, ah the days of punch cards etc what a waste of thousands of people’s time, it drove me mad, so mad I almost started twittering.
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