Week
11 Step 8 - Revise Technology
Plan / Design and Conduct Summative Evaluation
1. Describe the purposes for and various stages of formative
evaluation of technology plan.
Technology Plan
Goals:
Improve Student Learning with
technology resources
Improve student learning through instructional technology.
Improve institutional decision-making
Improve decision making by increasing access to valid and
reliable institutional data.
Improve Instructional and Administrative
technology access
Improve access to software, hardware, and network
resources.
Improve technology customer support systems
Provide 24/7 technology support for the McLennan Community
College user community. Develop online support and professional development
resources for student, faculty, and staff.
The Information Systems
and Services Department works with the Research and Planning Department to
develop student and faculty/staff technology survey’s to measure user
satisfaction. We also utilize this
medium to obtain user input on specific topics.
As the Director, I’ll meet one-on-one with the President, the Vice
President’s and various department heads to get feedback related to
instructional and administrative technology.
I also try very hard to meet with as many faculty members as I can. The ISS department will also meet with
departments or small groups of employees to get feedback or introduce new
solutions. Within the Information
Technology realm we often develop “pilot” projects for users to evaluate and
test within their environments.
Therefore, formative evaluation is an ongoing effort that’s very time
consuming but rewarding if done right!
Throughout these processes, it’s very important to refer to the overall
campus technology plan.
2. Describe your instruments used in
a formative evaluation.
Survey Monkey, Google Forms/Surveys, and a homegrown web based
solution. We also utilize SharePoint
2010 to share information related to information technology, projects, budgets,
solutions, etc… I also think it’s very
important to always take meeting notes and develop action items to follow-up
on. I’ll utilize IssueTrak and
SharePoint 2010 to store information related to meetings and projects.
3. Collect data according to a formative evaluation plan for a given
set of technology plan or instructor presentation.
Survey Examples:
References:
Illich,
P. (2012, January). Mcc's office of research planning
and institutional
effectiveness. Retrieved from
http://mcciep.mclennan.edu/
I have never used SharePoint 2010. I have been looking over SharePoint 2010 to see what it offers. I want to research more about it but I will have to wait until we graudate. It seems to offer a lot and it is free. I am going to practice this summer and have the teachers use it next year. I also researched and found where you can use SharePoint with OpenOffice which is what we use.
ReplyDeletehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_SharePoint - this is where I found information about SharePoint.
http://extensions.openoffice.org/en/node/4137 - Where I found an oracle for the use of SharePoint for OpenOffice.
Those look like some great tools you are planning to utlize!! I am interested in learning more about the tools such as survery monkey, sharepoint, and IssueTrak. I have not heard of those tools before. Is everybody in your district familiar with these tools? Are they eay to use and user friendly?
ReplyDeleteAshley,
DeleteSurvey monkey is becoming quite popular at MCC. Also, our faculty utilize Blackboard (Learning Management System) to get feedback from their learners. Sharepoint and IssueTrak are what I would call WYSIWYG online applications. Pushing apps like this to an internal cloud or external cloud seems to be where the technology is going.
Mike
Mike, I too, am interested in exploring and using the tools you have mentioned in your blog - thanks for sharing with us. I am thinking in my evaluation of our technology plan and evaluating the effectiveness of our high school technology classes or program that I would like to include former students in my survey and interviewing process. I think they could give us an idea of how prepared they felt in college or in their job after high school. I wonder if also interviewing their college professors and/or employers would also provide us with feedback we could utilize. Do you think surveying or interviewing college professors would give us some information we could use to evaluate our high school programs?
ReplyDeleteJoy
Joy,
DeleteI think this is a great idea. However, you might get more than you bargained for! Just kidding! However, a meeting like this would be very interesting. So to often we point the finger at the parent, teacher, or professor. It should be all about learning from each other and doing what's best for the student.
Great idea!
Mike