University of Washington Emerging Technology

Speakers: Cole W. Camplese, Director, Education Technology Services, The Pennsylvania State University and Allan Gyorke, Education Technology Manager, The Pennsylvania State University.

Cole and Allan are describing how emerging technologies are adopted at PSU. They start with a description of their campus and environment, describe their audiences (digital natives, %20 of their students produce YouTube videos “technology is only technology to those born before technology”, Allan Kay) Faculty, PSU has gone from a few to many using technology, and they go to them, not the other way around. They don’t worry about the last third of adopters, but focus on the first two thirds. The last audience is themselves, becauseof risk-taking, openness sharing and collaboration
25% of students spend more than five hours a week on Facebook. Audience want technology that matches what they get on the outside.

Expectations include understanding the audience and staying out infront.

They have a vision (!)

They have adopted a lot of new platforms in the past two years.

The enablers are people technology and philosophies (openess and inclusion)

(They share their Teaching and Learning Stack)

Value chain:
1 Faculty Introduction
(See their Engagement Initiative Process Map)
They use Hot Teams, small teams dedicated to exploring a single technology or approach for using in teaching and learning with short time cycle (3-5 weeks) deliverables include white papers, presentations, conversations, podcasts, etc.

Engagement Awards include guidance, support, assessment, equipment and funding.

2 Faculty Development
They have Technology Learning Assistants who work 1 on 1 with Faculty who focus on tools they are promoting and students act as the front line support team

http://ets.tlt.psu.edu/tla

3 Community Engagement
Community Hubs, faculty & student user groups, which are open to anyone in the PSU community (i.e., their Adobe Access Community Hub - Goggle it)
Statistics from the first year for their CMS Hub:
1500, members, over 200 unique posts, over 1500 RSS subscribers, and over 150 comments)
They have 12 hubs on gaming, digital commons, podcasting, symposium community, and others
All of these are at the community aggregator

4 Pedagogical Support
ETS Team, , user groups (that pull in the early adopters)

5 Supporting Production
Media Production is used a lot for homework, and they are sharing them online (look up chad vader in YouTube) and the social response is high, due to social rating, commenting

So they came up with the Digital Commons
Centrally Managed Digital Media Studios, High end digital and audio equipment, and full time staff that support all locations. They have editing rooms, studio rooms and local storage

6 Publishing Platforms
Angel CMS, iTunes U
87% of students own a MP3 play (not including phones), Freshman own more than seniors, only 35 sections in 2006, 200 sections in Fall 2007
When they got on the iTunes U store, downloads increased from 1500 a week to 5500 a week. 95% of discoveries are from the store front.

New publishing model: authenticate, write and publish (via blog software)

My impression: they are doing some amazing stuff and involve folks from all over campus in a systemic process.

Their advice: listen to your audience, build a systemantic process, work in the process, embrace and trust the community and…

Tags: ELIAnnual08

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