INSTRUCTOR DATA

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COMMON GROUND, COMMON FUTURE

Challenges

COLLABORATION

SOLUTIONS

Sharing Resources Solutions

 

Sharing Resources Solutions:

  • A common platform to upload and share materials
 Responsible Party:

  • Tech Center (local and central – UHM)
Professional Development

 

Professional Development Solutions:

  • Language-specific F2F or online focus groups within FS
  • Workshops like this one in HI
 Responsible Party:

  • Dr. Eisen

 

TIME

Sharing Resources Solutions

 

Sharing Resources Solutions:

  • More collaboration
 Responsible Party:

  • Dr. Eisen

 

Research Solutions

 

Research Solutions

  • Give instructors release time
  • Money to hire expertise (researchers, consultants)
 Responsible Party:

  • Local institutions, Flagship directors
  • Dr. Eisen

 

APPLICATION AND AVAILABILITY OF TECHNOLOGY

Sharing Resources Solutions

 

Sharing Resources Solutions:

  • Rely less on free apps
  • Provide a toolkit with an optimized set of applications including instructions and feedback
 Responsible Party:

  • Dr. Eisen, institutions
  • Tech Center
Communications Solutions

 

Communications Solutions:

  • Elicit ongoing input from instructors and students on the usage of applications
 Responsible Party:

  • Dr. Eisen, Institutions

TRAINING

Communications Solutions

 

Communications Solutions:

  • Communication between students, teachers about what they would like to use a teacher for
 Responsible Party:

  • Instructors
Professional Development Solutions

 

  • Professional Development Solutions:
  • Site visits
  • Workshops like this one with synchronous interaction (F2F or online)
  • Webinars
 Responsible Party:

  • Flagship Leadership, individual institutions, Tech Center

STUDENT MOTIVATION

Sharing Resources Solutions

 

Sharing Resources Solutions:

  • Invite higher-level/graduated students to share their experiences
 Responsible Party:

  • Flagship Institutions/programs
Communications Solutions

 

Communications Solutions:

  • Student outreach
  • Synchronous student workshops across the Flagship about learning technologies and strategies
  • Online survey across the Flagship programs
 Responsible Party:

  • Institutions across the Flagship
  • Flagship leadership
  • Selected instructors and Tech Center, implemented by administration

NEEDS

Options
  • Too many options, frequent change
  • Lack of tool for LCTLs
Accessibility/Availability
  • Pronunciation/correction app?
  • Instructors need a single platform that has multiple tools/apps with instructions
  • Unsustainable: instructors spend time and money to create materials on tools that go away or change
Financial Support
  • Too Expensive to subscribe to online learning websites and apps
Financial Support
  • Too Expensive to subscribe to online learning websites and apps
Time
  • Too much time needed for creating content and learning
  • Online contents change too fast or are discontinued
  • Time consuming to provide tech training for both teachers and students
  • Too difficult following a lot of apps
  • Deciding on sequencing from semester to semester, e.g., what tools to keep, what to change
  • The effectiveness of using technology in class: traditional teaching can reach the same result, is less time consuming
  • Hard to select resources and materials after being exposed to them
  • Time consuming to identify appropriate level of authentic material
  • Takes more time to use more technology than not to use it, so there must be a pay-off
Motivation
  • How to get students more involved in choosing tech tools
  • How to get accurate student feedback on the use of a tech tool
Professional Development
  • Teachers must know how and why to use technology
  • Teachers are educated in other countries; they are not familiar with tech/afraid of using tech
  • Students don’t use tech-based activities despite efforts put into developing them by instructors
  • Instructors need professional development to know which tools are effective and how to use the tools effectively
  • How to get training/opportunities to try out a tech tool (e.g., padlet) before using it in class
Collaboration
  • Coordinating between facilitators for use of the same tech, often between levels
  • Need apps/tools that increase student engagement across institutions
  • How to increase collaboration of tools/learning objects among institutions
  • Lack of support from the institution in the target language
  • Teachers have individual preferences for tech but whole dept must use the same tech
  • Lack of collaboration among instructors in different Flagships
  • Limited articulation between pre-capstone students and instructors of the language

Contact Information

TECH CENTER

1890 East West Road

Moore Hall 256

Honolulu, HI 96822

(808) 956-5121

tech.center@hawaii.edu

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