LT3 and UWOnE at the University of Waterloo LT3: Who?

Centre for Learning and Teaching through Technology

What?

LT3’s mandate on campus is to enhance technology mediated learning to:  enable more active student learning    target specific instructional challenges provide authentic contexts for learning encourage a learner-centred approach to teaching and learning 4 Dec. 2002 CUAC talk: UWOnE and LT3

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  allows faculty members to easily incorporate online elements into their courses incorporates a pedagogical model (T5): promotes a task centred approach in the use of technology, including feedback delivered in a number of ways

The New Classroom workshop series

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Learning Task Designer Tool

introduces faculty to T5 and gives access to the tool can be mainly done online, with 2 face-to-face coaching sessions for feedback and discussion  sessions are offered in March and April – go to http://lt3.uwaterloo.ca/faculty/ and click on registration tab for workshop dates/ to register online.

Faculty liaisons

 appointed to assist faculty members with the Learning Task Designer Tool (Arts: [email protected]

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Use of online components by Arts

Learning Task Designer Tool

 Approximately 21 Arts faculty members have participated in The New Classroom workshop series  All of the above have used or are planning to use the tool in their course(s)

WebBoard or Blackboard

 A handful are using WB or BB independently of the T5 model, but the majority of these are interested in pursuing the T5 approach via the Learning Task Designer Tool next term

Distance Ed

 18-34 online Arts courses are currently being developed  Technology cross-over to on-campus courses?

4 Dec. 2002 CUAC talk: UWOnE and LT3

The UWOnE environment

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LT3’s approach

 Provide aids for using T5  Collaborate with DE and IST to provide a central service

Components

 TD and TM tools (homegrown) as the gateway   Tool sets to support online activities:  Off the shelf (Blackboard/Angel, WebBoard); homegrown (CM _Tools, built by DE) UW infrastructure (authentication, student information) External repositories for content and tools 

Support model

 LT3 Faculty Liaisons (4/6 Faculties)   Tool set support (one full-time hire in DE) System support through IST 4 Dec. 2002 CUAC talk: UWOnE and LT3