Description

CITES seeks to collaborate with campus instructors and staff interested in exploring the use of iPad and Android-based tablets for teaching and learning, student engagement, and outreach. A limited number of loaner devices will be available to selected instructors on a checkout basis.

To submit a proposal, please visit: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/885PLF3

Objectives, Ideas, and Possibilities

Unlike many mobile device initiatives, ours is targeted directly at instructors and faculty and not at large-scale student adoption. We are interested in exploring how tablets can assist with or enhance instructors as they:

• Engage students in the classroom
• Explore tablets as an advanced presentation tool in learning spaces
• Create, distribute, and manage their online course materials (Illinois Compass, Moodle, wiki, blogs, etc.)
• Work with course and student content from home, office, classroom, and traveling
• Incorporate educational and discipline-specific apps
• Design and deliver student group work in small classes around tablet-based assignments
• Explore original and creative discipline-specific practices that realize the unique qualities of tablets in support of learning, research, and outreach (such as field work and surveys; grad instruction in lab settings; portable visualizations; remote sensing; GIS and mobile data gathering and visualizations)

Partnership Agreement

As a participant in the CITES Academic Technology Services Innovative Technology Partnership FY11 Initiative we will provide hardware, apps, expert technical and pedagogical consulting and support, and advocacy within campus IT and administration in support of your teaching, research, and outreach goals. Of our partners we ask that they pledge a commitment to share, participate, and contribute to the Initiative and the campus by selecting four or more of the following activities (Selecting multiple or all items indicates only your openness to those items; no single partner will ultimately serve in all these ways):

• Be listed as a participant in our campus communications
• Respond to online surveys
• Participate in a focus group
• Be interviewed for campus-distributed web article
• Co-author campus-distributed web article
• Share your local results, findings, and data with the CITES coordinators (in compliance with your own IRB, privacy, intellectual property, and research concerns)
• Participate in a campus brown bag panel discussing the Initiative
• Serve on a proposal selection committee for future ITP Initiatives
• Assist CITES ATS staff in one training or consulting session of local faculty or academic professionals in your unit
• Co-present at a regional or national conference
• Co-author a research article
  

Contact & Links

Administrative Contact: Robert Thomas Baird - r-baird@illinois.edu
Device Loans, Support and Classroom Use: Jamie Nelson - jamien@illinois.edu
Integration with Online Environments: Kostas Yfantis - kny@illinois.edu
Evaluation Component: Ava Wolf - arwolf@illinois.edu

Call For Proposals Online Form: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/885PLF3