Friday, March 12, 2004

Conference day 1 discussion: unlabeled table A

Omitted:
-student input -- emerging consumer
-slow rate of change - faculty-culture clash - Lib's/IT's change agents
-students' rapid technology adoption pace
-Library can serve as a catalyst for change through other introductions
-Faculty active involvement, buy-in - varies according to discipline What makes this attractive/useful/effective? Add value to their teaching. Target new faculty - "next generation of professoriate" addresses IT Lib learning technology tools, faculty get paid for attending, get equipment budget
-Minnesota, Iowa, UIC: mentoring component
-Learning communities: faculty, students, librarian: some collateral but important points to consider: scaling up chat reference, subject specialists needed to offer specialized
-demands vs. resource allocation
-Executive leadership needs to get faculty input
-In institution thinking about results of collaborative effort? Does deployment and vendor choice have an impact on faculty involvement? Impact of type of CMS on its use within an institution?
-Security and privacy issues: students, faculty, librarians. CMS, chats, weblogs. Policy, and technical issues.
-No pedagogical component.