The Lehigh Lab:Faculty Developments

Background

• Merge 1 (1996)– telecommunications, computing,

technical support, instructional design, and library services

• Merge 2 (2001)– faculty development, distance education

• Lehigh Lab (2002)

“Lehigh Lab provides a locus for faculty and students to advance the adoption of innovative technologies and techniques that enhance teaching, learning and research. The Lab concept is founded upon the idea that the University as a whole is a laboratory in which faculty, staff and students work and experiment together, across departments and disciplines, to advance learning.”

Accomplishments•80% of classrooms tech-enhanced•Technology Resource Learning Center•“Clipper” project•Growing online course offerings•Internet- & I2-mediated collaborations•Instructional technology tools•High-performance computing•Digital library projects

2004 EDUCAUSE AwardFor Systemic Progress in Teaching and Learning

“Lehigh Lab has brought together disparate units from across the university in a coordinated fashion and truly changed the institutional culture. The effort is a mature, transferable model of viewing the entire institution as a learning laboratory.”

New Challenges

• more fully integrate faculty development programming

• broaden and deepen involvement• increase campus visibility• archive and disseminate information

How to…

Solutions

• The Lehigh Lab Forum• Improved Tracking & Communications • Lehigh Lab Notes• Campus Outreach• Spotlighted Projects• ITaLLIC Project

How to Integrate Faculty Development?

TLTRFaculty

DevelopmentEvents

Lehigh Lab Forum

Sample Forum Topics -Spring2005-

• What the Best College Teachers Do• Laying the Groundwork for Student Research in the

Age of Google • Fostering Great Discussions and Improving Class

Participation• The Who, the How, and the Why of Blogging• Creative Teaching/Teaching Creativity• What Is It and Why Should I Care? The iPod• Scientific Computing

Improved Communications and Tracking

126

TLTR Listserv

All faculty

466

Lehigh Lab Notes

An online journal with faculty and staff contributions

http://www.lehigh.edu/~inllnote

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Spotlighted Projects

http://www.lehigh.edu/lehighlab/selected_proj.htm

Lehigh Lab Projects (a selection)

INNOVATIVE COURSES [see others]

"Architectural Graphics and Design," Jerry Lennon (Civil Engineering). To free up classroom time, Professor Lennon provides students with AutoCAD training materials online. [read more]

TEACHING TOOLS [see others]

'Clickers': Audience Response Systems in the classroom [read more]

FACULTY RESEARCH [see others]

MatPAC: Six Pennsylvania universities (Lehigh, Carnegie Mellon, Drexel, Penn State, University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Pittsburgh) shares materials science curricula using Internet2.

SPECIAL PROJECTS [see others]

Global Citizenship: Professor Hannah Stewart-Gambino (Political Science), director of Lehigh's Global Citizenship program, worked closely with instructional designers to create a website that showcases the GC program by highlighting ongoing student projects.

Campus outreach

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Dean of StudentsOffice

GlobalCitizenship

PolicyCommitteesMentoring

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Office of Research

Graduate Life

Office of Inst’l

Research

Provost’s Office

President’sOffice

Joint Multicultural

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AcademicIntegrity

TaskForce

DeptmtChairs

GradingStandardsTaskForce

Increasing Faculty Involvement Current Full Time Faculty (as of 11/2006)

433

Lehigh Lab Notes

266 (61%)

Faculty Development Contacts

164 (38%)

Lehigh Lab ForumFac Dev Event

433

Faculty Involvement

*’Participant’ means faculty who participated in a Lehigh Lab, faculty development event*’Contact’ means a contact with faculty development director

Total Participant Percent Contact PercentCAS 225 96 43% 161 72%CBE 52 21 40% 32 62%COE 30 11 37% 21 70%

RCEAS 126 36 29% 52 41% TOTAL 433 164 38% 266 61%

By college

Total Participant Percent Contact Percent assistant 111 72 65% 92 83% associate 102 35 34% 54 53% professor 220 57 26% 120 55% TOTAL 433 164 38% 266 61%

By rank

Deeping Involvement:ITaLLIC

Innovations in Teaching Large Lecture Introductory Courses

• Edward J. Gallagher, English 191: American Film Essentials

• Diane Hyland, Psychology 1: Introduction to Psychology• Gary DeLeo, Physics 11: Introduction to Physics I• Jerome Licini, Physics 11: Introduction to Physics I• Robert Giambatista, Management 280: Management of

People and Organizations• Natalie Foster, Chemistry 25: Intro to Chemical

Principles• Susan Szczepanski, Math 21: Calculus I• Charles Smith, Engineering 1: Engineering Computations• Greg Reihman, Philosophy 1: The Examined Life

http://www.lehigh.edu/~inllnote

Examples of ImpactForum: Fostering Great Discussions and Improving Student Participation

Forum: Exemplary Uses of Blackboard

Faculty DevelopmentContact

“For the first time, I used the discussion board, requiring students to post two short essays a week. The postings significantly enhanced student participation, collaboration, and learning.”

Centra training

Examples of Impact

Forum: What Faculty are Doing with Digital Libraries (and how you can, too)

Teams LX testing

Forum: Laying the Groundwork for Student Research in the Age of Google

“I was able to engage students in original, collaborative research into primary sources, guided by librarians, all in an online environment”

LTS testing of MapleTA

Examples of Impact

Writing Across the Curriculum Contact and Seminar

Forum: Managing Quizzes and Homework

By using MapleTA for homework, we are able to free up TA time, which can be spent responding to writing assignments, thereby teaching a new skill we view as crucial to mathematics education

Faculty DevelopmentContact

Examples of Impact

Forum: Clickers: Audience Response Systems in the Classroom

ITaLLIC Seminar Series

“For Fall 2006, we propose to integrate the use of clickers into the Psyc 001 class…I am excited about the psossibility to improve the class, but would have been reluctant to attempt this without the support of you and your group. “

Forum: What Is It and Why Should I Care? The iPod

Forum: Terrascope: Freshman Interdisciplinary Learning

Forum: Sound Advice: Using Audio to Enhance Instruction

“Just so you know what you have unleashed, your presentation today pushed me over the edge: 5G iPod and microphone(s) are on order! [for EES seminar supplements]”

Examples of Impact

Forum: Diversity in the Classroom/ Teaching Diverse Classes

Forum: What the Best College Teachers Do

Forum: Conferencing Tools

Forum: Academic Integrity

Forum: Creative Teaching

Forum: Integrating Research into Undergraduate Education

Forum: What Is It and Why Should I Care? The Tablet PC

Forum: Freshman Interdisciplinary Learning

Forum: Scientific Computing

Let’s see...

Next Challenges

• Repeat, repeat, repeat• Meeting increased demand• Establishing new initiatives to keep

deepening involvement – small-scale course redesign

– Writing Across the Curriculum

– Technology-specific seminar cohorts

The Lehigh Lab: Faculty Developments

Gregory M. Reihman

Director of Faculty Development