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Marybeth J. Koon
Explore Emerging Tech: 
Past Intructional Techology Pilots

During my time at RIT as an Instructional Designer and Technology Research Consultant, I served as the project lead for several technology pilots.  Three notable long-term exploratory pilots I oversaw as a member of the Teaching & Learning Services office involved the Teaching & Learning Technology (TLT) Studio, Interactive Whiteboards (IWB), and the VoiceThread multimedia tool. The goals for each of these projects were to 1) disseminate best practices for effective course design and meaningful use of instructional technology, and 2) research novel and innovative instructional technology to improve the teaching and learning experience for faculty and students.   An overview of each of these projects is provided below.

 
TLT Studio

Teaching and Learning Technology Studio, RIT (circa 2010)

The TLT Studio

A cross-disciplinary incubator space for faculty looking to pilot new and innovative ways of teaching and explore how to improve student learning with technology.

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My Roles and Responsibilities

  • Evaluated faculty requests to determine best use cases for the studio technology
  • Consulted faculty on course design and delivery within the scope of their projects
  • Trained faculty and students on the technologies being used in each pilot
  • Partnered with classroom technology staff on upgrades and maintenance as needed
  • Performed surveys and focus groups with faculty and student users 
  • Disseminated best practices through the creation of a Faculty Stories website
  • Documented findings and reported them  to university leadership
  • Co-published whitepaper on the impact of pen-based technology use in classroom

Interactive Whiteboards

Investigated how interactive projectors in the classroom might increase student engagement and improve team-based problem-solving in engineering classes.

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My Roles and Responsibilities

  • Collaborated with engineering faculty to explore meaningful application of IWB
  • Researched use cases of IWB  implementation at other universities
  • Provided support to faculty and students; liaised with classroom tech staff as needed
  • Observed classroom activity and performed focus groups with student users 
  • Disseminated lessons learned a faculty resource, Discovery Notes*

VoiceThread

Leveraged VoiceThread's easy-to-use multimedia capabilities to improve the online learning experience and make learning more accessible.

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My Roles and Responsibilities

  • Worked with three faculty teaching visual communcations, ASL, engineering
  • Goal 1: to visually enhance the online course experience
  • Goal 2: to facilitate better engagement and accessibility with subject matter 
  • Goal 2: foster community among online students
  • Leveraged VoiceThread to create introduction to pilot and how-to material
  • Disseminated lessons learned through a faculty resource, Discovery notes*

TLT Studio Pilot Artifacts

TLT Studio Report
Whitepaper Abstract

IWB Project Artifacts

IWB Discovery Note

VoiceThread Project Artifacts

VoiceThread Discovery Notes
Teachers on Teaching: Introduction to VT

*Discovery Notes were modeled after Educause's 7 Things I Should Know About.

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