Student Integration

• Blend Internet-based learning for on- and off-campus students to deliver and enhance the curriculum as defined by the missions of academic units.
• Use IT systems to enhance faculty-student interaction.
• Use IT systems to communicate with students about the curriculum.
• Use IT to help students forge groups around curricular and non-curricular activities through a process of academic socialization.
• Use IT to enhance the undergraduate research experience.
• Promote research on IT systems as a means to improving educational effectiveness.
• Ensure that students, faculty, and staff have the IT skills required for effective teaching,learning, and research.

Related Projects
and Initiatives

Status of Projects and Initiatives are updated in January, May, and September.

Educational Technology Vision and Plan

In June 2005, the Faculty Committee on Educational Technology initiated a discussion with the IT Planning Board on three primary recommendations, two of which now have projects associated with them.

1. Develop a single virtual 24/7 help desk for support of technology in instruction.

   A team of staff in UCLA’s Professional Development Program are interviewing helpdesk managers at UCLA and at other universities that provide campus-wide help desk services with the goal of developing a report on the pro’s and con’s of models for UCLA to consider.

2. Select a single application to support collaboration and teaching tools for instructional, research and administrative groups. Sakai was seen as a strong candidate for such a solution.

   Two Sponsors Groups – one looking at technical requirements, the other at functional requirements - will be finalizing criteria, evaluating a short list of solutions, and presenting the Faculty on Educational Technology with a recommendation by June 2006.

A Common Collaboration and Learning Environment Pilot

The Sakai Pilot continues in 2006 winter and spring quarters with an increased number of courses and projects. A report is due to the Faculty Committee on Educational Technology during winter quarter. The Sakai Pilot Team will also share their findings with the Technical and Functional Sponsors Groups that have been charged with a broad review of possible solutions.

Copenhaver Award for Innovation in Teaching with Technology

Now in its fourth year, the process of recognizing faculty who improve learning through the use of technology is underway for 2006. The Faculty Committee on Educational Technology is now evaluating 54 nominations. Over the past three years, 11 instructors have been honored with the award. Interviews with award recipients and more than 50 nominees about their use of technology in teaching are available on the award website:
http://www.college.ucla.edu/edtech/interviews