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Instructional Development (ID) provides the highest quality consultation and assistance to the UC Santa Barbara faculty in support of quality instruction. The hallmarks of ID’s support for faculty are professionalism, creativity, and service. From one organization, faculty can receive guidance on course design and evaluation, grants to support faculty and TA curricular development, professional media production of course materials, as well as services supporting classroom and online presentation of those materials.
Personnel changes played a significant role in ID operations over the past year. We sadly bid adieu to several long serving and extremely valuable members of the ID team. Rick Johnson, Senior Consultant; Art Battson, Director of Instructional Resources; Ray Tracy, Production Services and Video Services Manager; Steve Brown, Artworks Manager; Tom Hurd, Electronics Technician; and Gary Cartzdafner, Classroom Inventory Manager retired. We wish them well in their future pursuits.
We are extremely happy to welcome two new members to the ID team. Dr. Kim McShane, most recently of the University of Sydney, and Dr. Lisa Berry, a recent UC Santa Barbara graduate, assume their new duties at the beginning of Fall quarter. Dr. McShane brings an extensive background in online and blended (a combination of online and face to face instruction) instruction to her new role in ID. This experience will be invaluable to our faculty as they begin to more fully use the capabilities of the new campus Course Management Service (CMS), GauchoSpace. Dr. Berry’s experience and recent research into creative ways to effectively teach traditionally difficult subject matter, specifically quantitative methods, to widely disparate groups of students, also using blended teaching techniques, will be a tremendous asset to the University.
ID has worked closely with the Academic Technology Planning Group (ATPG) and Instructional Computing (IC) to realize the goal of a campus-wide CMS. We have a full program of faculty training on effectively using GauchoSpace beginning with the Faculty Institute: Teaching with Technology (FITT) to kick off the Fall quarter. We are working closely with faculty from across the disciplines to move their existing course content into the new service. Along with this exciting development for developing virtual learning spaces, we will be installing the next generation classroom computer lectern in a total of eleven classrooms this year to provide faculty with the best possible resources in their physical learning spaces also. We will be piloting a simple mechanism for faculty to capture their lectures for online review over the coming year.
We will be testing online access to films on reserve for faculty and students. The benefit to students is freedom from the logistical constraints of the hours of the Learning Labs. Faculty benefit from greater access to the physical media for in-class presentation. We look forward to this collaborative effort between Classroom Services and Production Services.
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