The mission of Technology Mediated Instruction (TMI) is to encourage the appropriate use of educational technology by faculty, both within the classroom and in DE modalities, to promote student success and enhance access in accordance with the college’s mission and values.
TMI supports all the District’s instructional programs in the use of the Learning Management System (LMS). This includes enhancing traditional courses with online resources, as well as DE through online courses. TMI is a vital component in the student learning process in its efforts to increase the number and quality of DE offerings and the use of technology in and beyond the classroom. TMI provides comprehensive faculty training the use of the LMS and corresponding Supplemental Tools. TMI also encourages peer mentoring among faculty, and holds monthly and annual campus events focused on the sharing of best practices in the use of educational technologies. TMI offers support to faculty and administration, and specifically the Distance Education Committee (DEC) and Academic Technology Committee (ATC), in helping to promote "best practices" for achieving student success. TMI implements its program through giving dozens of workshops geared toward helping participants not only understand the use of the LMS, but also guide them in choosing the appropriate tool for each task being undertaken. In addition, TMI staff meet and hold consultations with faculty to ensure that the use of the LMS meet Butte College, state and Federal standards. TMI is currently updating training content and providing more options for participants to be trained both synchronously and asynchronously about teaching in the online environment.
TMI supports Strategic Direction 1. Enhancing a Culture of Completion and Academic Achievement
g. Technology
4. Supporting faculty, staff and students to effectively access and use technology
TMI conducts an annual unit plan which serves as its Program Review.
Strategy 1 - Continue to provide LMS training for faculty
Provide traditional and online faculty training sessions, in order to respond to the asynchronous & synchronous needs of instructors use of the District's Learning Management System (LMS), including:
Effectivley trained faculty can best use the school's LMS to ensure course content delivery that encourages student success.
Strategy 2 - Support the use of online course design rubric and standards
Continue to collaborate with the Distance Learning Committee in encouraging the District's online course design rubric and standards (used to review online and hybrid courses) as faculty/designers are now responsible for showing evidence that each criterion has been satisfied.
Documentation of online course reviews will align with the "culture of evidence" mandated by accrediting standards and will encourage faculty/designers to become more actively involved in the review process from start to finish.
Strategy 3 - Continual evaluation of new educational technologies
TMI will continue to facilitate reviews of new educational technologies related to the LMS, by collaborating with the Senate's Academic Technology Committee, and other groups, to set up campus demonstrations and initiate campus-wide discussions.
This strategy helps implement decision-making regarding the review, consideration, and adoption of new technologies for the LMS, and helps ensure a consistent, campus-wide response involving all relevant stakeholders; ultimately students benefit.
Strategy 4 - Professional development opportunities
TMI staff will continue to pursue opportunities for professional development, including conference attendance and memberships in professional organizations, in the area of educational technology.
TMI staff need to stay abreast of changing industry trends in the area of the LMS, online collaboration, video conferencing, and other educational technologies.
Efforts to utilize surplus furniture have been exhasuted.
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| Original Priority | Program, Unit, Area | Resource Type | Account Number | Object Code | One Time Augment | Ongoing Augment |
| Description | Supporting Rationale | Potential Alternative Funding Sources | Prioritization Criteria | |||
| 1 | TMI | Operating Expenses | $10,000.00 | $0.00 | ||
| LMS Related ProDev | TMI staff have an annual need to stay aware of the dynamic nature of the CCC's new LMS, Canvas. The LMS is a Software as a Service (SaaS) platform and as such is in a continual state of change (updated monthly). Attending specific pro dev events are instrumental in staff determining all aspects of the LMS' configuration, such as: SIS data flows, reporting data, integrations LTI, best practices in use of core LMS tools, and innovation in online teaching. Funding request includes two Instructional Technology Specialists, the Dean over TMI, and two faculty attendees. |
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| 2 | TMI | Equipment | $4,000.00 | $0.00 | ||
| Workstations (2) | Workstations for training faculty in the use of Canvas, Snagit/Camtasia, SoftChalk, etc. |
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| 3 | TMI | Operating Expenses | $0.00 | $2,000.00 | ||
| Adjust-All date management software | Adjust-All is an external tool for the LMS that provides the ability to adjust all course dates and settings in a single location, dramatically improving efficiency for instructors. |
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| 4 | TMI | Equipment | $0.00 | $3,400.00 | ||
| Site License (Camtasia & SnagIt Bundle) | Year 2 of our 3 year contract with TechSmith for Camtasia and Snagit products. (Year 1 was $13K) |
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| 5 | TMI | $1,200.00 | $0.00 | |||
| WebCams | Faculty are in need of high quality HD webcam/mics for producing instructional video content for use with Camtasia and Canvas. Supports essential online course design standards (instructional presence). |
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| 6 | TMI | Operating Expenses | $0.00 | $5,500.00 | ||
| SoftChalk content authoring software | A site license provides for unlimited use by online and face-to-face instructors to deliver content to students, and there is a provision to create SoftChalk lessons that connect with the LMS grade book for up to 2500 students (which would cover most of our online enrollment). The site license also includes training. |
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| 7 | TMI | Facilities | $4,000.00 | $0.00 | ||
| Tables, Chairs, & Whiteboard | TMI is in need of four 6' wheeled tables and eight task chairs for flexible seating arrangements in LRC 282, a newly designated training room that supports Canvas LMS training and online course development related tasks for faculty. A 5'x4' whiteboard is also needed. Efforts to utilize surplus have been exhausted. |
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| 8 | TMI / Distance Education | Operating Expenses | $12,000.00 | $0.00 | ||
| VeriCite/Turnitin software for online plagiarism detection | It's possible the OEI will not be able to come to an agreement with Turnitin, which recently acquired VeriCite software, so we may have to bear the expense of Turnitin for our continued faculty use. VeriCite's agreement with OEI terminates this summer, and while the OEI has been paying for VeriCite, they are negotiating with Turnitin, but nothing has been finalized yet. |
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