Report

= **Program in Instructional Technology** =

1. Introduction
The Program in Instructional Technology is accredited by the Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) to offer courses leading to a M.S.Ed. degree from Duquesne University and an Instructional Technology Specialist certificate (license) PDE. The program also has approval to offer the Business, Computer and Information Technology certificate from PDE. This later program provides business courses at the undergraduate and graduate level from the A.J. Palumbo School of Business.

The Program in Instructional Technology provides courses for the master's degree students in instructional technology. We admit approximately 30-38 candidates per year or between 10 and 14 candidates per semester. Admission to the Program may occur in each of the three semesters.

As instructional technology specialists we provide instruction in the analysis of the learning environment and student acquisition of content and skills, the design of learning materials, the development of teaching and student applications, implementation of curriculum enhanced with instructional and educational technology, and the evaluation of student learning.

This three-year strategic plan organizes the planning, acquisition and implementation of the educational technology applications we need to operate an effective and competitive program. Our needs involve personnel, educational resources for our candidates, and the technological resources fundamental to the survival of our program.

2.1 Personnel
A full-time faculty member (4th faculty in the IT program) was approved in 2003. Accountants from Central Administration informed program directors that sufficient funds were sent from Central to the SoE for more than one faculty member. When the Doctoral Program in Instructional Technology and Leadership was approved in 2007, the full-time faculty line was re-approved.

Currently, we use 27 adjunct credits in the Spring 2011, 11 adjunct credits in the Summer 2011, and 30 in the Fall 2011. Full time and adjunct faculty load is distributed with hard credits as below: Each faculty member also has sufficient soft credits through dissertation chair positions, dissertation committee positions, documented research agenda, program leadership, and/or university-level appointments.
 * || Spring || Summer || Fall || Total ||
 * Adjunct Credits || 27 || 11 || 30 || 68 ||
 * Faculty #1 || 3 || 6 || 6 || 15 ||
 * Faculty #2 || 6 || 3 || 6 || 15 ||
 * Faculty #3 || 13 || 9 || 13 || 35 ||

With a new addition of the 4th full-time faculty (15 cr/year load), our credit loads would be as follow:


 * || Summer || Spring || Fall || Total ||
 * Adjunct Credits || 8 || 25 || 27 || 60 ||
 * Faculty #1 || 6 || 3 || 6 || 15 ||
 * Faculty #2 || 3 || 6 || 6 || 15 ||
 * Faculty #3 || 9 || 9 || 9 || 27 ||
 * Faculty #4 || 3 || 6 || 6 || 15 ||

**Conference Cost**
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$15,500 per year

**2.2.1 Analysis**
One of the pillars of the field of Instructional Technology is titled, Analysis. It represents the capability of Instructional Technology Specialists to analyze student readiness using technology tools and also to determine the viability of an environment (brick and mortar and online) to sustain learning for students. Advances are announced in the field of technology every year. The faculty need to experiment with some of these new technologies to determine their viability in the Program. $2,000/year

**2.2.2 Design**
Instructional system design has been a cornerstone of Instructional Technology for many years. Our accreditation body considers Design to be so important that they devote an entire division to the research in and development of materials based on sound design strategies. //Design and Development Research// journal contains abundance of articles on the need for design and development research, identifying design and development research problems and design and development methodology.

Concept mapping is both a cognitive organization tool but we also use it to design lessons. We use Inspiration and Kidspiration to show the candidates how to organize concepts and to design lessons. Inspiration is $29.95 per license and Kidspiration is $27.95. We need to upgrade 31 copies (26 machines in the lab, three faculty, one adjunct faculty, and the podium) every year (($29.95*31) + ($27.95*31) = $1,794.90) because the software changes frequently. $1,794.90

**2.2.3 Development**
This pillar is the most commonly thought of pillar of Instructional Technology. Candidates create materials using technology tools. Some of these tools are part of the basic software supplied by the University and other tools are available for an additional charge. Some of the tools are online and others are standalone, which need to be installed individual devices.

Updating the //**Adobe Creative Suite**// regularly is critical to our program because it is in the GILT 511, 513, 520 and 521 courses. It is the de facto standard for Development work. We, however, recommend a rotation of every other year instead of every year.

We will need the Adobe Creative Suite - Master Collection for faculty and instructors (5 (Kush, Heo, Fulmar, Kukic, Balmert, Carbonara) * $549 ea or $2,750). We will also have to upgrade 10 Lab machines with the Adobe Creative Suite - Web Premium at a cost of $330 each for students machines ($3,300). [$2,750 + $3,300 = $6,050] $6,050

//**Animoto**// is an application that creates video slideshows, that are used many K-12 schools. Animoto comes with many packages. We recommend one pro license of $249/year for each of two faculty members (Carbonara, Zani) and half of the machines in the lab (26*0.5*249 = $3,237) $3,237

All three IT faculty members use **//Zoomerang//** heavily. We have our research data in zoomerang as well as data we collect for NCATE and PDE reports ($300/license/year) $900

//**Dedoose**// supports mixed model methodology and coordinates the qualitative and quantitative data. User/ 12.95 per month $155.40

Both of these products are used to capture and edit sound recordings. They are listed here to inform the reader that we will use free products as the need arises. Audacity is a free download from SoundForge and GarageBand is standard on the MAC.
 * //Audacity and GarageBand//**

Another free product is Publisher. It is embedded inside Microsoft Word and the candidates use it to create brochures and flyers for their classrooms.
 * //Publisher//**

**2.2.4 Implementation**
Candidates must practice the delivery of instruction enhanced by technology. We use devices such as the Smartboard with projector, computers, iPads, Kindles and smartphones. All candidates are encouraged to try the new materials in their own classrooms and to discuss the implementation with faculty and colleagues.

The faculty considered a new policy to require students to bring their own laptops to class but decided not to move forward with this policy because of the following reasons:

a) While approximately 96% of the incoming freshmen in the Fall 2011 semester own a laptop, not all do. b) With the drop in enrollment, this new policy would require an additional expense. c) CTS is not responsive to student owned machines. In the past, even for the university owned uniformly configured machines in the Lab, if a problem occurs, we often had to wait over a week for CTS to fix the problem. If a problem occurs on student owned laptop, with 25 possible different configurations per class, the response time for fixes may be astronomical. Neither the faculty nor CTS will be able to quickly resolve problems in time for class. Additionally, we lost one of our student workers - We usually select good problem solvers with some technical expertise to monitor and perform prophylactic routines on the machines. Thus, any savings we could possibly reap from a new requirement that students bring their own machine, would be exhausted in lost productively time by the faculty.

$,1326.
 * EDLine** is a product used by many school districts to act as an electronic gradebook and to provide a vehicle for parents to view the grades online. The cost of renewing your GradeQuick services for one year is $1,326.00.

$1099
 * Elmo Document Camera.** DILE's document camera is in constant use by faculty members and the loaner from the Faculty Development Center can be scheduled on some days, but not on all needed days. $949[| (http://www.techedu.com/Smart_SDC-330.html]) and VGA, Y-cable ($150).


 * Flip Cameras** are easy to use video cameras. Many school districts are using these cameras in all K-12 grade levels. Students learn to story board, frame shots, offload the file, edit the video and produce a shared version of the production. See the products at this link

The **Mavis Bacon** updates are free and we will install them ever summer.


 * Lynda** software is a subscription to a library of software training and video tools. We used to use the Safari series from the Gumberg library, but they canceled the service a few years ago.

**2.2.5 Evaluation**
While some techniques are strategies, others require hardware and software to evaluate the performance of students (PK-4).

$1,287
 * SPSS** is a software package we use not only for instruction but also to evaluate data for our scholarly activities. SPSS was purchased by [|IBM]in 2009 and changed the pricing policy. The cost is $99 per user per year. **Faculty licenses are at no charge.** We will need 3 licenses for the 3 faculty members and we only need 10 copies for the machines in the lab.

Another evaluation tool we use is **ResponseWare** from Turning Technology. This tool allows candidates to assess student learning in real time through interactive questions. The data are gathered into a database and can be presented in graphic and raw data forms. The goal is for the candidates to create lessons for interactive gathering of data and to interpret the data to make professional decisions about course alteration. $XXXXXXX

Consummables
Supplies, bulbs, paper, office supplies, ink, toner, ... about $5000/AY

Technology supplies $9000/ AY

Deep cleaning - rug $1,500, about ??

Miscellaneous - $2,000/AY