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Additional Project Results for HP |
Additional feedback that may not already be on your public webpage is also requested. These additional items are listed below:
Impact on Instruction - What level of impact has your grant experience had on the instructional practice in your classrooms? Have your original project goals relative to student learning outcomes been met? Indicate how you rate the impact by highlighting or bolding one of the following:
· Very Positive
· Positive
· Neutral / not sure yet
· Negative
· Very Negative
Impact on Student Learning - Based on the evidence that you have collected, what level of impact has this project had on student learning? Indicate how you rate the impact by highlighting or bolding one of the following:
· Very Positive
· Positive
· Neutral / not sure
· Negative
· Very Negative
Other Outcomes - Please describe any other expected or unexpected outcomes/benefits that have arisen from this project (positive or negative). How has the technology facilitated these outcomes/benefits?
An additional outcome indirectly related to the HP Grant Initiative has been the fact that other professors have been intrigued by the technology, and more importantly, the application of the technology for instructional delivery in the classroom. The team was ready to offer faculty development workshops to additional faculty in the school interested in using the HP-donated equipment. This faculty development workshop was a required policy specified by our team prior to any other colleague getting access to the equipment. There has been a "trickle down" interest effect among faculty members; some of this effect was initiated by the faculty members themselves, whereas another portion of this effect has been driven by students previously exposed to the new technology as part of this project.
Project Visibility: How have you communicated the project and its results of this project to others? Include presentations about the project conducted on campus, at conferences, and/or any publications. Please be sure to describe any recognition that your project has received or ways in which your team and/or students have shown the grant-related work to others on your campus, in your community, or beyond.
The HP Grant received immediate visibility within the university via the "Spartan E-Daily" newsletter.
See excerpt attached.
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The NSU team also presented the experimental design for this project at the 16th Annual Conference of the American Society of Business and Behavioral Sciences (ASBBS) in Las Vegas, NV, on February 19-22, 2009. This presentation was published in the ASBBS conference proceedings.
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American Society of Business and Behavioral Sciences
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16th Annual Conference, Las Vegas: February 19-22, 2009 |
The NSU team has immediate plans to submit the results of this project to a blind-refereed journal for future publication.
Personal Highlights: If you had only one minute to explain your experience, what aspect of your project are you most enthusiastic about?
The aspect that we are most enthusiastic about is the freedom that the project gave us to explore better ways of delivering content to meet the students' needs.
Project Challenges: What stumbling blocks or challenges did you encounter and how did you overcome them? What "words of wisdom" would you share with other educators who would like to replicate your project?
A major challenge we are faced with is research mortality. We were very ambitious with our research design and did not consider the heavy burden it would pose on our limited resources to consider the treatment effects on a sophomore, junior, and senior level courses. A factor we did not take into consideration was that student enrollment may not be there on a given semester and one of these three courses would be cancelled. We have decided to overcome it by simply eliminating one of the courses from the experimental design.
Our "words of wisdom" would be to be as ambitious as your resources allow it. Another "pearl of wisdom" would be to surround yourself with the right professionals. In addition to committed faculty members and administrators, the team has to have an instructional designer, an IT specialist, and a set of trained research assistants available to collect the data.
Administrator's Reflections - Please review the team's final reflections on the impact of the grant as requested above and describe any significant outcomes of the team's work from your perspective. Describe the commitment of the institution/department to continue and expand these efforts. In the conclusion of the statement please include your name, title, and contact information.
The department of Accountancy, Finance, and Information Management is very pleased with the results obtained by the team working on the HP grant. This grant has allowed the team the flexibility and technology needed to experiment with alternative methods of instructional delivery. The impact has been tremendously successful in terms of academic achievement and student involvement, as evidenced by the data collected.
We would like to continue this project and expand it to other areas within the department, and eventually to the remaining departments in the School of Business.
Dr. Jim Chen,
Department Chair
Publishing the Results: HP has received feedback from several projects around the world indicating an interest in publishing a book about these projects. Would you be interested participating in this project? If yes, please indicate how you would like to contribute (write a chapter, peer review, steering committee, or…?)
We would love to write a chapter on our experiences and share our data and lessons learned.
Speaking Opportunities: We frequently get requests for speakers/experts in education technology, and we look for opportunities to raise the visibility of successful projects. Would you be interested in speaking in person or online about your project success?
We would be very interested in doing so.
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