We invite your to join us at our
Academy of Management Professional Development Workshop:
Teaching with Technology:
Enhancing Democratic Course Participation
Session #55: Saturday, August 02, 2003
7:00:00 AM 10:00:00 AM
Sheraton Seattle Hotel & Towers Room 418 (4th Floor)
Background.
We have centered on and continually updated what we do with technology
in teaching and how we have arrived at our current "conditions" -- an
evolving story concerned with employing technology in service of
effective and innovative instructional methods. We will present a
session on the ways that our uses of technology enhance the unhindered
democratic participation of students in our courses. We will offer an
integrated demonstration and discussion session built upon key
challenges and experiences we have differently encountered. We will
emphasize the importance of grasping technology�s implications when we
recognize and endorse the comment that technology can make a good
teacher great and an average teacher terrible.
Concept. We depend upon technology to help define and to expand
student experiences in our courses, including an emphasis on increased
and democratic (equal-opportunity and equal recognition) participation.
Based upon our varied and focused experiences, we will assist
participants with awareness of existing potentials for the use of
technology to enhance democratic participation in our courses.
Specific Goals.
To demonstrate advantages technology provides in discovering and
reaching our current states
To offer paths and directions as examples for others
To show what we now can accomplish in our courses
To assist participants in establishing and joining a democratic process
of participation and learning through �
� Randy Sleeth � providing assistance in migrating content materials
among emerging presentation and access technologies
� Ken Armstrong � employing alternate technologies to enhance
opportunities for student input
� Randy Dunham � preparing large-scale projects for delivering
accessible learning to large audiences
� Bob Marx � overcoming institutional issues in managing experiential
learning on the web
� Joan Weiner � bringing together administration, technical experts, and
outside "providers" in developing and delivering courses.
Methods. A three-hour session; modified round-table format to include
demonstration, concurrent breakout sessions, and discussion phases.
(1) Key examples to describe and demonstrate an element of engaging each
presenter�s approach to technology for teaching Management
(2) Concurrent breakout sessions where participants discuss ways to
"enhance democratic participation"
(3) Reassembly to report on and integrate breakout experiences.
Address answers to:
(1) why to use technology
(2) what technology to use
(3) how to use technology
(4) when to use technology.
Presenters.
Kenneth R. Armstrong, University of Arkansas
Randall B. Dunham, University of Wisconsin
Robert D. Marx, University of Massachusetts
Randall G. Sleeth, Virginia Commonwealth University
Joan L. Weiner, Drexel University.
Target Audience. Teachers seeking to enhance their skills and resources
for teaching Management and Organizational Behavior.
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Randall G. Sleeth, Ph.D.
School of Business
Virginia Commonwealth University
901 West Franklin Street
Richmond VA 23284-4000
rsleeth@vcu.edu
http://www.people.vcu.edu/~rsleeth