Partnership forged while supporting faculty engaged in e-learning: •Relationship has developed over time and during changes in: our roles, our parent organizations, the technology landscap

Cadwell, Suzanne

Renner, Barbara Rochen

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Familiarity Breeds Collaboration: An Instructional Technologist  & Library Liaison Join Forces to Support E-Learning Barbara Rochen Renner, PhD Library Services Evaluation Specialist  and Liaison, Allied Health Sciences Health Sciences Library brrenner@email.unc.edu  Suzanne Cadwell, MA Instruction Technology Specialist and ITS-CFE Liaison rjladd@email.unc.edu   University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill  Partnership forged while supporting faculty engaged in e-learning • Relationship has developed over time and during changes in • our roles • our parent organizations • the technology landscape  Current roles • Instructional Technologist • Campus-wide: faculty and instructional staff • Consultation, many instructional technologies • Library Liaison Allied Health Sciences • Students, admins, faculty, staff • Teaching, consultation • Discovery of and advocacy for user needs vis-à-vis library  Roles upon meeting • Blackboard Administrator • Campus-wide: faculty, students, staff • Blackboard support  • Distance Learning Specialist  • Campus-wide:  • Libraries • Distance Education  Programs: admins, faculty, staff, students • DE Policy Steering Committee  Familiar but not near! Interactions • Library resource integration into LMS • Technology pilots & evaluation • Interest group meetings • Infrequent email and phone exchanges Changing technologies Changing technologies • Blackboard (learning/course management system) • Clickers (response systems) • Second Life (virtual worlds) • VoiceThread (narrated slideshows) • Sakai (learning/course management system) • Elluminate (web conferencing) Advantages • Provides continuity during organizational change • Simplifies support for clients • Keeps information to clients current • Local trends translate to larger campus group What makes it work? • Familiarity and receptivity • Comfort in not knowing “everything” when seeking and providing information • Valuing local concerns as contributions to broader campus community • Direct communication, not holding strictly to organizational hierarchies  

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Familiarity Breeds Collaboration: An Instructional Technologist & Library Liaison Join Forces to Support E-Learning

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