Ivory Tower Mergers and Acquisitions: How an Academic Tried to Bring Together the Office of Assessment, a Teaching and Learning Center, and Distance Education Under One Roof
Abstract: Hawai’i Pacific University has had three distinct offices that did well on their own, but overtime it had become apparent that their missions overlapped. With a stroke of a pen the three became one, but how in practice can one bring together the trained professionals in each group to work together for goals that are greater than what was conceived when apart? This best practice session will focus on how the faculty advocate, the education technologist, and the assessment administrator can share a vision and a strategy that will guide the university synchronistically through facilitating pedagogical research and exploration, online course design, and program review. The presenter will describe a workflow that brings into alignment the administration of a learning management system, program level assessment, and teacher training.
Presider: R. Lester Walsh, Valley City State University