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Faculty need credible role models to emulate, other faculty who have done interesting things using the system (or comparable system) in their courses or research, and lived to tell the tale. We have many of these heroes on the UC Davis campus (e.g., Vet Med, School of Medicine, campus pilots). We need to identify those folks and make them more visible to the rest of the campus community. The campus has a distinguished teacher program, and that should be leveraged for this purpose. Other tactics: use of podcasts to record faculty participants' narrative accounts of their experience (My Personal Sakai Experience series); practical tips and advice from the trenches; faculty portfolio of prototypes and resources; etc.
Faculty as champions.
We need to identify and then encourage researchers whose focus is the impact of technology to make campus e-learning their laboratory so we can benefit from their critical perspectives and insights. Along those lines, there are individual faculty in most every discipline whose research interests have a potential parallel in e-learning and who would serve as great promoters of the system within their discipline. It would be a powerful signal to the campus community to strategically recruit faculty with such expertise.
Research, assessment, and data collection.
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