Having researched the ways in which faculty employ GeorgiaVIEW and students view their experience using it in their face-to-face, hybrid, and online classes, we plan to work toward improving the GeorgiaVIEW experience for faculty and students through more consistent usage of the LMS. Additionally, we will continue to research the possibility of incorporating a common course experience (i.e., course templates or shells to streamline the instructional design).
The group previously said the evaluation/assessment will be contingent on following through with the plan for the year ahead by doing some interventions with faculty and in turn studying whether that has affected the student experience.
At this stage, the working group has not been able to implement its proposed plans (listed below). While the CETL director did offer sessions on GeorgiaVIEW during the opening week activities, other priorities overshadowed this effort. Several members of the working group shifted efforts to work on the syllabus posting initiative. Plus, each member of the working group has limited time to devote to this task due to campus responsibilities that extend beyond their normal classroom teaching.
- Developing Best Practices List/Faculty Workshop.
- Working to include GeorgiaVIEW in all PRSP courses.
- Revising and redelivering the survey.
As noted above, the greatest challenge is time to work on the project. None of the people initially involved truly have time at present to add something else to their responsibilities. What we are really seeing is that absent additional staffing for instructional design support to work in conjunction with CETL this initiative will be difficult to implement in a meaningful way. CETL will continue to provide training on GeorgiaVIEW and the GeorgiaVIEW administrator is working on additional videos to help introduce faculty to features they might not be aware of.
