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The Instructional Technology Team at Connecticut College is part of Information Services. Our official, main web sites are here. This wiki provides supplemental information, is not our official web site, and is a work in progress. A wiki is never finished!

Instructional Technology includes two separate but related fields: Pedagogy and Technology

PEDAGOGY

Instructional Technology (IT) seeks to teach how to plan, develop, evaluate and manage the instructional process effectively to ensure improved performance by learners. Instructional Technology's goal is to understand how people learn and how to best design instructional systems and instructional materials to facilitate that learning. It also use appropriate technology to aid us in the design and delivery of the instruction.

IT involves:

• Designing instruction (including all the phases of activity from needs assessment to evaluation)

• Applying learning theory to instructional design

• Selecting delivery systems and designing techniques for a given delivery system

• Assessing human characteristics

• Conducting process and product evaluation

• Managing change and adopting innovations

• Building teams and managing projects

• Integrating instruction with other factors that influence human performance

• Implementing delivery to reach learners when they need it

• Using technology in support of the development and delivery of instruction

• Other Pedagogical Resources

Our group works with the Center for Teaching and Learning to support the above activities.

We work with the IS Research Support and Instruction Team, which provides assistance in the use of the library, research, and information literacy.

TECHNOLOGY

The second area of IT is concerned with the use of technology to support teaching and learning. We currently offer the following resources and technologies for the purpose of curriculum support. Not all of the following topics have content in this wiki, if you need more information on any item, please contact the appropriate staff