TELR, FTAD, and TLT Group Forge Collaborative Partnership

by Steve Acker

TELR and OSU Faculty and TA Development have entered into a partnership with the TLT Group, a Washington-based, independent, nonprofit organization affiliated with the American Association for Higher Education. The TLT Group's mission is to motivate and enable institutions and individuals to improve teaching and learning with technology while helping them cope with continual change. TELR/FTAD hope to bring that same focus to Ohio State by building a collaboration on these components:

TELR/FTAD have joined the TLT Flashlight program, which provides a database of technology and learning assessment questions that have been externally validated. This element of the relationship will be of particular importance in developing surveys that help us answer the question: can technology, appropriately applied, really change the student's learning experience?

TLT's Roundtable is a long-standing institutional model for building the necessary infrastructure and campus buy-in to move technology enhanced learning forward on campuses. Using the TELR Coordinating Council as a core group, other instructional technology organizations and representatives will be invited to develop and exchange campuswide approaches to effectively develop a strong presence in educational technology for OSU.

Steve Gilbert, president of the TLT Group, is a keynote speaker at the upcoming third annual TELR conference. Come hear about his "vision worth working towards" and plan to attend the campus TLT roundtables workshop he will be offering at the conference on November 2.

TELR and FTAD are delighted to be part of the TLT Network on behalf of Ohio State. For more information on the TLT Group's resources and programs, visit the Web site. For more information on how to get involved in the opportunities that the TLT network provides and to create an account to access the inventory of Flashlight project resources, contact Steve Acker or Alan Kalish.