The Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy and Development (OLPD) will be a campus-wide leader in the use of technology to enhance students’ educational experiences, academic praxis, and intellectual pursuits. To achieve this vision, we aim to co-develop a culture within OLPD that anticipates and embraces technological change and encourages the use of existing and emerging technologies to support innovation and constructive collaboration among students, faculty and staff.

1. Year 1 Report
Kit Alviz; John Moravec; Andrew Plovanich;
Alfonso Sintjago; T Ann Tyler; Tryggvi Thayer

2. Vision Statement
The Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy
and Development (OLPD) will be a campus-wide leader
in the use of technology to enhance students’
educational experiences, academic praxis, and
intellectual pursuits.
To achieve this vision, the we aim to co-develop a
culture within OLPD that anticipates and embraces
technological change and encourages the use of existing
and emerging technologies to support innovation and
constructive collaboration among students, faculty and
staff.

3. Themes
● Collaborative spaces to promote and maximize
innovative technology use.
● How is technology being used in OLPD (students, staff &
faculty)?
● New computing/communication/collaboration
platforms (iPads, smartphones, social networking,
media).
● Establishing support networks for new technologies.
● Opportunities/coursework to promote and foster
innovation (innovation lab).

4. What Have We Done?
● Explore collaborative spaces (CoCo Coworking, LT
Media Lab) – How can we utilize available space?
● Technology Showcase – Students, staff & faculty invited
to share and learn about how technology is being used
in OLPD.
● What an OLPD innovation lab will look like.
● Survey on technology needs.

6. Additional Inspiration

8. Survey Questions
Technology is evolving quickly and classroom culture needs to reflect those
1 changes. What do you suggest for etiquette, best practices, and policies for
the use of technology in the classroom?
How can technical support be improved? And what topics need the most
2 support?
How would you envision a new collaborative space for OLPD students? And
3 what would you like to see in it?

10. Technology is evolving quickly and classroom culture needs to reflect
those changes. What do you suggest for etiquette, best practices, and
policies for the use of technology in the classroom?
A. Establishing Norms: Technological devices can be a wonderful asset to a
student, but they can also be distracting. Thus, norms or rules of engagement
about the use of technology need to be established between the students and
the professor.
B. Professor’s Responsibility: Most participants responded that professors
should incorporate or continue to utilize technology in pedagogy for a variety
of reasons: to make the classroom more interactive, to promote dialogue, and
to prepare students to be successful in their future work environments.

11. How can technical support be improved?
And what topics need the most support?
A. Technology learning opportunities:
Participants would like more opportunities to learn about applications and
programs, specifically in small training sessions. Trainings for professors
should continue and focus on establishing a value of technology; how can
technology improve learning or the classroom environment?
B. Specific recommendations:
-Help students with organization via citation managers
-Help professors transform online learning to become more interactive
-Have a scholarship search through OneStop
-Have a supply of Mac chargers on reserve for graduate assistants
-Establish an event calendar

12. How would you envision a new collaborative space for
OLPD students? And what would you like to see in it?
Participants want to feel a sense of community, a place on campus that is
their own and where they can work, meet their peers, and collaborate with
their colleagues. Large round tables, private work areas, an announcement
board, coffee machines, fridges, are Internet access are some of the things
they want to have access to in a space like this. Participants like the idea of
having a student-led space to share resources and referrals, work together to
discuss tech issues, and provide peer counseling and advising.

13. Flexibility and Transformation

14. Brainstorming What is Possible
Video describing the Innovation Lab:
http://youtu.be/51sBkmSBN3U

15. Proposed Collaborative
Independent Study Course
Within the Innovation Lab
The course described will allow students to gain valuable experiences as part
of a student-led group project. While students are sometimes able to join
departmental projects, the number of opportunities is limited. It is often difficult
for students to find the time to invest in student-led group projects while
completing their coursework and independent projects. Working on
collaborative projects is an important 21st century skill. By encouraging the use
of the collaborative space for group projects, students will be able to fulfill their
academic requirements while improving on a number of valuable skills for the
workplace of tomorrow, including project management, conflict resolution,
evaluation, and collaborative work.
Video describing the Innovation Lab:
http://youtu.be/51sBkmSBN3U

16. Ideas Bulletin Board

18. Innovative Uses of the iPad
There are many uses for iPads in the classroom. They can
replace paper copy textbooks, advanced apps make
schoolwork more efficient and effective (Educause, 2011),
in combination with Apple’s iTunes U, which allows
instructors to upload audio and video to iTunes, students’
access to lectures and other materials are greatly
increased.
(http://www.apple.com/education/itunes-u/)
There are currently over 500,000 free lectures, books,
videos, and other resources in iTunes U, exploring
thousands of subjects.

19. CEHD's Open Textbook Catalog
CEHD’s Open Textbook Catalog (https://open.umn.edu/)
demonstrates the growing interest in, and availability of,
digital textbooks. Digital textbooks can potentially lower the
cost of textbooks and they are convenient for students.
Students can carry all of their textbooks and notes on an
iPad, as opposed to only a few because of the weight and
size. Students can effortlessly print out lists of quotes, and
use embedded interactive infographics, audio-visuals, and
social elements. For an example of what is now possible
with digital textbooks visit: http://ourchoicethebook.com/.

20. Flexible and Invisible Learning

22. Technology Proficiency Expectations
for OLPD Faculty
http://www.iste.org/standards/nets-for-teachers

23. Internet and Computing Core
Certification Requirements
Computing Fundamentals Living Online
Computer Hardware Networks and the Internet
Software Electronic Mail
Using an Operating System Using the Internet
Using Mobile Devices
Key Applications
Common Program Functions
Moving Forward
Word Processing Functions ISTE and IC3 as recommendations of
Spreadsheet Functions what could be expected of incoming
Presentation Software Functions faculty and competencies that could be
strengthened by the current faculty.

24. Iterative Evaluation Process

25. Prospective Timeline
Summer 2012
● Begin transformation of graduate assistants’ area in 410 Wulling Hall to a collaborative
● space under the leadership of CIDE faculty and students
○ Discussion of OLPD space use and utility by students
○ Consideration of layout and furniture possibilities
Fall 2012
● Appoint new TRTG
● Ongoing discussion of OLPD space use and utility by students
● TRTG to meet with the representatives of Leapfrog Institute and Jandris Center to
● explore possibilities for collaboration
● Identify possibilities for funding, and developing a budget
● TRTG to work with at least one faculty member to develop an innovation lab and course
● TRTG to develop an improved Technology Showcase based on participants experiences
● of the Spring, 2012 showcase
● TRTG work with faculty to pilot initiative to increase use of mobile technology in OLPD

26. Prospective Timeline
Spring 2013
● Remodeling and purchase of equipment for the collaborative space
● First offering of a student led collaborative study course
● Start of mobile technology grad. student pilot project.
● OLPD Technology Showcase - 2nd Year
● Survey and additional data collection about recent changes
Summer 2013
● Formative Evaluation Report on the activities carried out by the TRTG during academic year
2012-13 to OLPD faculty
● Completion of remodeling of collaborative space
● Planning for TRTG 3rd year (2013-2014)

27. Task Force Group Members
OLPD Students
Kristina Alviz
Andrew Plovanich
Alfonso Sintjago
Special Thanks to
Tryggvi Thayer Dr. Rebecca Ropers
Teresa Tyler Dr. Jean Quam
Faculty Adviser
John Moravec