UMBC FaCT

A. Diffusion of training at UMBC in the 18-month life cycle of the FaCT grant

Help approximately 200 UMBC faculty enhance their courses using the FaCT common tool set.
Help all faculty in one complete degree program extensively use the tools in their teaching.

B. Serve as a UMBC case study to explore faculty rewards for using technology in teaching.

Explore the implementation of a contract for faculty to develop courseware whereby the university holds copyright but the faculty member earns royalties.

C. Help make training of UMBC faculty in use of technology permanent institutional commitment.

Create a permanent position of instructional designer and trainer in the Office of Instructional Technology (OIT) or Faculty Development Center to continue the work started in FaCT.
Maintain a website with FaCT-related courses and training needs assessments.
Establish online support from University Computing Services (UCS), Library, and OIT that is continually available to faculty for help with effectively using the tools.

D. Develop a training system and infrastructure that facilitates the coordination information technology and the educational enterprise.

Advise on the educational use of Microsoft tools so that information generated in one tool is readily available in another. Where necessary create new simple applications that fill voids not met by existing software.
Prepare training for the link between myUMBC and end-user educational applications. For example, downloading class lists from myUMBC would be explored.
Help develop information plans for the university that are guided by feedback from faculty who are learning how to be effective with information tools in education.

E. Sharing of results to the rest of the USM.

Provide courseware, methodologies, and analysis of results to rest of USM.
Offer UMBC staff support under suitable agreement to other institutions.
Work with other institutions to help them address challenges UMBC experienced with FaCT.