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Collaborative Strategies for Access Enhancement in Education

Facilitator notes from a strategic planning meeting in Pittsburgh, PA on 11/15-16/01, focusing on stabilizing current efforts, mobilizing topical teams, and addressing faculty access levels to enhance institutional models collaboratively. Activities include providing workshops, developing search engines, and reaching underserved populations like graduate students and teaching faculty.

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Collaborative Strategies for Access Enhancement in Education

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  1. Strategic Planning Meeting Pittsburgh, PA 11/15-16/01 Sue Martin Facilitator Notes from November 16

  2. Goals/objectives/activities (1) • Stabilize current efforts • Mobilize Topical teams • Address Faculty access • Levels of access (tiers) • Show best practices to faculty • Create institutional models, collaboratively

  3. Goals/objectives/activities (2) • Provide workshops for partners • Develop search engine for deaf/hh portal/web sites • Address needs of generally underserved population • Targets of concern Graduate students Teaching faculty • Keep in touch with former graduate students via e-mail, listservs, etc

  4. Concerns and reminders • Not a substitution. Requires time, energy, dedication. Need to communicate the value of investment of time • Perhaps a long-term substitution • Change faculty behavior to work as part of a team (faculty, tech person, librarian, photographer) • People change because of compelling and overwhelming need • Compatibility of technology • Strength of combining personal meetings with electronic communication

  5. What will create success? • Identify ‘gettable’ populations – people who can be attracted to Catalyst and become successes • Identify pilot group small enough for the resources of this program • Identify sources of support Verizon E-rate • PR – tell the stories of success • Expectations of students by faculty and schools • Accreditation and certification • Who teaches the use of technology to students?

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