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Effect of an Intensive Faculty Development Program on Technology Use by Skyline College Faculty.

A poster given at the 2003 Innovations Conference

Nickolas V. Kapp

Project Coordinator TitleIII Project

Skyline College

Science Math and Technology Div.

3300 College Blvd.

San Bruno Ca 94044

Abstract:

Skyline College is one of 3 individual Colleges of the San Mateo Community College District. This multicollege district shares a common Information Technology department that provides standardized equipment, programs and training to faculty. Because of differences in the student populations Skyline was able to obtain a Department of Education TitleIII grant. A portion of TitleIII grant monies was specifically earmarked to increase the communication between faculty and students. In order to accomplish this task over 50 faculty have received release time to undergo extensive training by the District IT and to work on these websites. This study compares the number and use of websites by Skyline College with its sister Colleges, Canada and the College of San Mateo (CSM). While Skyline is smaller in number of faculty and students to CSM and larger than Canada, the Skyline campus has more faculty web pages that are used to a greater extent than the other two campus’s.

Table 1. Numbers for the 3 Colleges of SMCCD

	Canada	CSM	Skyline
Full Time faculty	75	171	123
Adjunct faculty	168	258	231

Number of Faculty Web pages	26	62	82

Table 2. Number of Faculty who underwent formal training and received Release time.

	Canada	CSM	Skyline
TitleIII training consisting of 20% release time and 51 hours of training.			53
Boot up camp consisting of 50 hours of training and a $2,000 stipend.	18	10	6
District Web authoring training, various courses, no pay	Unk	Unk	Unk

Table3. Number of Faculty web pages that are linked to the Campus Faculty splash page

	Canada	CSM	Skyline
Actual number of Faculty Web pages	26	62	82
As percent of total Faculty web pages	15%	36%	48%
As percent of all campus Faculty	11%	14%	23%
As percent of full time Faculty	34%	36%	66%

Table 4. Faculty web pages were surveyed for the following items.

	Canada	CSM	Skyline
Web site contains Faculty Contact information	54%	94%	98%
Web site is current and up to date and does not contain missing links	50%	61%	80%
A current class uses web site.	54%	58%	70%
WebPages provide grades or discussion board or quizzes	46%	45%	55%

All faculty were sent an email with the following survey questions.

1. Which Campus are you primarily located at

	Number of respondents	As Percentage of the number of web pages	As percentage of the number of respondents
Canada	8	31%	10%
CSM	28	45%	37%
Skyline	40	49%	52%

2. Did you receive release time or any other funding to create your web page?

	Canada	CSM	Sky
No	37%	78%	35%
Yes, I was part of a TitleIII or V grant.	25%	0%	57%
Yes, I was part of the SMCCD Boot Up Camp training.	25%	17%	5%
Yes, I received funding from another source.	12%	3%	2%

3. Do you currently receive support to maintain your web page?

	Canada	CSM	Skyline
No	100%	85%	77%
Yes	0	15%	22%
Other

4. Do you use your web page like a door card, to provide office hours and contact information to your students?

	Canada	CSM	Skyline
No	12%	14%	12%
Yes	87%	85%	87%

5. Do your use your web page to support at least one class by publishing a syllabus or other course materials?

	Canada	CSM	Skyline
No	12%	21%	15
Yes	87%	78%	85

6. Do you use your web pages to provide any of the following: Discussion boards, grades, old exams, class announcements, course schedule and assignments.

	Canada	CSM	Skyline
No	12%	35%	20%
Yes	87%	64%	80%

7. Why do/or would you maintain your web page.

	Canada	CSM	Skyline
It is helpful for me to have a web page.	0	10%	5%
It is helpful for the students to have a web page.	0	25%	10%
Both of the above	62%	57%	72%
My division requires it.		0	2%
All of the above	25%