Establishing and Operating an Institutional Centre for Instructional Technology (Paper # 5362)

摘要

The University of Western Ontario (UWO) is a large, research-intensive university (equivalent to a Class I institution in the US) with a traditional undergraduate curriculum as well as a number of professional schools. As a regional institution, UWO is situated in the centre of the southwestern Ontario industrial and agricultural heartland. This presentation will describe the ongoing evolutionary process that has given rise to a centralized facility, the Instructional Technology Resource Centre (ITRC), that supports faculty in the development of on-line curriculum and course materials. Issues that are relevant to this process touch on the very core of the educational enterprise in an institution of higher learning.