Teaching and Learning Committees

Teaching and Learning Technology Governance at NYU

A set of governance committees and advisory groups exists to prioritize shared needs regarding teaching and learning with technology at NYU. The membership of these groups is drawn from each of the schools and degree-granting campuses, as well as from various University offices. These groups are not intended to be the sole venues at NYU for discussing teaching and learning with technology. Rather, the structure that they provide enables faculty, instructional technologists, and school-based academic technology groups to identify common needs for tools, training, and service; to elevate recommendations regarding policy, practice, and project prioritization to NYU IT and the Office of the Provost; and to navigate the increasingly complex environments around compliance, security and privacy, and digital accessibility.

Finally, in collaboration with NYU IT, Libraries, and the Office of the Provost, the three governance groups sponsor workshops and other University-wide events on innovations within technology-enhanced education.

The standing committees are:

Committee	Co-Chairs	Member Roles	Meeting
Faculty Committee on Technology Enhanced Education (FTEE) Website	Clay Shirky & Jan Plass	Includes academic policy and process representatives	Monthly
User Advisory Group (UAG) Website	Bob Squillace, Sean Diaz, & Fan Jiang	School faculty users and instructional technologists	Bi-weekly, 1.5 hour meeting
Instructional Technologists Committee (ITC) Website	Lucy Appert, Johan Starr	School-based and global instructional technologists	Monthly, 1.5 hour meeting
Teaching & Learning Community Advisory Board Participants	Clay Shirky, Ben Maddox	Includes Four Key Stakeholders Per School: School Business/Administrative Officer, CIO Council Member, FTEE Member and Lead Academic Tech/Instructional Technologist	Quarterly, or as needed, to weigh in on priorities formally constituted as a web ballot with each school receiving 1 vote across 4 officers/members
Coordinating Committee	Clay Shirky & Ben Maddox	Includes all co-chairs from FTEE, UAG and ITC, and other representatives as needed for specific discussions (including Application Dev/PSO)	Monthly

Committees and groups set their own schedules (see table), yet share a common annual planning cycle described in more detail here in the annual NYU IT planning illustration which helps to bring projects to the forefront for prioritization, planning, and funding.

For more information or with additional questions, please reach out to us at tl.governance.info@nyu.edu.

Faculty Committee on Technology-Enhanced Education at NYU

The charge for this group is to facilitate the process of developing a vision for teaching and learning at the University, especially as it relates to the use of technology innovations.
Read more about the Faculty Committee on Technology-Enhanced Education at NYU

To that end, the committee

Promotes experimentation in the schools with technology-enhanced approaches to teaching and research, consulting broadly with faculty, students, and staff
Identifies and promotes existing projects and opportunities to explore and assess the pedagogical benefits associated with the use of technology to support teaching and learning objectives
Identifies and promotes best practices for course design and instruction using technology, and for institutional support of technology-enhanced education
Develops means for assessing technology-enhanced courses, in consultation with experts in assessment and technology-enhanced education from within or outside the University, and promotes the sharing of these assessments across the schools
Makes recommendations for instructional technology improvements to the Teaching Technology Committee; educates faculty on how decisions are made in this area at NYU
Reviews individual schools’ initiatives in technology-enhanced education, to determine if a University-level strategy emerges and to prepare the University to respond to both challenges and opportunities that arise in this area

Learning Analytic Working Group

In consultation with the appropriate individuals and groups (faculty, students, service delivery units, and project teams), the committee provides focus on current learning analytic practices and identifies future needs to improve this practice.

The Learning Analytic Working Group (LAWG)

Shares examples of current learning analytic practices and findings
Identifies best practices
Educates on the usefulness and possibilities around the practice of learning analytics
Documents gaps and needs in terms of infrastructure, policy, process, and practice

Current Goals

Examine various technology enhanced courses in order to identify learning analytic questions and learning data sources within various systems
Identify readily available learning data and not readily available learning data
Pilot and document the process to request learning data from various sources (e.g., NYU Classes and SIS)
Deliver a year end report with recommendations concerning infrastructure, policy, process, and practice gaps and needs to improve the practice of learning analytics

Members of the Learning Analytic Working Group

Co-Chairs

Elizabeth McAlpin, NYU IT
Alyssa Wise, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development

Members

Mark M Alter, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development
Lisa Ann Bellantuono, Tandon School of Engineering
Kacie Cleary, NYU IT
Elise Eisenberg, College of Dentistry
Robert Egan, NYU IT
Jacqueline Gutman, School of Medicine
Jenny Kijowski, Gallatin School of Individualized Study
Sabrina Lee, NYU Langone Medical Center
Armanda L Lewis, Faculty of Arts & Science
Carmen Louie, NYU IT
Denise Ofelia Mangen, NYU IT
Marin Marina, NYU Langone Medical Center
James Nguyen, Rory Meyers College of Nursing
Lillian Moran, NYU IT
Anandi Nagarajan, NYU IT
Cristian Opazo, College of Dentistry
Jeff Pasch, NYU IT
Martin Pusic, NYU Langone Medical Center
Dan Rabinowitz, NYU IT
Alvin Shelton, NYU IT
Henry S Samelson, Silver School of Social Work
Francesca Socolick, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development
Paula Torres, NYU IT
John Vivolo, Tandon School of Engineering

Student Representatives

Charlie Gutherie, MS Data Science
Aybuke Gul Turker, PhD Personalized Learning/ Human Computer Interaction

Ex Officio

Ben Maddox, NYU IT
Len Peters, NYU IT (Chief Information Officer)
Ryan Poynter, Office of the Provost

User Advisory Group

The User Advisory Group is a recommendatory committee intended to capture the needs of our user community; it develops granular User Needs Reports (see below) on topics that its members surface. It is not a decision-making committee. Its recommendations must be reviewed by the policy-making committees to which it reports before final review and potential adoption. Based on the User Needs reports that the UAG provides, the Instructional Technologists Committee conducts landscape reviews of available platforms for meeting particular needs (e.g. web-conferencing) and recommends solutions to the T&L coordinating committee.

Instructional Technologists Committee

The Instructional Technologists Committee facilitates the conversation, coordination, and resources necessary to support faculty in re-imagining their courses and curricula with technology enhancements.

The Committee was created after the recommendation of NYU's Faculty Committee on Technology-Enhanced Education (FTEE). The FTEE's July 2014 report recommended that there be "at least one instructional technologist based in every school, and convene these individuals regularly with University-level IT staff, in order to coordinate initiatives.”

Committee Charge

Surfaces school-based, portal-based, and site-based instructional technology needs, with the goal of coordinating decision-making so that, where possible, University-wide solutions can be reached and shared
Continues to address emerging support needs through the evaluation and assessment of instructional technology services
Enhances the information architecture (e.g., visibility, navigability) of existing online resources about technology-enhanced education, and ensure that online resources (e.g., the FAQs, the inventory of online and hybrid/blended courses, and the bibliography of articles about technology-enhanced education) are regularly updated
Develops and disseminates best practices and emerging trends for instructional uses of technology, especially standards for online courses
Develops and disseminate training and workshop materials for instructors and instructional technologists across NYU
Creates instructional technology targets and goals as well as coordination of instructional technology pilots
Considers and collaborates across school and central teams on shared systems, code libraries, Data Asset Management systems, and file type standards

Members of the Instructional Technologists Committee

Co-Chairs

Lucy Appert, Faculty of Arts and Science
Johan Starr, NYU School of Law

Sponsor

Ben Maddox, NYU IT

Office of the Provost Liaison

Clay Shirky, Office of the Provost

Membership

Maurice Boothe/David Resto, Rory Meyers College of Nursing
Kelsey Buttendorf Cook, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development
Jayson Cabrera, NYU Abu Dhabi
Hui Soo Chae, School of Professional Studies
Michelle Demeter, Division of Libraries
Jessie Guy-Ryan/Yona Jean-Pierre (FITL), Tandon School of Engineering
Jenny Kijowski, Gallatin School of Individualized Study
Josh Murray, Tisch
So-Young Oh, School of Medicine
Cristian Opazo, College of Dentistry
Henrie Paz-Amor, Wagner
Henry Samelson, Silver School of Social Work
Josh Sewell, Stern School of Business
Robert Squillace, Liberal Studies
Marina Thomatos, School of Global Public Health
Angela Wang, NYU Shanghai

Standing Members

Jason Korenkiewicz, NYU IT