Other Support Services

Consultations

The OTL staff is available to meet with you and discuss ways to help you succeed in your teaching at WSU. We offer individual consultations on instructional design, confidential consultations on issues pertaining to your class, or the use of a particular technology in your teaching.

Each OTL consultant has varied skills and experience that you can use as a resource. Please visit the OTL staff page to see how each of us might assist you.

• Curriculum Planning
  The OTL consultants can help you develop your course for delivery either in the classroom or online. OTL consultants are familiar with WSU policies for course development and a variety of course design strategies. From syllabus design to final exams or projects, we have resources available to help you.
• Instructional Technology Assistance
  OTL provides support for a variety of multimedia applications, video editing, PowerPoint, and Blackboard. We can schedule an individual consultation to discuss how to most effectively integrate technology into your class and to help you gain expertise.

Custom Workshops

Any existing OTL workshop may be customized, or OTL can custom-design new workshops for your department in a variety of areas. In addition, any OTL workshop can be scheduled as an "on-the-road" workshop to be presented in your department.

Observations

The OTL offers three types of classroom observations:

• Classroom Observation
  An OTL consultant will meet with you to discuss your goals for an observation and to plan the observation visit. Following the observation, the OTL consultant will meet with you to provide feedback, answer questions, and discuss and explore new teaching strategies.
• Small Group Information Feedback Session (SGIF)
  SGIFs provide faculty members with information from their students about their teaching. It is usually conducted about midway through the term. This feedback allows instructors to learn more about how the students are engaging with the course so modifications or explanations can be provided to students to enhance their learning for the rest of the term.
  An OTL consultant will confer with you to review the process and determine the issues that you wish to have explored with your students. The consultant will then arrange to attend all or part of one class to observe and then conduct a 20-30 minute session with your students to gather feedback from them. Students are told that individual comments will not be identified to the faculty member—only areas of general concensus will be relayed to the faculty member. All results are discussed only with the faculty member concerned and are completely confidential.
• Videotaped Classroom Observation
  An OTL consultant will visit your class and videotape it during a scheduled session. Following the class, we will schedule a time for you to view and discuss the session. We can address methods of delivery, ways to liven up presentations, and other suggestions for further engaging your students. All material remains confidential, and you will be provided with the video of the session.

Equipment Loans

The Office for Teaching and Learning has several digital cameras and video camcorders available for faculty use. Training is also available on the use of this equipment and on preparing still and video images for the classroom or for online presentation. Faculty may sign the equipment out for a specified period of time by completing a check out form in the OTL. You may also contact Library Computing and Media Services at 577-1980 to see what other equipment is available for your use.

For more information regarding these services, please call 313.577.1980 or e-mail otl@wayne.edu