Happenings

Wow, it's been a long time since I posted here. What's been happening at Exeter? I spent about a year writing a document that describes our first few years of tablet adoption by our faculty. We have deployed 80 tablets so far in various academic departments. We have also updated many classrooms to include projection of one kind or another. The tablet study was an attempt to capture a snapshot in time of the project to move to mobile devices, of which the tablets are a large part.

We've implemented a new tracking system, so community members can now submit a "case" directly into our system via email. That's been an interesting tool to see where our support time is spent and to track trends so that we can better anticipate support needs.

I am also in the throes of coordinating the selection of our next LMS after surveying our faculty on their use of our current LMS. We are down to the actual selection, a detailed look at tools, demos to faculty, and those worries that wake you in the middle of the night, like "I have to remember to check if product X does feature Y?"

We're also piloting technology to conduct 360-degree audio and video recording of class discussions (available to teachers who wish to self-evaluate), which ought to be an interesting and revealing documentation of what "Harkness" really is, one teacher and one class at a time.