Faculty Cyberphobic Relief

Dr. Dean A. Morss

Creighton University
E-mail: damorss@creighton.edu
URL: http://thor.creighton.edu/ or http://www.creighton.edu/~damorss

This presentation describes a project developed as part of a summer fellowship in educational technologies sponsored by a US West grant to Creighton University. It is a project though which a University can bring its faculty to a common ground in their understanding of emerging technological advances in education delivery. I believe there is a dichotomy within the faculty at Creighton, as well as many other Universities and it is this contradiction that forms the underlying assumption upon which this project will be built. Simply stated, there exists a basic desire on the part of most of the faculty to use new techniques and technologies in their teaching, but there is considerable dread/inertia at having to Òlearn all of this stuffÓ. It is this aspect of the problem that forms the root cause of what I will call cyberphobia. I firmly believe that the US WEST Fellows should take a proactive approach and essentially attack this fear of the cyberworld. The approach I propose to demonstrate in this project will hopefully relieve this cyberphobia through the education of as many of the faculty as are willing to try a simple computer based training module addressing the technological tools and data sources available and their potential classroom use by anyone. The ultimate goal of the project is to enable each faculty member to use the spectrum of resources to the best of their ability and desire.

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