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Psychology Department
Curriculum Vitae
The following research projects reflect the Professor's involvement with Distance Education (Open Learning):
Spring 1990 - 40% Type B Leave
Title: Develop Procedures and Logistical Support for Adapting General Principles (Psychology 1) to the Interactive Electronic Classroom
Demonstration: Conducted three 2 hour review sessions broadcast live on cable prior to examinations with guest speakers and phone calls from students.
Fall 1990 - Classroom Based ResearchProject
Title: Presenting Psychology 1 to Distant Learners
Project: Evaluated the process of teaching a General Principles of Psychology course to distant learners via a telecourse and the interactive electronic classroom. Data was college collected and reported, including student evaluation of the course. Report written and published.
Publication: Dowdall, Richard J. Presenting Psychology 1 to Distant Learners, Classroom Based Research Report, Sacramento City College Staff Development Project, 1990.
April 18, 1991 - SCC Staff ResourceCenter, Flex Day Presentation
Title: Distance Learning: Reaching the "New Majority" Students with Courses by Television
Project: Wrote and produced a 30-minute video tape to illustrate the general concept of distance learning, and to show interactive electronic classroom samples from the Spring 1990 Type B leave.
Spring 1991 - Informal Study
Title: Comparison of Psychology 1 by Television with Traditional Classroom Presentation
Compared two telecourse sections (one at SCC the other at one of the Down Town locations) with a traditional on-campus section of Psychology 1.
Fall 1991 - Classroom Based ResearchProject
Title: Learning Style and the Distant Learner
Hypothesis: Learning style, as measured by the McBer Learning Style Inventory, might be a contributing factor to selection and retention in a Psychology 1 telecourse.
Project: Compared learning styles and other demographic data of distant learning students with traditional classroom students.
Publication:Dowdall, Richard J. Learning Style and the Distant Learner, Consortium Project Extending the Concept and Practice of Classroom Based Research Report, Sacramento City College Learning Resources Division, 1991.
Spring 1993 - 100% Type A Leave
Title: Adapting Understanding Cancer to the Interactive Electronic Classroom.
Project: Prepared detailed storyboards for all class sessions, cleared audio-visual materials for broadcast, arranged for medical guest speakers, and compiled a list of graphics for pre-production preparation. Funding for electronic classroom was denied by District Chancellor. Designed a series of four (4) medical guest speakers to be televised live over cable. Enrolled students watched the program in Rodda North 258 or at home on cable. Questions by phone were taken.
Fall 1995 and Spring 1996 - District Reassigned Time
Project: District-wide assessment of information technologies for distance learning concerning instructional practices, standards, research, and future planning. Emphasis on courses by television. Interviewed faculty and staff, designed and administered a district-wide student Survey of Courses by Television.
Report: Los Rios Distance Education: Courses by Television. A Reassigned Time Project Report Presented to the Assistant Chancellor of Educational Services and Technology.
Prepared the Title 5 Distance Education Report for Los Rios Community College District to the State Chancellor's Office of the California Community Colleges August 1996.
Fall 1997 and Spring 1998 - 60/40%Type B Leave
Title: Developing an Instructional Model for the Interactive Electronic Classroom. When completed, the new SCC Learning Resources Center will have two electronic classrooms for the broadcast of live interactive television (ITV) classes. Technology supported classes need advanced planning and preparation that is more time intensive than preparation for classes offered in the traditional four-walled classroom. This project will allow time to prepare Psychology 1, General Principles, for live interactive television delivery.
Psychology 1 by ITV will be used as a model to design a series of workshops to assist other faculty members prepare courses for delivery from the interactive television classroom. This project could become a prototype for faculty training faculty, in-service training consistent with the goals of staff development.
Spring 1998 - additional 60% TypeB Leave
Title: Instructional Technology Issues and the New Learning Resource Center. An additional 60% of reassigned time was awarded to assist with the instructional issues that will arise when the new technology in the Learning Resource Center will become available to the faculty.
Regular meetings with LRC staff to review equipment for new building, ITV classrooms, and the logistics of courses by television. Attend meetings and conferences that would support the opening of the new LRC and the instructional technology that will be available. Make presentations relative to Open Learning and the instructional technology efforts at SCC.
Work with LRC staff to establish a web presence for the Learning Resource Division. The web page designed has been replaced by a new page that is consistent with the web presence designed by the Public Information Office. Modified and expanded the existing web page that contained the architect's drawings of the new Learning Resource Center and site preparation, to include demolition of the old Library, and the construction progress of the new building.
Fall 1998 - 40% Type B Leave
Title: Center for Instructional Technology. A five member faculty team to advance the applications of instructional technology using multimedia to support student success and faculty development. The team will meet regularly to decide upon the important elements of a training program, and how the requisite skills and competencies can best be developed in the faculty. Each faculty member will develop a multimedia technology plan for one of their classes. Report: Center for the Enrichment of Teaching - Professional Development Leave Report, Fall Semester 1998.
Spring 1999 - 40% Type B Leave
Title: Center for the Enrichment of Teaching. A continuation of the Fall 1998 project, renamed to emphasize teaching rather than technology. The Multimedia Design Team spent the first 9 weeks of the semester designing a Multimedia Training Seminar that was conducted during the last 9 weeks of the semester. Participants learned how to scan and manipulate digital media for the web and for use in PowerPoint, constructed a web page and prepared a PowerPoint presentation.
Fall 2000 - Practice Teaching in the ITV Classrooms.
Psychology 1 - General Principles was taught in the Interactive Television classrooms in the Learning Resource Center (LR119/120). The Orientation Session and the first three weeks of instruction were conducted in the Multimedia Presentation room (LR105) while the finishing technical touches were being applied to the ITV classrooms. By the time the class moved into the ITV classrooms there were 32 students to be accommodated in the two rooms with a maximum capacity of 20 students each. The instructor conducted class from LR119 - the origination room, and LR120 was designated as the distant learner site. The students in LR120 saw the televised class session, and could communicate with the Origination classroom using a push-to-talk microphone.
The instructor used PowerPoint, Astound, and Kai's Power Show to prepare Presentation Slide Shows. A Macintosh Powerbook laptop computer was available at the teaching podium, along with an overhead document camera that creates an image of anything placed beneath it (books, printed material, flat art, maps, overhead transparencies, 3-dimensional objects like models and artifacts. Audio CDs, videotapes, DVDs can be played from the ITV Control Room.
Spring 2001 - Presenter at NC5 Conference
Juggling ITV Technology. Dr. Dowdall has been preparing to teach General Principles of Psychology on live interactive television (ITV) for several years. He will identify the instructional design issues related to teaching students at a distance, and how he prepared a class for a predominantly visual medium.
Fall 2001 - 40% Type B Leave
Title: Preparing Faculty to Teach in the Interactive Television Classroom. There are two electronic classrooms in the Learning Resource Center for the broadcast of live interactive television classes. ITV classes need advanced planning and preparation that is more time intensive than that required for classes offered in the traditional four-walled classroom. This proposal will establish a series of workships to inform and recruit potential ITV faculty, and to help them prepare a class for live television broadcast.
Flex Workshop conducted August 16, 2001 - ITV Comes to SCC & Dr. D. Prepares for ITV
An ITV Procedural Manual was prepared for faculty members planning to teach an Interactive Television class.
May 2002 - Retired from full-time teaching after 36 years.
Fall 2002 to present: continues to teach Psyc. 300 & 340 TeleWeb as an Adjunct Professor Emeritus.
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