Faculty and Staff Resources

Andrew Wig, Ph.D., is the On-Campus IDEA Director.  He is available for questions or concerns in Birck Hall Room 321.  He can also be reached via email at awig@ben.edu or telephone at 630-829-6527.
 

IDEA DOCUMENTS

Instructions and Information
Contains instructions that are specific to Benedictine for instructors, office assistants, and department chairs.  Also includes guidance on selecting IDEA objectives, team taught courses, and using additional questions on IDEA surveys.

• Instructions to access IDEA surveys from the CampusLabs platform
• Placing IDEA Link in Desire2Learn (Written)
• Placing IDEA link in Desire2Learn (Visual)
• IDEA Logo
• Standard Statement for Instructors to Read
• Frequently Asked Questions - Faculty
• Student Suvey Form - Diagnostic Long Form
• Student Survey Form - Learning Essentials Short Form
• Faculty Objective Form
• How to Select Objectives
• Additional Thoughts on Selecting IDEA Objectives
• Using Online Additional Questions
• Team Taught Classes
• Interpretive Guide to Faculty Reports
• Interpreting Adjusted Scores
   

IDEA Center Notes on Learning
IDEA Center Notes on Instruction

Succinct papers written in collaboration with the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education (POD).  These papers are a great resource in support of teaching improvement!  Each paper discusses things one can do to use one of the 20 IDEA teaching methods more effectively.

IDEA Papers
A veritable cornucopia of IDEA papers covering a wide range of topics, such as motivating students, teaching adult students, appraising teaching effectiveness, the reliability of the IDEA system and much, much more.

IDEA Research and Technical Reports
These are  papers on the results of research done by the IDEA center that address specific issues and questions.  For example, one report compares the ratings of instruction in traditional versus online course.