Faculty Perceptions of Technology Projects A study explored

The Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL), formerly the Center for Instruc-tional Design at BYU, partners with fac-ulty to help improve teaching and learn-ing. The CTL currently supports a broad range of faculty projects to maintain and improve on-campus instruction. It has more than 35 full-time employees and approximately 115 student employees.Each year personnel at the CTL com-plete more than 180 large- and small-scale technology projects, expending a considerable amount of money and thousands of hours of labor to help faculty improve teaching and learning. Measuring the projects’ impact is often neglected, however. The study described here began when administrators at BYU wanted to learn how the CTL could better serve faculty and students and best use the funds allocated to teach-ing and learning with technology. They felt the way to do this was to examine the impact of small- versus large-scale technology projects in terms of cost, value, and satisfaction.