Possible questions

We are here to understand your current use of IT services and would like to learn about any challenges you face and opportunities that you see in the IT space to enhance your Faculty experience at MIT.

• What courses do you teach at MIT?
• Can you briefly describe your research area?
• Do you have special administrative responsibilities? If so could you detail them for us?
• List your top 3 uses for IT
• List the top 3 devices do you use most frequently (Eg Laptop, Smartphone, iPod)?
• List the 3 software applications that you use most frequently.
• List 3 web 2.0 applications you use frequently (Eg Wikis, Blogs, Flickr, Digg etc)?

• List three technology services that are not currently available that you would expect to see on campus.
• List three technology services that are not currently available that you would like to see on campus.

• List 3 educational challenges that routinely or predictably arise?
• Have you used any technology to handle these challenges?
• Was any assessment done on using the technology?
• Brief summary of results?
• Have you experienced a class at another institution when you were a student or from a prior teaching experience where there was a use of education technology that you would like to replicate?

• List 3 challenges that routinely or predictably arise while you are conducting research that you feel could be helped by using technology?
• Have you used any technology to handle these challenges?
• Was any assessment done on using the technology?
• Brief summary of results?
• Have you seen a use of technology at a prior research experience that you would like to replicate?

• List 3 challenges in areas other than research or teaching where you think technology can help.

• What technologies or uses of technologies have you seen that really got you excited maybe about thinking about new ways of applying them in your classes or activities?

• If you had $5000 to spend on anything that you think would most improve teaching learning what would you spend it on?
• If you had the support of a software developer for 100 hours what would you use their help for?

• Show them a list of services and see which of them they are familiar with and which of the unfamiliar ones they would use if they knew about it.