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Are Your Students Learning? Conducting Scholarly Research at a Teaching Institution 10 April 2012 Title III Faculty Development Grant

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Are Your Students Learning?

Conducting Scholarly Research at a

Teaching Institution

10 April 2012

Title III Faculty Development Grant

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Lessons from the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Commons Conference,

held March 7-9, 2012, at Georgia Southern University

{Attendance funded by a Title III Faculty Development Grant}

A presentation byAudrey Hurley

Technical Services LibrarianMethodist University

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Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

Scholarly, scientific study of teaching methods & learning experiences

What works & what doesn't Quantitative & qualitative Challenges assumptions Assesses student retention Engages students

Let's do it! Let's publish & present our research. Bring prestige to MU!

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Sessions that I Attended at the SoTL Conference: Keynote Speakers

The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning : An Integrative Vision – Dr. Pat Hutchings

Students as Producers and as Change Agents – Dr. Mick Healy

Concurrent Sessions Poster Session

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Online & Hybrid Courses

The most important piece to student learning: the instructor’s knowledge & enthusiasm. –Wallace Lockhart (U. of Regina)

Ex.: Faculty Development Considerations in Video-based Lectures – Joyce Nutta, Timothy Brown & Melanie Gonzalez (University of Central Florida)Ex.: Using High Touch Pedagogy, Authentic Assessment & Student Generated

Content to Increase Student Engagement in Online Education – Kristen Betts & Annette Wilson (Armstrong Atlantic State University)

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Getting a Job with a Liberal Arts Degree

Liberal arts majors have the skills highly valued by employers—they just use different language to describe those skills; translation helps create marketability.

Ex.: Learning Assessment & Career Marketability: a Strategy for the Liberal Arts – Samantha Earleym (Indiana University Southeast) & Wolfgang Natter (St. Bonaventure University)

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Global CompetenciesPerceiving outside of our own culture

Ex.: Enhancing Cross-cultural Competencies through Online Social Networking – Mary Moeller ( South Dakota State University)

Ex.: Learning Environments that Enhance Global Competencies Abroad and On Campus – Lisa Larson & Hillary Fezzey (University of Wisconsin-Superior)

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FYS, FYE, or Freshman Interest Group

Examines student skills in: Research methodology, critical thinking, & information literacy

FIGS: [Re]Defining the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning – Gerald Lee Ratliff (SUNY Potsdam)

Seminar/First Year Experience (poster)—Jack Ryan, Gettysburg College

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Con

Hierarchical Concept Mapping

Concept Mapping: Encouraging Holistic Learning in the College Classroom – Joseph Mayo (Gordon College, GA)

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Conclusion:The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

can give each MU student and professor the opportunity to participate in Leadership,

Globalization, & Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity.

Join me on the Golden Journey!

Questions?

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