CIRTL Network Rally to Restore Sanity….Planning for Expansion

Thursday October 28th

2:00 ET/ 1:00 CT/ 12:00 MTToll-free Number: 800-462-1257

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The CIRTL mission is to enhance excellence in undergraduate

education through the development of a national faculty

committed to implementing and advancing effective teaching practices for diverse learners

as part of successful and varied professional careers.

CIRTL Mission

• BOTTOM LINE – Preparing a significant number of future faculty to have dynamic and effective faculty careers that

integrate research, teaching and learning based on the three CIRTL pillars.

• BOTTOM LINE - Institutionalized local CIRTL programs that continue to accomplish above.

• BOTTOM LINE – Understand the impact of cross-Network activities on future faculty preparation

• TARGET GOAL - Expansion of the CIRTL Network to increase above.

What Represents Successfor our prototype CIRTL Network?

Alternative Time Line

You’ll have the opportunity to:Ask questions of the growth committee and

each otherExpress your opinion or concernsOffer ideas on revising the planBrainstorm solutions to barriers

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Members of the Growth CommitteeAnn Austin (ERT)Kitch Barnicle (Chair) (CIRTL Central)Rique Campa (MSU)Don Gillian-Daniel (UW)Tom Harris (Vanderbilt)Bruce Herbert (TAMU)Bob Mathieu (CIRTL Central/UW)Wayne Patterson (Howard) Tricia Rankin (CU)

Assessment of a New Evaluation Method for CSS 480: Soil Fertility and Management

After reading the plan, what is your gut feeling on where things stand? Make your selection using the A-D letters below the participant list.

A. Let’s start over. (I have some ideas!)B. The plan provides a place to start but

seems far from complete.C. The plan is solid but gaps remain.D. We are done. (Where do I sign up?)

Opinions About Climate Change Among Non-Science Majors and Influence of Passive and Active Learning Strategies

What are the 1-2 most important topics that you want to make sure we discuss today? (repeats allowed)

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Specific Aims

b. The Network will help each institution to initiate or expand and enrich its programs for preparing future faculty.

c. Expand in scope, diversity and participant numbers the opportunities offered by the cross-Network learning community.

d. The CIRTL Network will become a recognized national leader in the preparation of future STEM faculty

Summary – Specific Aims

Investigation of Computational and Visual Modules to Enhance Learning in Undergraduate Heat Transfer

Membership Levels

Core Institutional MembersAffiliate MembersIndividual MembersManaging Network Members

Examining Variation in the Retention of Experiential Knowledge Between Indoor and Outdoor Classrooms in Wildlife Science

Summary - Membership Levels

Enhancing Students’ Understanding of Propagation in Horticulture

Requirements for Core Institutional Members

Implementing and Assessing a Challenge-Based Module for Spectroscopy in a Biomedical Optics Class 100 character limit.

a. Institutional commitments p.51. …to develop or expand local campus initiatives

to…commit to meeting the programmatic commitments outlined below develop or expand local campus initiatives …

2. contribute funds and in-kind instructional and management resources to the Network to support cross-Network activities and management

3. have methods for communicating with all STEM graduate students and post docs at their institution

4. foster formal and informal interactions among future faculty at the local institutional level through a local learning community, as well as at the national level through the cross-Network CIRTL learning community

b. Programmatic Commitments p. 61. ….The programmatic component of the learning

community will include (but are not limited to) courses, workshops, seminars and other activities; these latter activities could be created locally or draw on existing programs throughout the Network. In these programs, participants will develop skills in line with the CIRTL Learning Outcomes 

2. … provide explicit opportunities for future faculty to do Teaching-as-Research projects.

3. … commit to offering some programs as cross-Network opportunities.

4. .. commit to integrating cross-Network offerings into the local CIRTL learning community.

5. Each of the local programs and those programs offered as cross-Network opportunities should incorporate, at least in part, the CIRTL pillars and associated concepts.

c. Evaluation commitments p6Core Institutional Members commit to submitting

an annual evaluation report for all local CIRTL-funded programs using a Network-provided on-line template. Evaluation reports will be reviewed by the <Insert Name> committee in order to assess progress toward achieving local goals at each member institution, as well as to examine progress toward achieving overarching Network goals. The <xxx> committee will prepare a summary report for the Executive Committee and Network. Members are encouraged to implement additional evaluations locally, for which the Network provides a library of assessment instruments to draw from.

Novice Programmer Planning: A Grounded Theory Approach

Requirements for Affiliate and Individual members.

How are affiliate members recruited and/or accepted?

Can anyone become an individual member?What comes with membership?

Requirements and Expectations for Managing Network Members p.7

… The contract would specify specific responsibilities, deliverables, and associated budget. These would be approved by the Executive Committee of the Institutional Network Leaders and the chair of the Board of Directors.

The contractual responsibility for management success must lie with an identified individual of the Managing Network Member.

Possible management responsibilities might include: Online Community and Technology; Cross-Network Programs; Evaluation

Summary- Membership Requirements

Demonstration of TAR using Blackboard and Formative Surveys to improve academic performance in Ochem

Organizational Structure - Management

… must promote and insure achievement of the Mission and Learning Outcomes for future faculty. a. … promote ongoing evaluation of

outcomes throughout the organization;b. … distribute responsibility, engaging

members of the Network in interdependent, functional roles

c. … value and make use of the diversity of all Network Members.

Student Perceptions and Instructional choices in Educational Reform: Studies of Peer Instruction

Organizational Structure – Management p.72. …highly interactive, collegial management structure,

… accountability to the Network, direction, and leadership in programs and administration.

3. …. expandable up to at least 100 research universities.

4. Programs and oversight of the CIRTL Network will be contributed by the member institutions, with the exception of coordination by a central organization and counsel by an external National Advisory Board.

5. … consistent with a business model that ultimately can operate independent of external funding, while at the same time obtaining external funding.

Organizational Structure - Management

Board of Directors(Graduate Deans, grad students,)

(w. Executive Committee)

Board of Directors(Graduate Deans, grad students,)

(w. Executive Committee)

Director/PIDirector/PI Administrative DirectorCIRTL Central

Administrative DirectorCIRTL Central

Institutional Network Leaders(with Executive Committee)

Institutional Network Leaders(with Executive Committee)

Future Faculty BoardFuture Faculty Board

Operations GroupCross-Network ProgramsOperations Group

Cross-Network ProgramsOperations Group

EvaluationOperations Group

EvaluationOperations Group

National ConnectionOperations Group

National Connection

Operations Group…….

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Organizational Structure – Management p.9

Board of DirectorsExecutive Committee of BODDirector/PINetwork Institutional LeadersExecutive committee of Network Institutional

LeadersFuture Faculty BoardAdministrative Director/CIRTL CentralOperations GroupsLocal Network Teams

Business PlanDeveloping and institutionalizing Learning

CommunityProvide funds and in-kind contributions

Genetics in the Green house: Using Active Learning to Improve student Performance in Plant Genetics

Budget

Assessing student attitudes in Geology 1030

Institutionalization

Laptops vs. paper methods for note taking: Which produces better learning?

What Next?National Advisory Board Meeting November

10, 2010