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- Assesses effectiveness by focusing on learning and curricular objectives.
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Stages and Frameworks for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning
with Craig E. Nelson
This workshop is quite new and has only been given a few times. The emphases consequently are quite fluid. Its first purpose is to help faculty see that engagement with the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SOTL) often comes in several stages ranging from initial discomfort with student learning (or other outcomes) through classroom assessment and problem refinement to pilot projects and then to more formal projects that are framed so as to take account of prior work.
The second purpose is to provide an introduction to several existing frameworks that often need to be considered as potential explanations for limits to achievement or retention or that may need to be addressed in pursuing other hypotheses. These include: effects of active v passive learning, need to support the development of “formal operations” (Piaget), need to support other cognitive transitions (Perry through M. Baxter Magolda), need to provide support for the development of voice or self-authorship (e.g. Belenky et al., Baxter Magolda) and others. I will provide introductory bibliographies both for SOTL and for the various frameworks.
I can also address problems with the development of SOTL projects and of a program to foster SOTL (basing my comments in part on the development of our award winning SOTL program, see http://www.indiana.edu/~sotl, and on my experience as the founding President of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning).
Time 1.5 to 3 hours
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