Teaching Symposium 2013: Plenary - Staying on Course
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Teaching Symposium 2013: Plenary - Staying on Course
- 1. If you have mobile technology this morning, please download the app ”Red Light Green HD Free" from Victor Ren Games. It is free in the apple app store. Plenary Pre-Panel Challenge
- 2. How are liberal arts universities preserving a focus on their key mission and goals during a time of disruption in higher education?
- 3. • Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCS) • Games and gamification • 3-D printing • Tablet computing • Learning analytics • Wearable technology Horizon Report (2013)
- 6. • Survey of undergraduates regarding their educational experiences • Since 2000, 1,544 institutions and 4 million students have participated • Provides a detailed perspective on campus culture
- 7. 5 Benchmarks of Effective Educational Practice • High level of academic challenge • Active and collaborative learning • Student/faculty interaction • Supportive campus environment • Enriching educational experiences
- 8. SEU NSSE Feedback • A strength: Supportive Campus Environment • Room for growth: Active and Collaborative Learning at the senior level – Class presentations, group projects, discussing class topics outside classroom, participating in community projects, participate in class…
- 9. AAC&U and High-Impact Practices • First‐Year Seminars and Experiences • Common Intellectual Experiences • Learning Communities • Writing‐Intensive Courses • Collaborative Assignments and Projects • Undergraduate Research • Diversity/Global Learning • Service Learning • Community‐Based Learning • Internships • Capstone Courses
- 10. AAC&U • 12 LEAP (Liberal Education and America’s Promise) Essential Learning Outcomes • 16 VALUE rubrics (Valid Assessment of Learning in Undergraduate Education)
- 11. • Inquiry and analysis • Critical thinking • Creative thinking • Written communication • Oral communication • Reading • Quantitative literacy • Information literacy • Teamwork • Problem solving • Civic knowledge and engagement • Intercultural knowledge and competence • Ethical reasoning • Foundations and skills for lifelong learning • Global learning • Integrative and applied learning
- 14. Framing questions for new technology, pedagogy, or structure: • Does it facilitate students’ acquisition of mission- derived learning outcomes? – What are the SEU mission-derived learning outcomes? • Does it facilitate implementation of high-impact practices? • Does it move students towards “Capstone-level” mastery of ELOs? (“deep learning”)
- 15. Rebecca Frost Davis Director of Instructional and Emerging Technology Using Disruption to Stay on Course
- 16. Liberal Education in a Networked World • http://rebeccafrostdavis.wordpress.com • Slides • More examples
- 17. Disruption & Adaptation • Disruptions – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – Big Data – Globally Networked World • Liberal Arts Responses – Networked course – Open Learning Initiative – Situating the Global Environment
- 18. Massive Open Online Course Image courtesy of Phil Hill
- 19. • Industrial (xMOOC) – Faculty expert – Homogeneous Network – One perfect lecture(r) – Knowledge transfer • Networked (cMOOC) – Peer learning – Heterogeneous Network – Knowledge is situated – Knowledge production Two Visions for MOOCs
- 20. Networked Courses • Local classes in a Larger Network – Sunoikisis intercampus courses (ICCs) in advanced Greek & Latin – FemTechNet: Distributed Online Collaborative Course (DOCC) – History Harvest • Aggregate Expertise • Share local resources • Share local perspective Sunoikisis Network, Fall 2006
- 21. Big Data Image courtesy of Min Lun Wu
- 22. Big Learning Data • Improve learning resources based on usage data • How do small colleges achieve scale? • How do small colleges adapt resources to their context?
- 23. Blended Learning in a Liberal Arts Setting • Bryn Mawr College, NGLC grant-funded program • “Using Blended Learning in a Liberal Arts Environment to Improve Developmental and Gatekeeper STEM Course Completion, Persistence, and College Completion” • Open Learning Initiative modules • http://nextgenlearning.blogs.brynmawr.edu/
- 24. Open Learning Initiative (OLI) • Carnegie Mellon • Computer-based, interactive tutorials and quizzes • Customized learning • Instant feedback
- 25. Outcomes • Student preparation = better student-faculty interaction – Metacognition • Assessment data for learning analytics • Mastery vs. grades
- 26. Challenges • Uneven availability of resources – OLI had poor coverage of economics, biology, geology, chemistry, developmental math • Start-up costs: time to find, evaluate, apply & integrate computer-based materials • Doesn’t apply in every case, e.g., basic math skills
- 27. Creating Resources • Spohrer (Bryn Mawr) reports 50 hours • Collaborative Projects from ACS – Analyzing and Creating Maps – Beyond the (Online) Handbook: Writing Resources Designed for the Digital Environment
- 28. Globally Networked World Global Network by Flickr User WebWizzard
- 29. World is Flat • Global access to information & people • Creating citizens & workers for this context • Challenges – Vs. residential liberal arts experience or immersive study abroad experience – Developing skills in this context – Communicating across domains
- 30. • First-Year Seminars and Experiences • Common Intellectual Experience • Learning Communities • Writing-Intensive Courses • Collaborative Assignments and Projects • Undergraduate Research • Diversity/Global Learning • Service Learning, Community-Based Learning • Internships • Capstone Courses and Projects High Impact Practices (Kuh)
- 31. Situating the Global Environment • Lewis & Clark College • https://sge.lclark.edu/ • Jim Proctor, “Situated Social Learning” • Interdisciplinary environmental research • Situated research – Local focus on global issues
- 32. Social learning • Document research process • Share research resources • Share references • Aggregate projects on blog – Maps – Tags – Concept maps – Mashups
- 33. Globally Networked High Impact Practices • Common intellectual experience – Reflecting on research • Learning communities online • Collaborative projects • Undergraduate research • Global learning • Community-based learning • Documenting learning experiences
Editor's Notes
- New Media Consortium and Educause. Next year, 2-3 years, 4-5 years
- The Annual Report 2007, Experiences That Matter: Enhancing Student Learning and Success, explores the relationships between effective educational practice and selected aspects of student success in college. 2007: NSSE issues “Connecting the Dots,” a report analyzing the relationships between student engagement and selected outcomes, and the institutional practices and conditions that foster student success. Criticism: does not necessarily predict student grades or retention rates
- Enriching educational experiences: Participating in: Internships, Community service, Global learning (foreign language coursework, study abroad), Independent study, Capstone, Co-curricular activities, Learning communities. ALSO: Diversity: Talking with students of different religious beliefs, racial or ethnic background, political opinions, or values. ALSO: Using electronic technology to discuss or complete assignmentWabash Study:(Clear and organized classroom instruction—importance of faculty development), Deep learning
- 2011. Blended courses? Flipped classroom?
- Draws from NSSE. George Kuh’s High-Impact Educational Practices (2008). Find out how he got this!Promote skills from “what employers want” (teamwork, written and oral communication, …)
- To assess its Essential Learning Outcomes
- Simon will give you more details on MOOCs in the next session. For now, I’ll point out that there are two competing visions of MOOCs. What I like to think of as the industrial MOOC and the networked or connectivist MOOC.cMOOCs or connectivist MOOCs offer an alternative vision for MOOCs that focus more on the network effect—the benefits you get from many students but also the idea that networks are heterogeneous and you can find the piece of the network that works for you.The goal of these courses is networked learning seen as an important skill in a world articulated by digital networks
- Doing something together creates meaningful exchangesFemTechNet—new course on feminism and technology—local courses linked together
- Links to goal of improving student learning—liberal arts college academic mission.Bryn Mawr involved many other liberal arts colleges, including Kenyon—see Joe & Simon.
- Learning analytics, mastery, metacognition, student learningBryn Mawr uses these resources—to give students more time on task while freeing instructor time for other activities. To give just one example, students in a “half-semester introductory chemistry course designed for students with weak science and math backgrounds” are using OLI chemistry modules to catch up. Those who need more practice on key concepts can do it on their own time to gain mastery of the material.
- The OLI learning modules allow students to practice without risking grades. Since feedback is automatic, they don't have to wait, and instructors don’t have to spend time grading. Instructors also benefit from this formative assessment, because they can track students’ progress and adapt their instruction on the individual and group level to meet student needs. Students ask better questions because had a better understanding of what they didn’t knowThese modules also allow the instructor to flip the classroom and “devote class time to focus on problem solving instead of lecturing and target areas where students need the most help.”Discussion at breakfast with Martin Madsen who teaches physics at WabashMastery as goal especially when paired with class discussions, thought problems, or group projects to apply skills and concepts they were expected to master
- Commercial solutions in economics and chemistry of similar quality but more expensiveStudents challenged with basic math skills had psychological barriers to learning math (not lack or exposure or need for more practice) needed to break through idea that math was an innate skill that they lacked; such students benefit from interactive, face to face approaches
- Cf. SUNY Geneseo open textbook initiative, as well as the Temple example
- Motivation for DH at SLAC: educating citizens for a globally networked worldLet’s dig deeper into the context
- They also defined high impact practicesSo what do these things look like in a digital context?