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Faculty Liaisons MeetingOctober 10, 2008
Open access opportunities
October 22, session on Writing to Learn◦ Dr. Derrick Virgil◦ 12.30pm
November 12, Session on Global Understanding Project◦ Study abroad group – Chile◦ 12.30pm
One topic every other week 1pm to 2pm R.J. Reynolds Center, room 138 Will start October 23rd, 2008 Topics will include:
◦ Active learning with discussion boards, blogs and wikis
◦ Keeping your students informed with Bb◦ Monitoring your class success with Bb statistics◦ Learning units / stepping students through the
process
Funding opportunities for full time faculty who want to attend or present at TLC in USA◦ Preference will be given to presenters and first-time
TLC attendees. ◦ Up to 2 out-of-state, or 2regional + 1national TLC◦ Registration fee + hotel + travel
Attendee/department pays all other expenses Department should support funding request Attendee should post lessons learned in TLC
blog, socialize knowledge with colleagues, and deliver copy of travel documents to CETL
Will be a blended course over a year spam Develops competence for
◦ Use of Blackboard for teaching ◦ Active learning syllabus redesign◦ Face-to-face interaction◦ Electronic resources◦ Teaching strategies◦ Learning Assessment skills◦ Instructional design skills◦ Web 2.0 for teaching◦ Other topics as needed
Develops competence for:◦ Setting up and facilitating “from the side” online
pragmatic dialogues.◦ Selecting and integrating technologies into teaching◦ Revising course syllabi for active learning with
support of technology Seven week blended training
◦ Introductory face-to-face session◦ Six week of online discussions and reflections◦ Personalized advise for course syllabus redesign
Offered three times per year.
Standards for evaluating distance learning courses
Focuses on three major categories (types of standards)◦ Essential (17)◦ Very Important (11)◦ Important (12)
A score of 72/85 is required for a DL course to meet QM standards
Under consideration by a committee from the Provost Council
Fosters research-based teaching innovations Integrates research with teaching
◦ Requires IRB authorizations◦ Generates knowledge about teaching interventions◦ Feeds paper o video-paper writing
Offered as a yearly activity◦ Two day face-to-face workshop◦ Research proposal◦ Research implementation over Fall semester◦ Paper or video-paper at the end of the process
10 faculty members Working on adding audio to courses in Bb Also will include adding video to courses
through embedded links
Purpose: To improve classroom interaction◦ Immediate feedback◦ Attendance call◦ On the way surveys / quizzes
Priorities:◦ High DFW courses◦ Hard to teach courses/ hard to learn units◦ Pilot experiences
Purposes: ◦ To support collaborative, experiential and inquiry-
based learning in Anatomy and Physiology classes ◦ To learn from one-on-one computing in classroom
setting Technology provided
◦ Tablet PC machines◦ Simulators◦ DyKnow collaborative and course management
software
Ensures books + digital manipulative for every student◦ Includes models and simulators to promote
reflective inquiry◦ Includes clickers to promote active classroom
participation Will produce a digital portfolio and a final
report◦ Teaching strategies + reflection◦ Students’ learning + reflections◦ Lessons learned + action lines
Global understanding curriculum ◦ Goal: to share cultural and discipline-specific
knowledge and experiences in a real-time virtual classroom
◦ Participants: business schools from universities located in the following countries: Sweden, Turkey, Greece, Spain, England, Italy, and France
◦ Rationale: WSSU students will gain culturally-relevant knowledge about conducting business in other countries without incurring the cost of traveling abroad. Students will be better equipped with the tools to adapt to an ever-changing world
Purpose◦ Develop a central database, for faculty to
record their teaching, scholarship, and service activities
◦ To allow administrators access to organized reports about faculty teaching, scholarship, and service activities
◦ To meet requirements of accrediting agencies as it relates to reporting and access to information about teaching, scholarship, and service activities
To be developed in collaboration with LIFE center ◦ Collaborative definition of courses to be produced◦ Shared framework + strategies◦ WSSU will design, implement and test one course◦ Each partner will produce and test one course
LIFE Center is a network of R+D organizations◦ Leaders: U. Washington, Stanford U, SRI◦ Participants: 7other universities, WSSU included◦ Sponsor: NSF, 5 years
Survey was applied Purpose
◦ To provide a Blackboard infrastructure where faculty can go to engage in discussions with each other about writing strategies to improve students’ writing skills.
◦ To provide writing resources for faculty◦ To provide ongoing external writing consultant
collaboration from which faculty can benefit◦ To provide ongoing internal writing consultant
collaboration from which faculty can benefit
Have a great fall break
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