THE CARNEGIE FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF TEACHING Knowledge Media Lab (KML): Mission The Carnegie Foundation’s KML helps institutions and faculty

THE CARNEGIE FOUNDATIONFOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF TEACHING

Knowledge Media Lab (KML): Mission

The Carnegie Foundation’s KML helps institutions and faculty take advantage of the growing power of emerging technologies and new media to turn the knowledge implicit in effective teaching into ideas, theories, and resources that can be used widely in a variety of situations.

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http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/KML


Scholarship of Teaching and Learning(SoTL)

• Making teaching practice visible and public

• Solicit it critical review

• Learn from and build on each other’s work


The Work of Knowledge Media Lab

• Devise new means of conveying faculty’s teaching knowledge and experience by creating models and formats (e.g., multimedia-enhanced eportfolios).

• Develop tools and resources that enable faculty to carry out this work more easily and effectively.

• Build online multimedia knowledge-repositories and forums in which faculty can examine, articulate, and share their ideas and practice.


CF KML Partners

Implementation/ResearchSoTL/Network

Tool Building/Dissemination

EPACAAHE

Visible Knowledge Project/ Georgetown University

Faculty Innovative Profiles Project/Vanderbilt University

University of Waterloo

Stanford/Stanford Center for Innovations in Learning

MIT OKI/SAKAIMIT Open CourseWare

MIT Media Lab

MERLOT Open Source Portfolio Initiative (OSPI)

Hewlett Foundation

CSU Monterey Bay

Open Pedagogical Content

Foothill College/SOPHIA

National Writing Project

University of Maryland

Mills College


The Carnegie Academy for theScholarship of Teaching and Learning

(CASTL)• Foster significant, long-lasting learning for all

students

• Enhance the practice and profession of teaching

• Bring to faculty members’ work as teachers the recognition & reward afforded other forms of scholarly work


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Interdisciplinary Community of Practice and Reflection

Biological SciencesBusinessChemistryCommunicationEconomicsEducationEngineeringEnglishForeign LanguagesHealth SciencesHistoryInterdisciplinary Studies

LawLiteratureMathematicsPerforming ArtsPhilosophyPhysicsPolitical SciencePsychologyReligious StudiesSociologyTeacher EducationTheology


How can we successfully build a community of practice and reflection

across disciplines?

• Use a common language/terminology (but, can we find one?)

• Take advantage of informal conversations and communications

• Use powerful metaphors for teaching and student learning

• Make implicit knowledge in practice and research not just visible but also easy to comprehend and transfer (e.g., using multimedia-enhanced eportfolio)


Key Challenges

• Accessibility vs. Shareability

• Technical and intellectual barriers

• Time efficiency

• Readability of multimedia-enhanced representations

• Lack of support/guidance for the intellectual development processes


Needs for the SoTL Support Tools

• Identify and select materials that reflect all dimensions of their teaching

• Prompt further analysis and reflection

• Organize their materials and reflections into succinct, engaging, and compelling representations

• Build online learning spaces to share SoTL work and generate collective knowledge as communities of practice and reflection


A Major Breakthrough: KEEP Toolkit

The KEEP Toolkit enables non-technical teachers and students to examine, select and organize teaching and learning objects and transform them into visually appealing and intellectually engaging knowledge representations.

Early CASTL Scholars’ Snapshots


KEEP Toolkit(will be compliant with the OKI/SAKAI/OSPI

standards)

• Select and organize teaching and learning materials

• Prompt analysis and reflection

• Transform materials and reflections into compelling and engaging representations

• Share ideas for peer-review, assessment, and collective knowledge building

• Simplify the technical tasks and facilitate the evolving intellectual processes


The KEEP Toolkit provides frameworks and prompts through “flexibly-designed” organizational templates

SoTL Project Snapshot Course Transformation Class Anatomy

Early CASTL Scholars’ Snapshots


Making Pedagogical Knowledge Transferable, Appealing, and Engaging to Your Audience

• Use snapshots as mirrors, lenses and windows

– Barbara Gayle (Faculty, University of Portland) video

– John Belcher (Faculty, MIT)

– AAHE/CASTL Campus Program (Collaborative Inquiry: VKP Cluster)

– Hewlett Foundation

– Carnegie Initiative on Doctorate

– California State University at Monterey Bay (Learning Portfolios: eg.1, eg.2, eg.3)

• Document and share developmental transformation processes

– CASTL Higher Education Program


Trinity of Open Education

Open Platform& Tools

Open Content

Open PedagogicalKnowledge


OKI/SAKAI/IMS Standards

uPortal SAKAI Tools OSPI OthersLMSs & Tools

Educational Contents

Open CourseWare, MERLOT, etc.

FacultyStudents Administrators

Open Knowledge of Teaching and Learning(electronic portfolio, blog, wiki, etc.)

KEEP

Pedagogical Knowledge


Contact Information

Toru Iiyoshi, Senior Scholar & Director of Knowledge Media Lab

[email protected]

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching

51 Vista Lane, Stanford CA 94305-8703

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THE CARNEGIE FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF TEACHING Knowledge Media Lab (KML): Mission The Carnegie Foundation’s KML helps institutions and faculty