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