Below is another YouTube video from Kansas State University on learning in higher education — today and tomorrow. It is a condensed version of a full documentary, edited to just under 10 minutes to meet YouTube’s time limit.
As an educator or student, what do you think? What’s most accurate? What’s missing or misstated?
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Posted in Uncategorized Tagged: Active Learning, Discussion-Join In, Large Lecture January 24, 2008
WBGU provides BGSU Faculty with a wide variety of music that can be used for education projects. Visit http://music.wbgu.org/ to get started. Music is offered in numerous genres and multiple file types. While this is an extremely powerful resource it should be stated that:
THIS MUSIC IS FOR BGSU EDUCATIONAL PROJECTS ONLY.
This music can be used in iMovies, PowerPoint presentations, background music for live presentations and many other uses. If you wish to use this music for purposes other than BGSU educational projects, contact Denise Kisabeth.
How do you use music in your teaching or presentations? Have you used music in your for presentations at conferences? How else could you use this music?
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Posted in Uncategorized Tagged: PowerPoint, Tech Tips, Visual Learning January 10, 2008
According to the Association of American Colleges and Universities’ website:
Liberal Education and America’s Promise (LEAP): Excellence for Everyone as a Nation Goes to College is a ten-year campaign to champion the value of a liberal education—for individual students and for a nation dependent on economic creativity and democratic vitality. The campaign seeks to expand public and student understanding of what really matters in college—the kinds of learning that will truly empower them to succeed and make a difference in the 21st century.
The recently released LEAP Report, College Learning for the New Global Century (pdf), “highlights 16 schools or educational systems whose innovative educational practices and programs embody the report’s recommendations and Principles of Excellence,” including BGSU’s BGeXperience program. A clear recommendation from the report concludes:
The LEAP National Leadership Council recommends, in sum, an education that intentionally fosters, across multiple fields of study,wide-ranging knowledge of science, cultures, and society; high-level intellectual and practical skills; an active commitment to personal and social responsibility; and the demonstrated ability to apply learning to complex problems and challenges.
The council further calls on educators to help students become “intentional learners” who focus, across ascending levels of study and diverse academic programs, on achieving the essential learning outcomes.
The following are the Principles in Practice identified in the LEAP Report (click each link for more details):
Aim High — and Make Excellence Inclusive
Give Students a Compass
Teach the Arts of Inquiry and Innovation
Engage the Big Questions
Connect Knowledge with Choices and Action
Foster Civic, Intercultural, and Ethical Learning
Assess Students’ Ability to Apply Learning to Complex Problems
What types of learning experiences are your students doing that support some of these principles?… Click on the COMMENTS link below to get started!
Posted in Active Learning ,Learning Outcomes ,Teaching Tips January 8, 2008
The University Libraries and The Center present:
PUBLISHING IN TRANSITION: A DISCUSSION
New models of publishing can extend the options for disseminating work and preserve the stages of scholarly research. How can we create an improved scholarly communication system that addresses ownership, capture, distribution, and preservation of the intellectual output of BGSU community members? Join this discussion and share your ideas. Lunch will be provided.
Tuesday, January 29, 11:30-1 p.m. in the Jerome Library Pallister Conference Room.
To register, contact the Center at ctlt@bgsu.edu, 372-6898, or complete our online registration form.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged: On Campus Learning Events, Scholarly Communication, Writing December 19, 2007
This is Part 3 of our series on Ken Bain’s visit to BGSU. Ken serves as Vice Provost, Professor of History, and Director of the Research Academy for University Learning at Montclair State University and is the author of “What the Best College Teachers Do.”
In order to create an effective learning environment, 2-3 very complex conditions need to take place:
1) Create an “expectation failure”
We learn from our mistakes often better than from our successes. Bain suggests that teachers need to put the learner in a situation where their existing paradigm does not work, then rebuild it from there. This is usually created from some sort of intellectual challenge or cognitive dissonance. “It needs to be more than just telling them the truth – that doesn’t work,” explains Bain. (i.e. – lecture doesn’t work – for long term, for most students)
2) Make it meaningful or engaging
The learner has to care deeply enough to struggle through the incongruity (and this needs to be timely… if it takes too long, they are onto other things)
Teachers must carefully select mental models or paradigms that can cause this incongruity, but yet attract student interest, leading to student engagement. In other words, “How can you create an expectation failure where students will care enough to struggle through it?”
3) Provide emotional support (if needed)
As students encounter a challenge to their beliefs, some sort of emotional support may be needed, especially when dealing with most religious convictions, which are very difficult for students to question, let alone consider alternatives.
What do you think about these conditions for effective learning environments? Do you agree? What other conditions are needed, if any?
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Posted in Uncategorized Tagged: On Campus Learning Events, Reflections on Teaching, Teaching Tips December 12, 2007
Have you ever wondered where to host your files (Podcasts, PowerPoints, Videos, etc…) on campus?
Well luckily ITS has provided all of us with a nice easily to use grid to determine where we should look to find the proper file storage…
Click here to check out the webpage.
What file storage services do you use? Do you utilize any other file storage service other then the services that ITS provides? If so, which ones?…Click on the COMMENTS link below to get started!
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged: Uncategorized December 11, 2007
Stock.xchng is a leading, free, stock photo site. This site is great for generic searches, yielding high-resolution images that could be used to enhance student or faculty presentations or applied to any other visual media projects.
Along with browsing over 250,000 quality stock photos by more than 25,000 photographers, you can share your own personal photography as well.
If your search doesn’t yield a large number of free results, there is a linked site, stockxpert.com, which produces results at the bottom of the page showing images available for purchase.
All you need is a free account to begin your search!
How do you use images in your teaching or presentations? What other image sites have you or your students used?
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Posted in Uncategorized Tagged: Teaching Tips, Tech Tips, Visual Learning December 10, 2007
In addition to the traditional books offered by the university library, OhioLink has a large section of E-Books available. Here are some of the books currently available.
From Principles of Learning to Strategies for Instruction: Empirically Based Ingredients to Guide Instructional Development 2004
The purpose of this volume is to help educators and training
developers to improve the quality of their instruction. The authors present a four-stage model that includes acquisition, automaticity, near term transfer, and far term transfer.
Learning and Teaching for the Twenty-First Century: Festschrift for Professor Phillip Hughes 2007
This book stresses learning and teaching, rather than teaching
and learning. The focus is therefore on how learning can be
enhanced, through effective teaching; and how individuals can be
best prepared to be excellent teachers.
Engaged Learning with Emerging Technologies 2006
The major purpose of this book is to present and discuss current
thinking, theories, conceptual frameworks, models and promising
examples of engaged learning with emerging technologies.
International Handbook of Virtual Learning Environments Series: Springer International Handbooks of Education , Vol. 14 2006
The International Handbook of Virtual Learning
Environments was developed to explore Virtual Learning
Environments (VLEís), and their relationships with digital, in
real life and virtual worlds.
*Also available in hardcopy
Rethinking University Teaching: A Conversational Framework for the Effective Use of Learning Technologies 2002
This new
edition builds upon the success of the first and contains major
updates to the information on learning technologies and includes
the implications of using technology for the university context –
both campus and electronic – which suggests a new approach to
managing learning at institutional level.
*Also available in hardcopy
What’s the Point in Discussion?
2000.
This text presents the skills of discussion and how they can be
taught in the context of developing what the author refers to as
a thinking society.
These and many more E-Books can be found here:
http://ebooks.ohiolink.edu/xtf-ebc/search?subject=Education
What do you think about these E-Books? What are your favorite E-Books?
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Posted in Uncategorized Tagged: Books/Library, Teaching Tips December 7, 2007
From the Research Academy website at Montclair State University, Ken Bain’s research includes a list of a dozen requirements for meaningful student learning . . .
- They try to answer questions or solve problems they find interesting, intriguing, important, or beautiful;
- They can try, fail, receive feedback, and try again before anyone makes a judgment of their work;
- They can work collaboratively with other learners struggling with the same problems;
- They face repeated challenges to their existing fundamental paradigms;
- They care that their existing paradigms do not work;
- They can get support (emotional, physical, and intellectual) when they need it;
- They feel in control of their own learning, not manipulated;
- They believe that their work will be considered fairly and honestly;
- They believe that their work will matter;
- They believe that intelligence and abilities are expandable, that if they work hard, they will get better at it;
- They believe other people have faith in their ability to learn;
- They believe that they can learn.
What else should be added to this list? As educators, what is our role in helping students to believe they can learn?. . . Click on the COMMENTS link below to leave your thoughts!
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged: On Campus Learning Events, Reflections on Teaching, Teaching Tips November 27, 2007
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Below is another YouTube video from Kansas State University on learning in higher education — today and tomorrow. It is a condensed version of a full documentary, edited to just under 10 minutes to meet YouTube’s time limit.
