Are Your Students
Learning?
Conducting Scholarly
Research at a
Teaching Institution
Title III Faculty Development Grant
10 April 2012
Lessons from the Scholarship of
Teaching and Learning
Commons Conference,
held March 7-9, 2012, at Georgia Southern
University
{Attendance funded by a Title III Faculty Development Grant}
A presentation by
Audrey Hurley
Technical Services Librarian
Methodist University
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Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
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Scholarly, scientific study of teaching methods &
learning experiences
What works & what doesn't
Quantitative & qualitative
Challenges assumptions
Assesses student retention
Engages students
Let's do it! Let's publish & present our research.
Bring prestige to MU!
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Sessions that I Attended at the SoTL
Conference:
Keynote Speakers
 The Scholarship of Teaching and
Learning : An Integrative Vision – Dr.
Pat Hutchings
 Students as Producers and as Change
Agents – Dr. Mick Healy
Concurrent Sessions
Poster Session
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Online & Hybrid Courses
The most important piece to student learning: the instructor’s knowledge
& enthusiasm. –Wallace Lockhart (U. of Regina)
Ex.: Faculty Development Considerations in Video-based Lectures – Joyce Nutta,
Timothy Brown & Melanie Gonzalez (University of Central Florida)
Ex.: Using High Touch Pedagogy, Authentic Assessment & Student Generated
Content to Increase Student Engagement in Online Education – Kristen Betts &
Annette Wilson (Armstrong Atlantic State University)
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Getting a Job with a Liberal Arts Degree
Liberal arts majors have the skills highly valued by employers—they just use
different language to describe those skills; translation helps create
marketability.
Ex.: Learning Assessment & Career Marketability: a Strategy for the Liberal Arts
– Samantha Earleym (Indiana University Southeast) & Wolfgang Natter (St.
Bonaventure University)
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Global Competencies
Perceiving outside of our own culture
Ex.: Enhancing Cross-cultural Competencies through Online
Social Networking – Mary Moeller ( South Dakota State
University)
Ex.: Learning Environments that Enhance Global Competencies
Abroad and On Campus – Lisa Larson & Hillary Fezzey
(University of Wisconsin-Superior)
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FYS, FYE, or Freshman Interest Group
Examines student skills in: Research methodology, critical thinking,
& information literacy
FIGS: [Re]Defining the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning – Gerald
Lee Ratliff (SUNY Potsdam)
Seminar/First Year Experience (poster)—Jack Ryan, Gettysburg College
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Con
Hierarchical Concept Mapping
Concept Mapping: Encouraging Holistic Learning
in the College Classroom – Joseph Mayo (Gordon
College, GA)
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Conclusion:
The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
can give each MU student and professor the
opportunity to participate in Leadership,
Globalization, & Undergraduate Research
and Creative Activity.
Join me on the Golden Journey!
Questions?
10 April 2012