Parents Council Meeting
ETEAL
September 27, 2014
• Applied Learning is an approach to teaching that
focuses on:
• Providing Rich, Immersive learning experiences
• Giving students Skills that they’ll use in their future
careers
• Asking students to apply what they learn in the
classroom to new ideas, concepts, and real world
problems
• The Evolution of needs for student development and
engagement
• (College Learning for the New Global Century 2007)
• Applied Learning prepares students for citizenship and work
through engaged and guided learning on “Real-World”
Problems.
• Dialogue with community and business leaders.
• The result of research on effectiveness and outcomes of
applied learning and high-impact practices.
• University Studies and Applied Learning help develop
the “soft skills” desired by NC businesses.
– (UNC-GA, Leslie Boney, VP for International, Community and Economic
Engagement)
• Aligns with the findings of national surveys
• Provides greater emphasis on critical thinking,
communication skills, complex problem solving, and realworld application.
– (Hart Research Associates 2013)
• Students show Positive gains in:
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Grades
Persistence Rates
Intellectual Gains
Greater Civic Engagement
Understanding & Engagement with Diversity
Increased Interactions with Faculty and Peers
Development of Transferrable skills
• Taking part in more than one AL experience has a
collective impact on student success and learning
– (Kuh 2008)
• Gains in Deep Learning Experiences:
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0 HIPs: 51%
1-2 HIPs: 57.3%
3-4 HIPs: 63.8%
5-6 HIPs: 70.8%
– (Finley & McNair 2013)
Applied Learning at UNCW
• We treat Applied Learning as a collaborative process between
everyone involved
• Every semester we get student feedback about their
experiences
• We gather feedback to continuously improve the quality of
Applied Learning from:
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Area experts and stewards
Feedback from Parents, Local Businesses, and other Stakeholders
Student & Faculty surveys and ETEAL forums
Established baselines and learning standards
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Research / Discovery
Internships / Application
Service Learning / Regional Engagement
Study Abroad
ETEAL
Enhancing Applied Learning at UNCW
• To Improve student learning via enriched AL
experiences
• To Share information and resources with faculty
and staff regarding high-impact AL practices
• To Implement these practices throughout
UNCW in a sustainable way
DIS (Directed Independent Study)
Dealing with A Group DIS in which students
Plastic in the gathered plastics from local beaches
Oceans and attempted to develop bacteria
that could break the plastic down
Advanced Students are learning to use a
Microscopy Transmission Electron Microscope to
Techniques analyze the muscle
Class
Activities
cells of birds
Geography and Geology students use advanced
Real-Time
Geological
Mapping
Social Media
Marketing
iPad mapping apps to survey and map geological
features
Student teams created integrated marketing
communications projects and engaged in market
research and launched social media campaigns
First-Year Film First-year students will create films for a film
Festival festival that documents their experiences as a
first-year UNCW student
Field Work and Professional Experiences
The Full Circle Education students gained field experience by traveling to Belize,
Project working in schools there and completing community projects
Hollywood East and Students in a living learning community setting collaborate to
Waterways create films, explore our coastal waterways, and get involved in
Applied Learning in their very first semester at UNCW.
Contemporary Students learn data mining techniques for dealing with big data
and explore options for streamlining Veterans’ health records.
Data Mining
Techniques
Working with External Partners
Foreign Market International Marketing students get first-hand
Consulting experience acting as consultants for a business looking
Writing for
Local Business
Enhancing
Student
Internships
to expand into foreign markets
Professional Writing students worked with a local
Wilmington Restaurant as their client and created a
website, menu, and advertising for them.
UNCW’s Certified Internship Program (CIP) helps
students gain skills and enhance their classroom
experiences and knowledge through a guided
Internship
• Funding for deeper and richer AL experiences
• Research and data regarding effectiveness of
AL as a form of teaching
• Workshops, resources, and events for
students, instructors, and staff
• Support for teachers and students taking part
in Applied Learning
What does Applied Learning
look like?
GLY 310: General Petrology
students Map geological
features in person and in real
time thanks to mobile mapping
applications with
ETEAL APPLIED LEARNING
EXPERIENCES
GLY 441: Students build on their
experience with field mapping
applications by using iPads to map
geological features in real time
ETEAL APPLIED LEARNING
EXPERIENCES
CRW 320: Adventure Writing takes
students out of the classroom in an
interdisciplinary Field Journalism
experience
ETEAL APPLIED LEARNING
EXPERIENCES
COM 491:
Students
capture
beautiful
footage of
Swansea,
Wales while
filming a
promotional
video for
UNCW’s study
abroad
program.
ETEAL APPLIED LEARNING
EXPERIENCES
[Left] Students in CHM 491 try to
grow biofilm on degrading
plastics they salvaged from the
ocean
[Right] Students in
JPN 202 introduce
themselves and
Wilmington to a
Japanese audience
WILDSUMACO BIOLOGICAL
STATION, ECUADOR
The Wildsumaco Biological Station in Ecuador,
site of recurring Applied Learning Experiences
and Opportunities!
MORE APPLIED LEARNING
EXPERIENCES
Lauren Mae’s
internship on Sedge
Island
Kelsey Callahan planting
Trees while Studying Abroad
in South Africa on World
Environment Day
Hannah Brewer reporting for
Time Warner Cable during an
Internship
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