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Anyone Using Significant Learning Taxonomy in K-12 Teaching??

2017-10-09T05:52:12-05:00

Hello!

I am sending this email out on the "Design Learning" listserv, on behalf of
a K-12 teacher in Colombia who is interested in using the ideas in my book
on "*Creating Significant Learning Experiences"* in her own teaching.
Her name is Maria Trujillo.

I said I would ask everyone who has signed up on this listserv, to see if
anyone is teaching at that level. [...]

Question: Excellent Institutions re Teaching & Learning??

2017-05-12T17:46:46-05:00

Hello Everyone!

I have been consulting with the new president of a small institution, on
how to create a college that generates high quality learning, high quality
teaching, within the long-term goal of continuous improvement.

*Question*: Does anyone have or know of an *college or university* that
does a good job on *3 or more* of the following tasks: [...]

Reminder - National Workshop on "Designing Courses for Significant Learning"

2016-03-31T05:27:36-05:00

This is just a reminder that there is still time to register for the *National
Workshop* on *“Designing Your Courses for More Significant Learning”* that
Dee Fink & Associates will be offering in *Chicago* on *May 25-27, 2016*.

We offer this Workshop each year to give everyone who wants a chance
to learn about this important topic. [...]

Available: 2-Week Online Course on "Designing Courses for Significant Learning"

2016-03-16T16:27:53-05:00

Hello!

Last fall, Dee Fink & Associates launched a *new, two-week, facilitated
online course* on “*Designing Courses for Significant Learning**”*. This
course has a number of important values:

· This course is focused on *one of the fundamental skills of
teaching* – how to design a course in a learning-centered way – with
attention to active learning, educative assessment, creating alignment, and
choosing a good teaching strategy. [...]

National Workshop: "Designing Courses for Significant Learning"

2016-01-20T09:51:59-06:00

This is an *announcement* about the *9th Annual National Workshop* on
*“Designing
Your Courses for More Significant Learning”* that is scheduled for *May
25-27, 2016*.

This year we will again have a* half-day optional workshop on “Leading Your
Own Workshop, on Integrated Course Design”.*

Both workshops are described below and at:
http://www.deefinkandassociates.com/index.php/workshops/chicago-2016/

If you - or people you know - might be interested signing up for this
workshop, we hope you will consider joining us; it will be one of the best
workshops you ever attended. [...]

Re: Request for Help

2015-01-12T12:22:27-06:00

Hello All,

I have had 3 responses so far, to my "All Call" for ideas on assessing
different kinds of significant learning, from:

- Jeff Straw, NW Michigan College
- Larry Schankman, Univ of Wisconsins - La Crosse
- Catherine Garland, Castleton College (VT)

Keep them coming; I/we still need more!

Many thanks to all of you, Dee [...]

Request for Help

2015-01-09T15:06:06-06:00

Hello to Everyone on this "Design Learning" List!

I would like to request help from as many people as possible, who can
respond with some good practices and ideas.

*Situation*
As you may know, Dee Fink & Associates (DF&A) recently started a new,
2-week course that provides a good introduction to Integrated Course Design
and the Taxonomy of Significant Learning.
AN ADDITIONAL NEW COURSE: What we in DF&A are now involved in, is the
creation of another, separate 2-week course on "*Assessing Significant
Learning*". We have long known that this part of good course design is
especially challenging for many [...]

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2014-11-18T17:26:19-07:00

On 11/18/14, 5:24 PM, Dee Fink wrote:
>
> Greetings, members of the DBLE listserv!
>
> I want to give all members of this listserv a "heads up" about our
> new, 2-week online course on "/Designing Courses for Significant
> Learning."/ (Described below.)
>
> If you have faculty on your campus who might be interested in this,
> please share with them the attached flyer and/or the email text itself.
>
> Many thanks, Dee Fink
>
>
> ********************************
>
> Recently Dee Fink & Associates designed a _new, two-week online
> course_ intended for a [...]

Now Available: 2-Week Online Course on "Designing Courses for Significant Learning"

2014-11-18T18:24:33-06:00

Greetings, members of the DBLE listserv!

I want to give all members of this listserv a "heads up" about our new,
2-week online course on "*Designing Courses for Significant Learning."*
(Described below.)

If you have faculty on your campus who might be interested in this,
please share with them the attached flyer and/or the email text itself. [...]

Re: Dealing with course alignment - or course design by committee

2014-03-18T21:49:40-04:00

We have a similar problem in our program. All course team taught with external credentialing agency to ensure standards. One thing we do not presently implement, but should is an effective design brief for the courses. This helps delegate responsibilities and also helps to see what the incoming and outgoing students have been taught. It isn't a fun process, but it should not be a task undertaken by one individual. It is purely a team effort. Further, an effective brief helps when new faculty are thrown into the mix or are asked to teach a course previously taught by someone [...]

Re: Dealing with course alignment - or course design by committee

2014-03-18T14:03:25-05:00

My first question is exactly what do you mean by "need to agree on 75% of the course"? Are you talking about course outcomes (objectives or whatever you prefer to call it) or which text and other ancillaries will be used or the way the course will be taught, etc. [...]

Re: Dealing with course alignment - or course design by committee

2014-03-18T14:41:18-04:00

That's a slippery slope!

Here is my take... You need strong, high-end leadership behind this. It's
difficult to get a group of faculty in a room to discuss giving up their
academic freedom for a course they like to teach *their way*. You also need
someone like an instructional designer to be the facilitator of this
conversation for the committee. It's going to be messy : ) [...]

Dealing with course alignment - or course design by committee

2014-03-18T13:49:15-04:00

Greetings All,
So after doing all this research and looking forward to designing my class,
we were informed by our department head that courses that are part of the
core (we the community colleges have a transfer agreement with the state
universities regarding these courses) will be moving toward alignment.

So in my case, the people who are going to me teaching Music Appreciation
(MUS 110) will need to agree on 75% of the course so that administrators
can pull data on how well we are meeting the student learning objectives.
That means we'll be designing this course by committee. [...]

Reminder: Annual National Workshop on "Designing Courses for Significant Learning"

2014-03-17T18:05:16-05:00

Hello!

As members of the "designlearning" list, I want to give you an early
reminder about our Annual National Workshop.

This is a email reminder (my last) about the 7th Annual National
Workshopon "Designing Courses for Greater Student Engagement & Better
Learning"
that is scheduled for *May 20-22, 2014*.

This year we have a *new, half-day optional workshop on "Leading Your Own
Workshop, on Integrated Course Design".* [...]

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2014-01-28T12:10:28-05:00

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dee Fink" <dfink40@GMAIL.COM>
To: DESIGNLEARNING-L@LISTS.OU.EDU
Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2014 8:47:29 AM
Subject: 7th Annual National Workshop on "Course Design" + New Optional Workshop

Want your faculty to be able to design better courses?

This is an announcement about the 7 th Annual National Workshop on “Designing Courses for Greater Student Engagement & Better Learning” that is scheduled for May 20-22, 2014 . [...]

7th Annual National Workshop on "Course Design" + New Optional Workshop

2014-01-28T09:47:29-06:00

Want your faculty to be able to design better courses?

This is an *announcement* about the 7th Annual National Workshop on
"Designing Courses for Greater Student Engagement & Better Learning" that
is scheduled for *May 20-22, 2014*.

This year we have a *new, half-day optional workshop on "Leading Your Own
Workshop, on Integrated Course Design".* [...]

Music Courses

2014-01-22T12:07:39-05:00

Greetings All,
I am new to the listserve. I work at Wake Technical Community College
teaching music. One of our duties is a benchmarking project in which we
seek out colleagues to help us improve an aspect of our teaching. I read
"Creating Significant Learning Experiences" over the summer and integrated
many of the ideas into my classes. I am particularly interested in hearing
how these ideas have been applied in music, especially music appreciation
courses, and/ or at the community college level in general. [...]

Instruments to Measure Significant Learning??

2013-12-03T13:08:46-06:00

Friends,

Earlier this year, I did some consulting at Stockton College in New Jersey,
to help them identify ways to implement their institution-wide learning
outcomes, several of which were created from my taxonomy.
One person their, Susan Cydis, has started a faculty study group that
intends to design their courses in a wayto promote these institution-wide
learning outcomes. What they want to know is:
*Does anyone know of instruments that have already been developed and field
tested, to measure student engagement or significant learning-type
outcomes?*
They know about AAC&U's Values rubrics, and these will be helpful. But
they want to [...]

Dee Fink & Associates: Another Offering of Online Course

2013-10-13T07:51:00-05:00

I am pleased to announce that, in early *January, 2014*, Dee Fink &
Associates will offer another version of our online short course on
“Designing Courses for Significant Learning”.

This *online short course* enables faculty members – in any institution, in
any country – to intentionally design significant learning into their
courses. When they design their courses in a learning-centered way, it
leads to *greater student engagement* and *much better student learning*! [...]

September: Online Course on "Designing Courses for Significant Learning"

2013-08-07T21:00:08-05:00

Greetings! Do you…

*Want to take your teaching to the next level??*

* Or..*

*Have faculty members in your department who want to improve their
teaching? *

* *

Here is a way you can achieve either of these goals!

This *September*, Dee Fink and Associates will offer this fall’s
version of our online course, on “Designing Courses for Significant
Learning”. [...]

Fwd: need higher education instructional designers for research study

2013-04-29T13:22:21-05:00

People on the "Design Learning" listserv:

Some of you may have received the email below, which was sent out on the
POD listserv. But others of you may be interested in participating.

Dee Fink

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: mary hudgins <m.hudgins@comcast.net>
Date: Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 9:31 PM
Subject: need higher education instructional designers for research study [...]

Reminder: National Workshop on Learning-Centered Course Design - May 21-23, 2013

2013-03-12T14:56:38-05:00

Hello All!

This is a reminder about the the 6th Annual National Workshop on “*Designing
Courses for Greater Student Engagement & Better Learning*” that is
scheduled for *May 21-23, 2013* and is described below.

We would love to have you or any of your colleagues attend, who have not
yet attended this event.

The workshop has been very well received over the years. Here are some
comments from participants in years past: [...]

Online Short-Course on "Designing Courses for Significant Learning"

2012-11-14T09:18:31-06:00

Hello to everyone on the "Design Learning" listserv!

Below is a notice that I am sending out to various groups, including you,
about my online short-course (8 weeks) on course design.
Thought it might be helpful for everyone here to know about it.

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * [...]

June 1st: Online Course on "Course Design"

2012-05-11T18:21:53-05:00

Hello Everyone,

This email is to inform everyone that “Dee Fink & Associates” will offer
another section of our online course on “*Designing Courses for Significant
Learnin*g” *this coming June 1st. *This would be an excellent opportunity
for you or your colleagues to do some high-powered professional development
during the summer.

Dee Fink & Associates specializes in offering workshops nationally and
internationally on “Designing Courses for Significant Learning.” We have
now used that expertise in a *high-quality, online short-course on
“Designing Courses for Significant Learning.”* [...]

Re: Using Creating Significant Learning as Course textbook

2011-07-26T11:12:11-04:00

Yes, I have used the book and would highly recommend it. It extends the
objectives beyond the traditional taxonomies rather than replaces those
currently in use. It forces you as a teacher to update your own
objectives and expectations for the students.

Using Creating Significant Learning as Course textbook

2011-07-26T10:51:52-04:00

Colleagues,

I am new to the list so please forgive if this question has been posed before.

I have used the Taxonomy and course design method for several years now. I am an education professor. This year I will be teaching a new course for undergraduate teacher education students who will be teaching at the high school level. The course is one on planning and classroom management. I have a text for the classroom management part, but not for the planning section. I am thinking about using the Creating Significant Learning Experiences book by Dr. Fink. While this book is [...]

Re: Design Learning List: Tests for Emotional Intelligence??

2011-05-04T10:48:25-07:00

Dee,

About 10 years ago, I taught a segment on emotional intelligence in a
critical thinking course for nontraditional undergraduate students at
University of Denver. At that time, I used a free online multiple-choice
emotional intelligence test developed by Daniel Goleman. A couple of years
ago, I looked for that test and could no longer find it. But there are a
number of emotional intelligence tests available, mostly for a fee. I do
not know the quality of the various tests. [...]

Design Learning List: Tests for Emotional Intelligence??

2011-05-04T11:13:59-05:00

Colleagues,

In the Taxonomy for Significant Learning, two of the primary categories
involve the "Human Dimension" and "Caring/Values".

Many of you are probably familiar with the concept of Emotional Intelligence
which addresses both Self-Understanding and one's ability to Interact with
Others.
As we think about ways to assess the Human Dimension and students'
values that regulate their interactions with others, tests on emotional
intelligence become relevant. [...]

"Designing Better Learning Experiences" Website - Some Updates

2011-04-08T06:28:39-05:00

Hi! I just want to let everyone know about some recent additions to the
DBLE website:

- We have two new examples of good course design, one in Education and
another in Computer Information Technology.
- You can see these in the tab on "Examples".
- I was recently involved in 2 videos.
- One of these I made, about an upcoming visit to Kirkwood Community
College in Iowa.
- There other is a TV interview that I did in Beirut, Lebanon, about
higher education generally.
- These are posted on the home page. [...]

Three Special Opportunities to Learn about Course Design

2011-02-17T13:34:44-06:00

Hi Everyone,

I want to mention that "Dee Fink & Associates" is offering *three ways to
learn* about the basics of good course design, two of which are relatively
new. Let me provide some information about them, starting with the newest
of these.

*1. Online Course about "Designing Online & Hybrid Courses"*
Linda Jacoby and Stewart Ross have teamed up to create this online course
that will be available to start sometime in the next week or so. They are
both from Minnesota State University in Mankato.
This course has two major portions. The first is about the *basics of
[...]

Information about Annual National Workshop on "Course Design"

2010-12-13T11:18:41-06:00

Members of the "Designlearning" List:

Last month, I shared some information about two new online courses that Dee
Fink & Associates are starting to offer.

At this time, I simply want to let everyone know about the Annual
National Workshop we will be doing again this coming spring. In the past we
have offered this in Chicago; someone reserved all the hotel rooms near
O'Hare airport for the weekend we wanted, so we have moved the coming
version to MINNEAPOLIS, MN. [...]

Re: Test

2010-12-08T05:05:07+00:00

Hi teacher Dee,

This is my test to use the mail list.

Take care.

José Gregorio.

Enviado desde mi dispositivo movil BlackBerry® de Digitel.

-----Original Message-----
From: David Wilson <DAWilson@PARKLAND.EDU>
Sender: "For college professors globally, to dialogue about course design." <DESIGNLEARNING-L@LISTS.OU.EDU>
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 10:27:24
To: <DESIGNLEARNING-L@LISTS.OU.EDU>
Reply-To: David Wilson <DAWilson@PARKLAND.EDU>
Subject: Test

Hi Dee,

This is a test email as you requested. [...]

Test

2010-12-07T10:27:24-06:00

Hi Dee,

This is a test email as you requested.

Dave

David Wilson
Assoc Prof of Biology and Chemistry
Parkland College
Champaign, IL 61821
217-351-2371

Design Learning Website: Corrected Problem with listserv

2010-12-07T08:35:16-06:00

Members on the "Design Learning" listserv:

I just discovered a problem with the listserv on the "Design Learning"
website: For some strange reason, it was set so that ONLY the owners could
post to it.

I have changed those settings so that anyone who has subscribed to it can
post to it - which is the way I meant for it to be from the beginning. [...]

Design Learning Website: Updates on New Resources Available

2010-12-07T05:51:32-06:00

I just want to update everyone about some new resources that are now
available for learning about good course design. These are described on the
"Designing Better Learning Experiences" website, in the tab on "Learning
Design Basics".

In the section on "*Online Resources*", there is information about *two new
online courses* on course design.

In the section on "*Workshops*", there are two updates: [...]

New Resources for Learning about Course Design

2010-11-02T23:06:05-05:00

Hello All,

We have some new resources to help college teachers everywhere learn about
course design more easily now. Let me share that information with you.

1. *Online Course on "Designing Courses for Significant Learning":* This
past spring I trial tested a new online course about Integrated Course
Design, with people from China, Pakistan, France and the US. It went well,
but I also saw what needed to be done to make it better. So this summer and
fall, I have been making those changes.
The revised, "ready to go" version of this online course will start in
*January, 2011.* [...]

Re: Pre-Lectures

2010-09-09T17:06:51-05:00

I take it from the other responses to this that by "pre-lectures" you mean audio- or video-recorded lectures that students watch or listen to before class?

I've had great success going slightly lower tech by just having the students read the textbook before class. I have my students complete pre-class reading quizzes (graded on effort) as motivation for completing the reading. I usually have 80-90% of students come to class with something they've learned from the reading. [...]

Re: Pre-Lectures

2010-09-07T21:39:44-07:00

Dave,
I've been using Adobe Connect to create pre-lectures for an online Executive
MBA course. The students really like them. I currently create a new set of
lecture every time I teach the course, which allows the lectures to be more
personalized for the group of students. But, of course, it would be more
efficient to create mini-lectures on topics and reuse them! [...]

Re: Pre-Lectures

2010-09-07T23:00:48-05:00

I've used these in the past in a different course and recall students enthusiastically engaged in discussion and appreciating the opportunity to have a second (or third:) chance to earn some points. Thanks for the reminder!

Dave

>>> "Ross, Stewart" <stewart.ross@MNSU.EDU> 09/07/10 10:50 PM >>>
We have many professors using IF-AT forms which serve as pre-lectures. These are "scratch off" lottery looking sheets that groups of students take as quizzes in preparation for the presentation by the instructor and can be used in many other ways too. [...]

Re: Pre-Lectures

2010-09-08T03:49:02+00:00

We have many professors using IF-AT forms which serve as pre-lectures. These are "scratch off" lottery looking sheets that groups of students take as quizzes in preparation for the presentation by the instructor and can be used in many other ways too. Stewart Ross, Ph.D. Director of Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning Minnesota State Mankato Morris Hall 267 Mankato, MN 56003 507-389-1098 office 507-304-1624 cell stewart.ross@mnsu.edu www.mnsu.edu/cetl ________________________________________ From: For college professors globally, to dialogue about course design. [DESIGNLEARNING-L@lists.ou.edu] on behalf of David Wilson [DAWILSON@PARKLAND.EDU] Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2010 10:47 PM To: DESIGNLEARNING-L@lists.ou.edu Subject: Pre-Lectures I am [...]

Pre-Lectures

2010-09-07T22:47:48-05:00

I am implementing pre-lectures into my second semester general chemistry class this semester. Early observations are fairly positive. It is nice hearing students use fancy terms like "microstates" during class discussions. Has anyone else had experience implementing pre-lectures? I would love to hear about any successes and challenges.

Dave

David Wilson
Associate Professor of Biology and Chemistry
Parkland College
Champaign, IL 61821
217-351-2371

Redesigning your course for significant learning

2010-09-06T17:35:23-05:00

Hi, I am a "Finkite" (for lack of a better title). I attended Dee Finks's seminar
in Chicago in May of this year and bought into his beliefs on course design. I
then spent the summer redesigning my community health nursing course into
his recommnded format. I was very nervous about introducing this new
course design to my nursing students because they have only had lectures
and Powerpoint handouts their entire nursing school experience. As Dee
suggested, I used the "What do you want to learn the most about in this
course and your college career?" question (the approach is [...]

Ideas for an online research course

2010-08-28T15:28:16-05:00

What creative ideas/designs would you have to make an Online research course more interesting to the class.

Please let me know any suggestions you might have.

Thanks!

Masih

Masih Shokrani, Ph.D., MT(ASCP)
Assistant Professor
Northern Illinois University
Clinical Laboratory Sciences Program
DuSable Hall 165
DeKalb, Illinois 60115-2828
Office (815)753-6323
FAX (815)753-1653
e-mail: mshokrani@niu.edu

Re-Designing Courses for This Fall?

2010-08-28T15:03:02-05:00

Hello All!

As we approach the start of the fall term, I am wondering what q*uestions,
problems, or creative ideas* people have for designing their courses?

We now have approximately 80 people on this course design listserv.

I am sure a good number of you have done some creative design or
redesign of your courses. [...]

RE : Designing Better Learning Experiences: Updates on Website + Question

2010-06-24T10:55:58-04:00

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Re: Developing Integration Skills

2010-06-23T18:03:53-06:00

One thing I have used with undergrads (Org behavior course) is a 500 word memo. Paragraph one: a concept that applies. Paragraph two: how that concept played out in the experience/exercise. Paragraph three: how it would play out in the business world (in your case the classroom when teaching) and Paragraph four: One lesson learned from this that the student would like to remember for the future. I have not gone as far as having them share them (as they are due the next class) but modifying this to create a discussion would work.
Carolyn [...]

Fwd: Developing Integration Skills

2010-06-22T12:46:46-04:00

This is something that I adapted from Dee's course. I teach advanced pedagogy classes to grad students and one of the challenges we have (and according to the literature, this seems to be a challenge of these types of programs in general) is that the students don't always apply what they are learning to their own classrooms - they don't make those connections. Reflection seems to be of paramount importance, but from my own experiences as both a student and instructor, the reflections often seemed forced. What I'm going to try this year is have them Tweet "connections" - the [...]

Re: Developing Integration Skills

2010-06-22T10:45:13-05:00

Peter,

Glad to hear those ideas were helpful.

As to your question on how to develop skills around Integration, the key
concept in that idea, for me, is "making connections."

Then there are various kinds of connections that you might want
students to learn how to make.

*Types of Connections*

First, there can be connections between/among ideas *within a course*. For
example, in a Psychology course, one might want students identify
similarities and differences among various theorists, e.g., Freud, Skinner,
and Rogers. [...]

Re: Designing Better Learning Experiences: Updates on Website + Question

2010-06-22T04:23:19-07:00

Dee and Michael,

Ive been teaching in a hybrid International Executive MBA program for many
years. The courses typically begin with a few live sessions during the
students 2-week residential period. Then we have 6 months of
asynchronous online sessions. I love the online sessions; they proceed to
deeper levels than is possible in the limited time of a live class. My
sessions last for four days, and most students add about one posting per
day. In this program, I have taught introductory financial accounting,
introductory cost accounting, and management control systems. I use
slightly different types of assignments and [...]

Re: Soft skills development

2010-06-22T19:44:27+12:00

Hi again Dee,

Thanks for taking time to respond ... you prompted me to start thinking
about the things that weren't there (from your taxonomy): Integrating,
Caring, and Foundational knowledge.

It seems to me that there are possibly skills that we need to address in
those categories. For example, in the foundational knowledge I suspect that
many students struggle with finding effective ways to understand and
remember the ideas to which they are exposed. i wonder if, for many
students, the rate of knowledge acquisition they are meant to achieve comes
as a 'shock to the system'. We probably could [...]

RE : Designing Online Courses with Synch and Asynch Components

2010-06-22T01:13:56-04:00

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Re: Designing Online Courses with Synch and Asynch Components

2010-06-21T22:49:54-05:00

Michael,

I teach an online Chemistry for Health Professions course. My students
are almost entirely nurses who are trying to complete their bachelors.
Although they are a pretty motivated bunch of students, I'm intrigued by
the idea of doing this synchronously, but felt that it wouldn't work
because of student schedule conflicts. Is there a face to face version
of the course you teach? If not, are there options for students who
cannot attend the synch time? [...]

Re: Designing Online Courses with Synch and Asynch Components

2010-06-21T21:27:00-05:00

Thanks, Michael!

Does anyone have questions or comments on what Michael has done?

Any similar or related experiences?

Dee

On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 9:03 PM, Thomas Michael Power <
Michael.Power@fse.ulaval.ca> wrote:

> Hi Dee,
>
> Yes, indeed. I started teaching online using a combination of a basic
> website and a virtual classroom about 10 years ago. Rather early on in
> online learning, I realized that developing a full-blown website was
> prohibitively time-consuming and simply an exercise in futility since
> updating it in a timely fashion became a virtual impossibility. I also
> realized [...]

RE : Designing Better Learning Experiences: Updates on Website + Question

2010-06-21T22:03:17-04:00

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Designing Better Learning Experiences: Updates on Website + Question

2010-06-21T20:09:40-05:00

Hi Everyone,

I just wanted to alert you that the page on "Design Forms & Tips" (under
"Resource Downloads") has been re-organized and several new items have been
added.

*Question*:

Does anyone have a "success story" they would like to share on the
listserv? Posting this would allow people to ask questions about how it
works, and what problems they had to overcome. [...]

Re: Assessing goals from left side of taxonomy

2010-06-11T16:44:59+00:00

Sorry, I wrote too fast. Should be one problem not program at the end of my comments and of course I meant base line, not based line!

Stewart Ross, Ph.D
Director of Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning
Minnesota State Mankato
Morris Hall 267
Mankato MN 56003
507-389-1098 office
507-304-1624 cell
stewart.ross@mnsu.edu
www.mnsu.edu/cetl
"Volunteers are unpaid NOT because they are worthless, but because they are PRICELESS!" -- Anonymous [...]

Re: Assessing goals from left side of taxonomy

2010-06-11T15:32:01+00:00

I should add that we started to do a based line pre-test/post-test for our faculty certificate program at our university. We use a five point scale looking at confidence in using active learning, design quality courses etc. (all things we do during the year in the program). In the past few years we have found that most of the categories go up one entire point! This is terrific information for our provost who believes if faculty are learning new ideas and finding alternative teaching strategies to traditional lecture, and develop confidence in their ability....we continue to see good resources coming [...]

Fwd: Assessing goals from left side of taxonomy

2010-06-11T09:47:10-04:00

Mike - The thing I find so interesting about the folks who have a hard time with the left side ("touchy feely crap" - ouch!) is that if you ask them before they ever see the taxonomy for their "blue sky" dreams about the course and their students' learning, their answers almost always have to do with the left side. And if you ask them why they got into their discipline to start with, again it's almost always represented by the left side. That's how I try to frame it for them before they ever see the taxonomy. Then when [...]

Re: Assessing goals from left side of taxonomy

2010-06-10T11:13:37-04:00

Denise,
I feel your pain about what some of our Criminal Justice and Bio folks
initially disdainfully referred to as the "touchy feely crap." My tack that
works most -- not all -- of the time is to drive them back to DWF (Drop,
Withdraw, Failure) numbers and complaints of "lazy, unmotivated" students. I
always frame this for them in terms of my experience with my own courses, as
I had my Fink-inspired "Should had a V8 moment". I too grumbled and huffed
and puffed about those darn student slackers, but had never asked myself the
hard question about what [...]

Re: New Listserv on "Designing Better Learning Experiences" For your Students

2010-06-10T03:51:25-07:00

Hi all,
This is great timing as I am in my second round of 'becoming one of my students'. I have again travelled to a foreign place and begun to learn the culture and language of the place and reflect on the values that drive my curriculum development and implementation. The experiential learning around this has been powerful and I am wondering how such an experience of looking at myself as a learner and a teacher at the same time might be of use in the academic realm? The questions/concerns/ideas that have come up during this particular experience mainly have [...]

Re: Assessing goals from left side of taxonomy

2010-06-09T17:14:56+00:00

Good questions! As one of the Fink & Associates presenters I do hear this question often...of course many times it is not asked as a question but a threat...I am not going to do this since you can't measure caring or human dimension!

Having taught music before becoming a faculty developer I did switch my emphasis of a large introductory music course goals from mainly foundational knowledge and application to caring and human dimension. It became clear to me after just one semester of teaching the course back in the 1970s that foundational knowledge would not last long with students [...]

Assessing goals from left side of taxonomy

2010-06-09T12:48:10-04:00

Hi folks,
I work at the Center for Teaching and Learning at UGA and we have gone through the course design process with many faculty members now (in-house we affectionally call it, "Finking your course") through workshops and even a week-long Maymester Institute. In the fall I'll be teaching the process to a group of graduate students through a semester-long course. [...]

Re: Soft skills development

2010-06-09T05:28:49-05:00

Peter,

What a wonderful task and related question.

I will leave the door open to others, to address your question of which of
these learning goals might have the largest impact. What I can't resist is
the opportunity to note two things about your list of possible learning
goals.

First, if you had not mentioned that the course was mainly about Management
and Marketing, I could have read that list as a good list of learning goals
for "Leadership in Any Kind of Organization" - churches, schools, the
military, university department chairs, non-profits, etc. [...]

Soft skills development

2010-06-09T20:47:30+12:00

Hi all,

I, and two colleagues, have been tasked with developing, introducing, and
delivering a new core (aka compulsory) courses for our 1st year,
undergraduate degree (Bachelor of Commerce).The 'content' of the course is
largely based on Management and Marketing.

Aside from the 'content', there are explicit goals around the delivery of
soft skills. our starting list of soft skills is rather long (more than we
can possibly do). Our partial list includes: [...]

New Listserv on "Designing Better Learning Experiences" For your Students

2010-06-09T03:11:51-05:00

Hello All,

First, I would like to thank all of you for signing up on the new listserv
on our "Designing Better Learning Expeirences" website.

The response has been quite encouraging. As of today (Wednesday
morning), over 60 people are on this list!

Second, I would like to encourage you to start posting some *questions,
concerns, or insights* to the listserv. [...]

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2010-05-11T22:19:35-05:00

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