Webinar June 9 “Assessing the Impact of Technology on Learning”
Another great webinar from ELI.
We’ll be showing it in AH 1112 (Monday, June 9, 10 am). It’s open to all and archived too. Access archived sessions here. You’ll need to set up an Educause account with your sdsu email to do so.
Karen Swan
Research Professor,
Research Center for Educational Technology
Kent State University
Good questions, Swan argues, specify not just outcomes but also inputs and, most importantly, learning processes. In this seminar, she will review the major issues and processes to consider in assessing the impact of technology on student learning. In particular, she will highlight the importance of carefully assessing teaching and learning inputs and processes in addition to learning outcomes in order to develop a comprehensive understanding of where and how the use of technology supports learning.
New Faculty and teaching and learning
Simon Marshall posted about the challenges of prioritizing teaching and learning for new faculty.
One glaring omission in our preparatory training is that no formal pedagogical training is required (remember, “recommended” and “required” yield very different behaviors from faculty too!).
With RTP, research and grant writing, it’s a wonder they can attend to teaching at all. Having a course design institute or curriculum available at the onset of a teaching career seems obviously logical, yet it happens a few institutions. At the same time, many new faculty have teaching experience and some even have training.
They don’t do faculty development per se at Claremont. Instead a course on course design is recommended to all graduate students. Ok, it’s recommended, not required, but it’s for credit. It’s intense and practical.
I’m sure there are other ways to approach it as well. Professional development is after all a part of every organization.
May 27 - CDI 2008 Discussion
Post your ideas, comments and questions here!
Working Smarter - Learning 2.0
I’ll be talking about learning 2.0 a bit during the workshop next week. Like everything 2.0ish, it’s about the web and using it more effectively, creatively and efficiently. Attending to a few habits can make a noticable difference in the way you work over time. Because we work so much on computers, those patterned, repetitive habits become invisible and many of us have never been shown different ways of working. For example:
- We navigate our desktop and workspaces solely with a mouse as compared with combining keystrokes with mouse-movements. The latter technique affords us the interactive use of both hands, rather than the procedural use of one hand: Now I’m typing-Now I’m using my mouse. It’s a subtle distinction but when you observe someone else, it’s easy to notice. A common task where this comes in handy is cutting/copying and pasting. You can use your mouse hand to position your cursor, while keystroking CTL X/C and CTL V to copy/cut and paste text.
- Browser tabs allow you to have open multiple pages in one browser window. Cycling through them can be done with CTL and numbers (1,2,3 etc). Since we often have multiple applications open, tabbing reduces the number of actual windows we have to cycle through.
- And speaking of cycling through applications, holding ALT/Tab PC, Apple/Tab Mac, lets you cycle through all your open applications quickly.
Working with 2 hands instead of one; it’s gotta save time.
More Learning 2.0.
2nd Annual Course Design Institute
One Day in May: 2nd Annual SDSU Course Design Institute
DESIGNING COURSES TO WORK SMARTER
Tuesday, May 27, 8:00-4:00 PM
Maximize the learning potential of the Internet
Entice students to learn more outside class
Embrace diverse abilities and perspectives
Energize learning communities
Partner with resource providers
Funded by the Division of Undergraduate Studies through pICT, people, information, & communication technologies, a program of the Qualcomm Institute for Innovation and Educational Success.
REGISTER AT http://ctl.sdsu.edu
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