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The focus on technology often hides the need to address more fundamental teaching issues. | The focus on technology often hides the need to address more fundamental teaching issues. | ||
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How do you measure quality in faculty development? | How do you measure quality in faculty development? | ||
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Getting faculty to understand and embrace authentic assessment is crucial to many aspects of teaching and learning. It is linked to issues in academic integrity, classroom attention issues due to technology, and is necessary to become a learning-centered institution. | Getting faculty to understand and embrace authentic assessment is crucial to many aspects of teaching and learning. It is linked to issues in academic integrity, classroom attention issues due to technology, and is necessary to become a learning-centered institution. | ||
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Ruth Rodgers has joined our team as a Teaching and Learning Specialist | Ruth Rodgers has joined our team as a Teaching and Learning Specialist | ||
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Our spring calendar saw the richest suite of courses for faculty ever offered in the Centre | Our spring calendar saw the richest suite of courses for faculty ever offered in the Centre | ||
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This fiscal year we’ve had over 500 people take a course in the Centre (Apr-Sept) | This fiscal year we’ve had over 500 people take a course in the Centre (Apr-Sept) | ||
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We also provided at least an additional 500 hours of one-on-one support | We also provided at least an additional 500 hours of one-on-one support | ||
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We’ve received an Inukshuk grant to develop learning objects to train police on dealing with mentally ill individuals and we received CCL funding to research the effectiveness of these objects. | We’ve received an Inukshuk grant to develop learning objects to train police on dealing with mentally ill individuals and we received CCL funding to research the effectiveness of these objects. | ||
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| + | Our [http://x.dc-uoit.ca/blog/newsletters/ newsletter] keeps getting better and better | ||
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We been funded for 5 half-time seconded faculty to form a curriculum unit for the development of curriculum resources, program mapping, and assist in developing quality in course outlines. And we all know that good teaching and learning starts with good curriculum! | We been funded for 5 half-time seconded faculty to form a curriculum unit for the development of curriculum resources, program mapping, and assist in developing quality in course outlines. And we all know that good teaching and learning starts with good curriculum! | ||
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We underwent a quality audit with PQAPA. | We underwent a quality audit with PQAPA. | ||
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The development of an Academic plan that has emphasis on quality teaching and learning and the effective use of instructional technology. | The development of an Academic plan that has emphasis on quality teaching and learning and the effective use of instructional technology. | ||
| − | Greater adoption of WebCT Vista | + | |
| − | The development of a curriculum database to hold outlines that might ultimately interface to a learning object repository. | + | Greater adoption of WebCT Vista. |
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| + | The development of a curriculum database to hold course outlines and that might ultimately interface to a learning object repository. | ||
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Seeing more active learning and authentic assessment. | Seeing more active learning and authentic assessment. | ||
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The development of research capacity to move in the direction of SoTL. | The development of research capacity to move in the direction of SoTL. | ||
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| + | Designing the questions to ask in order to use the answers to decide on our next LMS. | ||
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| + | Hosting the EDC conference in Feb 2009 | ||
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| + | [http://kumu.brocku.ca/oucel/COED_Institutional_Updates Back to COED Updates] | ||
| + | [[Category:OUCeL]] | ||
Latest revision as of 11:27, 25 September 2024
Challenges
The focus on technology often hides the need to address more fundamental teaching issues.
How do you measure quality in faculty development?
Getting faculty to understand and embrace authentic assessment is crucial to many aspects of teaching and learning. It is linked to issues in academic integrity, classroom attention issues due to technology, and is necessary to become a learning-centered institution.
Successes
Ruth Rodgers has joined our team as a Teaching and Learning Specialist
Our spring calendar saw the richest suite of courses for faculty ever offered in the Centre
This fiscal year we’ve had over 500 people take a course in the Centre (Apr-Sept)
We also provided at least an additional 500 hours of one-on-one support
We’ve received an Inukshuk grant to develop learning objects to train police on dealing with mentally ill individuals and we received CCL funding to research the effectiveness of these objects.
Our newsletter keeps getting better and better
We been funded for 5 half-time seconded faculty to form a curriculum unit for the development of curriculum resources, program mapping, and assist in developing quality in course outlines. And we all know that good teaching and learning starts with good curriculum!
We underwent a quality audit with PQAPA.
Goals
The development of an Academic plan that has emphasis on quality teaching and learning and the effective use of instructional technology.
Greater adoption of WebCT Vista.
The development of a curriculum database to hold course outlines and that might ultimately interface to a learning object repository.
Seeing more active learning and authentic assessment.
The development of research capacity to move in the direction of SoTL.
Designing the questions to ask in order to use the answers to decide on our next LMS.
Hosting the EDC conference in Feb 2009
