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Contributor(s): Erik G. Christiansen; Michael B. McNally
Date issued: 2017
Description: This paper examines the continuum from "closed" to "open" for both open educational resources (OER) and open courses. The primary focus is to evaluate what instructional choices are needed to increase the openness of courses and how such openness impacts the student experience. The majority of OER literature is concerned with cost savings to students and are presented as institutional case studies. This conceptual paper provides an analysis of the critical academic literature and summarizes the common obstacles instructors face when working on their own OER projects - namely instructional design, technical support, and institutional tenure. Through this analysis, the authors propose a six...
Type: presentations (communicative events)
Appears in collection(s): Centres & Institutes

Contributor(s): Melanie Rathburn; Roberta Lexier; Andrew Vespa
Date issued: 2016
Description: Community-service learning (CSL), which is grounded in John Dewey’s theory of learning through experience (1938), allows students the opportunity to participate in a service experience that is integrated within the curriculum, meets the actual needs of the community, and incorporates critical reflection to connect their academic learning with their experiences. There is now overwhelming evidence that CSL has the ability to influence students’ cognitive and affective learning (Levesque-Bristol, Knapp, and Fisher, 2010; Eyler and Giles, 1999; Warren, 2012). In 2014, we offered two collaborative courses that included an international travel component and shared the same cohort of students....
Type: presentations (communicative events)
Appears in collection(s): Centres & Institutes

Contributor(s): Janice Miller-Young
Date issued: 2015
Description: Presentation to Mount Royal's BBA Summit (attended by Medicine Hat College and Red Deer College colleagues) addressing what is Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and how to get started.
Type: presentations (communicative events)
Appears in collection(s): Centres & Institutes

Contributor(s): Janice Miller-Young; Michelle Yeo
Date issued: 2015
Description: David Pace1, Janice Miller-Young2, Michelle Yeo2, Manie Moolman3, Jennifer Clark4, Adrian Jones5, Anette Wilkinson3, Deirdre van Jaarsveldt3 1 Indiana University 2 Mount Royal University 3 University of the Free State 4 University of New England, NSW 5 La Trobe University Decoding the Disciplines is being used to increase learning in at least nine countries on four continents, and the model has been enriched, as scholars of teaching and learning have adapted the paradigm to the needs of their institutions. This session will begin with a very brief introduction to the Decoding model, followed by presentations showing how teams in Canada, South Africa, and Australia are putting Decoding to...
Type: presentations (communicative events)
Appears in collection(s): Centres & Institutes

Contributor(s): Janice Miller-Young; Michelle Yeo; Karen Manarin; Miriam Carey
Date issued: 2014
Description: Mount Royal’s Institute for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning has now operated the Nexen Scholars Program for 5 years. However, before now, the outcomes of the program have not been systematically investigated except to count the number of travel grants given and number of papers that program participants have produced. Therefore the purposes of this study were to investigate whether the program has helped faculty meet their own goals for participation, and how both their project and the program have influenced their teaching and scholarly activities. All Mount Royal faculty members who were accepted to the SoTL Scholars program in the years 2009-2013 were invited to participate in...
Type: presentations (communicative events)
Appears in collection(s): Centres & Institutes

Contributor(s): Janice Miller-Young; Karen Manarin; Deb Bennett
Date issued: 2014
Description: This pre-conference workshop will support participants in designing and/or refining a scholarly investigation of student learning in their class, from developing or refining a research question, through ethical considerations, methods, data analysis, and dissemination. Part I (morning) Getting started Participants will: • Learn what SoTL is and how to get started • Discuss conceptual frameworks that can inform the study • Share, generate and refine research questions related to student learning • Explore different approaches and methods for generating and analyzing data • Think through ethical considerations involved in SoTL This 3 hour session will be a combination of plenary...
Type: presentations (communicative events)
Appears in collection(s): Centres & Institutes