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- Contributor(s)
- Genevieve Currie
- Date issued
- 2017
- Description
- This chapter describes how seven disciplinary bottlenecks from four diverse disciplines were analyzed using a phenomenological perspective and includes a discussion of embodied knowing and implications for educators.
- Type
- book chapter
- Appears in collection(s)
- Centres & Institutes
- Contributor(s)
- Jennifer Pettit; Melanie Rathburn; Victoria Calvert; Roberta Lexier; Margot Underwood; Judy Gleeson; Yasmin Dean
- Date issued
- 2017
- Description
- This chapter describes a multidisciplinary faculty self-study about reciprocity in service-learning. The study began with each co-author participating in a Decoding interview. We describe how Decoding combined with collaborative self-study had a positive impact on our teaching practice.
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- book chapter
- Appears in collection(s)
- Centres & Institutes
- Contributor(s)
- Janice Miller-Young; Jennifer Boman
- Date issued
- 2017
- Description
- This special issue demonstrates how “Decoding the Disciplines” not only provides a framework for inquiry into teaching and learning disciplinary concepts, but also holds much potential for bridging disciplinary thinking and teaching practice across disciplines, and serving as a tool for both teaching and curriculum development. In Chapter 1, together with our Faculty Learning Community (FLC) co-authors, we describe the “Decoding the Disciplines” FLC at Mount Royal University, including how it started as a faculty development initiative, and how it developed into various teaching, curriculum, and research projects which are presented in detail in subsequent chapters. We hope that others...
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- book
- Appears in collection(s)
- Centres & Institutes
- Contributor(s)
- Janice Miller-Young; Jennifer Boman
- Date issued
- 2017
- Description
- This chapter presents the bottlenecks identified by seven faculty members from diverse disciplines, and an inductive content analysis of their Decoding interviews. Representative quotations illustrate themes in the interviews and we consider the implications for both faculty development and pedagogical research.
- Type
- book chapter
- Appears in collection(s)
- Centres & Institutes
- Contributor(s)
- Janice Miller-Young; Jennifer Boman
- Date issued
- 2017
- Description
- This final chapter synthesizes the findings and implications derived from applying the Decoding the Disciplines model across disciplines and within communities of practice. We make practical suggestions for teachers and researchers who wish to apply and extend this work.
- Type
- book chapter
- Appears in collection(s)
- Centres & Institutes
- 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...
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- presentations (communicative events)
- Appears in collection(s)
- Centres & Institutes
- Contributor(s)
- Ron MacDonald
- Date issued
- 2017
- Description
- Deciphering teachers’ paths to their disciplinary professional identities can make important elements of their tacit knowledge explicit and available to their students.
- Type
- book chapter
- Appears in collection(s)
- Centres & Institutes
- Contributor(s)
- Michelle Yeo; Mark Lafave; Khatija Westbrook; Jenelle McAllister; Dennis Valdez; Breda Eubank
- Date issued
- 2017
- Description
- This chapter demonstrates how Decoding work can be productively utilized within a curriculum change process to help make design decisions based on a more nuanced understanding of student learning, and the relationship of a professional program to the field.
- Type
- book chapter
- Appears in collection(s)
- Centres & Institutes
- Contributor(s)
- Michelle Yeo
- Date issued
- 2017
- Description
- This chapter argues that expert practice is an inquiry which surfaces a hermeneutic relationship between theory, practice, and the world, with implications for new lines of questioning in the Decoding interview.
- Type
- book chapter
- Appears in collection(s)
- Centres & Institutes
- Contributor(s)
- Jennifer Boman; Genevieve Currie; Ron MacDonald; Janice Miller-Young; Michelle Yeo; Stephanie Zettel
- Date issued
- 2017
- Description
- In this chapter we describe the “Decoding the Disciplines” Faculty Learning Community at Mount Royal University, and how Decoding has been used in new and multidisciplinary ways in the various teaching, curriculum and research projects which are presented in detail in subsequent chapters.
- Type
- book chapter
- Appears in collection(s)
- Centres & Institutes
- Contributor(s)
- Janice Miller-Young
- Date issued
- 2016
- Type
- article
- Appears in collection(s)
- Centres & Institutes
- Contributor(s)
- Janice Miller-Young; Michelle Yeo; Karen Manarin; Miriam Carey; Jim Zimmer
- Date issued
- 2016
- Description
- This chapter briefly describes the SoTL research development program and context at Mount Royal University, reports initial results from a study of the program’s impact on participants’ teaching and scholarly activities, and situates the findings regarding individual impact, department-level impact, institution-level impact, and discipline-level impact within the current literature and the Canadian context described in this special issue
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- article
- 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
- 2016
- Description
- This transcribed Decoding interview was part of a study conducted by the Decoding Faculty Learning Community at Mount Royal University. It is analyzed from multiple theoretical perspectives in an upcoming special issue of NDTL due for publication in 2017: Miller-Young, Janice, and Jennifer Boman, eds. (accepted.) Using the Decoding the Disciplines Framework for Learning Across Disciplines, New Directions for Teaching and Learning. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
- Type
- database
- Appears in collection(s)
- Centres & Institutes
- Contributor(s)
- Margy MacMillan; Michelle Yeo; Genevieve Currie; David Pace; Brett McCollum; Janice Miller-Young
- Date issued
- 2016
- Description
- Scholars of teaching and learning around the world and in many disciplines have been using the Decoding the Disciplines process to make explicit the mental operations that students must master to succeed. Teachers, as experts in their disciplines, often hold this knowledge in tacit and implicit ways that are not easily accessible to novices, resulting in "bottlenecks" to learning. A key step towards addressing bottlenecks is a Decoding interview in which teachers uncover and unpack crucial thinking with the help of two interviewers outside their field. The interview can yield important insights for teachers, generate data for SoTL work, and also play an important role in developing the...
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- conference publication
- Appears in collection(s)
- Centres & Institutes
- Contributor(s)
- Janice Miller-Young; Michelle Yeo
- Date issued
- 2015
- Description
- The emerging field of SoTL is an inherently interdisciplinary endeavor, embracing a diverse range of research methods. It desires to be hospitable to a range of disciplinary differences in world views. However, the field lacks coherence in its conceptualization and communication. Ongoing debates in the community concern the use of theory, as well as definitional questions of what constitutes SoTL and the nature of its purpose. This article offers a framework for conceptualizing the field, which attempts to broadly delineate the available theories underlying and methodologies appropriate to studying teaching and learning, while intending to be hospitable to a broad range of diverse...
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- article
- 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; Yasmin Dean; Melanie Rathburn; Jennifer Pettit; Margot Underwood; Judy Gleeson; Roberta Lexier; Victoria Calvert; Patti Clayton
- Date issued
- 2015
- Description
- Faculty learning in Global Service-Learning is an important area of research because understanding how faculty develop their practice is an important first step in improving student learning outcomes and relationships with community members. Enacting reciprocity in service-learning can be particularly troublesome because it requires faculty to learn to develop courses and partnerships in counternormative ways. This article reports on an approach to investigating and generating faculty learning, in our case about the threshold concept of reciprocity, through a group self-study process that included a new-to-the-field interview method developed for Decoding the Disciplines (Pace &...
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- article
- Appears in collection(s)
- Centres & Institutes
- Contributor(s)
- Institute for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
- Date issued
- 2015
- Description
- 6th Annual Symposium on Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Banff, Alberta Canada November 12 - 14, 2015. This gathering of teacher/scholars is a practitioner’s conference dedicated to developing teaching and learning research, sharing initial findings, going public with results of completed projects, and building an extended scholarly community. In its 6th year, the conference annually draws together faculty, students, educational developers, and administrators interested in the systematic inquiry into teaching and learning. This year's conference featured four pre-conference workshops, a day and a half of concurrent sessions, a poster session, reception, and two plenary keynote...
- Type
- conference publication
- 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