Search results
Search Results
Displaying (1 - 20 of 21)
Pages
- Contributor(s)
- Ana Sepulveda; Ranee Drader; Margy MacMillan
- Date issued
- 2014
- Description
- These two scholarship of teaching and learning undergraduate student co-investigators talk about why they got involved in SoTL research, describe the projects they've worked on and what they've learned, and share their perspectives on how faculty and students can work together toward improving student learning. Some key themes from their talk include how they now have a better understanding of what research is and what universities do, how much they were inspired and excited by doing the research and gained confidence by being able to add value to a research project, and also how it taught them life skills such as developing time management skills, learning that setbacks are okay, and...
- Type
- conference publication
- Appears in collection(s)
- Centres & Institutes
- 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)
- 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)
- 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.
- Type
- 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...
- Type
- 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)
- Institute for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
- Date issued
- 2013
- Type
- conference publication
- 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)
- 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)
- Institute for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
- Date issued
- 2014
- Type
- conference publication
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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...
- Type
- conference publication
- 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