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- 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....
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- presentations (communicative events)
- Appears in collection(s)
- Centres & Institutes
- Contributor(s)
- Deb Bennett; Karen Dodge
- Date issued
- 2014
- Description
- “What brings you here today?” is a familiar question in a health clinic in Canada, but it may not be one that comes immediately to the mind of an internationally educated health professional. The way health professionals communicate with patients in their cultures can sound overly direct in Canadian clinics. “Why are you here?” would be typically asked to patients in settings such as the Ukraine and Egypt. A stepping stone that supports the understanding of linguistic appropriacy and the Canadian health care context is offered at the Languages Institute of Mount Royal University, Calgary. The Communication Skills for Health Professionals (CSHP) project teaches language and communication...
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- article
- Appears in collection(s)
- Centres & Institutes
- Contributor(s)
- Richard Gale
- Date issued
- 2012
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- article
- Appears in collection(s)
- Centres & Institutes
- Contributor(s)
- Richard Gale
- Date issued
- 2011
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- article
- Appears in collection(s)
- Centres & Institutes
- Contributor(s)
- Janice Miller-Young
- Date issued
- 2015
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- 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)
- Janice Miller-Young
- Date issued
- 2014
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- article
- Appears in collection(s)
- Centres & Institutes
- Contributor(s)
- Janice Miller-Young
- Date issued
- 2013
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- article
- Appears in collection(s)
- Centres & Institutes
- Date issued
- 2020-04-15; 2020-04-15
- Description
- Are you preparing to teach online due to the coronavirus emergency, but need a place to start? One simple way to guide your planning is to think about online learning (like many forms of learning) as involving three key elements (Anderson, 2008): Student-Content, Student-Student, and Educator-Student interactions. This infographic illustrates these three interaction elements and provides related examples. References: Anderson, T. 2008. The theory and practice of online learning (Chapter 2, 2nd ed.). Available at https://www.aupress.ca/books/120146-the-theory-and-practice-of-online-learning.
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- instructional poster
- 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.
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- 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...
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- presentations (communicative events)
- 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)
- 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.
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- book chapter
- Appears in collection(s)
- Centres & Institutes
- Contributor(s)
- Karen Manarin
- Date issued
- 2011
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- article
- 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; 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...
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- presentations (communicative events)
- 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; 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...
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- presentations (communicative events)
- 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...
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- conference publication
- 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.
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- database
- Appears in collection(s)
- Centres & Institutes