Free Webinar! - Seeing and Hearing Online Students in an Asynchronous Environment - Increase Involvement and Authentic Assessments using Student Generated Video - sponsored by YouseeU - FREE | The Sloan Consortium

Readers,


Here's an amazing (and free) webinar sponsored by the Sloan Consortium and YouseeU! This workshop is titled, "Seeing and Hearing Online Students in an Asynchronous Environment - Increase Involvement and Authentic Assessments using Student Generated Video" and it will be held on February 8, 2011 from 2:00pm - 3:30pm. 


Price: Free for all - Register here


This webinar will focus on the key activities of student presentations in online courses, asynchronous video discussions, and oral exams conducted at a distance. After wrestling with the use of video in asynchronous online courses for over 12 years, Dr. Jeff Lewis designed and developed an academic system to solve the problems faced in his online courses. The system has proven effectiveness and has matured into a full-featured academic platform in use at leading institutions.

Asynchronous online learning has gained widespread acceptance because of the flexibility and convenience it provides to students and increased reach it facilitates for institutions. To date, the majority of interactions and assessments in these courses has been text based, incorporating discussion boards, written tests and reports or essays, and occasional chats. Advancements in synchronous web interactions and conferencing have been significant, but don't always fit the mission of the asynchronous model.

Student video recordings used for discussions and presentations show promise for increasing rich communication and interaction in asynchronous courses. Because of issues related to file size, student privacy, and workflow efficiencies, video interaction has been limited. Recent advancements in academic tool sets are facilitating increased usage of student video recordings. This webinar will focus on the key activities of student presentations in online courses, asynchronous video discussions, and oral exams conducted at a distance. After wrestling with the use of video in asynchronous online courses for over 12 years, Dr. Jeff Lewis designed and developed an academic system to solve the problems faced in his online courses. The system has proven effectiveness and has matured into a full-featured academic platform in use at leading institutions.

NOTE: If you have a disability, use assistive technology, or may need accommodation to fully access a webinar, please email us at workshop@sloanconsortium.org. You will be contacted by someone from our workshop staff as quickly as possible to discuss your needs.

Price: Free for all - Register here

Millennial Professor - Jennifer T. Edwards, Ed.D.

SoTL Mentors to the World

Readers,

If any of you are interested in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (a national movement), please check out this list of SoTL Mentors to the World. This is an amazing resource from the International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.

This resource is like a "pick your own" mentor! :) What a great idea from the IJ-SoTL!

Here's the link - SoTL Mentors to the World

Millennial Professor - Jennifer T. Edwards, Ed.D.

Freebie Wednesday - Something for the Office! - Quaker Oatmeal Squares

Readers,

At the beginning of each semester, I bring my new after class "snacks" to the office. These are my incentives for writing scholarly papers, reading student work, and attending meetings. This semester's snacks include Special K Fruit Crisps, Progresso Soup - several varieties, Food Should Taste Good - Sweet Potato Chips, and lots of Ozarka Water.

In addition to my snacks, I always drink a cup (or two) of Honey Ginseng - Daily Green Tea from the Republic of Tea Company. Yum!

This week's freebie is from the Quaker Company! Quaker Oatmeal Squares are a great, wholesome snack for professors and educators on the go! I actually like the cereal as dry snack. Such an awesome freebie for this Wednesday!

Here's the Link! - Quaker Oatmeal Squares

Millennial Professor - Jennifer T. Edwards, Ed.D.

IJ-SoTL: Current Issue: Volumn 5, Number 1 - January 2011

Readers,

I am excited to announce that the International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning just released their FIRST issue for 2011! This issue is their fifth anniversary issue! Congratulations on such a great issue IJ-SoTL - LINK!

Here is a list of the articles featured in this issue:

*Thanks IJ-SoTL!


Millennial Professor - Jennifer T. Edwards, Ed.D.

Feature Essays

The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: A Personal Account and Reflection
Lee Shulman (Consultant)

Getting There: An Integrative Vision of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Pat Hutchings (Carnegie Foundation), Mary Taylor Huber (Carnegie Foundation) & Tony Ciccone (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) Invited Essays on SoTL

Invited Essays on SoTL Scholarship of Teaching and Teachers' Understanding of Subject Matter
Keith Trigwell (University of Sydney)

Current Perspectives on SoTL
Lorraine Stefani (University of Auckland)

Keeping the Scholarship in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Heather Kanuka (University of Alberta)

The Unscholarly Use of Numbers in Our Assessment Practices: What Will Make Us Change?
Chris Rust (Oxford Brookes University)

Making Your Case: Ten Questions for Departments and Individuals Building an Argument for Work in Discipline-Centered Education
Brian Coppola (University of Michigan) Research Articles

Know Thy Audience: Helping Students Engage a Threshold Concept Using Audience-Based Pedagogy
Rebecca Pope-Ruark (Elon University)

In-class Reflective Group Discussion as a Strategy for the Development of Students as Evolving Professionals
Annetta K. L. Tsang (University of Queensland)

Improving Group Functioning in Solving Realistic Problems
Sassan Asgari & Gloria Dall'Alba (University of Queensland)

What's Stalling Learning? Using a Formative Assessment Tool to Address Critical Incidents in Class
H. Brooke Hessler (Oklahoma City University) & Amy Rupiper Taggart (North Dakota State University)

Inquiry Learning: Level, Discipline, Class Size, What Matters?
Susan Vajoczki, Susan Watt & Michelle M. Vine (McMaster University), Xueqing (Rose) Liao (University of Toronto)

Developing a Statistically Valid AND Practically Useful Student Evaluation Instrument
Jeff Skowronek, Bruce Friesen, & Heather Masonjones (University of Tampa)

The Influence of Tech-Savvyness and Clicker Use on Student Learning
Jennifer A. Zapf & Adolfo J. Garcia (University of Wisconsin-Green Bay)

Exploring the Variation in First Year Undergraduates' Induction into Their Academic Disciplines
Min Yang, Beverley Joyce & Michael Prosser (University of Hong Kong)

The Potential for Teaching Quantitative Reasoning across the Curriculum
Nathan Grawe (Carleton College)

Business as Usual: Business Students' Conceptions of Ethics
Anna Reid (University of Sydney), Paul Taylor & Peter Petocz (Macquarie University)

The Power of Fiction: Reading Stories in Abnormal Psychology
Adrian S. Janit, Georgina S. Hammock & Deborah S. Richardson (Augusta State University)

What Really Matters: Assessing Individual Problem-Solving Performance in the Context of Biological Sciences
William L. Anderson, Cheryl A. Sensibaugh, Marcy P. Osgood & Steven M. Mitchell (University of New Mexico)

Preparing Medical Students to Undertake a Cultural Immersion Experience: Introducing Frameworks for Preparatory and Post-immersion Activities
Donna Mak, Rashmi Watson & John Hadden (University of Notre Dame, AU)

Engineering Research Teams: The Role of Social Networks in the Formation of Research Skills for Postgraduate Students
Kaylene Sampson & Keith Comer (University of Canterbury)

Impact of Giving Students a Choice of Homework Assignments in an Introductory Computer Science Class
Steven Fulton & Dino Schweitzer (United States Air Force Academy)

Examining Classroom Negotiation Strategies of International Teaching Assistants
Gwendolyn M. Williams (University of Nevada, Reno)

Essays About SoTL

Which Way to SoTL Utopia?
John Draeger (Buffalo State College) & Linda Price (Open University, UK)

The Relationship between Scholarly Teaching and SoTL: Models, Distinctions, and Clarifications
Michael K. Potter & Erika Kustra (University of Windsor)

Lighting Up the Mind: Transforming Learning Through the Applied Scholarship of Cognitive Neuroscience
Daniel J. Glisczinski (University of Minnesota-Duluth)

Broadening Conceptions of What Constitutes Knowledge and Evidence in SoTL
Sharon Thomas (University of Tasmania)

Window Shopping: Fashioning a Scholarship of Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning
Colleen M. Tremonte (Michigan State University)

Bridging the Gap from Skills Assessment and Problem-Based Learning: Lessons from the Coalface of Scholarly Engagement with Curriculum Development
Bill Boyd (Southern Cross University)

Going to the Balcony: Two Professors Reflect and Examine Their Pedagogy
Linda J. Searby (University of Alabama at Birmingham) & Jenny S. Tripses (Bradley University)

Mapping the Field of Statistics Education Research in Search of Scholarship
Linda van der Merwe & Annette Wilkinson (University of the Free state)

IJ-SoTL Reviewers: Getting SoTL Articles Published

On Publishing SoTL Articles
Trent Maurer (Georgia Southern University)

What Makes a Great Article for IJ-SoTL
Patricia Rogers (Bemidji State University)

What Makes for a High Quality SoTL Research Article?
John Tagg (Consultant)

Exemplary Dissemination: Sowing Seed in IJ-SoTL
Nicola Simmons (University of Waterloo)

What Makes for a High Quality IJ-SoTL Research Article?
Lorraine Stefani (University of Auckland)

Identifying High Quality SoTL Research
Jeffrey L. Bernstein (Eastern Michigan University)