In this brief talk, we will look at the continuum of university teaching from instinctive practice to the object of rigorous inquiry. We will discuss how to take advantage of the body of scholarship that others have already done to enhance our students learning and how we might add to that work.
Average Standard Deviation: Creating a Liberal Arts Environment in a Large University Statistics Class
When I began my graduate work at The Ohio State University, I wanted to earn a PhD in Statistics Education so that I could teach at a small liberal arts college. Despite being offered a wonderful position as a statistics education specialist at Ohio State, I opted to go to Drury University in Springfield, Missouri. The three years I spent as a faculty member at that small liberal arts school, including teaching a year-long freshman seminar, confirmed my beliefs in a liberal arts education. While I would not trade my three years at Drury University for anything, I was fortunate to be able to return home to Ohio to take the position I had originally been offered. As a statistics education specialist, I have the great opportunity to teach many of our undergraduates and to teach our graduate students how to teach statistics. I am still fond of the liberal arts model and always attempt to create that environment in my large classes. Many questions arise: “How do you create a liberal arts environment in a large university class?” “Why is it important to do so?” “What benefits are there to a liberal arts education?” In this interactive session, we will explore these questions and more.
Brian Joseph
This panel, moderated by Brian Joseph, looks at the training side of what
The Ohio State Digital Storytelling Team
What is digital storytelling? What good is it educationally? How can you assess it? How can you learn to make a digital story? This session will address these questions as well as show you examples of digital stories done here at Ohio State and elsewhere.
Richard Blatti
If the claim that “Teaching is an Art” is true, then what are the artistic implications for the teacher who wishes to be a success? This session will explore the following questions:
Technology Enhanced Learning & Research (TELR)
Joe Donnermeyer
All too often, those few proselytizers who extol the virtues of building scholarly communities
admidst the organizational rabble of large, complex universities, soon lose their missionary zeal. Even though the holy grail of total involvement will never be found, there are ways to gain fuller faculty/staff participation in scholarly communities that improve teaching and enhance everyone's ability to conduct rigorous research on teaching and learning at the university level. This interactive presentation will focus on best practices for building scholarly communities at the departmental, college, and university level.
Lunch and Local Keynote Address
Ron Solomon
Mathematics is both too familiar and too mysterious. I will
Keynote Address
Marsha Lovett , Associate Director for Faculty Development, Eberly Center for
Teaching Excellence & Associate Research Professor, Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University
Concurrent Sessions
Laura Deeter
This will be an interactive presentation on using various resources to help students keep focused in larger classes.
Alexis Collier, Associate Provost, Office of Academic Affairs
We all want our students to learn and be successful. Indeed, putting students first, improving the quality of the teaching and learning environment,‚ and enhancing and better serving the student body‚ are among our Ohio State priorities for achieving excellence. As a learning centered institution we understand the need to: (1) be clear about such goals, (2) monitor our progress in meeting these goals, and (3) make changes based on evidence of progress in order to excel. In this session we will consider the extent to which we follow these same steps of the assessment cycle so students master the knowledge and skills we expect of them in our classes. You will be provided with examples of how assessment can be used to improve student learning, and will begin to consider ways to apply the assessment strategy in your own teaching. You will also find out how increasing demands from internal and external stakeholders to be accountable for student outcomes, and the call for systematic evaluation of student learning to ensure our students learn what we intend in all our programs of study, are shaping institutional practices nation-wide and locally.
Liv Gjestvang Robert P. Griffiths
How can you collaborate electronically with community partners? How can you use digital resources to engage partners in new ways? This session will help you consider the possibilities that wikis, podcasts, digital stories, and other tools bring to your outreach and engagement work .
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