Graduate students at Indiana University Bloomington have many opportunities to learn about, practice, improve upon, reflect on, and document their teaching activities. These teaching development activities are found in many places around campus – from programs in individual departments to centers like the Graduate Mentoring Center (GMC) and the Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning… Read more »
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Flipping Part 2: Pre-class or In-class? Deciding Where Learning Objectives Belong
In the first part of this series, I provided a comprehensive list of learning objectives (LOs) for classes. I tried to ensure that this list wasn’t too exhaustive, making sure to consolidate repetitive and less significant objectives. In this part, we will order these objectives by cognitive complexity, starting from the lower levels and working… Read more »
But They Don’t Do Their Homework! Holding Students Accountable
What do you do when your students come to class unprepared to work? How much valuable class time do you spend covering what they didn’t do or don’t know? Holding students accountable for assigned work is an important strategy in student-centered learning. When students prepare for class, in-class lecture segments will be more meaningful and… Read more »
Need help designing your SoTL project?
In the November SoTL Series blog post, I explained that SoTL research uses the methodology used by the discipline of the researcher. I will admit that this transfer of methodology from disciplinary work to SoTL work is often a smoother transition when the researcher comes from a social science background. Therefore, I would like to… Read more »
Support for Non-Tenure Track Faculty
Nationwide, there has been an increase in non-tenure track (NTT) faculty positions in higher education. These positions once accounted for 10-12% of full-time faculty, but now they account for the largest chuck of educators in higher education (70%). IUB shows a similar increase in NTT faculty members. A recent report by the NTT Faculty subcommittee… Read more »
Using Learning Analytics in SoTL
In the SoTL blog series thus far, we’ve been exploring what constitutes SoTL and sources of previously collected data. In this blog, I’d like to discuss another source of previously collected data for SoTL researchers: learning analytics. Broadly defined, learning analytics is the “collection and analysis of data generated during the learning process in order… Read more »