Welcome to the Dance: Partnering Up Taxonomies and Research

This presentation will connect research on teaching strategies that promote certain kinds of learning with major learning taxonomies in the literature. First, there will be a visual comparison of taxonomies to show differences and commonalities. If we consider a taxonomy as a concept map, inconsistencies seen in these comparisons should not be surprising since they were created by different groups of qualified educators. Second, there will be a partnering up of findings from research about instructional strategies that work for different types of learning. This will place us in a better position to judge the value of a taxonomy and discuss: (1) What are the competing concepts in the taxonomies? (2) How does research on “what works” and the “events of learning” align with those concepts? (3) Does this alignment offer practical guidance for teaching

Using the publishing hook to engage faculty in scholarly teaching

Our university’s SoTL Work Group members are offering this workshop as a blueprint for other centers and developers to implement in addressing certain pre-conceptions about SoTL work. In this workshop, we show how to use publication as the “hook” to get people interested in Richlin’s (2006) scholarly teaching process. Activities include a review of what journals consider when evaluating manuscripts, a critique of sample manuscripts, completion of a SoTL project worksheet, and discussion of venues for publishing

Modeling Citation Protocols for Faculty Course Developers

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Online Discussions to Build Students\u27 Information Literacy Skills

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The difference a CASTL has made: Building on a solid foundation

Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne, a comprehensive Master’s I university with 750 full and part-time teachers and an enrollment of more than 13,000 students, became a CASTL Affiliate institution in November 2008. This article describes the journey of our teaching center, led by our faculty members, as together we have embarked on the road toward integrating scholarly teaching into the culture of our university. Our hope is that others will recognize themselves as \u22fellow travelers\u22 and be encouraged by what can be accomplished with fairly modest resources and by becoming members of a larger scholarly community