Scholarship • Teaching • Learning
Vol. 4 No. 1, February 2009, Featured Articles
"Student Learning Outcomes:
Where are We Now?" An interview with Cynthia Murdoch
In May 2007 the Faculty Senate on the Twin Cities campus officially adopted the undergraduate student learning outcomes. We revisit that complex effort in a conversation with Cynthia Murdoch, the coordinator for Student Learning Assessment. We're at a midpoint in that initiative; many colleges have made quite a lot of progress, but there is still much work to accomplish before the University's next accreditation self-study begins in 2013.
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"Lessons from Tuscany: A Memoir." Mike White
In his memoir, Professor Mike White describes his passion for Italian food, culture, and the connections among family, pasta, Venice, and teaching. Mike's autobiography was written as part of the Center for Teaching and Learning's "Making Meaning of a Life in Teaching" program.
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"Enriching Student Learning and Development: Important Opportunities for Undergraduate Education." Arlene Carney and Karen Zentner Bacig
"What do we want our students to learn?" That was the question with which Arlene Carney, vice provost for Faculty and Academic Affairs, began the first issue of Transform. Since we ran that article in 2006, the Faculty Senate on the Twin Cities campus officially adopted the undergraduate student learning outcomes.
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"Liberal Education and
the Drive to Recertify." Leslie Schiff
At the end of the summer term, 2010, all current certifications for liberal education will expire and courses will need to be recertified as part of the new "Core" and "Theme" requirements. Leslie Schiff describes the process of recertification and what faculty should expect.
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"A New Research Agenda for Mobile Learning." D. Christopher Brooks
In his review article, D. Christopher Brooks begins to look not only at the state of mobile technologies on the University of Minnesota campus, but also at the research questions this new emphasis will bring to the fore. If we can see that tools like podcasts, vodcasts, iTunes U, smartphones, laptops, and other personal portable devices are going to change the learning environment, we can begin to plan how we might study their impact.
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"A Short Bibliography on Mobile Learning and Podcasting." Paul Baepler
The concept of Mobile Learning is new enough that its definitions are still contested. Should it be defined by the pedagogy it affords, by the technology it deploys, the social discourse it enables? As a first step in answering these questions, we provide Transform readers with new research on podcasting as a manifestation of the greater inquiry into mobile learning.
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"Active Learning Classrooms." J.D. Walker and Aimee Whiteside
J.D. Walker and Aimee Whiteside continue this exploration as they begin to research new classroom spaces designed for greater collaboration and team-based learning. These so called active learning classrooms - implemented by Steve Fitzgerald and the Office of Classroom Management - have small circular tables around which students can gather in groups, work on computers, and then transmit their results to overhead LCDs.
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"Faculty Explore Emerging
Learning Environments." Lauren Marsh and Kimerly Wilcox
What does a university need to do in order to become a leader in designing, utilizing, and evaluating emerging learning environments? The Office of Information Technology's Digital Media Center (DMC) 2008-09 Faculty Fellows are engaging this question in the context of a program that encourages interdisciplinary dialogue and partnerships with campus leaders across the University of Minnesota.
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