IPFW Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching

Education Gap is Income, Not Gender, Related

2008-05-20T05:38:00.004-04:00

Much has been written about the so-called education gap, and a new study finds that income, not gender, correlates most closely with achievement differences. The study, by the American Association of University Women, debunks recent claims that boys are suffering an "education crisis." Family income, the study shows, is the biggest predicator for any gap, coupled with race and ethnicity.

Managing the Online Teaching Work Load

2008-05-14T10:35:00.003-04:00

As much fun as teaching on line can be, one would think that being able to avoid driving to campus multiple times weekly to stand in front of a classroom in hour-long blocks three times a week would make this form of teaching very time saving. Unfortunately, those of us who have been doing this for a while know this is most often simply not the case. In fact, the burden of the bombardment of

Reading Circle: Understanding the Adult Learner

2008-04-03T11:53:00.007-04:00

On Friday April 4, 2008, IPFW faculty will meet to discuss Chapters 6 and 7 of the book Effectiveness and Efficiency in Higher Education for Adults, by Keeton, Sheckley and Griggs. The chapters address the use of genuine problems to enhnace student motivation and how teachers can help students develop effectiveness as learners.This blog entry provides a place for participants and others to

Onlne Teaching Tips

2008-03-20T08:37:00.003-04:00

The CELT web page now features a collection of video links that present some favorite teaching tips of 11 instructors at IPFW who use technology in their classrooms or who teach online. The short video clips, which play with QuickTime or iTunes, provide commentary by: Adam Dirksen, from the Department of Communications, who explains he spends the first week of his online classes going over

Introducing VILOs

2008-02-19T14:53:00.002-05:00

Among the many noteworthy presentations at the 11th Annual Fort Wayne Teaching Conference, co-hosted this month with the help of CELT, was Ivy Tech’s demonstration of their new VILOs web site. Simply put, a VILO is a video interactive learning object. Pioneered at Ivy Tech by the Medical Assisting program, these short videos, each five to ten minutes long, walk nursing students through a

SoTL Reading Circle

2008-02-15T16:04:00.005-05:00

Michael Bendele, PSY, and Gail Rathbun, CELT, led today's circle, attended by Scott Moor, ENG, David Liu, CS, and Irwin Mallin, COM, Moon-Heum Cho, CELT. The group focused on one article: Harp, S. F., & Maslich, A. A. (2005). The consequences of including seductive details during lecture. Teaching of Psychology, 32 (2), 100-103. Participants explored the answers to these questions:1. What were

Dr. Moon-Heum Cho is New Consultant/Designer

2007-10-31T16:28:00.000-04:00

After an exhaustive regional and national search, CELT welcomes Dr. Moon-Heum Cho as the center’s new Instructional/Consultant Designer. Dr. Cho will join designer-consultants Sam Birk and Darlene Miller on Feb. 1.“Moon-Heum enthusiastically brings a new dynamic to our design team,” commented CELT director Gail Rathbun. A 2000 graduate of Andong National University in Andong, South Korea, with a

CELT Fall Conference Sets Attendance Record

2007-10-31T15:57:00.000-04:00

CELT’s annual Fall Teaching Conference that opened the 2007-08 academic year set another record for attendance. Held Aug. 16 in the Science Building and Neff Hall, the conference attracted 106 faculty members plus another 20 participants from Ivy Tech. Last year’s conference attracted 85 attendees, all from IPFW.“Our goal is to help energize you as you start a new school year, and to provide

CELTers sing the STEPtember song

2007-09-13T14:55:00.001-04:00

Samantha Birk, John Ladd, Darlene Miller, and Gail Rathbun are participating as a team in the Healthy Purdue STEPtember competition. Each team member is trying to increase by 2000 the steps s/he takes daily. CELTers believe that by staying healthy they can excel in providing IPFW faculty, staff, and students the many services CELT offers.They will be reporting their progress here and giving each

Solid, Sane and Successful Teaching Strategies for Learner-centered Teaching

2007-08-09T10:22:00.000-04:00

CELT’s spring survey revealed faculty members’ strong interest in enhancing skillsand strategies fundamental to successful university teaching: motivating students,developing assessments, and integrating teaching technologies. This year’sconference focuses on the building blocks of solid university teaching. The conference takes place in the Science Building at IPFW on Thursday, August 16, from 8

Shared Distance Learning and Instructional Technology Meeting

2007-05-10T15:45:00.000-04:00

On May 3rd instructional technolgists representing 5 area colleges and universities met at Ivy Tech for the first time to discuss shared issues and concerns around distance learning. Andaz Ahmad, Director of Instructional Technology at Ivy Tech (shown here) organized the event. The discussion focused on three major concerns that define the scope and quality of distance learning efforts on the

Learner-centered teaching for the digital age - Web 2.0

2007-05-09T11:04:00.000-04:00

To those who are interested in information on teaching students to "sleuth" the identity of the owners of certain web pages, UC Berekeley has a very good step by step web page at http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Evaluate.html.What I got from today's talk...Will Richardson's talk today in Neff 101 was not really about the Web, or the relative virtues of converting your

What is this Hybrid Stuff?

2007-04-25T14:38:00.000-04:00

Director’s Message – What is this Hybrid Stuff?At the April 23rd 12 o’clock Scholars brown bag discussion, seven of us tried to answer the question, “What is blended/hybrid learning?” Four of us (not faculty) were certain, and three of us (faculty) were not quite sure. Well, why else would you come to a session with this title? According to research funded by the Sloan Consortium, an 11-year-old

This week's 12 o'clock Scholars and Summer Grant Faculty Showcase

2007-03-30T15:30:00.000-04:00

CELT wants to thank all of you for your participation in the 12 o'clock Scholars Brown Bag on Monday, March 26 and in the Faculty Showcase by CELT Summer Grant winners on Wednesday, March 28. This message is also being sent to the celtblog at celtblog.blogspot.com. (Editor, please be on the alert!)At the Brown Bag, led by ECET's Gary Steffen (a CELT Advisory Board member), we reflected on the

IU School of Ed MUVEs to River City

2007-01-17T15:19:00.000-05:00

River City, Indiana University's Quest Atlantis 3D learningenvironment (http://crlt.indiana.edu/research/qa.html), is mentioned inthis month"s Campus Technology magazine. River City is an example of aneducational Multi-user Virtual Environment (MUVE)."'The benefit of educational MUVEs is that students will be moremotivated to learn rather than when they are simply given a textbook tostudy and

POD 2006 Conference Report 1 - Facilitating Consultation

2006-11-01T16:51:00.000-05:00

Pre-conference Workshop - Facilitating Individual Consultations:Intgrating Theoretical Research to PracticeThere is no lack of consultation models, but what's the use of a modelof consultation? To prepare, I read Brinko's article, "The Interactionsof Teaching Improvement" in Practically Speaking by Brinko and Menges (abook in the CELT Library). It explains the best-known models succinctly.My old

Journal: IJTLHE, 18(2): Now Available Online

2006-08-30T11:49:00.000-04:00

Dear colleagues,For those of you interested in research articles on teaching and learning. No subscription required to access the articles below.Best wishes,GailGail A. RathbunDirector, Center for the Enhancement of Learning & TeachingIPFW2101 E. Coliseum Blvd.Fort Wayne, IN 46805260-481-6504"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." Thomas

2006 CELT Fall Teaching Conference Materials

2006-08-18T10:22:00.000-04:00

Here are conference handouts and links to articles that you may download and use. CELT would be pleased to know how you have used any of them and invites you to contribute links on this blog to other materials pertinent to the development and use of multimedia in university teaching.Just use the link below to go to a Word document that contains links to the files.http://www.ipfw.edu/celt/

Conference Theme

2006-06-01T10:50:00.000-04:00

Derek Lea CELT’s annual fall conference, set for Aug. 17 in the IPFW Science Building, will evolve around the theme of “Expanding the Concept of Literacy,” which is the title of an article by Elizabeth Daley, dean of the USC school of television and cinema. The keynote speaker will be Anne Frances Wysocki, director of the writing programs at Michigan Technological University, who will also

Other Blogging Software

2006-05-16T12:46:00.000-04:00

TypePad seems to be another powerful blogging platform, with some audio capabilities. I'm sticking with Blogger for now, because I understand the code (well sort of) , but TypePad looks cool because it has "Widgets" - which are usable icons that provide live calendars, weather reports, etc. Here is an example of a third grade classroom blog in TypePad, provided by IPFW's Acelink director, Sandra

CELT Board Dinner for Jeanette Clausen 5/06

2006-05-10T09:52:00.000-04:00

Possible Speaker

2006-04-27T12:17:00.000-04:00

Dr. Chris Dede, from Harvard Graduate School of Education, talks about "Neomellennial Learning Styles: Implications for Higher Learning." He was the keynote speaker at the IHETS conference at the University of Indianapolis last week. He is a very engaged speaker without being over the top, quite academic without being boring or pompous, and can back up with research his points of view. You can

Free Site For Educators' Blogs

2006-04-20T15:02:00.000-04:00

Here's a free blogware site just for educators and students. It's a .org site and gets a little away from the more commercial feel of Blogger, not to mention that there are a different array of templates there.

Debunking the Boy Crisis

2006-04-19T10:06:00.000-04:00

Not everyone believes boys are in crisis. In fact, two authors from Boston University and Brandeis have this to say: "Obsessing about a boy crisis or thinking that American teachers are waging a war on boys won't help kids. What will is recognizing that students are individuals, with many different skills and abilities. And that goes for both girls and boys."You can read the whole article here.

Y - X = 0

2006-04-06T18:43:00.000-04:00

For another article on where the men have gone, click here.

The Y Factor - Time to Step Up to the Plate?

2006-03-27T18:57:00.000-05:00

I’ve been noticing the Y factor for several years at IPFW, and to be brutally honest, I really enjoy it. In fact, I would prefer to teach a class that is mostly female, for a variety of reasons, only some of which are chauvinistic in nature. Not that you can’t have chatty females in class, but in general, girls are women at age 18, and boys are still, well, boys.That disclosure made, I’d like to

The Y Factor

2006-03-25T10:36:00.000-05:00

The demographics for students on college campuses nationwide are changing in an unexpected way, as anyone who remembers the opening shots of Princeton in the Russell Crowe film, A Beautiful Mind, can attest.Just look at the story here at IPFW. This chart shows student enrollment by gender for spring semester, 2006: The question, then, is how does this new trend affect our teaching and student

SoTL article about Teaching Writing

2006-03-22T15:30:00.000-05:00

Taylor, Beth. "Apprenticing Nonfictionists." Journal of TeachingWriting. 22.1 (2005): 119-131.Because the Scholarship of Teaching and Writing "focuses on pedagogical practices and the behaviors of students as the object of investigation" and stresses "deepening and broadening the foundation of teaching practice" (IUB Library SoTL homepage) Taylor's recent article demonstrates an effective

Guiding Principles for Faculty in Distance Learning

2006-03-20T17:27:00.000-05:00

In the fall of 1999, the Working Group of the Indiana Partnership for Statewide Education (IPSE) identified a need for a set of guiding principles that define good practice and a clear benchmark for faculty as they pursue activities in distance learning.Click here to see what has been accomplished since then.

IPFW's Teachers' Bookshelf at the Helmke Library

2006-03-16T10:01:00.000-05:00

http://www.lib.ipfw.edu/1285.0.html

IUB's Library Resources on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

2006-03-16T09:27:00.000-05:00

The IUB library has "Selected Library Resources on the Scholarship ofTeaching and Learning" athttp://www.libraries.iub.edu/index.php?pageId=3208Its listings are organized as shown below:Guide to Literature Searches for SOTL Research Current Awareness Tools for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning General Titles SOTL Journals By Subject Area SOTL Databases in Education

SoTL - International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

2006-03-10T10:25:00.000-05:00

Another place to publish papers about teaching and learning in highereducation: http://www.isetl.org/ijtlhe/The International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education(ISSN 1812-9129) provides a forum for higher education faculty, staff, administrators, researchers, and students who are interested in improving post-secondary instruction.The IJTLHE provides broad coverage of higher

Creating Community in the Online Classroom

2006-03-09T16:40:00.000-05:00

Reading Katie Blosser’s and Shelley Gaylor’s entries this week on the IPFW Distance Learning blog reinforces my belief that creating a community of learners in an online classroom is vital, both for retention as well as for student satisfaction and achievement.Creating community, though, is a challenge in cyberspace, because there is a general disconnect caused by the asynchronous (fancy talk for

Teaching with Techonology: plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose

2006-02-25T09:51:00.000-05:00

In the past five years since I began teaching on the Internet, my struggles with creating engagement with my Distance Learning students have brought mixed results. It is easy enough (but very time consuming) to create community by the use of discussion boards and forcing students (i.e., issuing grades) to reply to each other’s posts, and barring technological difficulties, it is not too hard to

SoTL Articles for the Teaching of English Compositon

2006-02-24T15:18:00.000-05:00

The following three articles exhibit the application of scholarship and research in the teaching of English Composition:Cooper, Marilyn, and Cynthia Selfe. “Computer Conferences and Learning: Authority, Resistance, and Internally Persuasive Discourse.” College English 52.8 (December 1990): 847-69.Straub, Richard. “The Concept of Control in Teacher Response: Defining the Varieties of ‘Directive’

The new scholarship demands a new epistemology

2006-02-24T13:14:00.002-05:00

_____ Comments: This is the article by Donald Schon, Professor Emeritus at MITat the time of writing. He has since passed away. Schon's philosophy ofdeliberate, recursive consideration of one's "design moves", expressedin the Reflective Practitioner, and Educating the ReflectivePractitioner (my personal favorite) has and continues to influenceeducators, designers, policy administrators, and

SoTL examples - Psychology teaching

2006-02-23T13:14:00.000-05:00

The following is the citation and a description of a article (which isattached - the 1998 article) concerning scholarship. Halpern, D. F., Smothergill, D.W., Allen, M., Baker, S.Baum, C., Best,D., et al. (1998). Scholarship in psychology: A paradigm for thetwenty-first century. American Psychologist, 53 (12), 1292-1297This report is from the Society for Teaching Psychology (APA Division2) task

12 O’Clock Scholars Brown Bag #1 - January 30, 2006

2006-02-07T13:42:00.000-05:00

Discussion Topic: “Dealing With Difficult Students”Facilitator: Lesa Rae Vartanian (Psychology)Next Brown Bag - February 23 at Noon.Synopsis: What do we really mean when we say we have a “difficult student?” Is there a difference between a student who is “difficult” and one who might be called “high-maintenance?” It seemed to us that there could be a difference–a student who is under-prepared

Fwd: Re: Downloading versus learning

2006-01-24T08:29:00.002-05:00

>>> Patrick Ashton 01/23/06 2:32 PM >>>First of all, if students can get the same information and achieve thesame learning by reading a lecture on the web as they can by coming toclass, then I don't blame them for skipping. I think I would, too. Theissue we professors have to face - and sell to students - is the valueadded by being in class (or in a virtual class on the web). There hasto be

Fwd: Re: Downloading versus learning

2006-01-24T08:29:00.001-05:00

>>> Michelle Drouin 01/20/06 3:02 PM >>>Gail & Others (if forwarded),I found it very interesting that there was something notable missingfrom the LA Times article-- student achievement and satisfaction data! Iam making a big assumption here BUT--if the students are stillperforming AND satisfied with their educations, then why should we makethem come to class? Isn't that just egoism?Michelle

Fwd: Re: Downloading versus learning - Steve Carr

2006-01-24T08:29:00.000-05:00

>>> Jeanette Clausen 1/21/2006 5:50 PM >>>I enjoyed reading all the responses. I have a cartoon of a teachersaying to a student: "What it comes down to is, some data have to bedownloaded directly into your noggin." Let me know if you want a copy.I agree with the point that making information available is not whatencourages passivity. But I'm pretty sure that with inexperiencedlearners, having

Fwd: Re: Downloading versus learning - Karen Ericson

2006-01-24T08:27:00.000-05:00

>>> Worth Weller 01/20/06 1:04 PM >>>Gail - why isn't this discussion being carried on with the CELT blog?This is very awkward, as you know, which clearly means we have to bedirecting this kind of energy to the blog. This e-mail discussion is oldtechnology and doesn't feel very interactive. Means we have to be moreintentional.In any event, here's my response:I'm torn by this issue, as I like

Fwd: Re: Downloading versus learning

2006-01-24T08:26:00.001-05:00

>>> Karen Ericson 01/20/06 9:48 AM >>>Myself and colleagues have accepted that occupying a seat does notnecessarily mean student learning is taking place (although I agree thatobliging them to be in lecture allows them to concentrate at thematerial at least once); long ago I stopped "taking attendance" ("shakethe academic world"? I don't think so - it's been obvious for a while). Yet, I have

Fwd: Re: Downloading versus learning - Steve Carr

2006-01-24T08:26:00.000-05:00

>>> Steven Carr 01/20/06 9:30 AM >>>Not the first time I¹ve been accused of being an optimist...However, my overall point is that making this information available throughtechnology in and of itself does not lead to passivity, and that given achoice between free access to information and control over information, wemight want to err on the side of making the information available,

Fwd: Re: Downloading versus learning

2006-01-24T08:25:00.000-05:00

>>>> David Erbach 01/19/06 1:42 PM >>>> Gail,> I've actually been going back and forth about this article with> a> few colleagues elsewhere, over the last few days. Not very> politically correct, of course, but our consensus is that _nothing_> will help if the underlying effect is to require less work from the> student, and more work from the teacher.> I reckon that obliging

Re: Fwd: Re: Downloading versus learning

2006-01-24T08:23:00.000-05:00

>>> James Lutz 01/19/06 10:44 PM >>>It is interesting to see that there is someone who is so good (orthinks he is so good) in terms of teaching that he does not need to seeif the students are getting what he is saying. Just assumes it. Downloading is not effective teaching since there is no feedback and noopportunity to see if the students are really getting the point.Jim Lutz

Fwd: Re: Downloading versus learning

2006-01-24T08:21:00.000-05:00

Gail A. RathbunDirector, Center for the Enhancement of Learning & TeachingIPFW2101 E. Coliseum Blvd.Fort Wayne, IN 46805260-481-6504"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overallsand looks like work." Thomas Edisonhttp://www.ipfw.edu/celt>>> Steven Carr 01/19/06 2:10 PM >>>Hasn't MIT already demonstrated that the inherent benefit of auniversity isnot the

Fwd: Re: Downloading versus learning

2006-01-24T08:20:00.000-05:00

Gail A. RathbunDirector, Center for the Enhancement of Learning & TeachingIPFW2101 E. Coliseum Blvd.Fort Wayne, IN 46805260-481-6504"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overallsand looks like work." Thomas Edisonhttp://www.ipfw.edu/celt>>> Sandra Schaufelberger 01/19/06 2:00 PM >>>Gail I'm not so sure that "attendance" is a measure for student learningeither. Wouldn't

Downloading versus learning

2006-01-24T08:09:00.000-05:00

>>> "Gail Rathbun" 01/19/06 12:24 PM >>>Dear colleagues,I thought you would be interested in the LA Times article on theeffects of podcasting on student attendance and the listserv commentsofa colleague from North Dakota. As usual, it's how you use thetechnologythat matters. Is archiving teaching? Gail"It seems that the more technology is used in teaching, the moreattendance

Vote online for your favorite edublog

2005-12-07T08:15:00.000-05:00

Dear colleagues,Did you know that there is a competition called the "Edublog Awards"? Ididn't until this morning when I got my daily "feed" from StephenDownes, a Canadian educational technologist, who is, of course,nominated for one of this year's awards. If you want to quickly surveythe landscape of edublogdom, go to the Edublog Award web site athttp://www.incsub.org/awards/ . Vote if you like.

The view from Educause

2005-11-08T14:16:00.000-05:00

Managed to stay ahead of Wilma a few weeks ago and stood in the first of many long lines, I imagine, as people ended their Orlando vacations ahead of time. The only thing that really mattered, though, to the several thousand information technology folks who stormed Orlando for the annual conference was that the wireless worked everywhere. If you'd like a vicarious experience of the event go to

Worth Weller on his use of blogs

2005-10-10T17:10:00.000-04:00

Here's a link to Worth's April 1 presentation on using blogs in hiswriting class. Gail

Fwd: [POD] Blog Rubrics

2005-10-10T16:14:00.000-04:00

This writer, again to the POD listserv, puts forward a rubric for oneeducational use of a blog. Don't forget to take a look at Worth'sdescription below (post dated February 27) of how he uses a blog in hiswriting classes. GailKurtis Scaletta kurtis@umn.edu> 05/10/05 11:28 AM >>>Enough people have responded that I'll try sending this to the group.As I feared, attachments don't work with the

Fwd: [POD] Educational Blogging: The Time is Now

2005-10-10T16:11:00.000-04:00

Here's a post on Educational blogging from the Professional OrganizationDevelopers listserv from last May. I thought it would be of interest tothose of you whose interest was piqued by Alan November's visit October10 in honor of the Division of Continuing Studies 30th anniversary.GailRonald.Ayers@UTSA.EDU> 05/05/05 2:02 AMTo all,Recently, there has been an explosion of interest in blogging,

Fort Wayne Area Teachers - Got T 'n T?

2005-02-23T09:50:00.000-05:00

The "T 'n T Project" is designed to create a community of colleagues to explore the dynamics of teaching and learning at a distance and to share their experiences and questions, whether in the context of a "face to face" course, an online class, or TV/video format. The goal is to begin a web-accessible database of practical "tips and tactics" that faculty have found to be successful in achieving

Getting ready for Spring Semester?

2004-12-02T16:37:00.000-05:00

Much of this information appears also on the CELT web site at http://www.ipfw.edu/celt Thumbs Up for Techno-CATs Teaching with Technology Demonstration December 9, 1:30-3 pm, KT243 Pat Ashton, Sociology, and Ron Duchovic, Chemistry, will demonstrate how you can use the eInstruction classroom response system to focus your teaching and increase student participation. If you use or are interested