Practicing What We Preach: Research into E-Learning Tools for Faculty Learning & Knowledge Mobilization
1. Practicing What We Preach – Research into E-Learning Tools for Faculty Learning & Knowledge Mobilization Tom Carey University of Waterloo & California State University Would like to have titled… E-Mobilizing Knowledge from E-Learning Research
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3. How does this help in Shaping our Future? Potential funders of e-learning research are interested in enhancing (teaching and) learning… … we need to demonstrate impacts from our research. “ How we teach is a key part of what we teach”… If we want students to thrive in a global knowledge economy, we must model the values and processes we want them to practice.
7. Many new organizational forms and knowledge products are being developed to mobilize knowledge into practice and policy…
8. Design & Innovation team members (macro changes) Knowledge Transfer team members (micro changes) - create knowledge syntheses as tools and legacy Discipline colleagues Cooperative Team Structure to Integrate Design and Knowledge Transfer
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16. Challenges for Faculty to Use our Research (4): I need one stop shopping… for the “wisdom of practice…insights from research…” Research project commissioned by
17. Examples of Online Artifacts for Mediated Knowledge Exchange Scholarly Research on Teaching & Learning (ch. 3) Shared “ Open” Learning Resources (ch. 4) Collaboratory Projects (ch. 5) Reflections on Teaching & Expertise (ch. 1) Educational Development Resources (ch. 6)
18. Expert teachers continually seek to enhance their practice, led by their Passion for teaching Institutions invite/encourage/require use and contribution as part of grants to enhance teaching and other Programs Mainstream teachers want to address specific learning challenges for students. This Problem -driven use requires a significant volume of high quality resources to be effective. Strategic Priorities across institutions lead to cooperative knowledge exchange (e.g., Degree level expectations, Academic Integrity, Transforming Course Design) Distributed teams use an online collaboratory for knowledge exchange and knowledge-building on specific Projects Who Will Use & Contribute to a Knowledge Exchange Network for Exemplary Teaching?
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20. Contact information: [email_address] Private Google Groups workspace will soon have a public excerpt (email Tom to be notified) Information about CSU Transforming Course Design project: http://www.calstate.edu/ats/transforming_course_design/ http:// transform.csuprojects.org ELIXR: http://elixr.merlot.org Email Tom for access to the case story on Using Debates for Integrative Learning on Global Climate Change Report on a Knowledge Exchange Network for Exemplary Teaching: http:// knowledgexchangenetwork.edublogs.org