The Bird's Eye View

Hi, everyone!

To make it easy for you to decide what you might like to examine more closely in this blog, I offer the following "bird's eye view." There were many more sessions and these posts are just a summary of the ones I attended. Some posts contain links to resources. Posts are in reverse sequence, so if you want to journey from the beginning, you'd start at the last entry.

All the best,

Ludy Goodson goodsonl@erau.edu
Senior Instructional Designer Course Design & Production - Worldwide Online Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University 600 Clyde Morris Boulevard Daytona Beach, FL 32114-3900
Phone 386.947.5210 Fax 386.226.7107
goodsonl@erau.edu

Online Homework…
Online homework gave students practice and quick feedback. Students felt the homework helped them to learn, but they would not have done homework if it had been ungraded.

Southeastern SoTL Colloquy
This regional group is just beginning and this post is a brief overview of our “brainstorming” of ideas for the future.

Interactive StudyMateTM…
Surveys showed that students used and valued a variety of electronic study aids (ESAs).

Group Problem Solving…
How can you create a group structure for effective learning with both individual and group responsibility? Take a look at the recitation structure – it’s a good model for planning both classroom and online group process.

Guided Inquiry…
How should you design differently for beginning vs. advanced students? This study uses scholarship to answer the question with results that showed both learning and appeal to students.

The Scholarship of Teaching…
Here you will find encyclopedic links to resources for support on developing and using the scholarship of teaching and learning.

Welcome to the Dance…
Several major learning taxonomies differ in language and architecture. If you want a “Cliff notes” edition of each taxonomy. this is the blog for you. If you want more details, contact goodsonl@erau.edu.

Scholarly Teaching and Scholarship
Scholarly teaching uses the results of scholarship. Scholarship is not just another study; it needs to beplaced in the context of the body of knowledge.

The Power of Course Design
The choice of “significant learning” and Fink’s design framework operated to improve the value of learning and its coherency in an online course. For more details, contact goodsonl@erau.edu or iahn@georgiasouthern.edu.

Online versus In-Class Teaching…
Assessments were grouped by level of learning outcome; results on a final exam were compared to learning styles. Students at either extreme of learning style performed better than those with “balanced learning styles.”

Student Self-Perceptions…
Use of a confidence-rating system helped students; students attribute value to the confidence-rating the system; grades improved; grades dramatically improve with the addition of a pretest. For more details, contact goodsonl@erau.edu or dslater@georgiasouthern.edu.

The Praxis of SoTL
SoTL is reflective, reflexive, and recursive.

Community, Voices, and Portals of Engagement
The intersection of communities, learning, and technology offer the opportunity for global perspectives and more open inquiry in a digital community.

Improving Academic Quality…
“Ramping up” a culture of assessment requires faculty participation and activities, including instructional design, faculty development, stipends, “coaches,” and a hefty budget.

A Methodology for Developing…
Rigorous validity and reliability procedures led to the development of a rubric that improved student performance and assessment of learning.

SoTL Commons Reception
View some of the beautiful people and get a feel for the international community at this conference.