TRANSFORMING THE UNIVERSITY: TEACHING AND LEARNING IN EMERGING LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS

1. TRANSFORMING THE UNIVERSITY: TEACHING AND LEARNING IN EMERGING LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS Amy Garrett Dikkers, Bernadette Longo, Anne Minenko, Catherine A. Solheim, Kimerly J. Wilcox

2. Presenters • Amy Garrett Dikkers, PhD, Coordinator/Lecturer, Educational Policy & Administration; • Bernadette Longo, PhD, Associate Professor, Writing Studies; • Anne Minenko, MD, Assistant Professor, Medicine; • Catherine A. Solheim, PhD, Associate Professor, Family Social Science; • Kimerly J. Wilcox, PhD, Sr. Instructional Multimedia Consultant, Digital Media Center also • Jodi Sandfort, PhD, Associate Professor, Public & Nonprofit Leadership Center; • Lauren Marsh, PhD, Sr. Instructional Multimedia Consultant, Digital Media Center

3. Overview • Provide background • Introduce fellows and their projects • Identify emerging themes • Engage fellows in discussion • Challenges • What we've learned • Recommendations • Q & A

4. DMC, OIT Faculty Fellowship Program • Established in 2000; • Purpose: To cultivate faculty leadership in the area of technology-enhanced learning (TEL). • Application is competitive (Call for Proposals) • Applicants each propose a Technology-Enhanced Learning project http://dmc.umn.edu/fellowship/

5. 2008 - 2009 Broad Program Goals • Cultivating leadership • Promoting the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) • Transforming the instructional culture • Generating organizational awareness

6. 2008 - 2009 Main Program Outcomes • Individual technology-enhanced learning (TEL) projects; • Collaborative project; • Blog (http://blog.lib.umn.edu/dmc/dmcoitfacultyfellows0809/); • Scholarship.

7. 2008 - 2009 Theme for Individual Projects Individual projects focus on teaching and learning in emerging learning environments: • Mobile technologies, • Immersive/virtual environments (e.g., Croquet and Second Life), • Active Learning Classrooms (student-centered, flexible classrooms that are rich in technology).

8. Catherine SolheimFamily Social Science • Course: Personal & Family Finances • Undergraduate level • 115 students per semester • Challenges: • In-class time: Lectures, some assessments • Learners not doing preparatory reading • Lack opportunities to apply concepts • Didn’t address critical skills

9. Catherine SolheimFamily Social Science Solution: Taught in an “active learning classroom” • Round tables; 3 groups of 3 with laptop computers and projection capabilities • Wireless and hard-wired internet connections • Instructor-controlled projection system • Microphones at tables; 360 degree white board http://www.classroom.umn.edu/active-learn-room.asp

10. Amy Garrett DikkersEducational Policy & Administration • Course: School and Society • Required course for teacher licensure • Advanced undergrads and Master’s students • Up to 120 students per section • Large lecture with breakout discussion groups • Challenges • Low levels of engagement • Instructor can't attend all breakouts • Challenging content • Abbreviated summer time frame

11. Amy Garrett DikkersEducational Policy & Administration Solution: (Re)Designing curriculum for the Active Learning Classroom (ALC) http://www.classroom.umn.edu/active-learn-room.asp

12. Anne MinenkoMedicine • Solution • design team learning activities as computer-based interactive cases for the Active Learning Classroom • Course co-director for pre-clinical 2nd year Medical School course: Bones, Joints and Connective Tissues • 172 students; 16-1 hr.lectures; 3 – 1/2 day workshops = rotating activity stations • Challenge • Adapt 3 – ½ day workshops • to address logistical issues and • to meet Med 2010 principles

13. Anne Minenko Medicine

14. Bernadette LongoWriting Studies • Course: Writing Studies 5112 - Information Design • Required class in MS in Scientific & Technical Communication program • 12 students, 2 auditors, 1 community collaborator • Hybrid class meets 5 times face-to-face • Challenge: Working with a community partner, First Step Initiative, a Minnesota-based microfinance organization, to facilitate communication & interaction among women entrepreneurs in the Democratic Republic of Congo. http://www.firststepinitiative.net/

15. Bernadette Longo Writing Studies Solution: Determine how mobile phones might be used in this effort.

16. Emerging Themes • Moving students from passive to active learning • Active Learning Classroom • Team-based learning • Case-based learning

17. Challenges: Teaching, learning, administrative What have we learned? What are the rewards? Recommendations The View Our s

18. Q & A

19. Contact the Presenters • Amy Garrett Dikkers: garre014@umn.edu • Bernadette Longo, blongo@umn.edu • Anne Minenko, minen001@umn.edu • Catherine A. Solheim, csolheim@umn.edu • Kimerly J. Wilcox, wilco001@umn.edu

20. What did you think? • Your input is important to us! • Click on “Evaluate This Session” on the Midwest Regional program page.

21. www.umn.edu/oit The University of Minnesota is an equal opportunity educator and employer. This PowerPoint is available in alternative formats upon request. Direct requests to Kimerly J. Wilcox, Digital Media Center, Office of Information Technology, 212 Walter Library, 117 Pleasant Street SE, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, 612-624-3528, wilco001@umn.edu.