1. Faculty Professional Development Center Board Presentation January 2005

2. Cultivating Learning-Centered Environments for Success

3. Map • A Brief History and Context • Learning Communities • Moulton Scholars • Campus Conversations • Summary

4. History • Visions for Learning and Community • A collaborative process: FPDSC • University Teaching Council • fpdc

5. Mission The center mission is to support faculty and future faculty in their many forms of scholarship and professional work. The long-term aim of the Center is to facilitate the creation of communities of scholars.

6. Our Staff • Three employees: • Director (75%) • Assistant Director • Secretary • A faculty associate • Two part-time graduate assistants • A part-time student receptionist • Senior volunteer

7. Studio and Resources

8. Faculty Classroom

9. Internal and External Funding

10. KSU Strategic Plan Cultivating Learning Centered Environments for Success – (five years) • Encourage Innovative Learning • Cultivate Relationships that Foster Success • Focus on Those We Serve • Engage in the World Beyond Our University

11. MISSION: Supporting Scholarship & Community Building FUNCTIONS: Communication, Networking, Advocacy & Services Faculty/ Professional Learning Communities Studio & Resource Support Resources Demonstrations Consultations Workstations Publications Faculty Classroom Teaching, Learning & Technology Brown Bags, Seminars and Clinics American Association of University Professors Reappointment Tenure & Promotion Faculty Programs: Workshops, Forums, Presentations Moulton Scholars Program SmartStarts Moulton Scholars Demonstrations Provost Lunch/Breakfast Specialty Events Campus Conversations UTC Conference Multimedia Open House Campus Outreach Activities New Faculty and Graduate Student Programs Department Collaboration Fall Forum University Research Council University Faculty Events Celebration of Scholarship Faculty Senate Spring Forum University Teaching Council UTC Conference Support for Learning: fpdc Mission Map

12. Mission Branches • Faculty/Professional Learning Communities • Studio and Resource Support • Faculty Programs: Workshops, Forums, Presentations • University Faculty Events

13. Learning Communities

14. Five years ago . . .

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18. One year ago . . .

19. Today . . .

20. “I was transformed by “feeling” what it meant to be student-centered.” “My first sense of belonging at KSU happened during the TS program.” Jessie CardunerTS 2000-01Modern & Classical Language Studies

21. Information LiteracyInstitutional Change & Beyond Member teams develop modules within specific fields of study for students to enhance their information literacy skills

22. Faculty Learning Communities • Collaborative Technologies • Learning and Teaching Large Classes • Online Learning and Teaching • Information Literacy • Faculty and Future Faculty • Great Starts: Connecting the Mosaic • Competing and Cooperating with NAFTA • Teaching Scholars • Educational Psychology in Higher Education • Adult Learner and Workforce Development • Diversity

23. Learning Institutes 2003 2004 2005

24. Moulton Scholars Program

25. Moulton Scholar Projects • Visualizing the French Novel • Digital Video in Technology Instruction • Combining Compositions: Print Literacy and Digital Video in Integrated Language Arts • Development of Web-based and Hypermedia for Concepts in Biomechanics • Interactivity and multimedia in Online Journalism • Interviewing Techniques for Research Projects Using Video Cameras • Development of the WebCT to be an Interactive Classroom Component for Student Communication and Assessment • Taking Music Technology Online: Integrating WebCT into the “Introduction to Acoustics and Music Technology” • A Distance Learning Version of the Psychology Group: A Kent State-Central State Partnership • Application of the Use of Personal Digital Assistants (PDAx) by Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Graduate Students (continuation) • Exploratory Research of Technology/composition Pedagogical Models • Exploring Common Spot for Department Web site • Enhancing Online Instruction Using a Variety of Applications • Redefining the History of Interiors: Transforming a Traditional Lecture Course into an Interactive Distance Learning Experience • Workshop Development Project: Applied Emotional Intelligence for the Allied Health Professions

26. Campus Conversations

27. Campus Conversations • UTC Celebrating College Teaching • Breakfast with the Provost • Speaker-Workshop Series • Biology of Learning • Psychology of Learning • Problem-based Learning • Collaborative Learning • Service Learning • Learning and Assessment

28. Living the TransformationUNIVERSITY Enlarging the Networks of Conversations • Scholarship of Teaching and Learning • Working with Information Services, Academic Departments and Programs • Learning Communities Light (VISTA)