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Enhancing Student Learning Through Multimodal Communication at the University of Kentucky

The University of Kentucky's Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP), titled Multimodal Communication Across the Curriculum (MCXC), aims to enhance student learning by addressing communication skills crucial for future employment. Co-chairs Dr. Diane Snow and Dr. Deanna Sellnow emphasize the importance of effective oral, written, and visual communication as highlighted by employers. The plan includes faculty development and student tutoring to refine communication projects and align them with professional standards. Join us as we explore the goals and significance of MCXC in cultivating essential communication competencies among students.

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Enhancing Student Learning Through Multimodal Communication at the University of Kentucky

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  1. The University of Kentucky’s QEP is MCXC!What!?!? Dr. Diane Snow and Dr. Deanna Sellnow (Co-Chairs)

  2. What is a QEP? • Quality Enhancement Plan • A core requirement for SACS Reaffirmation of Accreditation: • “. . . a carefully designed course of action that addresses a well-defined and focused topic or issue related to enhancing student learning”(SACS Handbook for Reaffirmation of Accreditation, 2007, p. 3).

  3. What is our QEP? Why are we here today? To tell you what it is and to generate “buzz” • Multimodal Communication Across the Curriculum (MCXC)

  4. Why MCXC? 1) It’s what employers want. Association of American Colleges and Universities (Hart, 2007)

  5. 2) 2009 Follow-up . . . • “[Only] one in four employers thinks . . . colleges are doing a good job” (p. 2). • 89% said colleges should place greater emphasis on developing students’“ability to effectively communicate orally and in writing” (p. 9). • 81%: critical & analytical reasoning skills

  6. 3) UKCore Design principle #3 (vertical integration) Learning outcome #2 (written, oral, and visual communication) 4) Graduation Writing Requirement (GWR) Communication Requirement in the Major (CRM)

  7. 5) We’re Number 1!

  8. Faculty Development Student Tutoring To help create and refine classroom communication projects (flat/static print, face-to-face, digital/online) • To help design instruction, assignments, and assessment tools to achieve profession-appropriate communication learning outcomes

  9. Quiz time! Thoughts? Questions?

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