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Reflective Teaching. NLII Presentation Summer Focus Session. Teaching. “Teaching is the intentional arrangement of events so that appropriate learning will happen.” Robert Menges and Ann Austin (1994), AERA - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Reflective Teaching

NLII Presentation

Summer Focus Session

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Teaching

“Teaching is the intentional arrangement of events so that appropriate learning will happen.”Robert Menges and Ann Austin (1994), AERA

Teaching today involves making choices in design, development, implementation, and evaluation of instruction and assessment of learning outcomes.

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The Goal

To make it possible to put faculty in the center of a problem based model where faculty are…

Learners

Reflective practitioners using inquiry to support teaching

Researchers contributing to a community for shared scholarship of teaching and learning.

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Lewin’s Reflective CycleConcrete (Direct) Experience

Reflective Observation

Abstract Conceptualization (Comprehension)

Active Experimentation

http://www.dmu.ac.uk/~jamesa/learning/experience.htm

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So, what do you need to know to teach better…

Methods or approaches to teaching

Knowledge about what, how, who

Feedback and evaluation of results

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What you need to know to teach better…

Methods Eg. Systematic instructional development Principals of teaching

Knowledge About content to be learned, discipline communities, learners,

possible strategies Interpretation of research and published evidence Interpretations of facts, ideas, knowledge domain, Internet searches. Personal experience

Feedback Eg. Student learning outcomes

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Impediments/Problems

MethodKnowing what options are available, vocabulary,

strategies, how to choose for what context?

KnowledgeHard to assess, reliability, validity, what

research to read, differences among disciplines

FeedbackTimely, hard to get, how to interpret results.

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SolutionsMethod Instructional Design Strategy matched to learner

Knowledge Statistical support – Item Analysis Organization tools - concept mapping Try it, experiment MOATS – example to learn about teaching methods and

strategies.

Feedback Change in student behavior Test results, student ratings Student retention ValaNator – example of using technology to get feedback.

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Method Example

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FeedbackHow is teaching and learning measured?

What are the targeted and expected learning outcomes?

How are the learning outcomes developed and measured by what standards?

Student conference/discussion participation

LO tracking with LMS – SCORM

Online surveys, quizzes

Student portfolio assessment

Student projects/presentations

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What if we can…?

Learn about teaching options and strategies for the design, development, implementation and evaluation of teaching and learning.

Have an environment where inquiry, experimental design, and assessment is supported.

Have ability to create teaching and learning environments for specific needs and convenience….

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What is VALA project?

Virtual Adaptive Learning ArchitectureUniversity of Arizona, originally FIPSE-LAAP grant

(3 years)

Design and develop environments for facilitating teaching, learning and assessment.MOATS – Information about what and how?VALAnator – Inquiry, test ideas and situations. Instructional Learning Objects RepositoryVALA Ontology/Thesauri

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MOATS

Module Organizer and Teaching Suggestor

What instructional strategies work best for what teaching and learning situations? Teaching Scenarios Browse Interviewer and suggestor Teaching tool Resources My profile

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MOATS

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MOATS

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MOATS

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VALAnator

Promote reflective practice in teaching and course development in e-learning contexts by enabling inquiry ranging from formative evaluation to informal or formal research concerning how to “arrange events…”

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VALAnatorAllows a teacher to explore…

the reliability of a test, exam, or survey used to measure a student characteristic or learning outcome.

data that shows the frequency of student interactions with the learning management system, content, instructor, or classmates.

looking at associations between a student characteristic and a learning outcomes measure.

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ValaNatoran overall difference in a student characteristic or behavior  associated with a particular instructional strategy, tactic, or method versus another strategy, tactic or method.

an overall difference in a learning outcome associated with a particular instructional strategy, tactic, or method versus another another strategy, tactic or method.

differences in a learning outcomes related to a student characteristic and associated with a particular instructional treatment (strategy, tactic, or method)

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ValaNator Integration with Learning Management System

- LMSMake groups

Assign resources and tools.

Track usage data

Evaluation of results

Setup based on conditions configured from ValaNator to the LMS.

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ValaNator

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What are Ontologies and Thesauri?

Ways we define, relate and map knowledge domains?

Ontologies map definitions and relationships of terms and concepts in a subject area, field, discipline, with examples, instances.

Thesaurus have words and terms linked as similar, related, broader-narrower, hierarchical.

Terms and concepts in instructional design.

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ValaOntology/Thesaurus

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Many potential research questions…

VALA tools enables us to join a national stream of inquiry…

Communities of practice. National Learning Infrastructure Initiative - NLII Sp

ring Focus Session Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teac

hing NLII Summer Focus Session NSDL – National Science and Math Digital Library

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VALAA project from the University of Arizona, Learning Technologies Center.

Project Team: Jenny Franklin, Jean Kreis, Wayne Brent, Sue South, April Andrian, Garry Forger, Jan Knight, Jimmy Reynaert.

For more info: Wayne Brent, [email protected] Jean Kreis, [email protected] Jenny Franklin, [email protected]