Inside Outside Upside Down Our Journey in the
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Inside, Outside, Upside Down: Our Journey in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Carol Hostetter, Ph. D E. C. Moore Symposium March 4, 2010
I. The foundations of SOTL or – on the outside, looking in Uri Treisman’s problem with calculus at Stanford and thanks to Craig Nelson for bringing this to our attention! Craig Nelson – http: //maypage. iu. edu/~nelson 1
What do we know about ways to change teaching to produce large increases in achievement and retention?
How I feel sometimes!
Aristotle’s conundrum "For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. "
Or, as Keith Trigwell quoted at ISSOTL 2005 Yogi Berra: “In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. ” Application!
Importance of reflection
What SOTL gives us – avoid reinventing the square wheel
About SOTL “Without data, I am just a person with an opinion”
SOTL at IU: From Two Box Lunches to a Buffet (Thompson)
II. The current status of SOTL or – on the inside now Mirrors Lenses Windows Transmitters Thanks to Whitney Schlegel, ISSOTL 2005
Mirrors
Lenses
Windows
Transmitters
SOTL’s emphasis on learning I’m teaching my dog to whistle. I don’t hear anything. I said I was teaching him, I didn’t say he was learning!
III. Emerging trends of SOTL What are the new ideas, controversies, and directions you have heard about?
Open access Creative. Commons. org Richard Barniak’s Connexions: Cnx. org Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative at the University of British Columbia www. cwsci. ubc. ca/
Enhanced learning through technology
Valuing diversity
Institutional changes
“If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn’t be called research, would it? ”
Kandinsky The beauty and the power of the circle The balance of opposing forces Live life spherically
Inside, Outside, Upside Down: Our Journey in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Carol Hostetter, Ph. D E. C. Moore Symposium March 4, 2010 With thanks to Valerie Decker for visual aids