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Interweaving Assessment and Teaching

Friday, April 24, 2009, from 12:30-2:00pm

Dr. Kathleen F. Gabriel, author of highly acclaimed book, Teaching Unprepared Students: Strategies for Promoting Success and Retention in Higher Education invites you to attend part two of this series.

This special TILT Workshop is co-sponsored by the Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT), Technology and Learning Program (TLP) at CSU Chico. Reservations are required and must be made by Friday, April 17. (Part one attendance is not a requirement for this session.)

Please email Laura Sederberg, lsederberg[at]csuchico.edu for information as to how to sign-up .

The second 90-minute session (April 24th) will deal specifically with strategies that relate to determining whether or not the majority of students are actually learning the material before the midterms (or finals) are given. Interweaving informal and formative assessments throughout lectures and class discussions can not only kindle students’ enthusiasm, but can also promote student learning. Several different types of assessment techniques (with feedback) will be presented which can be easily integrated into any class.

This special TILT Workshop is co-sponsored by the Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT), Technology and Learning Program (TLP) at CSU Chico. Reservations are required. Please email Laura Sederberg, lsederberg[at]csuchico.edu for information as to how to sign-up.

(Click a poster to see it large!)

Last fall the Provost and CELT recognized seven instructors for their exemplary online instruction. Each had one course nominated to be evaluated by a committee of their peers using the Rubric for Online Instruction (which now has had 92 other institutions of higher education request to use). They are: Ann Bykerk-Kauffmann for GEOS 342; Denny Gier for CIVL 698; Colleen Hatfield for NSCI 102; Donna Jensen for SWRK 632; Steve Koch for SPED 673; Ann P. Martin for GEOG 106; and Terry Miller-Herringer for PSYC 355. See posters from each of the winners at http://www.csuchico.edu/celt/roi/eoi_vista.shtml. This site will soon have narrated demonstration videos of how each course exemplified the rubric categories.

Nominations for the next round of Exemplary Online Instruction will be open soon. Many examples and more information is available online, http://www.csuchico.edu/celt/roi/.

CELT Workshops are organized by CELT Director, Lee Altier. He has a spring line-up of workshops for all faculty. See his listing online from the CELT Web site, http://www.csuchico.edu/celt/workshops/index(2008-2009).shtml.

Those of us in TLP would like to congratulate the following faculty members for their outstanding contributions to Excellence in Online Education:

(From left)

Denny Gier, Donna Jensen, Steve Koch, Ann Martin, and Terry Miller-Herringer

Also honored, but missing from the photo are Colleen Hatfield and Ann Bykerk-Kauffman.

The deadline for nominations has been extended to May 2, 2008.
Help us find new answers to the question, “What does a high quality online course look like?” Faculty who have used the Rubric for Online Instruction (ROI) may complete a Self-Assessment Form to evaluate their course based on the Rubric’s categories, and faculty are encouraged to nominate their exemplary courses for recognition for the annual Exemplary Online Instruction (EOI) Awards. Read about the process and pick up the EOI Nomination Form on the Exemplary Online Instruction page.

Date/time: Monday, April 28, 2008, 1 – 2:30 pm
Place: MLIB 027B (will be available for online replay later)

Ever wonder what’s coming up next in teaching and technology for the university professor? All the changes you’ve had to make! What could possibly be next?
Brett Christie, Director of Faculty Development at Sonoma State University and member of the 2009 Horizon Project Advisory Board will be on campus at Chico State to report on the 2008 Horizon Report, a five-year qualitative research effort that identifies and describes emerging technologies likely to have a large impact on teaching, learning, and creative expression within higher education. Read the 2008 Horizon Report here.

We are encouraging faculty members to come together to discuss and reflect on the findings in this report, not only on our campus at Chico State, but we are inviting others to form groups on other CSU campuses. This will be a live presentation from Chico, but will be delivered online using Wimba’s Live Classroom to groups at other locations.