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Towards the Next Generation of MERLOT: Advancing Collective Pedagogical Knowledge Building

Towards the Next Generation of MERLOT: Advancing Collective Pedagogical Knowledge Building. Toru Iiyoshi, Carnegie Foundation Gerry Hanley, MERLOT Flora McMartin, MERLOT MERLOT International Conference August 6, 2004. Overview of the Next 60 Minutes.

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Towards the Next Generation of MERLOT: Advancing Collective Pedagogical Knowledge Building

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  1. Towards the Next Generation of MERLOT: Advancing Collective Pedagogical Knowledge Building Toru Iiyoshi, Carnegie FoundationGerry Hanley, MERLOTFlora McMartin, MERLOT MERLOT International Conference August 6, 2004

  2. Overview of the Next 60 Minutes • Identify the challenges facing teachers, staff, and administrators in advancing effective teaching practices (Gerry) • Sharing Carnegie Foundation’s work, tools and resources that help you advance effective teaching practices and educational transformation efforts (Toru) • Demonstrate the application of MERLOT and KEEP as a model for adoption by you and your campus community (Flora) MERLOT International Conference August 2004

  3. Higher Education’s Challenges • “We hire scholars but employ teachers” • The need for faculty’s development of effective teaching practices and teaching mindset • “The second most private space is the classroom” • The need to openly share our knowledge, work, and outcomes of teaching • “The university is a place where a mutiny has occurred but nobody’s jumped ship” • The need to develop the academic community’s capabilities to benefit from cooperation MERLOT International Conference August 2004

  4. Need for Effective Teaching Practices • The Lifecycle of Teaching Practices • Research for Teaching • Design the Learning Experience • Deliver Teaching • Enable Learning • Provide Feedback Through Assessment and Evaluation MERLOT International Conference August 2004

  5. MERLOT’s Response to Needs • Online collection of materials open to all • Content useful in teaching • Evaluations to help choose the “right”content • Assignments that help you design learning experiences for your students • Educational community publicly contributes to collection • Provides threads for teachers to weave content and pedagogy to fit their students • Instructors still need to learn how to use the ‘loom’ to weave MERLOT International Conference August 2004

  6. Unmet Needs & New Strategies • Need to show teachers exemplars of the cloth of teaching • Enabling teachers to recognize and learn the concepts of effective teaching practices • Need to guide instructors in weaving their own cloth of teaching • Enabling teachers to deliver effective teaching practices • Strategy • Guided and shared reflective case studies that showcase effective teaching practices • Tools to build reflective case studies to share in ways that colleagues can and will use MERLOT International Conference August 2004

  7. MERLOT Strategy Partner with the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching • Expertise • Resources • Tools: Web-based KEEP (Knowledge, Exchange, Exhibit and Presentation) Toolkit MERLOT International Conference August 2004

  8. Weaving: Potentials/Plans - Contents/Context • Warp • Peer Review - expert review • Comments • Assignments • Personal Collections • Weave • Snapshots - vignettes, a transition to E-portfolios • Browse-able • Faculty development support materials - portals • MERLOT Gallery (faculty and TA development) Users’ Experiences MERLOT International Conference August 2004

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