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The Human Geography ReVisioning Learning Community at The University of Toledo Northwest Regional Center Learning Co

The Human Geography ReVisioning Learning Community at The University of Toledo Northwest Regional Center Learning Communities Kick-Off October 15, 2007. UT Learning Community Participant List. Core Members Dr. Karen Rhoda, Administrative Director, eLearning and Academic Support

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The Human Geography ReVisioning Learning Community at The University of Toledo Northwest Regional Center Learning Co

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  1. The Human Geography ReVisioning Learning Community at The University of Toledo Northwest Regional Center Learning Communities Kick-Off October 15, 2007

  2. UT Learning Community Participant List Core Members • Dr. Karen Rhoda, Administrative Director, eLearning and Academic Support • Dr. Dan Hammel, Associate Professor, Geography and Planning • Dr. Gale Mentzer, Program Evaluator • Dr. Neal Reid, Director, Urban Affairs Center Associate Members – Advisors • Dr. Bernard Bopp, Director, Center for Teaching and Learning • Dr. Mark Fink, eLearning Faculty Support and Special Projects • Dr. Mary Beth Schlemper, Association of American Geographers, Research Fellow and Instructor • Dr. Peter Lindquist, Chair and Associate Professor, Geography and Planning • Dr. Patrick Lawrence, Associate Professor, Geography and Planning • Grant Wilson, Graduate Student

  3. Learning community member will contribute: • Rhoda – resources, support, guidance • Hammel – content aspects – other professors will assist • Reid – collaboration on appropriate content as applied to urban geography and community development • Bopp – best practices in teaching • Fink – best practices in developing online courses • Schlemper – application of theory to real situation in field validity • Wilson – Feedback on content • Mentzer - Evaluator

  4. GEPL-1010 Human Geography • Primary introduction course in the core curriculum • Surveys the subfield of human geography • Population demographics • Cultural components • Economic components • Urban geography • Has been taught in large lecture format and one section of distance learning

  5. Human Geography ReVisioned • Develop a series of learning modules • Use innovation geospatial technologies • Illustrate graphically the basic concepts of Human Geography • Integrate Geographic Information Systems (GIS) into course

  6. Provide students with opportunities • To work with geospatial technology • To let them know this is at the core of a rapidly expanding sector of the U.S. economy • To introduce beginning students to both the academic and professional potential of this field

  7. Impact: 800 students with newly developed modules • Face to face population with technology enhanced course • Online course will be significantly more technologically and pedagogically robust

  8. Results of ReVision • Application of geography to real situations • More students will persist in course (current 10% attrition rate) • Increase number of students selecting Geography and Planning major • A better organized, more dynamic course

  9. ReVision Evaluation • Analysis of benefits of this learning experience • Analyze - Recruitment of majors • Analyze - Faculty perceptions

  10. Contact Information Karen Rhoda, Ph.D. Email:karen.rhoda@utoledo.edu Phone: 419.530-4386 Fax: 419.530-8836 Website:www.utoledo.edu/dl

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