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Bringing Together Teaching Materials and Pedagogic Methods in a Disciplinary Context

Bringing Together Teaching Materials and Pedagogic Methods in a Disciplinary Context. Heather Macdonald, College of William & Mary Cathy Manduca, Carleton College. Who are You?. Faculty? Students? Librarians? Administrators? Faculty developers? MERLOT Editors? Geoscientists?.

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Bringing Together Teaching Materials and Pedagogic Methods in a Disciplinary Context

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  1. Bringing Together Teaching Materials and Pedagogic Methods in a Disciplinary Context Heather Macdonald, College of William & Mary Cathy Manduca, Carleton College

  2. Who are You? • Faculty? • Students? • Librarians? • Administrators? • Faculty developers? • MERLOT Editors? • Geoscientists?

  3. Disciplinary Context for Linking Teaching Methods and Materials • Examples of how faculty and others in a discipline (geosciences) have developed Web resources for faculty and graduate students • Creating learning materials for faculty about teaching • Moving examples into a “common place for sharing” • Building learning communities • Another disciplinary example to consider: MERLOT History Portal Page

  4. Challenges of Working with Faculty • Capturing the interest of faculty • Presenting education and cognitive science research in a context that is accessible

  5. Web-based Solutions • Disciplinary context • Examples, examples, examples • Educational research in context of disciplinary examples • Materials useful in tomorrow’s class • Learning by association

  6. Two Examples • Starting Point - Teaching Entry-Level Geoscience serc.carleton.edu/introgeo/index.html • On the Cutting Edge - Topical Collections for Geoscience Faculty serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/ Sponsored by the National Association of Geoscience Teachers, part of DLESE

  7. Evaluation Results • 12000 hits per month / 3000 return visitors • Walk-throughs and interviews with faculty and grad students • Surveys of workshop participants • “[Accessing] these sites is now part of my routine…”

  8. Evaluation Results • Examples are extremely popular and spark creativity of users • Pedagogic and topic search are valuable • Linked pedagogy and content is useful

  9. Transferable Lessons • Pedagogy in disciplinary context • Importance of examples • Website collaborations

  10. Applications • What excites you about this work? How might you apply it to your work? • How might this work apply to other disciplines? • How might faculty developers use these sites? This approach?

  11. Contacts and More Science Education Resource Center Carleton College serc.carleton.edu Cathy Manduca <cmanduca@carleton.edu> Heather Macdonald <rhmacd@wm.edu> Both the Starting Point and Cutting Edge programs are funded by grants from the NSF Division of Undergraduate Education (Starting Point from the NSDL program, Cutting Edge from the CCLI-ND program). This presentation does not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

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