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Inside, Outside, Upside Down: Our Journey in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Carol Hostetter, PhD 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
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Inside, Outside, Upside Down: Our Journey in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Carol Hostetter, PhD E.C. Moore Symposium March 4, 2010
I. The foundations of SOTLor – 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/~nelson1
What do we know about ways to change teaching to produce large increases in achievement and retention?
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!
About SOTL “Without data, I am just a person with an opinion”
II. The current status of SOTLor – on the inside now Mirrors Lenses Windows Transmitters Thanks to Whitney Schlegel, ISSOTL 2005
SOTL’s emphasis on learning I said I was teaching him, I didn’t say he was learning! I’m teaching my dog to whistle. I don’t hear anything.
III. Emerging trends of SOTL What are the new ideas, controversies, and directions you have heard about?
Open access • CreativeCommons.org • Richard Barniak’s Connexions: Cnx.org • Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative at the University of British Columbia www.cwsci.ubc.ca/
“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
Carol Hostetter, PhD E.C. Moore Symposium March 4, 2010 With thanks to Valerie Decker for visual aids Inside, Outside, Upside Down: Our Journey in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning