The NED was established to provide educational development opportunities that are designed by Minnesota State faculty and staff for Minnesota State faculty and staff. These opportunities help build awareness, develop knowledge, skills, and abilities, and provide space for reflecting and revising.
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Classroom Reflection to Classroom Inquiry: Summer 2023
July 17
Free
July 17 – August 6, 2023
Short Course
Description
This course is an introduction to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) that will help participants establish a basis for turning reflection into SoTL inquiry. Module 1 provides an overview of SoTL, including its history and process. Module 2 integrates participants’ reflection on teaching and learning into the process of doing SoTL and explores existing literature around an inquiry theme. Module 3 narrows the inquiry theme to questions and provides the groundwork for SoTL project development.
Course Learning Outcomes
After completing this course, participants will be able to:
- Explain the differences between good teaching, scholarly teaching, and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)
- Identify problems of teaching or opportunities for SoTL inquiry
- Describe the SoTL process
- Write SoTL inquiry research questions
- Create a plan for moving forward in their SoTL work
Registration Required
Use the RSVP tool below to register. There is a limit of 30 participants per course.
Because we need time to enroll participants into the corresponding D2L Brightspace Course site, we will close RSVPs the Friday prior to the start of this course.
Reminder Coming: We use the email address you provide to send a calendar appointment to remind you of the start date of this short course.
Accommodations: If you require accommodations to participate in this event, please send an email to the facilitator at the bottom of this page.
Course Location
This course is hosted and facilitated using the D2L Brightspace instance of Minnesota State called, MnSite.
Questions?
Contact facilitator Suzanne Szucs.
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