Author: Kristi Verbeke
It’s hard to believe that it’s November already, with leaves changing colors and dropping from the trees. Where does the time go?? For this column, I’d like to tell you about some of the happenings at the OTL. To begin with, we’ve hired a new Web Content Administrator, Corey Lee. Corey comes to [...]
Author: Kristi Verbeke
Assessment is an important part of education because it helps determine if learning goals are met; however, faculty often struggle with the best method for assessing students. During his presentation at the WSU 2008 Student Academic Success Summit, Assistant Professor Larry Lemke discussed his own creative approach to testing—having students take exams both [...]
Cheng-Yuan (Corey) Lee, Ph.D., has joined the Office for Teaching and Learning (OTL) as our new Web Content Administrator. Corey received his Ph.D. in Curriculum & Instruction from the University of Central Florida and has a Master of Science from the University of Tennessee.
Prior his move to the Detroit area, Lee held the positions of [...]
Author: Julie Thompson Klein
In our last three newsletters we have shared insights from The Disciplines Speak, a two-volume series of reports from disciplinary/professional societies on the changing nature of faculty work. The newsletter stories began by introducing the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) movement and then looked more closely at [...]
Author: Annette Feravich
“Experiential learning affords students an invaluable opportunity to take their classroom work meaningfully into the community, and also to bring back into class things they learn by serving in a real-world context. And for us at the Irvin D. Reid Honors College, it allows us to make the most of our commitment to [...]
Author: Kimberly Conely
On Friday, September 26, 2008, several Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs) attended the fall’s first Brown Bag Session led by WSU’s English Language Institute professor Sara Tipton and co-sponsored by the Office for Teaching and Learning (OTL). The GTAs present were from North America, Europe, and Asia, and represented several WSU departments, including Computer [...]
Author: Kimberly Conely
Several new WSU faculty members attended lunch and an open house with representatives from the Office for Teaching and Learning (OTL), the Technology Resource Center (TRC), and the Provost’s Office on Friday, October 3, 2008.
After enjoying a catered, three-course meal, complete with chocolate mousse, WSU faculty members from the Medical School, School of [...]
Author: Anne-Marie Armstrong
Typical course design in higher education focuses on the organization and delivery of information, rather than how that information is learned. This type of design results in an overemphasis on foundational knowledge as the course goal. In this book, Dee Fink expands the learning space and creates significance by adding five more goals [...]
Authors: Julie Thompson Klein and Ian Chapp
The Technology Resource Center (TRC) is pleased to announce the selection of Ian Chapp as Wayne State University’s 2008-2009 HASTAC Scholar. The HASTAC Scholars fellowship program is affiliated with the international Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory (HASTAC). The goal of the HASTAC Scholars program is to recognize [...]