Submitted to the Teaching Issues Writing Consortium by Julie Frese, Ph.D., University of the Rockies Julie.Frese@faculty.rockies.edu http://rockies.edu According to Dempsey & Sales (1993), the motivational approach to feedback is based on the belief that “…letting people know how well they are performing a task acts as an incentive for greater effort in the future” (p. 4). [...]
by Sandy Gambill, Instructional Designer, CTTL It’s high summer and I’m thinking about the course I’ll be teaching this fall. Maybe it’s just the time of the year where my own attention wanders, but I’m spending more time than usual thinking about student motivation. What is the secret to getting students engaged with the course [...]
by Katie Beres, Instructional Liaison, CTTL Dr. Patti Clayton facilitated a workshop for the SLU community on May 7 on the topic of critical reflection. As a follow up to her workshop this article provides a summary of various metacognitive activities (including Clayton’s DEAL model) to support student learning. What are metacognitive activities? Metacognitive activities [...]
by Jerod Quinn, Instructional Designer, CTTL I warned my students this past semester that there would be a certain level of ambiguity inherent in my “introduction to technology” class. I was not going to walk them through using every application we discuss, but I would instead expect them to “figure it out” on their own. [...]
by Michaella Thornton, Assistant Director for Instructional Design It is an inspiring and instructive privilege to be able to peek inside others’ classrooms to experience how others teach, hear how and why teachers make the choices they do for students, learning goals and objectives, and respective disciplines, and to consider how such possibilities may be [...]
by Michaella Thornton, Assistant Director for Instructional Design, Reinert CTTL First, a brief, lively video explanation of what digital media curation is: What is Curation? from Percolate on Vimeo. There’s an exciting movement underway regarding the tried-and-true textbook. The Internet, digital scholarship, open-access journals, academic crowd-sourcing, and on-going debates about providing equitable, affordable, and timely [...]
by Sandy Gambill, Instructional Designer, Reinert Center for Transformative Teaching & Learning Classroom flipping, or using technology like Tegrity to move lecture out of physical class time, is all the rage these days, but what actually makes it an effective learning strategy for students? Faculty are invited to attend an informal brainstorming conversation on effective [...]
Full-time faculty members are cordially invited to the Paul C. Reinert, S.J. Center for Transformative Teaching & Learning’s 2nd Annual Learning Studio Symposium from 2-3:30 p.m. Friday, April 19, in room 213 in Des Peres Hall. Refreshments will follow the symposium in the first-floor International Lounge in Des Peres Hall. Interested attendees are invited to register online [...]
by Sandy Gambill, Instructional Designer, Reinert Center for Transformative Teaching & Learning In this second in series of conversations with faculty, Leslie Hinyard, Assistant Professor and Associate Director for Academic Affairs at SLUCOR, talks with Sandy Gambill, about engaging a wide spectrum of students in an online Masters of Science in Health Outcomes Research. To [...]
In keeping with our theme for the 2012-2013 academic year, this is the first in series of conversations with faculty on how they engage all learners in their classroom. In this podcast, Julie Wolter, Associate Professor in the Program in Health Sciences, talks with Sandy Gambill, about an introductory Honors Course she taught last fall [...]
