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Building Instructional Communities: Next Steps for Distributed Education

Building Instructional Communities: Next Steps for Distributed Education. Barbara J. O’Keefe University of Michigan Media Union http://www.ummu.umich.edu May 18, 2000. A Model for Faculty Development. Provide faculty with tools that help them improve their current practice….

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Building Instructional Communities: Next Steps for Distributed Education

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  1. Building Instructional Communities: Next Steps for Distributed Education Barbara J. O’Keefe University of Michigan Media Union http://www.ummu.umich.edu May 18, 2000

  2. A Model for Faculty Development • Provide faculty with tools that help them improve their current practice…. • And then provide them with tools to help them reorganize their approach to teaching and learning • In short, support a developmental trajectory for faculty

  3. Tools to support current practice • UM CourseTools • http://www.coursetools.ummu.umich.edu • Web course construction kit • UM Lessons • Clipboard 2000

  4. Where do faculty want to go? • Development of digital content libraries to support curricula • Discipline centered • Content-focused • Inquiry learning • Organization of instructional communities to aid in content development

  5. Illustrative Examples • Global Change Curriculum • Teamworks Curriculum • Electronic Quad Project • Animal Diversity Web • The Inquiry Page • U of Arizona Southwest Project • Others

  6. Global Change Curriculum • Two semester course on global change at University of Michigan • Web site to support the class • http://www.sprl.umich.edu/GCL/index.html • Resources • Films, lessons, assignments • Available for use by other instructors • Team teaching by UM faculty

  7. Teamworks Curriculum • Cooperative project to support engineering education at UIUC • Development of a website by students and faculty • Resources • Lectures, readings, activities • Available for use by others

  8. The Electronic Quad Project • Developed by a cross-institutional faculty community (organizational communication) • Shared curriculum developed in a set of web sites • Resources • Lectures, lessons, activities, assignments, readings • Team teaching using collaboration technology

  9. Animal Diversity Web • Developed by Phil Myers and others at the UM Zoology Museum • Database of information about mammals, birds, others • http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/index.html • Resources • Films, interactive video, audio, images, text, lessons • Student participation in site construction

  10. The Inquiry Page • Developed by Chip Bruce and Deborah Dillon to support a community of practice • Database of lessons for inquiry learning • http://w3.ed.uiuc.edu/projects/inquiry/index.lasso • Resources • Lessons, links to standards • Teachers can draw on or contribute to the database

  11. The Southwest Project • University of Arizona faculty have developed a digital library of information about the American Southwest • Collection of databases • http://dizzy.library.arizona.edu/swp/ • Resources • Images, maps, documents, geographic data, interactive visualizations

  12. The Southwest Project (cont.) • Use across the curriculum • Integration of cultural data into GIS database • Model of Santa Rita range • Interactive visualization and public art • Web exhibits on history of Tucson • K-12 web exhibit project for teaching history • Tree ring teaching module and argumentative writing classes

  13. Southwest Project (cont.) • Sustainability • Broad participation • Institutionalization • Extensibility • Read about it: • The University of Arizona Southwest Project: A Study of Shifting Learning Roles by Robert MacArthur: • http://outreach.missouri.edu/netc98/manuscripts/macarthur.html

  14. Other examples • NEEDS • Exchanges in Chemistry Education • Educational Objects Economy

  15. How will universities support such work? • Infrastructure issues • Design • Support • Organizational issues • Leadership and initiative • Boundaries and faculty workload

  16. Will other organizations support learning interchanges? • National Science Foundation • Educause, NLII, and IMS • http://www.educause.edu • Apple Learning Interchange • http://ali.apple.com • Other possible enterprises

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