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About Us
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The Office for Academic Excellence and Assessment (AEA) at Creighton University provides ongoing support and resources to enhance teacher effectiveness and student learning.
To learn more about faculty development programming, assessment, course design, student learning processes and/or effective teaching methods, or the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), contact Mary Ann Danielson at 402.280.2535.
To help us all CONNECT, please forward your suggestions for materials to be included, as well as your awards and honors, to Danielson at maddam@creighton.edu. As a campus, we should be celebrating our teaching and student learning successes!
Find past issues of this newsletter here.
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Celebrating Scholarship of Teaching
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Congratulations to Isabelle Cherney (pictured) for her article's nomination for the Maryellen Weimer Scholarly Work on Teaching and Learning Award. Isabelle's article, titled "Active Learning," was published in the 2011 edited volume, Promoting Student Engagement: Programs, Techniques, and Opportunities, 150-156. Click here for a copy of her article.
Congratulations also to Ann Lauglin, Meghan Pothoff, Misty Schwartz, Barbara Synowiecki and Amy Yager for their article "Combining Service Learning and Research: Partnering with Schools," published in September/October 2010 issue of Nurse Educator (download PDF of the article) and to Kelly Anders on her new book, Advocacy to Zealousness: Learning Lawyering Skills from Classic Films.
The Weimer Award will be presented at the 2012 Teaching Professor Conference, June 1-3, in Washington, D.C., but the campus community is encouraged to continue to forward copies of your Scholarship of Teaching for inclusion in a future newsletter OR for submission for next year's award.
Although a Creighton faculty member has not yet won this award, our campus boasts a number of individuals whose work has been previously nominated: Thank you to Naser Alsharif, Timothy Dickel and Sharon Ishii-Jordan, Gintaras Duda (and student, Katherine Garrett) and Roger Bergman for their previous submissions. We encourage you to join your colleagues in celebrating their Scholarship of Teaching!
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IISSAM/CASTL Institute Updates
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proposals under review
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Creighton is well represented with three scholars' proposals currently under review for presentation at the 2012 International Institute for SoTL Scholars and Mentors, May 31-June 3. A list of selected scholars and invited speakers/mentors will be featured in our April newsletter. Learn More
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Campus events
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project sharing
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2010 grant recipients will share their projects that develop, innovate and transform student learning. Presentational topics include: Ignatian Values (March 13); Concept Mapping (March 20); and Assessment of Student Learning (April 17). Learn more about the presenters and presentations. Lunch is provided, but registration is required.
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Time-Out For Lunch
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Spring presentations include Anne Schoening's "Collaborative Learning: Lessons from the Trenches" on Feb. 27; Yolanda Griffiths' "Using an E-Portfolio Method for Formative and Summative Assessment of Teaching and Learning" on April 10; and Naser Alsharif's "Evaluation of Discussion in Distance Education" on April 18. Drinks and occasionally dessert will be provided, but registration is required.
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publications
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Call for proposals
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The International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning will host its 9th annual conference at McMaster University, Oct. 24-27. The conference theme is "Research on Teaching and Learning: Integrating Practices." Submissions are being accepted through March 15.
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writing group
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As part of the ISSOTL 2012 Conference, colleagues are invited to apply to participate to join a year-long international collaborative writing group. The application deadline is Feb. 28, 2012. Learn More
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CU hosts conference
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Creighton will be hosting the next international conference on justice in Jesuit higher education, Aug. 1-4, 2013. To ensure participation by all the Jesuit colleges and universities, individuals are encouraged to submit proposals and consider how each school may wish to participate in the conference. For more information, contact Roger Bergman, rbjps@creighton.edu.
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Free Resources
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Thank you to Shelly Whittaker for finding and sharing a number of "free resource" websites that may aid your PowerPoint presentations: music clips,
graphics, photos. Always be sure to check the copyright laws before downloading anything.
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faculty development
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applied learning
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The 7th Annual Conference on Applied Learning in Higher Education will be held March 22-24, 2012, at Missouri Western State University, St. Joseph, Mo. Conference details
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blended learning
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The 9th Annual Sloan Consortium Blended Learning Conference and Workshop will be held April 23-24, 2012, in Milwaukee. Early-bird registration is open until Feb. 23, 2012. More information
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Save the date
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Bellevue University will host the annual Nebraska Women in Higher Education Leadership Conference on Sept. 14. This year's theme is "21st Century Leadership Skills." A call for proposals will be out later this spring. Look for more details in an upcoming newsletter. Download Flyer
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