Organizational Cluster
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"The academic system must change. It works to
some extent, but not well enough, but we cannot defend
a
mode of operation that actively undermines a professional
approach to teaching. Teachers need to know more than
just their subject. They need to know the ways it can
come to be understood, the ways it can be misunderstood,
what counts as understanding: they need to know how
individuals experience the subject. But they are neither
required nor enabled to know these things."
- Diana Laurillard
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Topic: Organizing to Foster the Scholarship
of Teaching and Learning Cluster
Leader: Illinois State University
Cluster Core Members: South Dakota State
University, Richard Stockton College (NJ), Dominican University
(IL), Southeast Missouri State University, St. Olaf College
(MN), Purdue University at Calumet (IN), Buffalo State University,
Western Carolina University.
Abstract
The Illinois State University Cluster, "Organizing to Foster
the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning," will focus on
assisting core members to enhance the support for, value
and recognition of, and practical use of SoTL on their campuses.
The focus of our cluster leadership would be to assist groups
or institutions, especially in our geographical region, that
are just beginning or are in the early stages of doing, supporting,
and using SoTL (systematic reflection on teaching and learning
made public).
Examples of general strategies we would describe, model,
and facilitate include the following:
- faculty and staff development activities
- electronic support
- ways to work with disciplines and departments
- institutional change mechanisms. Our work will utilize
a web page, a virtual community, resource materials, a
regional conference, disciplinary associations, and meetings
with institutional representatives or teams.
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