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BGSU Firelands Learning 2.0
- The Learning 2.0 community provides a venue to share and exchange ideas about the paradigm shifts in learning and communication.
Today's technology offers an open learning environment that makes both content and its creation process transparent. This
community will work to construct social learning opportunities for BGSU Firelands community members and apply active and problem-based
learning strategies in their courses.
Core Commitments Service-Learning
- This learning community supports the creation of high quality courses using service-learning pedagogy addressing the development
of personal and social responsibility and civic learning. Members will expand their understanding of service-learning pedagogy,
dialogue with peers engaged in course re/design, and participate in an on-going support network during course delivery.
Developing a Professional Identity through Mentoring and Eportfolios
- This faculty and graduate student learning community addresses the role of mentoring in professional development, helping
participants identify individuals who can assist them successfully achieve discipline-specific teaching and research objectives
and document such achievement through digital portfolio development. Members will create a professional development plan for
meeting these goals.
Library E-Tools for Teaching, Learning, and Research
- The members of the Library e-Tools Learning Community will have an opportunity to explore the newer, cutting-edge technologies
available through University Libraries and OhioLINK. Knowledge and use of these e-tools will enhance faculty teaching and
research as well as bolster student learning.
Grant Writing
- The Grant Writing Learning Community (GLC) is an interdisciplinary group who seek external funding for professional development,
research and teaching initiatives. In a supportive, collaborative, and uplifting environment, members work together as a peer
mentoring and review team to help each other to achieve their funding goals.
Initiatives for the Future (IF) at Firelands
- IF members will (a) creatively explore the future together, (b) learn how to integrate futuring perspectives and futuring
methodologies into teaching strategies, (c) develop and pool teaching materials for course adoption, and (d) prepare a poster
documenting the accomplishments of the IF Learning Community at BGSU Firelands.
Life Science: Scientific Teaching and Curriculum Reform
- Educators interested in incorporating interactive teaching and learning methods in the life sciences classroom will collaborate
to share our collective knowledge and classroom experiences. We will use our research skills to explore teaching scientifically
and to address curriculum reform efforts one class period at a time with do-able classroom activities.
Natural Science: Active Learning in the Classroom
- Educators interested in incorporating interactive teaching and learning methods in the life sciences classroom will collaborate
to share our collective knowledge and classroom experiences. We will use our research skills to explore teaching scientifically
and to address curriculum reform efforts one class period at a time with do-able classroom activities.
New Faculty
- New Faculty provides a supportive environment within the larger university community to develop pedagogical strategies and
negotiate the balance between the multiple functions of faculty life including taking risks in the classroom, assessing student
learning and motivation, engaging in reflective practice and the integration of technology tools to enhance student learning
and teaching methodologies.
Pedagogy and Scholarship in Second Life
- The Pedagogy and Scholarship in Second Life Learning Community is comprised of a diverse group of BGSU faculty and focuses
on pedagogy and scholarship using the Second Life virtual world as a platform.
Publication
- Publication collectively tackles the pressure to publish and present faculty research. Each meeting is dedicated to helping
members achieve their stated scholarly goals for the year by focusing intensively on writing and publishing, especially in
the Humanities, Social Sciences and Pedagogy.
Reflective Teaching
- Reflective Teaching brings a diverse set of faculty together to reflect upon specific teaching challenges and successes and
learn from each other about ways to act on those reflections so that improve their classroom learning environments.
Research and Teaching
- Research and Teaching explores a variety of solutions to the problems of balancing and/or integrating research and scholarly
activities with teaching commitments, both inside and outside the classroom. The group examines whether current technologies
can support us as we struggle with this basic problem and brings in guest speakers from across campus and beyond BGSU to highlight
certain strategies that could advance the members’ research agendas and enhance the learning experiences of students.
Research in Science and Mathematics Education
- Faculty, graduate students, and others with a common interest in the science of learning will critique research articles and
design, conduct, and present collaborative research projects related to how K-16+ students learn science and mathematics.
Scholarship of Teaching & Learning
- The purpose of our learning community is to value, encourage, and engage in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL).
The community and its members will research and discuss professional practices leading to the development of scholarly teaching
and enriched and meaningful student learning.
Science of STEM Teaching and Learning
- Faculty, graduate students, and others with a common interest in the science of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and
Mathematics) teaching and learning will critique and discuss research articles, participate in action research, and design,
conduct, and present collaborative research projects related to current COSMOS goals and activities.
Synergistic Teaching and Research
- The Synergistic Teaching And Research (STAR) Learning Community proposes to establish an online, peer reviewed, scholarly
journal whose content focuses on the synergistic relationship between teaching and research.
Transition to Digital
- Transition to Digital explores technology questions, not focusing on one-size-fits-all solutions, but instead providing an
overview of what current or emerging technologies are available, and which ones might best meet your individual needs. Some
of the technologies we cover may not yet be institutionally supported. This is intentional. The goal of this community is
not to get “up to speed” in existing software with a long history of support; there are other venues for that. Instead, we
will examine a variety of new tools and technologies, in order to not only judge which ones work for you and your students,
but also which ones might work for your program or department, and then advocate for institutional support as needed.
Web 2.0 Pedagogy and Scholarship Across the Curriculum and Community
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