Earlier this year, several members of the Carleton community presented at the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE) Annual Conference. If you didn’t get the chance to attend, you’re in luck! In an effort to bring some of the STLHE experience back home, a few presenters from Carleton will be offering their STLHE sessions again at the EDC in October.
At the Intersection of Cognitive Science and Education: Gamifying a Second-Year Neuroscience Course to Encourage Retrieval-Based Learning
Oct. 6, 1-2 p.m., 422 Dunton Tower
Latest research suggests that what we traditionally consider as “learning” – the “encoding or acquisition of new information” (Karpicke & Nunes, 2015), is only one half of the equation. The other, arguably more important half, consists of retrieval processes, those “involved in using available cues to actively reconstruct knowledge” (Karpicke, 2012).
Join Maristela Petrovic-Dzerdz (Instructional Design Coordinator, EDC) and Prof. Kim Hellemans (Department of Neuroscience) and discover how some simple gamification principles were used in a traditionally challenging, high-enrollment second-year neuroscience course to encourage retrieval-based learning.
ePortfolio Rubrics: A Multidisciplinary, Student-Centered, Faculty Developed, Open Education Resource (Whew!)
Oct. 13, 12 – 1 p.m., 422 Dunton Tower
An ePortfolio is a powerful tool for encouraging students’ reflection and critical thinking skills, and can be a rich assessment tool for instructors. But because ePortfolios enable students to demonstrate their learning using unique, multimodal artifacts, it can be difficult for instructors to reliably assess the variety of unique expressions of learning found in the portfolios.
In response, the EDC’s ePortfolio Faculty Learning Community drafted an interactive, modifiable rubric that faculty from multiple disciplines can easily adapt to grade their students’ portfolios.
Join Allie Davidson (Educational Development Centre), Peggy Hartwick (School of Linguistics and Language Studies), Rachelle Thibodeau (Centre for Initiatives in Education) and Sarah Todd (School of Social Work) to learn more about how this rubric could be applied to cuPortfolio in your courses. You’ll have the chance to work in small groups to apply the rubric to examples of student ePortfolios from different disciplines and levels of study. The rubrics will be shared as an open education resource (OER).