IUPUI and KSBI Graduation Retention

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SoTL of Instructional Technology
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Critical Thinking
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Creativity
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Integration Application of Knowledge
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Culture and Society
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Values and Ethics
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Faculty Communities of PracticePutting the
PULs into Practice

• Special Presentation to the PRAC
• Thursday, November 15, 2007

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Communities of Practice are . . .

• groups of people who share a concern, a set of
  problems, or a passion about a topic and who
  deepen their knowledge and expertise in this area
  by interacting on an ongoing basis
• Wenger (2002)

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CoP Goals . . .

• Enhance student learning and academic success
• Develop faculty interest, practice and expertise
  in teaching
• Foster the scholarship of teaching and learning
• Integrate the PULs into academic programs
• Support a campus culture that is excited about
  and values effective teaching and learning

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Work of the Communities to Integrate the PULs

• Selected Examples
• Curriculum Development
• Student Learning
• Scholarly Activities

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Curriculum Development

• Teaching Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines
  (CoP on Critical
  Thinking)
• Integrative Learning and Blooms Taxonomy
  (CoP on the Integration
  Application of Knowledge)

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CoP on the Integration and Application of
Knowledge

• Integrative Learning Blooms Taxonomy
• Provides developmental
  framework for learning
  to integrate and apply
  knowledge
• Future Plans Scholarly
  exploration of PUL and
  dissemination of findings
  at a national or
  international conference

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Student Learning

• Classroom Teaching Strategies and Learning
  Activities (CoP on Understanding
  Culture Society)
• Academic Integrity Student Faculty Awareness
  Pilot Project (CoP on Values Ethics)

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Academic IntegrityStudent Faculty Awareness
Both faculty and students share in the
responsibility for cultivating a learning
environment of honesty, responsibility, and
ethical behavior where the thoughts and
creativity of each individual are evaluated in a
fair and reasonable manner.
Pilot Program
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Scholarly Activity

• Multicultural Teaching Survey (CoP on
  Multicultural Teaching)
• Podcasting (CoP
  on SoTL IT)

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SoTL of IT

• Current Practice
• Faculty survey on current
  use of podcasting
• Podcasting Is There
  Evidence to Support
  Learning in Higher Education?
• Theoretical Basis
• Podcasting An Andragogical Strategy for the
  Learning Centered Classroom and Beyond
• Effectiveness
• COMM-R 110 classroom experiment

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CoP Benefits Opportunities

• Student success
• Faculty development
• Scholarship of teaching learning
• PUL integration
• Campus culture values

Faculty Communities of Practice
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Final Thoughts . . .

• True to its intentions, being part of this CoP
  has expanded my pedagogic horizons by exposing me
  to new tools for critical thinking I have gained
  a new perspective on my own practice as an
  instructor and advisor. Membershiphas had the
  unexpected benefit of introducing me to
  colleagues across campus. I have found it
  extremely refreshing to learn how they implement
  critical thinking in their disciplines. As a
  result, I have become both more reflective about
  my pedagogy as well as a more cosmopolitan
  citizen of IUPUI.
• Owen J. Dwyer, III (2006)
• Assistant Professor of Geography, IU School of
  Liberal Arts