If anyone is interested in this, and can pull something together in  
time, let me know and I will put you in touch with the folks in SUNY  
coordinating the effort.

Mr. James B. Greenberg
Director Teaching, Learning and Technology Center
Milne Library
SUNY College at Oneonta
Oneonta, New York 13820

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phone: 607-436-2701
fax:   607-436-3081

"Ignorance is curable, stupidity lasts forever"


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> From: "Jennie Dautermann" <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: May 15, 2007 3:03:13 PM EDT
> To: "Becky Glass" <[log in to unmask]>, "James Greenberg"  
> <[log in to unmask]>, "Steve Schneider" <[log in to unmask]>,  
> <[log in to unmask]>, <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Possible MERLOT/FIPSE proposal
>
> I’m looking for some departments in SUNY who might be interested in  
> a Scholarship of Teaching and Learning FIPSE project fostered by  
> MERLOT.
> Here is some preliminary information....
>
>
> FIPSE is focused on direct improvement in student learning  
> outcomes, so the proposal is focused  around developing student  
> awareness and understanding of Innovation processes. The approach  
> is the Teaching by Example idea you may recall from the MIC06  
> keynote:(this talk is online at http://conference.merlot.org/2006/   
> J. ).  In a sequence of 3-4 courses in junior and senior year,  
> students are engaged in and reflect on innovations in mobilizing  
> research-based knowledge for pedagogical improvements.  A pre and  
> post evaluation would compare their attitudes and awareness of  
> Innovation with a control group who had not been enrolled in  
> enriched courses with explicit exposure to pedagogical innovation.  
> If this sounds interesting, they will share the work-in-progress  
> proposal with us. The larger goal of the project is to move from   
> learning objects (LO's) to embracing a scholarly approach to  
> teaching and learning by designing and applying LO's and thus  
> building a "repository of teaching" expertise.  The vehicle for the  
> repository would be MERLOT.
>
> The deadline date is June 13, so anything that is to happen must  
> get going quickly. It would take a department or a group within it  
> to commit to working on this, as it will take a sequence of 3-4  
> courses to have an impact on students. The present goal is to  
> assemble 5-6 departments across disciplines, each receiving around  
> $50K over the life of the grant.
>
>
> If you have a department or two who might be willing to participate  
> and be available to collaborate in this short timeframe, let me  
> know and I’ll get you more information.
>
> Jennie