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Category: News

BVA Projects Featured in 2019 STEM for All Video Showcase

May 21, 2019 by Brita Harrison

Two BVA projects, TRESTLE (RAC1) and TEval (RAC4), are featured in the 2019 STEM for All Video Showcase funded by the National Science Foundation.  This virtual event was held online May 13th -20th at https://stemforall2019.videohall.com.  Now in its fifth year, the showcase features over 240 federally-funded STEM education projects. Last year’s showcase has had over 81,000 unique visitors from 186 countries. The participants include researchers, practitioners, policy makers and members of the … [Read more...]

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A more substantive approach to evaluating teaching

March 14, 2019 by Brita Harrison

By Doug Ward CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Faculty members seem ready for a more substantive approach to evaluating teaching, but… It’s that “but” that about 30 faculty members from three Bay View Alliance universities focused on at a mini-conference here in late February. All are part of a project called TEval, which is working to develop a richer model of teaching evaluation by helping departments change their teaching culture. The project, funded by a $2.8 million National Science Foundation grant, … [Read more...]

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TRESTLE professor receives Dean Nathan F. Dupuis Leadership in Engineering Education Award

March 8, 2019 by Brita Harrison

The Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, in recognition of its 125th anniversary, developed the Dean Nathan F. Dupuis Engineering Leadership in Engineering Education Award to recognize a faculty member for sustained excellence. Prof. Robert Knobel, a member of the TRESTLE network, received the award for his contributions to the faculty that specifically include his leadership in the transformation initiative in the Department of Physics, Engineering Physics, and Astronomy as part of … [Read more...]

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Embedding education specialists within departments to catalyze change: Webinar

February 21, 2019 by Brita Harrison

Join authors Stephanie Chasteen (University of Colorado Boulder) and Warren Code (University of British Columbia) as they discuss the messages from their new (free, opensource) Science Education Initiative Handbook on how to effectively use discipline-based education specialists to facilitate change within departments. They will discuss who makes a good educational expert, what their role can be within a department, how to train and support them, and engaging faculty and departments in change. … [Read more...]

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Indiana University Learning Analytics Fellows receive AAU mini-grant for student success initiatives in STEM

February 21, 2019 by Brita Harrison

Indiana University’s Learning Analytics Fellows, Jennifer Meta Robinson, Logan Paul, Jill Robinson, and Ken Shan have received a Mini-Grant from the Association of American Universities. The two-year, $20,000 award will advance their “Grade Surprise” research, allowing them to create and test interventions to improve student success in large STEM course. Please see the full announcement here. … [Read more...]

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Can Data Make you a Better Teacher?

February 7, 2019 by Brita Harrison

BVA members, George Rehrey from Indiana University Bloomington and Marco Molinari from UC Davis, are featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education's story about data. The article, Can Data Make You a Better Teacher? can only be accessed by Chronicle subscribers, however many institutions have subscriptions allowing their faculty and staff to read it. … [Read more...]

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Better Together: New partnerships between assessment and faculty development

January 31, 2019 by Brita Harrison

by Pat Hutchings and Mary Deane Sorcinelli The 2019 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U)—held January 23-26th in Atlanta, Georgia--focused on the need to create more compelling narratives about the value of higher education.  Two critical elements in doing so are the assessment of student learning outcomes and faculty development. The idea that these two activities might be “better together,” working in partnership with each other, was the theme … [Read more...]

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IUB Learning Analytics Summit: Call for Proposals

January 28, 2019 by Brita Harrison

Indiana University will be hosting its second annual Learning Analytics Summit on April 3-5, 2019, in Bloomington, IN. Sponsored by the Center for Learning Analytics and Student Success (CLASS), this years' theme is Engaging Faculty in the Research of Student Success. Registration is free but space is limited! The purpose of the annual summit is to foster the widespread use of learning analytics by faculty, providing them with the support and tools they to conduct scholarly research about … [Read more...]

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TRESTLE Brown Bag Webinar: Leveraging course transformation for broader curriculum design

January 16, 2019 by Brita Harrison

BVA’s RAC1, TRESTLE, has a brown bag webinar scheduled January 28 at 3PM Central time.  “Seeing the Forest for the Trees: Leveraging Course Transformation for Broader Curriculum Design,” will be facilitated by Andrea Greenhoot and Joshua Potter of KU. You can find a link to register for the webinar here. Previous brown bag webinars included: Colloquium: “How to be a great embedded expert,”  Stephanie Chasteen (University of Colorado Boulder) and Warren Code, UBC) ,December 3, … [Read more...]

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Indiana University helps students decode tacit knowledge

November 8, 2018 by Brita Harrison

The BVA aims to support and sustain the widespread adoption of instructional methods leading to better student learning.  That, in turn, means being more aware of the challenges students face as learners.  This short YouTube video captures the experience of faculty at Indiana University Bloomington as they reflect on the need to provide students with explicit guidance about the “mental moves” of their discipline or field.  As research makes clear, doing so is key to helping students overcome … [Read more...]

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