Funding Approved on New Projects
April 8, 2011
Initiatives described below are closely tied to the work we have done to promote evidence-based and scholarly approaches to education at the University of Guelph. They also help us achieve our goal by engaging with faculty directly in the work we do in collaborative and collegial ways. Read on for details...
1) Prof. Jeji Varghese, Sociology and Anthropology, has been awarded the first-ever grant from the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SOTL) Fund, administered by the AVPA's office and directly supported by TSS/COLES. This fund was developed to promote the engagement and quality of higher education-based research. Jeji will be offered TSS/COLES office space, administrative and collegial support, likely starting this fall.
The abstract from her proposal:
"This research proposal attempts to assess the use of Community-Based Research (CBR) as a tool for engaged learning. This proposal builds on LEF funding I received to facilitate CBR projects in my undergraduate qualitative methods course. This research funding would essentially enable me to extend the LEF to include a SOTL component. Revisions based on an initial pilot offering of the course are currently being implemented in the same course for the current Winter 2011 semester, and thus, this research proposal is designed to cover two semesters."
2) Ann Wilson & Don Bruce of the College of Arts, Mark Fortier, School of English and Theatre Studies and TSS submitted a SUCCESSFUL proposal for LEF Funding of a new initiative. We will be working very closely with the College of Arts representative to develop, implement and evaluate models for using e-portfolios. This project should also be starting up this fall.
Brief Description:
"Developing Models for the Use of E-Portfolios in the Fine and Performing Arts and in the Humanities
E-portfolios are established pedagogical tools which have promising applications within the College of Arts. This project, a collaboration between the College of Arts and Teaching Support Services, will work with units in the College of Arts to develop models for the effective use of e-portfolios as a learning tool in courses, and to encourage faculty to use e-portfolios to support the learning of students. The intent of the project, through the development of models for the effective use of e-portfolios in courses, is threefold:
- to help students to understand the relations between courses within their majors or minors;
- to devise measures of student learning both within individual courses and within the curricula of various programs;
- and to help students to consolidate their learning actively with a tool which supports the recognition by students of what they have learned in a particular course in terms of content, methodologies and learning skills and how these aspects of learning translate to other courses, and beyond the classroom."
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