MANY STRENGTHS. ONE MISSION.A Seventh-day Adventist Organization

The LLU Experience: Mission Focused Learning

Office of Educational Effectiveness • Division of Extended Education -September 22, 2016

Agenda»Mission Focused Learning

»Educational Effectiveness~Beginning of Year

Course Tune Up

»Extended Education~Online Education~Extended Education

»Wrap Up

MISSION FOCUSED LEARNINGWhat is MFL? Is it unique to LLU?

Mission Focused Learning (MFL)

MFL Service to Mankind

Reflection/Contemplation

Transformative Learning

Academic Excellence ++=

Commitment to Wholeness through the

Integration of Faith & Reason

+ =

Mission Focused Learning

EDUCATIONAL EFFECTIVENESSGetting ready for the new academic year

LLU Annual Reports: End of October»All Faculty: Update Annual Faculty Report (in myLLU)

»All Programs: Annual Institutional Learning Outcomes (ILOs) Assessment Report: 2016 – Quantitative Reasoning (in AMS)

»All Programs: Update Program Action Plan (in AMS)»All Programs: Annual Student Financial Aid Survey

Institutional Learning Outcomes (ILOs)»WSCUC’s charge to LLU: show us what assessment and program review should look like for a primarily graduate and professional health sciences institution

»We cannot decide to stop doing assessment and program review; but we can do them the way we think fits LLU better.

Critical Thinking Information LiteracyOral Communication

Quantitative ReasoningWritten Communication

Professional Institutional Learning Outcomes (PILOs)»A professional application and assessment of the ILOs that better fit a program’s discipline and level

»PILOs do not replace the regular Program Learning Outcomes (PLOs)

»ILO/PILO for teaching and assessing in 2017: ~Critical Thinking

»Learning Outcome Committee will be developing clinical/practicum versions of the ILO rubrics

Increase Student Success: Tune Up YourCourses’ Syllabi

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Important Books on Teaching & Learning»Angelo, T. A., and Cross, K. P. (1993). Classroom Assessment

Techniques: A Handbook for College Teachers, 2nd ed. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.~ This book is a true classic in higher education teaching. It contains a plethora of

useful assessment techniques to use in the classroom.

»Brown, P. C., Roediger, H. L., and McDaniel, M. A. (2014). Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.~ Make It Stick is a new classic based on neuroscience research applied to learning

in the classroom and effective study techniques as well. Challenge: Select at least three strategies to increase learning in the classroom. Develop a handout of study tips for your students that match the level and discipline of the class and program.

Important Books on Teaching & Learning»Lang, J. M. (2016). Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.~ Small Teaching is similar to Make it Stick, but newer and with a different

organization approach. It includes specific recommendations of small strategies and techniques at the end of each section with specific tips on how to use them in online courses.

»Miller, M. D. (2014). Minds Online: Teaching Effectively with Technology. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.~ “For the Internet generation, educational technology designed with the

brain in mind offers a natural pathway to the pleasures and rewards of deep learning. Drawing on neuroscience and cognitive psychology, Michelle Miller shows how attention, memory, critical thinking, and analytical reasoning can be enhanced through technology-aided approaches.”

Important Books on Teaching & Learning»Weimer, M., ed. (2016). Essential Teaching Principles: A Resource Collection for Adjunct Faculty. Madison, WI: Magna Publications.~ “Essential Teaching Principles: A Resource Collection for Adjunct

Faculty is… organized to serve as a ready reference whenever a new teaching challenge arises—whether it’s refreshing older course design, overcoming a student’s objection to a grade, or fine-tuning assessments.” Good for new full-time faculty as well as for adjuncts.

»Challenge: Organize a book club in your program, department, or school. Pick a book on teaching and learning, and read a chapter per week. Discuss the chapter reflectively to find applications in your own classes. Have fun learning!

Small Teaching Quick Tips: Knowledge»Retrieving: Give frequent, low-stakes quizzes (at least weekly) to help your students seal up foundational course content; favor short answers or problem solving whenever possible so that students must process or use what they are retrieving. (Small Teaching)

»Retrieving: Close class by asking students to write down the most important concept from that day and one question or confusion that still remains in their minds (i.e., the minute paper).

»Interleaving: Reserve a small part of your major exams (and even the minor ones, such as quizzes) for questions or problems that require students to draw on older course content.

Small Teaching Quick Tips: Understanding»Practicing: Review your course schedule and decide where you can make space for small practice sessions in key skills prior to your major assessments; mark those sessions on the syllabus schedule.

»Self-Explaining: For online homework or readings, create spaces for students to self-explain while they work; for newer learners in a field, use drop-down menus that require them to select principles or theories rather than asking them to generate them on their own.

»Self-Explaining: Use peer instruction with personal response systems and three key steps: students provide an answer, pause and explain it to their neighbors, and then revise their answers.

Small Teaching Quick Tips: Inspiration»Motivating: Open individual class or learning sessions (and even readings) by eliciting student emotions: give them something to wonder about, tell them a story, present them with a shocking fact or statistic. Capture their attention and prepare their brains for learning.

»Motivating: Consider how practitioners in your field, or the skills you are teaching them, help make a positive difference in the word; remind them continually, from the opening of the course, about the possibility that their learning can do the same.

»Growing: Include a “Tips for Success in This Course” section on your syllabus, and refer to it throughout the semester.

EXTENDED EDUCATIONOnline Learning • Extended Campuses • EXSEED

New Strategies for Distance Education»Big goal for 2015-2017 is to better integrate the LLU experience into online and hybrid education.~More attention to integrating Mission Focused Learning~New part-time LLU Online Chaplain: •K. C. Hohensee

~Commitment of schools and programs

»New thrust of support for online and hybrid instructors~Professional development workshops~Technical workshops coming soon

New Tools to Promote Student EngagementVoiceThread (voicethread.com)»Video Discussions: VoiceThread bridges the gap between real-time discussions and standard video lectures or online presentations. This makes VoiceThread the platform for teaching, learning, training, and collaborating, on-demand.

»Video Feedback: Instructors can record embedded video comments to papers, projects, and more.

Canvas ARC»Video-as-Content: ARC makes it easy to add, organize, and share videos among instructors and students. Videos can be placed virtually anywhere inside a Canvas course, and if you so choose, the video can be discussed and analyzed in place.

»Useful Analytics: Allows instructors and administrators to quickly and easily analyze which videos students are watching, how long they are watching, and when they stop watching.

Online Course Audit»Winter and Spring, 2016, LLU Division of Extended Education led the schools in conducting the first-ever Online Course Audit.

»The key to distance education for the feds is: active online learning to engage students.

~ This includes regular and substantive discussions between the online instructor and students

»Five course classifications:1. Distance Education2. Correspondence3. Hybrid Distance Education4. Hybrid Correspondence5. Not Aid Eligible

Extended EducationUnion College Collaboration

» UC à LLU: Offer College Writing II and College Algebra for General Education―launch goal: ~ College Algebra - Spring 2016

» LLU à UC: CT/MRI Certificate―launch goal: Spring 2016 -perhaps summer or fall 2016

» LLU à UC: Occupational Therapy Assistant, AS―launch goal: Fall 2017

» Exploring joint degree possibilities

EXSEED»Opportunities this year for you and your students to reach out to K-12 EXSEED teachers and their students through:~ STEMinars~ STEM project support~ STEM consulting

»Two experienced K-12 educators to support academic year activities: ~ Andrea Sayler~ Charity Espina

WRAP UPWhat will it take to help students to be successful this year?

Strategies to Consider»Implement all aspects of Mission Focused Learning.

»Increase student success by developing a thorough course syllabus that supports student success.

»Engage students with: ~Active learning~Neuroscience and learning techniques

»Participate in the annual LLU assessment and student financial reports.

»Make myLLU–Faculty your launching pad for successful teaching, and reach out for support when needed!

We are cheering you on!

May God bless you and your students!