TEL Projects for 2009–10
Continuation Grants: Building on successful projects from previous TEL funding for broader impact across campus.
| Lead Unit | Summary | Collaborating Units | Contact |
| Engineering | Engineering, Introductory Biology, and CALS are collaborating to accelerate the use of eCOW 2.0, a Moodle-based course management system with STEM enhancements. Features that demonstrate impact on student learning outcomes will be emphasized, such as frequent low-stakes quizzing and rapid personal feedback. | College of Engineering, School of Education, College of Letters & Sciences | Greg Moses Bob Jeanne |
| School of Pharmacy | Pharmacy, Nursing and SMPH are collaborating to develop "virtual patient" case studies that allow students from all three schools to practice working together on cases that need the input of doctors, nurses and pharmacists. Pedagogical strategies and materials will be developed along with the technology. These technologies and materials will be used by the School of Education to create “virtual student” cases on which students from across the SOE can collaborate. | School of Pharmacy, School of Education, MERIT | Mike Pitterle |
New Grants: Addressing achievement gap in large gateway or introductory courses between targeted minority and non-minority students.
| Lead Unit | Summary | Collaborating Units | Contact |
| L&S | For Math 112, instructional materials will be designed that improve student's algebra skills and concept learning. The Department of Mathematics will integrate its current homework delivery system (WeBWorK) with the Moodle-based eCOW2 course management system (see above). | Dept. of Mathematics (L&S), College of Engineering | Joel Robbin |
| L&S | Instructors for Introductory Psychology (Psyc 202), working with instructors for AOS 100/101 (see below) will redesign their courses using teaching best practices, webcasting, and social networking to improve student engagement and learning. Lecture material will be presented as applied to the real world, and small groups of students work on specific projects (e.g., abnormal psyc in jails). facilitated by social networking. Peer Mentors will be used to help manage small groups. | Dept. of Psychology (L&S), LSS, DoIT | Jeff Henriques |
| L&S | Instructors for Introduction to Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (AOS 100/101) will work with instructors for Psyc 202 (see above) to reform this large lecture course using similar innovations as above: learning-in-context to present lecture material; small groups and web 2.0 to generate community and engagement, and Peer Mentors to help manage groups. AOS 100/1 will also use low-stakes quizzes to assist students to prepare for lectures. | Dept. of Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences (L&S), DoIT | Steve Ackerman |
| L&S | Chem 109, and eventually Chem 104, will be reformed using learning-in-context for lecture material, technology for on-line homework and lecture prep quizzing, and will use some new group-based learning activities in the discussions and labs. | Dept. of Chemistry (L&S), College of Engineering, CALS | John Moore |