2009 Summer Institute Description

Monday, August 3-Wednesday, August 5, 2009

UMUC's Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) hosts the Summer Faculty Leadership Institute, which brings together close to fifty faculty from Europe, Asia, and the United States to Adelphi, Maryland for an intensive workshop experience. The Institute's purpose is to improve instruction at UMUC and those taking part in the Institute make a commitment to share what they have learned at the Institute with their peers. Each year the featured topics highlight teaching and learning topics of strategic importance to UMUC. The Institute is highly interactive, features hands-on activities, and is very much a collaborative effort between CTL and various units within UMUC.
The theme of the 2009 Summer Institute is “Pedagogy Grounded in Research Evidence and Academic Standards.”  Our two main tracks will focus on the scholarship of teaching and learning in a UMUC context and communicating academic standards through student assessment. In addition to the two tracks, the first day of the Institute will feature feature mini-workshops in both beginning and advanced training for Wimba as well as an introduction to Web 2.0 tools. 

• All faculty attending the Institute will participate in both tracks
• A Monday morning session will provide training in either introduction to Wimba or advanced Wimba training. The early afternoon will feature a workshop on Finding and Applying Web 2.0 Tools.  All participants must register for at least one of these Monday workshops.
• All faculty are expected to attend all other scheduled events.

Objectives—Participants in the 2009 Summer Institute Can Expect to

• Define scholarly teaching in the UMUC context
• Familiarize themselves with some examples of scholarship of teaching and learning as it is applied to online education
• Identify some sources of scholarship that are applicable for their disciplines
• Reflect on recent research in best practices, course lengths and class sizes conducted here at UMUC
• Analyze the component parts of academic rigor and standards and how they can be enforced
• Demonstrate norming, application of a rubric, and providing positive feedback
• Identify and evaluate Web 2.0 tools that might be appropriate for their classes
• Demonstrate an increased level of skill and familiarity with the pedagogical uses of Wimba
• Collaborate and share best practices with colleagues from US, Asia, and Europe

Descriptions, Objectives, and Tracks

• Track I: The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in the UMUC Context

• Track II. Communicating Academic Standards through Assessment