10-year Plan for Higher Education in Ohio

Chancellor Eric D. Fingerhut presented a 10-year strategic plan for higher education to Governor Ted Strickland and the Ohio General Assembly that details strategies to meet the governor's goal of enrolling 230,000 more students while keeping more graduates in Ohio and attracting more talent to the state.

Click here to be redirected to Governor Stickland and Chancellor Fingerhut's video presentation.

The plan promises to raise the overall educational attainment of the state of Ohio.

"This report builds upon the principles I put forth last year in creating the University System of Ohio," Strickland said. "This 10-year plan for Ohio's institutions of higher education will ensure not only that we dramatically expand educational opportunities for Ohioans but that we do so in a way that makes our state a world-class economic competitor."

If you are interested in reading the strategic plan, the executive summary can be found here. Or if you are more interested in the full report, follow this link.

Call For Papers: Insight Journal

This is a final reminder concerning the upcoming submission deadline for Insight: A Journal of Scholarly Teaching. Insight focuses each edition on a specific topic or theme relevant to current trends in higher education; the theme of the third issue is scholarship of teaching and learning.

Submission details are as follows:

• STYLE - All manuscripts must be formatted in either APA or MLA style.
• LENGTH - Manuscript should be no more than 10 pages (not including abstract, references or appendices). Authors are encouraged to include appendices that promote application and integration of materials (i.e., assignments, rubrics, examples, etc.).
• ABSTRACT - Each manuscript must be summarized in an abstract of 50 to 100 words.
• AUTHOR - Each author should provide his/her full name, title and departmental affiliation, campus address, telephone number, and email address. Each author must also include a brief biography (no more than 50 words per author).
• FORMAT - All manuscripts must be submitted via email as attachments in Microsoft Word or Rich Text Format. Do not include personal identifiers within the manuscript. Include contact information only on a separate cover sheet. Each manuscript will be assigned a unique identifier for blind review processes. Send submissions to cetl@park.edu.
• DEADLINE - All submissions must be received by 4:00pm on April 7, 2008 (CST).

If you need additional information, please review the Call for Papers and Quick Tips located at http://www.park.edu/cetl/Insight.aspx or contact CETL at cetl@park.edu.

University System of Ohio Website

The University System of Ohio website is your one-stop location for news and information on institutions of higher education in Ohio. Keep an eye on this site for more details on the strategic plan and future direction for the statewide system.

2008 Lilly Conference on College and University Teaching - Traverse City, MI

(Forwarded from the Conference Committee:)
Greetings,

The call for proposals for the 8th Annual Lilly - Traverse City Conference on College and University Teaching is now open. The conference will be held Thursday, September 18 through Sunday, September 21, 2008. This conference has sold out each of the past four years and participants comment time and again that this is one of the best teaching conferences in the country.

Keynote speakers this year include Denise Green, Bill McKeachie, Laurie Richlin, Debra Rowe, Norman Vaughn, and Todd Zakrajsek.

The conference theme is Millennial Learning: Teaching in the 21st Century, and includes four major tracks: advancing active learning, teaching well with technology, cultural competency, and adult learning in nontraditional formats.

An integral part of the Lilly Conferences on Teaching and Learning is the number of high-quality presentations on improving student learning. Come share what has been successful in your classes and what you have discovered about facilitating student learning.

Click here to submit a proposal: http://www.facit.cmich.edu/lilly/proposals.shtml The deadline for proposal submissions is Monday, April 14, 2008.

Please visit the Lilly -Traverse City conference website for more information about this conference: http://www.facit.cmich.edu/lilly/

We hope you'll consider joining us in Traverse City!

Todd Zakrajsek - Conference Director

Sarah Scoby - Conference Coordinator

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NOTE: Traverse City, MI is about a 5 hour drive from BGSU!

ODCE Conference: BGSU Faculty/Staff Presentations

The following BGSU community members presented last week at the 2008 Ohio Digital Commons for Education Conference (ODCE), which is sponsored by the Ohio Learning Network (OLN), Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC), and OhioLINK.

Colleen Boff & Gwen Evans (University Libraries)
Hi Tech, High Touch, Low Cost: Library Instructional Tools Across a First Year Experience Program

Terry L. Herman, Melanie Alt, Daniel Lemmerbrock, Christopher Pappas, Todd Pavlack, Christopher Pittman and Mark Stevens (College of Technology)
Virtual Learning Environments: A Look into the Future

Michael Kudela (IDEAL) & Garrick L Ducat (Mercy College of NW Ohio)
Creative Commons: Share Your Work, Keep Your Rights and Learn from Others

Connie Molnar & Carolyn Matzinger (IDEAL)
The Metamorphosis of Biology 101: Face-to-face to Online Course Delivery

Carrie Rathsack (CTLT)
Today's Digital Tools for Enhancing Future Learning

For more information about ODCE or the conference events and resources, including the keynote address by Chancellor, Eric Fingerhut:

• Website - http://www.oln.org/conferences/ODCE2008/
• Wiki - http://wiki.conference.oln.org/
• Blog - http://blog.conference.oln.org/

Looking for Questions & Answers: Conversation Week 2008

As a follow up from the Questions and Learning: The Dynamic Duo workshop, here is an activity for your students to participate in or create your own list of the Top 10 Questions related to your discipline:

Top 10 Questions from Conversation Week.org (March 24-28, 2008)

For more information on using questioning strategies in the classroom, visit:

Facilitating Discussion: A Brief Guide
by Katherine K. Gottschalk, Director of Freshman Writing Seminars,
John S. Knight Writing Program, Cornell University

Fostering Effective Classroom Discussions
Jennifer Barton, Paul Heilker, and David Rutkowski, English Department, Virginia Tech

Question-Only Session
Stacey Osborn, BGSU

The “Pop Quiz” on Questioning
by Donna Sawyer

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What are some critical questions for learning? Are there any "bad questions"?
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Podcasting with Gcast and iTunes U

We have had many posts about podcasting in the past, however, today we want to introduce you to a couple things you might not have heard of.


Gcast
Have you ever wanted to add an episode to your podcast when you were out and about and not at home with your audio recording equipment? Have you wanted to interview people on the spot and create a audio files on the go? Well, now you can!

Gcast allows you to do mobile podcasting without having to have a laptop and recording equipment. You can do it all with just a phone!

BGSU iTunes U
The University has partnered with Apple to implement a BGSU iTunes U page. Before starting ,ensure that you have iTunes intalled; if not you can download it at http://www.apple.com/itunes/. Simply go to http://www.bgsu.edu/itunes/ or click this link and you will asked to load the BGSU iTunes U page in iTunes. As a faculty member you can post your podcasts here and make your information available for free. Contact The Center at ctlt@bgsu.edu for more information.

Podcating Workshops
New to podcasting? Not sure what it is? Just need some guidance on how to effectively use it and create audio files? Find out how podcasting can be utilized in your course to facilitate or enhance student learning. Basic topics such as what is podcasting, how to subscribe, classroom uses to achieve learning outcomes, and an overview of what is needed to create your own podcast will be discussed. Common uses for podcasts include updating students on current events, providing information to students between classes, and recording lectures or review sessions so students can use them to study.

• Wednesday, March 12, 1:00pm–2:00pm
• Monday, March 31, 11:00am–12:00pm
• Wednesday, April 16, 2:00pm–3:00pm

Visit our workshop page or click here to register...

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Have you used Gcast or iTunes U? If so, how? Have you ever attended one of our podcasting workshops? How have you used podcasting in the classroom?
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Scholarly Publishing 1.1? (On the way to 2.0)

According to a PBS blog post by Andy Carvin, a group of Harvard faculty recently:

unanimously adopted a new policy that would allow them to retain the copyright of scholarly research. As a result, students and the public at large could have much greater access to these materials online than ever before.

For more information about the transition (or transformation) in scholarly communication and publishing:

SPARC (Association of Research Libraries - Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) - including information on author's rights (yes, you may have them... if you ask!) and open access

CreateChange.org is "an educational initiative that examines new opportunities in scholarly communication, advocates changes that recognize the potential of the networked digital environment, and encourages active participation by scholars and researchers to guide the course of change."

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How will changes in scholarly publishing and communication affect you?

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2nd Annual Teaching & Learning Fair

The BGSU learning community is invited to present or attend the 2nd Annual Teaching & Learning Fair !

Date: Friday, March 14, 2008

Location: Bowen-Thompson Student Union, Lenhart Grand Ballroom and Rooms 314, 315, and 316

Schedule of Events:

9:00-10:30 a.m. - Fair Presentations (Lenhart Grand Ballroom)

9:30-10:30 a.m. - Discussion Sessions (BTSU 314, 315, and 316)

10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m. - Welcome, Introductions, and Keynote

Dr. Shirley Baugher, Provost

Dr. Diane Halpern, keynote speaker

"Applying the Science of Learning in the Classroom and Beyond"

1:00-2:30 p.m. - Fair Presentations

1:30-2:30 p.m. - Discussion Sessions (BTSU 314, 315, and 316)

3:00-4:00 p.m. - Discussion Sessions (BTSU 314, 315, and 316)

For more information about the BGSU Teaching and Learning Fair

To register to present - contact information only is requested

Academia 2.0: Blog Comments vs. Peer Review

From The Chronicle of Higher Education - Feb. 1, 2008 (Link to article for BGSU community):
Blog Comments vs. Peer Review: Which Way Makes a Book Better? (by Jefferey R. Young)

"What if scholarly books were peer reviewed by anonymous blog comments rather than by traditional, selected peer reviewers?"

Noah Wardrip-Fruin from the University of California at San Diego is asking this very question for a book he is finishing, Expressive Processing: Digital Fictions, Computer Games, and Software Studies.

"The idea was to tap the wisdom of his crowd. Visitors to the blog might not read the whole manuscript, as traditional reviewers do, but they might weigh on a section in which they have some expertise...

"Ben Vershbow, editorial director at the Institute for the Future of the Book, concedes that comments on blogs are unlikely to fully replace peer review. But he says academic blogging can play a role in the publishing process."

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What are your thoughts on this type of peer review? What are the pros/cons/limitations/consequences?

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Ask AL- Organizing Bookmarks

How can I organize my bookmarks (favorites) in my browser?

AL's answer for Mac using Firefox
http://movies.atomiclearning.com/k12/almovie?key=26667

AL's answer for Mac using Safari
http://movies.atomiclearning.com/k12/almovie?key=4658

AL's answer for PC using Firefox
http://movies.atomiclearning.com/k12/almovie?key=23349

AL's answer for PC using Internet Explorer 7
http://movies.atomiclearning.com/k12/almovie?key=26553

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Did these tips help you to organize your bookmarks? Do you have any organizational techniques to share, that may help others?...Click on the COMMENTS link below to get started!

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