Collected posts from Blogs at the University of Central Oklahoma
by Maiana Wise —
August 27, 2021 marked the one-year anniversary of release and premiere of our STLR short film titled, “More Than A Degree: UCO’s Student Transformative Learning Record.” This student-produced project, . . .
Science writer Annie Murphy Paul’s new book, The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain (2021), argues for expanding our view of how thinking . . .
When most people think back on their college statistics class, they likely think of a semester full of charts, numbers, and confusing formulas that take hours to understand. A new course at UCO, Math for Social Justice, is aiming to take a new approach at teaching this math concept while providing students with real-world experiences to better prepare . . .
Central’s Student Transformative Learning Record (STLR) continues to make waves in the higher education community. Institutions across both state and national borders are adopting and adapting STLR on their own campuses.
UCO’s STLR acts as a second transcript for students, recording their growth and tangible experiences across five of . . .
Written by Trevor Cox, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Organizational Leadership, Adult Education and Safety Sciences –
For me, the beginnings of a transformative experience is when I have new questions — questions I had never thought about before and questions I do not quite have the answer to yet. So I want to share some of the new questions . . .
Written by Eric Hemphill, M.Ed. –
“Climate change is real. It’s out there. It’s our fault. It will be difficult to mitigate the effects, and even more difficult to reverse them. CO2 levels have reaching blah blah blah parts per million blah blah blah since blah blah blah year…”
This is how I started my first time teaching the Introduction . . .
Written by Therese Williams, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, UCO College of Business ISOM –
As a first-year Assistant Professor at UCO, I received a wonderful opportunity to attend the 2018 Transformative Learning Conference in Oklahoma City. In exchange for volunteering one day of the conference I was able to attend one day with the registration . . .
Writen by Tracy Fairless, M.A., Director of Learning Design, Center for eLearning and Connected Environments –
“Students should be made to grapple with the material and receive authentic practice in thinking like an expert,” said Carl Wieman, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and associate director of the White House Office of Science and . . .
Article by Ed Cunliff, Ph.D., Adult and Higher Education –
I confess that I bought the book titled, Transformative Learning Meets Bildung (Laros, Fuhr, & Taylor, 2017), because I wanted to be supportive of a friend, colleague, and advisory board member for the Journal of Transformative . . .