There is something to be said for good, interesting, well-written prose. Most of us probably wish that we saw more of that on a daily basis. Good writing is a skill that takes time and practice to master and people have long lamented that this technology or that technology is going to ruin students and […]
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Engaging Students as Partners in Learning and Teaching: A Guide for Faculty
Posted by Eric Kyle
· Friday,
April
8th,
2022
at 10:20 AM
An education professor, a Scottish lecturer, and a provost walk into a bar… Okay, okay, it wasn’t a bar. It was a publishing house. And I guess I don’t know for certain they actually walked. They wrote a book. No, scratch that, they wrote THE book on student-faculty partnerships. Student-faculty partnerships are collaborations in the […]
Frequently Identified Learning Outcomes
Posted by Eric Kyle
· Tuesday,
February
22nd,
2022
at 11:24 AM
Check out this graph showing most frequently identified learning outcomes among institutions surveyed for the report. Fifteen outcomes are shown, ranging from a high of 90% for Written Communication down to a low of 29% for Digital Literacy. Source: Finley, A. & McConnell, K. D. (2022). On the same page?: Adiministrator and faculty views on […]
A Reflection on Tulsa 1921: Reporting a Massacre
Posted by Buddy Broncho
· Tuesday,
May
4th,
2021
at 04:32 PM
Written by Saheli Nath, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Management — This book is a fascinating work highlighting the contradictions between history and memory. In this book, Krehbiel describes the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 and discusses the antecedents and consequences of the tragic event that left somewhere around ~300 African Americans dead (estimates unknown and widely […]
Categories : Faculty Reflections, Readings of Interest
Creating “Unpracticed Conversations Assignments” for Our Courses
Posted by Mark Walvoord
· Tuesday,
May
4th,
2021
at 11:56 AM
by Laura Dumin, Ph.D., English — I am hoping to teach George Takei’s “They Calles Us Enemy” this spring. It’s a graphic novel about the Japanese internment camps in America. My hope is that by looking at this moment in time we might begin to discuss what it meant to look Asian/be Asian at that […]
Categories : Faculty Reflections, Readings of Interest
Non-Binary Lives Book Reflection Reveals Challenges
Posted by Buddy Broncho
· Tuesday,
May
4th,
2021
at 11:44 AM
by Vanessa Bentley, Ph.D., Humanities and Philosophy — I attended two out of three sessions for the Non-Binary Lives reading group led by Ed Cunliff in Spring 2021. I joined the reading group for professional and personal reasons. Professionally, as a gender studies scholar, I’m interested in inclusionary and intersectional accounts of gender, particularly from […]
Categories : Faculty Reflections, Readings of Interest
Reflecting on “practice retrieval” by a business faculty member
Posted by Mark Walvoord
· Wednesday,
April
28th,
2021
at 01:55 PM
by Anonymous Business faculty — Something I am just now realizing, and appreciating, is that many of the speakers and books we are exposed to through 21CPI are saying the same things but in different words and examples, and methods. They are beginning to ‘transform’ me, so to speak, as they are incorporated into how […]
Categories : Faculty Reflections
A Proposed Revision of the UCO Classroom Evaluation Process for Tenured and Nontenured Faculty
Posted by Buddy Broncho
· Tuesday,
August
4th,
2020
at 03:57 PM
by John R. Wood, Associate professor, UCO¹ In this white paper, I would like to make a case for the University of Central Oklahoma to revise their classroom evaluation process for tenure and nontenure faculty. We need to address the need to change the classroom evaluation requirements for UCO tenure track and non-tenure-track faculty because […]
Categories : Faculty Reflections
Identifying and Managing Unconscious Bias reflection
Posted by Mark Walvoord
· Tuesday,
May
12th,
2020
at 02:51 PM
M. Suzanne Clinton, DBA, SPHR, UCO College of Business — Overview and Reflection On April 28, 2020, from 1-2:30, I attended “Identifying and Managing Unconscious Bias” with Lt. Wayland Cubit. Since I teach Principles of Management and Organization Behavior, I was quite familiar with the terms Lt. Cubit used, their definitions, and their role in […]
Categories : Faculty Reflections
Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher
Posted by Buddy Broncho
· Tuesday,
December
3rd,
2019
at 05:07 PM
Written by Trevor Cox, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Adult Education and Safety Sciences – Last year at the UCO Transformative Learning Conference, the keynote speaker, Bryan Dewsbury, mentioned multiple times that Stephen Brookfield’s book: Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher was a foundational text for the kinds of teaching and learning that engaged things like marginalization and […]
Categories : Faculty Reflections, Readings of Interest
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