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Building A Better Blend: Research-Based Blended Course Design, Jennifer Spohrer Nov 2013

Building A Better Blend: Research-Based Blended Course Design, Jennifer Spohrer

Blended Learning Research and Open Educational Resources

Slides from a faculty workshop organized by the Central Pennsylvania Consortium, held at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, PA. In this talk I discuss how to use findings from the NGLC grant-funded study of blended learning at 40 liberal arts colleges and related pedagogical and cognitive science research to develop effective blended courses. Some of the topics covered include the "testing effect," spacing learning learning over time, feedback, and metacognition.

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Students As Leaders And Learners: Toward Self-Authorship And Social Change On A College Campus, Jody Cohen, Alison Cook-Sather, Alice Lesnick Jan 2013

Students As Leaders And Learners: Toward Self-Authorship And Social Change On A College Campus, Jody Cohen, Alison Cook-Sather, Alice Lesnick

Education Program Faculty Research and Scholarship

In this article we present a case study of undergraduate students’ experiences in several leadership programs at Bryn Mawr College. Through a collaborative action research study, we identified three interrelated sets of practices in which student participants engage: discerning differences and bringing those differences into dialogue; revising their sense of themselves and becoming more serious students; and revising leadership relationships and creating community. We offer this study as an illustration of and commentary on Baxter Magolda’s theory of self-authorship and students’ development as leaders for social change — an illustration that highlights the close connection between self-development and leadership development.

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Response To Gary Farlow, Anne Dalke Jan 2013