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2016

Professional development

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Moodle's Little Helper: Making Use Of The Self-Determined Principles Of Heutagogy To Support Academic Staff Who Are Learning To Teach Online, Chris Boddey, Maria T. Northcote Dec 2016

Moodle's Little Helper: Making Use Of The Self-Determined Principles Of Heutagogy To Support Academic Staff Who Are Learning To Teach Online, Chris Boddey, Maria T. Northcote

Maria Northcote

Tailored professional development (PD) programmes assist university teaching staff to capitalise on the educational use of technology. To supplement on-campus PD support, staff at Avondale College of Higher Education developed a self-help online resource, Moodle's Little Helper (MLH), that has since become an integral and accepted component of the institution's PD landscape. Since Avondale's overall PD program is built upon the theoretical underpinnings of heutagogy (Hase, 2009; Hase & Kenyon, 2003), a self-determined learning theory, the purpose and nature of the resource also reflects the key principles of this educational philosophy. Adopting a utilisation-focused research methodology (Patton, 2011) ensured staff …


Title V Initiatives: Capstone And Student Research With Faculty, Sarah Brennan Ms., Silvia Reyes May 2016

Title V Initiatives: Capstone And Student Research With Faculty, Sarah Brennan Ms., Silvia Reyes

Sarah Brennan

This presentation summarizes two components of a Title V grant being implemented at Hostos Community College. The two components highlighted are: (1) the capstone initiative and (2) the student research with faculty initiative. Our implementation processes have been influenced in part by AAC&U's High Impact Practices work and philosophy. Our work with Hostos faculty has helped us define capstone learning at the community college level and supported student engagement in authentic research activities.