A Model for Culture Change at a Research I University
Abstract
After almost 20 years, Angelo (2002) states that "...neither assessment nor the scholarship of teaching has yet to make the deep and lasting impact on teaching and learning or academic culture that proponents have hoped for" (p. 189). Likewise, the benefits of interdisciplinary collaboration for research and teaching seem integral to higher education; however, efforts aimed at increasing collaboration across disciplinary boundaries for research remain at the fringes of institutions and are likely to fail (Kezar 2006). Yet we know that scholarly exchange and collaboration within and across disciplines and in relation to teaching and learning does occur. We [Program for Instructional Innovation] are working on initiatives that will uncover the types of social networking faculty current employ and apply that to a teaching commons model. We will discuss the model we are developing at a large public research university and report on progress in three thematic areas: technology, writing, and service learning.
Location
Room 1909
Recommended Citation
Johnson, Kent and Eodice, Michele, "A Model for Culture Change at a Research I University " (2007). SoTL Commons Conference. 39.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/sotlcommons/SoTL/2007/39
A Model for Culture Change at a Research I University
Room 1909
After almost 20 years, Angelo (2002) states that "...neither assessment nor the scholarship of teaching has yet to make the deep and lasting impact on teaching and learning or academic culture that proponents have hoped for" (p. 189). Likewise, the benefits of interdisciplinary collaboration for research and teaching seem integral to higher education; however, efforts aimed at increasing collaboration across disciplinary boundaries for research remain at the fringes of institutions and are likely to fail (Kezar 2006). Yet we know that scholarly exchange and collaboration within and across disciplines and in relation to teaching and learning does occur. We [Program for Instructional Innovation] are working on initiatives that will uncover the types of social networking faculty current employ and apply that to a teaching commons model. We will discuss the model we are developing at a large public research university and report on progress in three thematic areas: technology, writing, and service learning.
