Category Archives: Readings

Apr 30 | Teaching “integrative” thinking

Siemens, George. “Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age.” Elearnspace, 12 Dec 2004.
Ferren, Ann and David Paris. “Principles and Practices of Integrative Liberal Learning.” Association of American Colleges and Universities, 2014.
AAC&U Rubric for Integrative Learning.
“General Education Maps and Markers (GEMs).” Association of American Colleges & Universities, 2014.

Suggestions for Further Reading

On the Degree Qualifications Profile — pick one:
- “The Degree Qualifications Profile.” Lumina Foundation, 2011 – pp. 11-12 , 18. OR
- Cliff Adelman, Peter Ewell, Paul Gaston, and Carol Geary Schneider. “The Degree Qualifications Profile 2.0.” Lumina Foundation, 2014. pp. 18-19, 27.
Mary Taylor Huber, and Pat Hutchings. Integrative Learning: Mapping the Terrain. Association of American Colleges and Universities, 2004.
LeBlanc, Mark D, Tom Armstrong, and Michael B Gousie. “Connecting across Campus.” In Proceedings of the 41st ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 52–56. SIGCSE ’10. New York: ACM, 2010.
Cronon, William .“‘Only Connect . . .’ The Goals of a Liberal Education.” The American Scholar 67.4 (1998): 73–80.

Resources

Arthur H. Goldsmith, Darrick Hamilton, Karen Hornsby, and Dave Wells. “Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching.” Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics, 2012.

Borgman, Christine. ”Chapter 1: Scholarship at a Crossroads.” In Scholarship in the Digital Age: Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2007. (attached to the email announcement).
“Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education.” Association of College and Research Libraries, 2000.

Suggestions for further reading

Hey, Tony and Anne Trefethen. ”The Data Deluge: An e-Science Perspective.” In Grid Computing – Making the Global Infrastructure a Reality. Chichester, UK: Wiley, 2003.
AAC&U VALUE Rubric for Information Literacy.

Nussbaum, Martha. “Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism.” The Boston Review. 1 Oct 1994.
Katz, Stanley N. “Borderline Ignorance.” The Chronicle of Higher Education. 13 Jan 2014. (If you are not using a computer on campus, you may be asked to log in with your SEU password.)
AAC&U VALUE Rubric for Global Learning. (This rubric was developed with substantial input by St. Edward’s faculty & staff members David Blair, Mity Myhr, Bob Strong, and Christie Sample Wilson. )
St. Edward’s Global Learning Rubric
St. Edward’s Mission Statement for Global Learning.

Suggestions for further reading

Hovland, Kevin. Shared Futures: Global Learning & Liberal Education. American Association of Colleges & Universities, 2009. Especially relevant are chapters 2 & 3, which provide concrete examples of how colleges and universities are (and aren’t) enacting global learning in their curricula.
Anderson, Chad and David Blair. “Developing a Global Learning Rubric: Strengthening Teaching and Improving Learning.” Diversity & Democracy 16 (2013).

The Preface – “Mathematics, Numeracy, and Democracy” (xiii-xix) + Chapter 1: “The Case for Quantitative Literacy,” (1-19) from Mathematics and Democracy (2001).
Wolfe, Joanna. “Rhetorical Numbers: A Case for Quantitative Writing in the Composition Classroom.” College Composition and Communication 61 (2010): 434-457.
AAC&U VALUE Rubric for Quantitative Literacy

Suggestions for Further Reading

The St. Edward’s Proposal for QL project, as submitted to the NSF in 2012. (2 pgs).
Madison, Bernard & Lynn Steen, eds. Quantitative Literacy: Why Numeracy Matters for Schools and Colleges. National Council on Education and the Disciplines, 2003.

Assigned Reading

College Learning for the New Global Century (2007). Association of American Colleges & Universities. (pgs 1-24)

. . . for further reading (available upon request)

Bok, Derek. “Ch. 8: What to Learn.” In Higher Education in America. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2013.
Cazden, Courtney; Cope, Bill; Fairclough, Norman; Gee, Jim; et al. “A Pedagogy of Multiliteracies: Designing Social Futures.” Harvard Educational Review 66 (1996): 60-92).
Davis, Rebecca Frost. “Learning Outcomes for a Globally Networked World.” Rebecca Frost Davis’s blog: Liberal Education in a Networked World. 7 Feb 2013.

Think / Pair / Share Activity

Mark: Place an “X” next to items that are taught in our gen ed requirements. Place an “O” next to items that are taught in your major. (You will see an “XO next to items that are taught in both places).
Discuss: In what areas are St. Ed’s grads getting best prepared, and where may they be lacking?
Consider: Is anything missing? Is anything listed unnecessarily? Should anything be reframed?