Feb 5 | What is it that students ought to learn in college?

Assigned reading

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

Suggestions for further reading (available upon request from the CTE)

• 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.
• Dede, Chris.  “Ch. 3: Comparing Frameworks for 21st Century Skills.”  In 21st Century Skills: Rethinking How Students Learn. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press, 2010.

 

Feb 19 | Teaching quantitative literacy across the curriculum

Assigned Readings

• The Preface – “Mathematics, Numeracy, and Democracy” (xiii-xx) + Chapter 1:  “The Case for Quantitative Literacy,” (1-22) 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.

 

Mar 19 | Teaching global learning: theory and practice

Assigned readings

• 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).

 

Apr 9 | Teaching information literacy for the 21st century

Assigned readings

• Borgman, Christine.  “Chapter 1: Scholarship at a Crossroads.”  In Scholarship in the Digial 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.

Apr 30 | Teaching “Integrative” Thinking

Assigned readings

• 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.