California State University - Long Beach
Click here for the October 2008 SoTL Research Update from California State University as presented at the CASTL Student Voices Convening preceeding the 2008 ISSOTL Conference in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada (Oct. 16-19).
The information below was presented on October 11, 2007 at the Student Voices convening at UNLV. To learn more about student voices work being done at California State University - Long Beach please contact Tina Matuchiniak or Betsy Decyk.
Works in Progress
- Student-Faculty collaboration on a capstone class for the Interdisciplinary Studies Program - Margaret Costa, Bryce Peterson, Michael Glassoff, Mary Taverner, Betsy Decyk and others
- Research on Guiding Collaboration - Tina Matuchniak
- Student Voices at the Academic Senate Retreat - Terre Allen and Alan Colburn
- The 2007 Academic Senate Retreat on October 19th was focused on Student Voices. There was a presentation to the entire group by a student on "The Net Generation: Who are we? How do we learn?" Also there was two student discussants per table who responded to issues related to advising, teaching and learning, and student engagement.
Preliminary Research Questions
- Does collaboration empower individuals?
- How could collaboration empower individuals?
- How could collaboration be done well, so that it would empower individuals?
Work Accomplished
- Costa, Glassoff, Taverner, Decyk, "Student and Faculty Voices in the Scholarship of Integration," Association for Integrative Studies, Phoenix, AZ, September 2007.
- Decyk, "Soundings: Using Student-Faculty Conversations to locate the learning in collaborative learning," International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Sydney, Australia, July 2007.
- Decyk (CSULB) and Schulman (Elon), "SoTL Sonar: A workshop/discussion of projects and methodologies which listen to student voices to locate learning," International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Sydney, Australia, July 2007 (Developed a conversational continuum).
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10.22.2008
