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Resource Kit on Getting to Researchable Questions in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

One of the challenges for the VKP staff is how to facilitate such a large national project virtually by thinking creatively about ways to support the work VKPers are doing on local campuses. One thing local coordinators suggested would be helpful are resources they could use to run local workshops and do scholarship of teaching and learning (SOTL) activities on their own campuses.

http://crossroads.georgetown.edu/vkp/resources/kits/

To assist that undertaking, VKP is providing Resource Kits: collections of tools, resources, and activities, for groups to use in their ongoing efforts to foster the scholarship of teaching and learning in their own locations.

http://crossroads.georgetown.edu/vkp/resources/kits/questions

This first Resource Kit is an online version of a session on the process of formulating researchable questions by Youngstown State University professor Sherry Linkon. Sherry created a case study of her course on the history of Youngstown, Ohio and presented it to the Summer Institute.

The Resource Kit includes Quicktime videos of Sherry and her students, a series of reflection and writing prompts, and Adobe PDF files of various assessment tools and copies of student work. This kit is still under development and refinement (especially the section on evidence of student learning).

The kit focuses on a series of activities, easily adapted for local workshop use, which focus on the process of moving from a key teaching moment to formulating a researchable question in the scholarship of teaching and learning. For each exercise the kit provides some background information, videos of students working or samples of student work and materials Sherry created to help her organize the classroom exercises.

This is just the first of several planned kits. The VKP staff welcomes your comments for the improvement of this kit and/or your ideas for for future development.

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