Faculty Professional Development Center

Board PresentationJanuary 2005

Cultivating Learning-Centered Environments for Success

Map

• A Brief History and Context

• Learning Communities

• Moulton Scholars

• Campus Conversations

• Summary

History

• Visions for Learning and Community• A collaborative process: FPDSC

– University Teaching Council– fpdc

Mission

The center mission is to support faculty and future faculty in their many forms of

scholarship and professional work.

The long-term aim of the Center is to facilitate the creation of

communities of scholars.

Our Staff

• Three employees:– Director (75%)– Assistant Director– Secretary

• A faculty associate• Two part-time graduate

assistants• A part-time student

receptionist• Senior volunteer

Studio and Resources

Faculty Classroom

Internal and External Funding

2004-05 budgetexpenses

fpdc

$189,000

Personnel

$117,000

Operating

$68,990

Equipment

$10,000

OTEP /

OBR-yearly

FIPSE-3yr OLN-1yr OBR-2.5 yr

$5,000 $48,742 $189,000-Total

($75,000-LI$114,000-LC’S)

$343,000- TotalBGSU & KSU

KSU Strategic Plan

Cultivating Learning Centered Environments for Success – (five years)

– Encourage Innovative Learning– Cultivate Relationships that Foster Success– Focus on Those We Serve– Engage in the World Beyond Our University

Support for Learning: fpdc Mission Map

Resources

Workstations

Publications FacultyClassroom

Consultations

Demonstrations

Studio & ResourceSupport

FacultyPrograms:Workshops,Forums,

Presentations

AmericanAssociation of

University Professors

ReappointmentTenure & Promotion

SmartStarts

Provost Lunch/Breakfast

UTC Conference

New Faculty andGraduate Student

Programs

Teaching, Learning &Technology

Brown Bags, Seminarsand Clinics

Specialty Events

MultimediaOpen House

DepartmentCollaboration

CampusConversations Campus Outreach

Activities

Faculty/Professional

Learning Communities

UniversityResearch Council

Celebration ofScholarship

UniversityTeaching Council

UTC Conference

Fall Forum

Spring Forum

Faculty Senate UniversityFacultyEvents

Moulton ScholarsProgram

Moulton ScholarsDemonstrations

MISSION:Supporting Scholarship& Community Building

FUNCTIONS:Communication, Networking,

Advocacy & Services

Mission Branches

• Faculty/Professional Learning Communities• Studio and Resource Support• Faculty Programs: Workshops, Forums,

Presentations• University Faculty Events

Learning Communities

Five years ago . . .

Four years ago . . .

Three years ago . . .

Two years ago . . .

One year ago . . .

Today . . .

Jessie CardunerTS 2000-01

Modern & Classical Language Studies

“My first sense of belonging at KSU happened during the TS program.”

“I was transformed by “feeling” what it meant to be student-centered.”

Information LiteracyInstitutional Change & Beyond

Member teams develop modules within specific fields of study for students to enhance their information literacy skills

Faculty Learning Communities

• Collaborative Technologies• Learning and Teaching Large Classes• Online Learning and Teaching• Information Literacy• Faculty and Future Faculty• Great Starts: Connecting the Mosaic• Competing and Cooperating with NAFTA• Teaching Scholars• Educational Psychology in Higher Education• Adult Learner and Workforce Development• Diversity

Learning Institutes

2003 2004 2005

Moulton Scholars Program

Moulton Scholar Projects

• Visualizing the French Novel• Digital Video in Technology Instruction• Combining Compositions: Print Literacy and Digital Video in Integrated Language Arts• Development of Web-based and Hypermedia for Concepts in Biomechanics• Interactivity and multimedia in Online Journalism• Interviewing Techniques for Research Projects Using Video Cameras• Development of the WebCT to be an Interactive Classroom Component for Student

Communication and Assessment• Taking Music Technology Online: Integrating WebCT into the “Introduction to Acoustics

and Music Technology”• A Distance Learning Version of the Psychology Group: A Kent State-Central State

Partnership• Application of the Use of Personal Digital Assistants (PDAx) by Pediatric Nurse

Practitioner Graduate Students (continuation)• Exploratory Research of Technology/composition Pedagogical Models• Exploring Common Spot for Department Web site• Enhancing Online Instruction Using a Variety of Applications• Redefining the History of Interiors: Transforming a Traditional Lecture Course into an

Interactive Distance Learning Experience• Workshop Development Project: Applied Emotional Intelligence for the Allied Health

Professions

Campus Conversations

Campus Conversations

• UTC Celebrating College Teaching• Breakfast with the Provost• Speaker-Workshop Series

– Biology of Learning– Psychology of Learning– Problem-based Learning– Collaborative Learning– Service Learning– Learning and Assessment

Living the TransformationUNIVERSITY

Enlarging the Networks of Conversations• Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

• Working with Information Services, Academic Departments and Programs

• Learning Communities Light (VISTA)