{"id":237,"date":"2020-09-23T21:26:27","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T21:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/nzext105\/?page_id=237"},"modified":"2020-09-23T21:26:27","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T21:26:27","slug":"overview-module-aim-and-objectives","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/nzext105\/course-guide\/overview-module-aim-and-objectives\/","title":{"rendered":"Overview, module aim, and objectives"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\" class=\"mw-body container\" role=\"main\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n<div class=\"panel\">\n<div class=\"panel-body\">\n<div id=\"bodyContent\">\n<div id=\"mw-content-text\" lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" class=\"mw-content-ltr\"><div class=\"panel iDevice\">\n\t<div class=\"panel-heading idevice-heading\">\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"pedagogicalicon\" alt=\"aim\" src=\"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/nzext105\/wp-content\/themes\/oeru_course\/idevices\/Icon_objectives.png\">\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<h2>Overview<\/h2>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"panel-body\">\n\t\t<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>This module examines how we can use our classroom, our courses and\/or our professional area of practice as a research lab, to\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> explore how we might improve our teaching practice, and\n<\/li>\n<li> positively affect learner outcomes and satisfaction with the overall learning experience.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It invites us to consider research about learning and teaching within our discipline and provides a process to implement a research plan.\n<\/p>\n<p>This kind of action research is often called the \u201cscholarship of teaching and learning\u201d (SoTL), and it involves an awareness and appreciation of effective, research-based, discipline-appropriate pedagogical approaches for examining your own practice.  <\/p>\n<table class=\"cquote\" style=\"margin:auto; border-collapse: collapse; border: none; background-color: transparent; width: auto;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"20\" valign=\"top\" style=\"border:none; color:#B2B7F2;font-size:35px;font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: bold; text-align: left; padding: 10px 10px;\"> \u201c\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" style=\"border: none; padding: 4px 10px;\"> The scholarship of teaching is not merely teaching our scholarship. Nor is it simply teaching well\u2026 The scholarship of teaching means that we invest in our teaching the intellectual powers we practice in our research.\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"20\" valign=\"bottom\" style=\"border: none; color: #B2B7F2; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: bold; text-align: right; padding: 10px 10px;\"> \u201d\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"3\" class=\"cquotecite\" style=\"border: none; padding-right: 4%\">\n<p style=\"font-size: smaller; text-align: right;\"><cite style=\"font-style: normal;\">\u2014Bender &amp; Gray, 1998<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><br style=\"clear:both;\">\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"panel iDevice\">\n\t<div class=\"panel-heading idevice-heading\">\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"pedagogicalicon\" alt=\"aim\" src=\"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/nzext105\/wp-content\/themes\/oeru_course\/idevices\/Icon_objectives.png\">\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<h2>Module aim<\/h2>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"panel-body\">\n\t\t<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The aim of this module is to create an action plan to examine key questions about improving learning outcomes in a specific discipline area using your own professional practice, informed by the research of others, to build your SoTL plan.<br \/>\n\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"panel iDevice\">\n\t<div class=\"panel-heading idevice-heading\">\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"pedagogicalicon\" alt=\"aim\" src=\"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/nzext105\/wp-content\/themes\/oeru_course\/idevices\/Icon_objectives.png\">\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<h2>Objectives<\/h2>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"panel-body\">\n\t\t<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The objectives of this module are for you to:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Explore key characteristics of SoTL\n<\/li>\n<li> Identify instructional practices or teaching strategies from your own discipline that you would like to explore or test within your own courses\n<\/li>\n<li> Identify a range of research strategies that suit your discipline\n<\/li>\n<li> Identify a framework for analysis of your research\n<\/li>\n<li> Select a strategy for sharing your research, for others to build on\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- \nNewPP limit report\nCPU time usage: 0.034 seconds\nReal time usage: 0.038 seconds\nPreprocessor visited node count: 369\/1000000\nPreprocessor generated node count: 1352\/1000000\nPost\u2010expand include size: 10453\/2097152 bytes\nTemplate argument size: 5123\/2097152 bytes\nHighest expansion depth: 8\/40\nExpensive parser function count: 0\/100\n--><\/p>\n<p><!-- Saved in parser cache with key we_en-mw_:pcache:idhash:187570-0!*!*!*!*!2!* and timestamp 20200923212621 and revision id 1080964\n -->\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"visualClear\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n<ul class=\"pager\">\n<li class=\"previous\">\n            <a href=\"\/nzext105\/startup\/acknowledgements\">\u2190 Previous<\/a>\n          <\/li>\n<li class=\"next\">\n            <a href=\"\/nzext105\/course-guide\/learning-journal\">Next \u2192<\/a>\n          <\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<footer><\/footer>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2190 Previous Next \u2192<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"parent":235,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-237","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/nzext105\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/nzext105\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/nzext105\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/nzext105\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/nzext105\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/nzext105\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238,"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/nzext105\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/237\/revisions\/238"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/nzext105\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/nzext105\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}